The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-12-03
THE OLD GANG MAY
HAVE ROUGH SHEDDING.
Especial Mail Correspondence of the
Daily Record.)

Santa Fe, N M, Nov. 25.-Slnce
the election there has been consider
able figuring among the old Republi-
can leaders on the legislature. I'm
doubtedly a majority of the Council
elect is composed of friends of the
former administration, and some of
the old administration leaders thought
that it would be easy to organize the
Council in opposition to Governor Ha-
german; but they have ascertained
that a defunct boss is not such a po-
tent factor in politics as boss who
mas the undisputed handling of the
party lash. and who can bring the
powerful argument of patronage to
bear in persuading obstinate mem
bers to fall into line.
Bursum, who, last year, might
have organized the present Council
elect so that the Governors path
would have been an exceedingly
tnorny one, is almost totally with
out influence Discredited by the rank
and file of mis- own party, he has
been forced from party leadership.
Imperial Caesar dead and turned to
clay,
away"
Most of the members-elect to the
Council are men of ambition, and
they are not going to sacrifice their
political future to bolster up a discred
tied faction of the Republican party.
Some of them have foresight enough
to see that the Governors policy is
going to win. They see that the vo-
ters of the Territory are thoroughly
aroused, and that any attempt to re-
store the old regime of graft will
bring about a reaction, over the Ter
ritory as complete and pronounced as
was the reaction in Bernalillo coun-
ty at the late election, where the old
local leaders were overwhelmed by
a wave of public indignation. No po-
litical ring in New Mexico was ever
more effectually smashed to smither
Gems. Politically the Hubbells have
been eliminated, and most of the
members-elect of the Council have
political acumen enough to see that
the same arguments which caused
the downfall of the Hubbells, of Bur
sum. Pendleton and others, will mark
them for political slaughter if they
attempt to place obstacles in the way
New Mexico an honest and economi-
cal administration.
On this account, some of the mem
bers-elect to the Council who were
counted on as being opposed to Gov
ernor Hagerman will be found on the
administration side when the Council
is organized, and, moreover, will be
found working to cut down the ex-
penses of the Territory to the end |
that there may be a eduction in the |
tax levy next year. The doubling of |
the tax rate for all Territorial pur |
poses within ten years is more than |
the taxpayers of the Territory are
willing to stand, and, on this account, |
the doings of the coming legislature
will be watched with unusual inter |
est, and the legislators who do not
bend every effort in the direction of
economy may as well voluntarily re-
tire from public life and save the vot
ers the trouble of retiring them two
years hence.
The indications are that the prun-
ing knife win be applied vigorously
along the line of Territorial eNpendi-
lures. In the first place, it is believ-
ed that the Bureau of immigration
will be abolished. More homeseekers
have been brought into New Mexico
this year by the adoption of a home
seekers rate by the railroads than
have been brought in ten years thru
the efforts of the Bureau of Immigra-
tion- The appropriation for this bu..
reau goes to swell the income of the
New Mexican Printing Company, and
that is about all the benefit derived
from it.
Thousands of dollars win be saved
in the item of contingent expenses"
of the legislature, and other thous-
ands will be saved in the manage
ment of Territorial institutions. 1t
is even suggested that the public |
printing ought to be let to the lowest
bidder, rather than to elect a Terri |
toriaIl printer who is permitted to |
charge fancy prices for printing. The
last legislature elected J. G. McNary |
public printer, but the printing is |
done in the New Mexican jofice here
and, It is said. that Mr. McNary re- |
cefved a bonus of 81, 900 to turn thef