Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-07-10
WHICH WILL IT BE?

The condition of the Morning Journal is almost too
pathetic to be amusing. Ffding that as a lightning
change artist 1t was not a success; that the feat of riding
two horses at the same time while they were going in op.
posite directions, was too much for its acrobatic ability;
having fought the so-called Hubbel machine when ii was
thought to be to the Journals influence to do so, but
having now ceased the fight because the Hubbell in
fluence is deemed necessary to secure a measure of great
financial benefit to the JouInal-being in this condition,
the great organ of reform which has ceased to reform
when money is TO be made on the other side, is trying des-
perately to have some one help ii to let lose.
Having for months demanded that the governor in
vestigate the charges made by the Journal against GER
tain Bernallio county officials. the governor, as soon as
the matter was properly brought before him, came over
to do the very thing the Journal had demanded. But
circumstances had altered cases. The Journal had an
other iron in the fire. 1t needed some of these officials to
pull out certain chesnuts which the Journal earnestly
longed for. So when the governor came, the great re-
form organ forgot its reform, mercilessly roasted the
chief executive of the territory for doing his duty, declar-
ed his action a grand stand play, as not needed, useless
and Ill timed. Ye gods and little fishes! What a position
for the great reform poser to be placed in! No wonder it
was angry at the governor for necesstating the punctur-
ing of its putrescent pretenses to reform. Well, the ex-
reform organ has no one to blame but itself. If it finds
1t more profitable at present to be the water organ than
to be the great organ of reform 1t undoubtedly has the
right to make its choice; but for Heavens sake, dear and
esteemed contemporary, don't try to be both at once. 1t
can't be done, and at any moment The Citizens fears to
hear you come to the ground with a dull and sickening
thud.
But the Journal wants to know where Mr.. Stricken,
president of The Citizen Publishing company, will land.
The Journal reminds one of the youth from the interior,
who was taking his first ride by rail. The train ran upon
a trestle. The boy, who was looking out of a window,
saw as he thought the ground rapidly receeding beneath
him. Falling into the aisle, he grasped the legs of the
seat. The conductor came along, and the boy with terror
depicted on every feature, cried out, 20, sir, has she lit
yet?" 1t is the Journal which is up in the air. not Mr..
Stricken or The Citizen. This paper stated at the time
of Governor Otero's arrival here, its position in the mat
ter, and it has had no cause to change that position or to
think that the people of Albuquerque do not understand
and approve it.
But the question where the Journal will land is du.
bious and doubtful. Like the man with two sweet hearts,
OF whom the poet said that he could be perfectly happy
with either were 'tother dear chamer away" the Journal
finds itself in a strait betwixt two, having the desire to
pose as the great purifier of politics, and also to land its
great financial scheme for the water company. Having
tried to combine the two and having failed, the Journal
is in a quandary as to which dear charmer to choose.