Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-03-12

ing held back for the simple reason
that 1t has been unjustly termed "re-
taliatory."
This condition, however, can not
exist longer. 1t is generally admitted
in the capital that the bars are
down" and the next ten days will see
the people of New Mexico have an
inning from beginning to end.
There is a quantity of legislation
pending which it is generally ac-
knowledged should be enacted into
law, the opposition of the anti-ma
chine thereto Notwithstanding.
1t is wonderful to see the change
that has taken place since the antics
of the Journal and the machine
which it represents have come to be
viewed in their honest, ridiculous
light. The legislators themselves al
most without exception have tired of
the sensational, untruthful and libel
Gus reports, and as the circulation of
that periodical will testify, its sale
here has diminished rapidly.
I'm tired of all this rot. Let's
pass the bills the people want and go
home, where we can live without
some mud-slinging sheet branding us
as criminals without the slightest ex-
cuse for so doing" Such or similar
expressions are often heard among
the legislators.
The coming week will be a busy
one for every member of the legisla-
ture. The majority in the council
and house which has from the be-
ginning stood firm for home rule and
home legislation, still stands un-
broken. 1t has even secured recruits
from those who at the outset were
deceived or otherwise influenced into
opposing it. In the house. Hudspeth,
a democrat, is working might and
main to gather about him that little
minority which followed Captain
Ruppe into a most unpleasant posi-
ton, and which, were it not for Hud-
speth. would be entirely at sea.
In a great many ways this legisla-
ture has been handicapped. 1t has
been accused of about all the things
which ingenious political and news
paper inventiveness could concoct. At
the same time 1t remains a matter of
record-not of rumor-that 1t has
stood for the people and their desired
legislation regardless of all attempts
by the opposition machine to use the
whip.
The lies and inuendoes of the past
few weeks will be blown aside like
chaff before the wind in the next ten
days, and the thirty-seventh legisla-
tive assembly will be seen by the peo-
pie in its true light-a body of men
from the people and acting for them
in every way possible, despite the
rabid utterances of a subsidized paper
and its small following. which has
hindered them in every conceivable
way.
The leaders of the republican ma
jority in the house have stood at the
head of their forces undaunted, and
will not regret that they have been
attacked SO falsely in the sen ga tiOnal
anti-republican press. They have
done this much, if nothing more-not
one measure has passed the house
which has not been a good law in
every sense of the word, properly and
clearly drawn and having for its OBJ
ject some definite good for the terri
tory and the people whom they have
the honor to represent. In remarks
upon the floor of the house, it
can never be said that they have
used personalities derogatory to the
character or integrity of any MEM
ber. 1t is this which has held the
immortal seventeen" together TO a
man, despite the cowardly attacks
and guerrilla warfare which they
have had to face.
Much interest now centers in the
report of the house special investiga-
tion of the governor. The commit
tee has finished its work. The gov
ernor was asked to appear before it
and present his side of the case. He
did not appear. Out of all the wit
best known to himself, found it best
to remain away. L. c. Abbott, of
Santa Fe, chairman of the special
committee, refuses to talk of the re-
port until it has been acted upon by
the house.