Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-02-18
FAK|R SHEET
HASH|SH DREAMS
Concerning District
Attorneys
FALSE AND MISLEADING
Statements Shown in Their
Nakedness and SANDER
Gus Intentions.

Concerning House Bill Number l.
introduced by Representative Beach
which passed the House by a vote Of
II to and which Is generally known
as the District Attorney bill, the Al
buquerque Fakir in last Saturdays IS
sue edtorially says:
'"Public sentiment in this section of
the Territory, in opposition 10 the
pending District Attorney Bill, in the
Legislature, is growing stronger every
day The more the people look into
the matter and the more they see OF
the devious ways resorted to by the
machine to beg, buy or brow-beat
votes in favor of it. the more firmly
are they convinced that the motives
behind the movement are of such
reprehensible character that no man
with any regard for the good name Of
the Territory ought to have anything
to do with it.
By The above the Albuquerque Fakir
means that public sentiment in it's
Office and of the Inoney-lenders and
land sharks who own the paper as
well as Of few off cials in Santa Fe
who desire to rule or ruin are opposed
to the passage of the measure. IT
means that few Democratic and yell
low newspapers in the pay Of the
crowd for value received are opposing
it, 1t means that the gang behind the
Albuquerque Fakir is doing all 1t can
by cajolry, by offer of offices by brow
beating. by threatening, by trading to
secure votes against the passage Of
the bill. Continuing the Albuquerque
Fakir says:
at cannot fail to make itself clear
TO any one who will make even cas-
ual investigation of the matter, that
the movement is not what 1t purports
to be on its face. The gangsters who
at present have hold of the party ma
chine would not pursue the devious
and desperate course which they are
taking with reference to this matter
f.a.- tha nrasnnl time merely for the
to be a comparatively unlmportahl
change in the law, There is some
thing else behind it, which is OF vastly
more Importance to the machine
There is a bug under that chip and
| fortunately for the cause OF decent
government in the Territory the peo-
ple have found it out
This is moonshine and yapor. lf
the change in the law is as unitnpor'
tant as that yellow sheet endeavors
to make it out, why all this fuss and
feather, why all this opposition to the
opposition to the measure by Territor-
ial officials and by the newspapers
controlled by them? If there is moth
ing lost to the officials and to lhe
gang that controls the utterances o.
!, the Albuquerque Fakir and its com
rades by the passage of the bill, why
all this bitter, yenomous, and vlndlc
tive fight aginst the bill? Why this
living and slandering of prominent cit
! izens and decent and reputable news
papers, just because they desire to es
, tablish the rights of the people in TIT
matter? Where is the bug? Why no
t uncover it? Why all this dust throw
. ing? This mud singing? This abus
of citizens Of the Territory who hav
worked for many years for its deve
opment, for it's advancement, for 1t
q progress? Again the Albuquerqu
o Fakir continues:
e "They may not know just what it it
e but they know of certainty ina
VI when grafters like those who are a.
suming at present to give orders
the Legislature become so desperatel
anxious to have some particular thin
done in their way, there must !
: something rotten in it somewhere, b
cause the gathering of the buzzards
sufficient evidence Of the presence
the carrion."
The dirty, cowardly sheet and II
towards that pull its strings dare NJ
to come out in the open, dare III
Dr. mention names, dare not give circur
a. stances. dare not give facts. ii the
TX are any! The sheet and the gang III
O. such language as BUZZARDS, graz
le ers and the like, but shield thel
d, selves by skulking behind the tree
ee by sliding through dirty slime,
IL crawling like a centipede Farther
oy the Albuquerque Fakir says;
lie There are more than few. perso
us in the Territory who have We
'e- strong suspicion that the prese
is great anxiety in this matter on t
cd part of the machine is due to the ia
that some of the members of the
gang are up against the necessity
getting some district attorneys of
very different character from any Il
u Governor Hagerman is likely to
point, in order to save themsel'
err from some very unpleasant expefler
in court. This opinion is becoml
quite general and the effect of 1t is
strengthen the popular opposition
loo the pending measure. And there is
a.. abundance of material in the hlstt
ha of the gang to furnish ample foun
~ ton for such an opinion. This q
,an perate opposition to the law as 1t
oat lists at present, may in all probabil