Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-04-21
J. \. CRIST
WANTS TO KNOW
Which is the Tail and Which is the
Dog in Political Combines in the
Recent Santa Fe City Election.

In a recent issue of the Albuquerque
Advertiser there appeared a letter
written by j. H. Crist anent the poll
tical combinations in the election in
this city on the fifth of April last. The
letter is quite rich and racy and its
reading will create much laughter in
political circles in this city, where the
inside of the arrangements is quite
well understood. Mr.. Crist wants to
know:
'Monero, n. NJ. April 9, 1904.
Editor of the Advertiser:
Dear Sir-T am in trouble-my po-
litical soul is vexed-and you, the edi-
tor of the leading exponent of Dem
ocracy in New Mexico, must help me
out-really you must. What is first
class. up-to-date political editor good
for. anyhow, if he cannot minister to
a diseased political mind?
Here it is:
AT the Capital they have political
combine-an incredible, incongruous.
impossible combine 1t is made up OF
that sturdy old Roman, Judge Laugh
lin, the polished. elegant and saplen1
diplomat. General Easley, and him OF
| the aforetime alleged brains and en-
erSy" T. B. Catron.
There is nothing in such com
bine to vex mans political soul, sa.
you? Wait minute.
1T does please the human mind tt
run to smile, at times, and to llkeI
such peculiar combinations to DOG
in it's component parts and move
ments. Now every well regulated dog
has a tail. In this case, which is the
dog and which is the tail?
"Now do you begin to see my veXa-
ton? Wait a minute.
Can it be thought for moment
that these two master spirits OF De
mocracy, Laughlin and Easley, con
stitute the tail, while the dethroned
and repudiated Republican, Catron Is
the dog?
Perish such a thought!
mo! No. Proclaim it from thu
housetops and publish it through th'
land that these two princes OF tn
blood Democratic constitute the dog
and the repudiated Catron is the tall
"Now do you begin to appreciate m.
exquisite perplexity?
mo? Wait minute.
| "Jn politics all sorts of assorted
things are likely to happen-uneXpect
cd unheard Of inexplicable, astound
ing things-just as 1t did happe
when the people of New Mexico, il
their alleged sanity, selected thel
most picturesque citizen CD by near
ly 10000 majority. Now suppose
lust for instance suppose for mo
ment, that in this perplexing case th'
traditional spectacle should happen
that the tail should wag the DOG
ANGELS and ministers of grace de
fend US
"Think of it! All you hoary heade'
veterans of wars Democratic, and you
Mr.. Mentor of the Democracy OF New
Mexico-think of it. Think of thes'
two plumed knights of Jeffersonlal
going about the political streets OF th'
gay old Capital dragged by the Grea
Exile.
"Is this a dagger which | see before
me, the handle toward my hand
Come. let me clutch thee;-l hav'
thee not, and yet l see thee still. Ar
thou not fatal vision, sensible t
feeling, as to sight? Or art thou bu
a dapeer of the mind false creation
proceeding from the heat-oppresse
brain?"
Help me, Mr. Mentor, or | fear
catastrophe to myself at Silver Cit
like unto that which befell our er
lthusiastic Fielder friend at conver
tion in your city. twelve years ago.
"Look you, I'lll go pray
"Distractedly yours.
81 H CRIST.'