Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1900-11-05
Another Democratic
Circular......

The democratic county committee has sent us a new circular
received Sunday morning. with a request that we publish and refute
IL We are sure sure the ssSues, to r. dSc is not s. serious /, Re, hsf0, alton
have sent us their precious production at an earlier day. Time is
We must decline to publish the circular o make any at
tempt to "refute" all of its absurd statements 1t would make
nearly three columns OF this paper Since Its receipt it has been
Impossible to get access to the public records in time to make a
detailed examination as to the matter talked Of in this circular.
The principal object Of attack. az in the first circular issued
by the same committee. is the sheriff. They attempt to give the
and notwithstanding som serious error in their figures. they
show that the sheriff receives o n a n average a total Of a little
Any Of our readers who will compare the new circular
with the first one, will see a substantial admission of the falsity
Of the first statements without the manliness to make a direct
charged that the sherin's total in one year was .asSisn. 1t viii
but there Is no open acknowledgment of error
In the new circular it is stated that in our answer to the
cred by the payments mentioned in the first circular; and we call
not now disputed. but it is not openly and fairly admitted. The
Sr rcyiaas srl shift sY their e c, sTGun "a 5 and sTSk r to sstsm =. nh. effect of their
Having been exposed by our answer in their attempt to make
fund and for a year and a quarter from the general county FUND
euort to misead IN public. u branch on INTO the equally mis-
leadins statements covering a number Of years
circular stated Is received by the sheriff from civil cases and for
former circular it is stated positively. without qualification. and
is prefaeed with a statement which declares it to have been taken
from the county records" There is no frank admission OF their
having made a mistake in saying that this appeared on the records.
the misleading and inaccurate character OF the first one, and This
with regard to the sherinss emoiumcnts. we desire again to
s Sanum The attention l,%,, NIT to the fact ,S,., that from what he receives which
has to pay the compensation OF deputies all over the county sal
arms u J"eIn' i'euhE VI pllaoheIs' iWh bANelhb ai oH'f ~
penscs, and many other miscellaneous Items of expense. 5 that
ther ey Is n Iet for n his P SGsSn enumeration To- S a very moderate 2. :. sum
the present incumbent does. We also call attention again to the
fact that the ercuiarians have not charged, and dare not charge.
that the sheriff has dishonesty or improperly taken a single cent
for a suspicion of anything of that kind, it would have been an
nounced by the democratic committee IS a certainty that he had
1t is asserted in the circular that there is less business rans-
criminal business has greatly Increased and is more rapidly dis,
business that the sheriff draws money from both funds.
The statements which We make ae absolutely true. Let them
stand merely as our assertions against those Of the signers OF the
circular. and we submit to the public that we are better entitled
to credit, because We have already convicted them Of gross mis-
This circular has something to say about tax levies. but the
tabulated statement heretofore published, contains all the infor-
nation possible on this matter. We invite attention to It.
one brief quotation from the circular, which is a fair sample of
the unfairness and Misrepresentation which characterize the whole
THE decrease in the valuation of taxable property in this city
Valuation, ls9s ........ ....... "".... ..""""'2s4s7s57i
Decrease in two years of present assessors incumbency. 5 ssaea7n
statement contained in the answer a $ to the amount OF the roll
for GGo 1900 r. The T answer "a, accounts 1mt I for the decrease by the pEsTRUc-
This is another instance of shifting their ground when de-
republican assessor has reduced the valuation of proprty in the
answer. that the reduction had been about 100000, and said that a
large part Of that could be accounted Cor by the destruction Of
the San Felipe hotel Now. these propagators OF error declare that
we tried thus to account for a decrease of nearly 100000 And yet
Now, we have had no time to ascertain what the valuation Of
taxable property in the city was in 1898 but we feel justified In
now in the accuracy Of ANYTHING sent out ny the democratic
circular even know how to get at the valuation of the city prop
ety from the county records. There are not many men in the
community who do know II the reader doubts this let him go
to the court house take the assessment roll" and unless he has
sisted, h1 the valuation Of all property in the city.
The circular says that Mr. Frank Mckee. who signed the
first circular. does not repudiate its contents. 1t is undoubtedly the
fact that he abandoned the committee as soon as the first circular
was sent out, and it has been stated o the streets and n the
public press that he ala so because he satisfied that the
statements to which his mann a signed were untrue, He has
though he is well able to do so, and we would rather have him