Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-11-02
A CANARD! !
An Infamous Campaign Lie Cru
Gifted on Its Own Cross.
READ AMI REMEMBER.

| To The Railroad Men of East Las Vegas:
A scheme to lie T. b. Catron into thu
office of delegate, should the effort fail tc
buy his way into that position, has beer
| concocted by the Albuquerque Citizen, and
| Is being pushed with all the brazen effront-
| cry for which thar paper 10 so justly cele'
| brated. The scheme Is this;
II. b. Ferguson Is charged with having
| begged the privilege OF prosecuting the A.
| r., u. strikers In 1894, Of having prostituted
| the prosecution into persecution, and hav-
| ing received ~, 500 from the government
for so doing. These are the three charges,
every one of which is a bare-faced, wtllful,
and knowing lie.
record IL published. II consists of three
Items, besides the formal certificate Of the
court clerk. The first item, No. 8,4S2,
twice as long as the other two, being the
Union Trust Company vs the A. T. q 3.
+. railway company. does not contain the
name Of H B. Ferguson at all. II
has no more to do with him
than the Albuquerque Citizen has to do
with the ten commandments. Apparently,
1t was published la the hope that 1t would
not be read, but would be taken as proof
of the Citizens lying assertion, because II
appeared In the same connection.
The other two cases are the United
States Uersu's w. K. Kochenderfer,SW wv. h.
Curtis, aud j. H.. Thomas, and the United
States gersus Chas. Wagg and f.. II.
that H. B. Ferguson, special attorney,
moved the court to strike from the files
the answers of the defendants, and that
he moved the court for leave to file In
terrogatories. In t~bessecond, the record
says, II. B. Ferguson prosecuted.
This Is every word Of the record,
published with such a flourish OF trumpets.
N ~,--la- fha Hffs~ol aoUa tho FoC0rd IL
''obscure :" but with its Unborn propensity
to lie, it adds because the officials are
friendly to FERGUSON Every one short
of a foo knows that the record was made
two wears ago, and the present friendliness
of the officials could neither add to it nor
AXE from it. The record is what absolute
ly took place, no more and no less.
Let us see what II does not say IL does
not say that Ferguson solicited the posi-
ton Of prosecutor. Lie No. /. 1t does not
say thai he prosecuted the men. Lie No.
2. 1t does not say that he received 81 900
for SO doing. Lie No. 8. What does the
record say! Exactly what Mr.. Ferguson
says, that he appeared for the government
and signed certain necessary papers, which
be was required to do by Attorney General
Olney.
Every one knows that an employe OF the
government cannot throw up his job, when
he wants to. That was why Engineer
Wagg was sent to Jail. The road being In
the hands of the court, Wagg was consid-
cred an employe of the government, and
because he quit work without the consent
of the government, he was sent to jail.
II. b. Ferguson was in the employ OF the
government, as special attorney In the
prosecution of s. NJ. Folsom, in the bank
wrecking case. United States Attorney ].
b. Il. Hemingway was in Las Vegas, pre-
vented from returning to Albuquerque be-
cause no trains were running. Attorney
General Olney te~legraphed Mr.. Ferguson
to represent the government. Had he failed
to do so, fine and imprisonment would
have been his punishment. He obeyed,
and signed certain papers, set forth In the
record shows, and those cognizant of the
transaction are fully aware. On this the
entire lie of the Citizen has been con
cocted.
We, the precinct committee for East
Las Vegas, two members of which are now
blacklisted by the railroad company, be-
cause of the part they took in behalf Of
A. r. U. strikers in 1894, assure the
railway employees of East Las Vegas,
that we speak what we do know, when we
declare that II. B. Ferguson was opposed
to the prosecution of the railway men, Ia
the strike, took only such part as he was
compelled to do by his official position at
the time, never asked or received one cent
of pay for what little he did, and Is and
has been one of the best friends organized
labor aver nae In this Territory.
In conclusion, we invite you to read the
affidavit of Engineer Chas. Wagg, the
only man whom Mr.. Ferguson Is charged
with having prosecuted.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
EAST LAS VEGAS, N. M, Nov. I'd, 1896.