The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-04-29

sheet" at Roswell credit for being
next to the Albuquerque "Fakir" Jour.
nal, the chief support of the Hager
man Observation-Disclosures the diff
Guilty of shouting 1.-THE king is dead
and in the next breath, Long live
the king" 1t may turn out later that
some of the prominent Republican
announcement that Mr.. Curry is a Re
publican-and then it will be our turn
to laugh.
All this has nothing to do with my
subject, The Crime of being a Young
Man."
There are no snakes in Iceland"
Neither will you find there the sun
shine fruits, flowers, artesian wells,
alfalfa meadows, oil prospects, health,
push and energ of the PecOS Valley.
Age is free from the temptations of
youth-but who woul not exchange
all his years of experience for an OPP
portunity to try it all over again?
There is a kind of sacredness about
an old landmark, though it be only
the grave of an outlaw, and men pre-
serve even pieces of the rope with
which a bad man was hanged. How
ever, a new era has dawned in New
Mexico politics. Ancient standards
and methods are passing away. the
fact that a man has been a great thief
or CRATER, and hat many other poll
ticians are under personal obligations
to him for a har of he spoils and
fear to oppose him, no longer serves
to keep the people in ignorance. A
young governor whose most reVolu-
tionary demand was honesty in the
public service, has been sacrificed on
the altar of party expediency, but the
people have been aroused, until no
matter who becomes governor he dare
not resist h tide of public se1ti-
ment.
"AIl merit wins
From Drawing the unequal;
And glory m from daring to be
GIN
o ask what the reformers nave
done. Mr.. Reid has given the details,
but / am reminded of a story which
some of you may have heard the late
Jerry Simpson tell. Two Irisnmen just
over from the ould sod, n green of
course, not having yet come into their
estate as the politicians and police
force of our country, landing at some
obscure port, started at once on foot
across country to find their fortunes.
AS night came on they laid down
to sleep near a railroad track. A train
passing with glazing headlight n
sending up a shower of sparks, awak-
ened one of them. After watching the
train pass, ne poked the other man
in the ribs and said >'Pat, Oh Pat,
Wake up. They're movi1' hell and
the first load just gone by"
/ do not know the real reason why
Governor Hagerman sent in his resig-
nation, Or why it was requested-or
rather, | did not know until l heard
the speech of Attorney General Reid.
There have been a dozen explana-
lions, but the latest one is that he
was removed because he was tempera
mentally unfit-whicn e perhaps
because he is death on grafters. 1 am
satisfied from a limited personal &C
q~uaintance with him that all the bit
ter .snarls and complaints which the
gang newspapers report him as max
ing are false. That is simply an eff
fort of the old gang to make the PEG
pie believe that Mr.. Hagerman is a
hot-neaded fool. From the grafters
standpoint, of course, the idea of sim
pie honesty is revolutio1ary-and l
am satisfied that his application of
the principles of clean business admin
istration HAS disrupted the so-called
Republican party of the Territory.
This is a crime in the yes of the par
ty bosses. But I do not believe even
yet, that the President would a re-
moved Mr.. Hagerma1 if he had known
the true political situation and tine
sentiment of the people of the Terri
tory. / said some mean things about
Mr.. Roosevelt in anger, when / first
heard of the outrage that had been per
against Governor Hagerma1,
on sober second thought it is hard
believe that the great reformer
who has stolen all of VIM. J. Bryan's
except the one w~ing-feataer
tariff reform, would knowingly
be guilty of such an injustice. The
trouble is that while the friends of
the governor have been sleeping. his
enemies have besieged the President
and day with trumped up char
ges until he has bee deceived. At
any rate he did not appoint Major
whom the gang wanted,
and there is still nope for good govern
ment in New Mexico.
(NOTE:- A few of the side re-
marks have gone glimmering, beyond
recall, being made rather impulsively |
while lodging the scene-shifters. The
Parsol has been accused of being on
all sides of all questions. This is
trIs In the sense that he always goes |