The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-05-11

submit their cause 10 q 1alr trlal. II
Meyer and Haywood are not guilty
they will not be convicted. Neither
will the Tallmadges. But the Ros-
well Record and papers of its ilk
will succeed only in creating in the
minds of the people the belief that
something is wrong with the men
accused of land frauds by a continu-
ance of their abuse of the courts and
the United States officials. The at
lack on Clarkson is a legitimate out
come of such tactics"
The Record has no objection to any
of the nice things said about Mr..
Clarkson. We do not care to discuss
his health or the political history of
his father. The Pecos Valley, howev-
er, denies responsibility for Over
street, who vas imported by the
Tallmadges, probably from Chicago.
The fight or assault" upon Mr..
Clarkson we regarded as a personal
quarrel between the two men-and
the fact that Mr.. Clarkson himself
requested that no prosecution be in
stituted woul seem to indicate that
he SO regarded it. Mr.. Clarkson's &C
vas not seeking notoriety by trying
to create the impression that he was
being prosecuted. While the indict-
ments against Overstreet and the
~Tallmadges may have been at the
bottom of the quarrel. it reminded
us somewhat of a scrap that occurred
here a few months ago between Fire
Chief Kelley and a stranger. Some
body asked Kelley why he whipped
the man, and Kelley replied, well,
ne was from Kansas, and I'm from
Texas, and we just had to fight it
out" The Record still believes that
Mr.. Clarkson would have been safe
had he not talked too much about
what he was going to do. He had
already accomplished some good
work, and the matter was then up
to the Federal court for decision. Be
ing a young man, he was to some
extent excusable for a tendency to
boast of mis- success The Tall
madges have some fighting men in
employ, n we do not believe
these men have done the cause of
the Tallmadges any good.
AS for the charge of the Optic tina
the Record has been trying officials
outside of court" will say hat some
of them have also been tried in court.
1t was a jury, after hearing all the
evidence, and not the Record, that
found U. S. Attorney Llewellyn gull
ty of using undue influence with the
grand jury to secure indictments
against h Tallmadges. Another U.
S. officer was arrested in a local
resort for carrying a revolver. He
was convicted in a justice court, but
on a writ of habeas corpus Judge
Pope later held that the officer was
in carrying a revolver for
s~elf-defense while in the discharge of
duty. We do not know whether
or not Judge Pope at the time knew
where the officer was when arrested. |
the Record is not responsible for
the "tommy-rot sent to sensational
by cheap correspondents" but |
do guarantee the accuracy of the
Associated Press dispatches SEM
from here.
Even the New Mexican was misled
by a dispatch from one of the Tall
madge brothers stating tina they
had been acquitted. We understand
that Colonel Frost is a personal friend
Of c. L. Tallmadge, but do not on
hat accuse Colonel Frost of
having been bought. The Record is
not defending the Tallmadges, never
has defended them-but if anything,
has given them the worst of it edi-
,orially, while at the same time try
ng to report the news as it happen-
I'd. We have been especially careful
the recent proceedings for the
-eason that the business manager
md principal owner of this paper
vas on the Federal jury list,-and by
he way, ne was passed as a juror
~ the prosecution in the Tallmadge
asses. but was peremptorily chaileng
d by the defense.
We have tried hard to get it thro'
he heads of such editors as the Op-
lie man that the Tallmadge cases