Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-05

/ journal and serving the ends of justice
by printing the aflidavits Of the mon with
simple recital of the more important
features of events leading up to their
making.
But now that the Republican lawyer
politicians have again taken hand at
editing the Citizen and have seen fit to go
into the political phases of the case in
order to attack the NEW MEXICAN, this
journal will reveal further some of the
facts which the Citizen charges it with
"omitting."
II is true, as the Citizens writer-a
Santa Te lawyer-alleges that the reason
given by the confessors for organizing
the conspiracy to murder Chavez was
that the sheriff had assaulted Borrego
while in Jail. But the Citizens writer
doesn't tell it all. 1t uses this assault
theory as if it in a measure condoned for
the crime Of conspiracy and assassination
and justified the murder as one based
upon motives of purely personal revenge.
But this, in fact, according to the evil
dence at the trial and the confessions of
Alarid and Valencia, was a minor feature
of the whole affair. What these men did
say, in explaining the conspiracy, was that
Borrego desired revenge for the assault
made upon him by Chavez-''and, be-
sides, with so prominent Democrat as
Chavez out of the way there would bo
great many little offices in the county
that we could get" they said.
This latter quotation is the part the
Citizen omits to print because it would
prove fatal defect in bolstering up it's
theory that purely domestic considera-
tions are responsible for this brutal crime.
Quite different motives actuated the
NEW MEXICAN in emitting this statement,
and these were that it would relieve the
case of all semblance of political motives
if no reference were publicly made to that
part of Alarid's and Valencia's statements
touching political offices. The Citizen
has therefore to thank itself and it's over
Jealous party bosses for bringing politics
into this subject.
That it was political murder there
seems no doubt, and the Citizen confess
ses as much in its pitiable wriggling to
prove the contrary; confesses that it
knows it to be political murder when it
deliberately omits the most essential part
of the quoted statement upon which it at
tempts to base it's argument to the con-
trsry.
The Citizen is thus again publicly con-
victed of standing az an apologist for
crime in New Mexico.
1t declared that Vigil ''was murdered"
when he resisted arrest on the charge of
being one of the conspirators and was
shot by the officers of the law. It char
acterized as unfair and partial" the tes-
timony given to the jury that returned
verdict of guilty, and now that two of the
gang have confessed their guilt the Clti-
zen still has word of apology for the
criminals and incidentally for their greatly
over-worked attorneys and supporters,
men who are straining every nerve and
snatching at every legal technicality to
release these sef-confessed assassins from
jail and once more turn them loose on
this community.
If there is God in Israel and Justice
is not assassinated in New Mexico the
Citizen and the gang it represents will
not succeed. Justice must be done. The
law shall be enforced and adequate pun
ishment melted out to all its offenders re-
CARELESS of their political 'pull."