Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-11-21
Other False Charges Refuted.


1t ic Sad enough to have to read
every day the trade and abuse from
the Siamese twins of New Mexico
Journalism the new Journal. few
days ago the rnal-Democrat. OF Al.
buquerque. and the Las Vegas Optic,
based upon unproyen charges made
against certain county officials for po
litical effect and nothing more. No
matter how often they repeat or twist
them. they cannot pass beyond the
category of charges until proven or
otherwise. The charges will be met
ct the proper time and will be tried
before the proper tribunals and not
by malicious letter writing or biased
newspaper articles. and when that
tine comes we have no doubt II will
he otherwise" Meantime, IL is very
amusing to see the ball tossing be-
tween the journal and the Optic were
II not that they are mischief makers
In their exchange OF editorials. When
the two aforesaid newspapers resort
20 downright SANDER and falsifying
for political gain. then 1t is time to
show up their little, mean, spiteful
game by quoting a few facts. The
plan as II now progresses between
these two daiies is to try to make It
appear that Mr.. Frank A. Hubbell is
endeavoring TO start the race issue In
politics between the natives and the
Americans, as we call them; that Is.
those Of our citizens that have come
among us TO cast their fortunes here
from other states. Nothing could be
more ridiculous nor further from the
truth, Is we Will show, by taking the
trouble 20 investigate where the hula.
nalloo about Frank A. Hubbell trying
10 raise the race question started.
and how the JCcrnal by unadulterated
lying has ever since been making an
effort 10 saddle It on Frank, aided and
abetted in the nefarlous task by mis-
cOmpadre, the Optic, and an occasion
al yelp from other prejudiced sources
The charge emanated first from the
publication OF an article by the "El In
depSndiente,' Spanish weekly, OF
Las Vegas, owned and edited by Mr.
+. II. Saiazar defending the republi-
can administration in this county,
where. in the CT urse of n long article
upon the subject, which we reproduc-
ed in our publication. the author mad
this sentence, Speaking frankly and
without beating around the bush and
casting aside oil disguise, il is desired,
first, TO take tho power away from the
| Hubbells in their management of ter
/ rtorlal affairs and to stay their ascen-
dency in local and territorial politics,
/ and In the second place 1t is intended
/ that the affirmative element shall have
control in everything, especially In
local politics. ,he editorials frequent
| ~ published in the Journal-Democrat,
| OF Albuquerque. indicate more or less
| which way the wind blows for its in
| tent has been invariably to beiittle the
| natives ana To consolidate the ele-
ment that has come here from other
places, to form e party that will have
for its object the control of the pub
lie othces to the complete exclusion
OF the natives. This Is what is called
| in the south the white mans party,
! having for its Principal basis an IRE.
| conciliable hostility to ali the natives
| in the locality where they figure in pol.
tues" A study of the paragraph
translated from the Las vegas paper
vas charging the Journal-Democrat
OF this city with an intent by the
trend OF its editorials to have in view
itself a plan TO create a race feeling
but nothing in the quotation shows
the opposite idea. iSow to show the
dominant idea of prevarication on the
part OF the Journal-Democrat on any
subject that they think will hurt
Frank A. Hubbell, II had the article in
full translated, and the translation
was faultless, pEd published the same
In fun in its columns, adding thereto
bitter comments upon the whole, but
more especially upon the paragraph
quoted, and nolens volens, withou,
thinking twice, head foremost immedi
ately charged Frank A. Hubbel with
having had the editor of his paper
write the article In question and had
IL sent to Las Vegas to be published
We paid no attention TO the rantinp
Of the Journal-Democrat upon the sub
ject. but Mr. Il. IA. Salazar. the editor
o. lei Independence" no doubt see
ing the gross injustice OF the Journal
Democrat in charging Mr. Hubbel
with the article, wrote a letter to the
Daily Citizen, as we were Informed
by the editor If said paper, under his
own signature, denying fully and EN-
phatically the assertions made by the
journal-Democrat. charging Mr.. Hub
he'll with the authorship of the article
The letter was duly published in The
Citizen, but, OF course, little matter
OF that kind the editor OF the Journal
Democrat overlooks entirely In his
eagerness TO carry forward his sian
derous points, We thought that Mr.
Salazar's emphatic and voluntary
atowal OF authorship and denial that
Mr.. Hubbell had anything TO do with
that article directly or indirectly as
II would have been TO any fair OF sane
minded man. should have been enough
but not so with the aforesaid papers
the Optic ghoulishly picked up the ed
itorial on the subject printed by tn,
Journal.Democrat, rolled 1t under III
tongue as a sweet morsel OF venge
ance and hurled II back In forcefu ed
itOrihls OF denunciation 10 the journal