Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-04-23
HAGERMAN'S
TALE OF WOE
Awful Graft of
Conspiracy Undid
Him
IN HIS MINDS EYE
Claims Credit For Anti-G Gam
ling Bill Although Such
Was Not the Case.

The New Mexican re-publishes an
interview in full, that appeared
in the columns of the st. Louis
Times last Friday and was had by a
representative of that paper with Gov
ernor Herbert j. Hagerman. The
statements made therein are of i'm
portance to the people of New Mexico
as they seriously affect the good repu-
tation of the citizens and the fair
fame of the Territory.
The gist of the interview is, in Gov.
ernor Hagerman's language:
81 have been the victim of the worst
kind of job. have defeated the
worst ring that New Mexico ever had
in the Legislature and it's members
have got even by getting my office.
will have an exposure to make after
] have sent in my resignation which
will create sensation"
Who is the worst ring and who COM
poses it? Are the seventeen Republi-
can members OF the House who fought
manfully for decent and proper legisla-
tion that ring? Or was 1t and is it
composed of the following members of
the Council of the Assembly who were
given jobs by Hagerman. although he
knew most of them to be incompetent
and not desired by the people and the
Republican party:
Duncan, of San Miguel, coal oil in
spector, worth $4,000 per year; a son Of
Stockton of ColfaX County, deputy coal
oil inspector; Sargent, of Rio Arriba,
auditor of the Territory; Chaves, OF
Valencia, insurance commissioner
Miera of Sandoval, board of equaliza-
ton and appointments for friends;
Murray of Grant, 4 appointments fol
friends; Sulzer, of Bernalillo, peniten-
tiary commissioner; Walters of San
Juan, member OF the House, peniten-
tiary commissioner.
None of these men would have been
appointed to these positions, had they
not been members of the Council or OF
the House and therefore had votes
which Hagerman wanted and which
he had to have in order to carry
through his plans and schemes.
The next leading statement i'll this
interview:
"His cleaning out of the grafters and
the passage Of the anti-gamblng bill
are the principal causes of his re-
moval."
An analysis of this statement proves
positively that it is the veriest hum
bug and rotten balderdash. The seven
teen Republicans Of the House of Rep
resentatives passed stringent anti
gambling measure which, as the rec.
ord shows was defeated by the Hager.
man job members of the Council and
no anti-gambling bill of any kind
would have been enacted had it not
been that these job hunters got cold
feet and became so scared OF public
opinion generally that an anti-gam-
bling bill not near as stringent nor as
good as the one passed by the House
was pushed through the Council
against the will, the wishes and the
aims of the administration job hunters
and finally became law, and even in
this case an administration job hunt
ing Councilman insisted on an amend
ment that the law should not take Ell
feet until January l., 1908, although
the decent citizenship of New Mexico
demanded the enactment OF the Ra
mon Sanchez anti-gambling bill which
was to take effect Immediately upon
it's passage The record, of the Assem-.
bly,, its open and secret history and
the journals are cited to disprove Gov
ernor Hagerman's statement.
AS to the exposures, "let them
come" Governor Hagerman has been
exposing" for the last six months and
his charges of graft, corruption and
thievery in Territorial affairs by and
with the connivance and acts Of Re
publicans who have held Office under
the administration preceding him have
fallen fiat, have not been substantiated
and have no true basis or foundation.
For these reasons the New Mexican
re-publishes and calls attention to the
interview following:
The St. Louis Interview
'T have been the victim Of the worst
kind Of Job | defeated the worst
ring New Mexico ever had in the
Legislature, and it's members have got
even by getting my office. | will have
an exposure to make after have sent
in my resignation which will create
a sensation"
"This statement was made by Gov.
H. J. Hagerman of New Mexico at the
Jefferson Hotel, as he was preparing
to leave for Albuquerque, from which
city he declares he will send to- Presi
dent Roosevelt his formal resignation