The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-02-25
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is not to proclaim yourself a saint.
However, this is not our text for to-
day. Tie "Parson" has decided to
quit preaching and join the grafters|
provided there is any money in it.
He really needs the money-but
please don't send checks, mining
stock or thousand dollar bills. Just
among ourselves as grafters. there
are lots of Missourians in h Pecos
Valley who might inquire into the
source of our sudden prosperity
and as Governor Folk once demon
strated, thousand dollar bills are too
easily traced.
Now. don't look for any connection
between our decision and h next
paragraph. There isn't any, The fol-
lowing editorial appeared in last
weeks Carlsbad Argus:
"A man or people asking favors on
the one hand and using a club with
the other is not likely to get that
which is desired. This seems to The
Argus to be the attitude of the editor
of the Roswell Record in the matter
of county division. If county division
is ecure at this session of the leg
-~islature. the Record editor more than
any one influence will be responsible
for it. The daily cavilings of the Rec
ord at the members of h legislative
assembly have not even the virtue OF
truth, to say nothing of their being
iiLtimed and hurtful to the entire
Pecos Valley"
Merely an echo of the Santa Fe
New Mexican, which serves as a
paradigm religiously copied by all the
NJ Too" Republican papers of the
Territory. If the members of the leg
islature were as sincere in their good
intentions as a Record editor they
would laugh at what the Record false
" said in criticism, even as we
laugh at the lower house of the leg
.~islature. The desire of the members
to defend their good name is com
mendable. But they do not go far
enough. They should prove, rather
than merely assert their honesty, in
stead of making childish threats. we
regard the utterances of the New
Mexican and its echoes as official
proclamations of the old machine men
the assembly. But it is not mere
NFAVORS" we are asking. Surely the
people of the Pecos Valley have
some rights.
Here is another gem from the Albu-
queruue Citizen: 1.-The Citizen would
again emphasize h fact that moth
ing can be secured for Albuquerque
or Bernalillo county by a system of
bullheaded opposition to the Repub-
iican majority in the legislature. A7d
less can be secured-tf it were pos
sible to have less than nothing-by
an idiotic system of Safeguarding
those who control legislation"
The Parson desires merely to en-
phasize the words WHO CONTROL
LEGISLATION" and by way of COM
ment add a paragraph from the Al
buQuerque Journal:
"Our neighbor inquiries why our
representatives IN the Legislature
should not yield to the gang, sacriic-
tng what they know is right and con-
se1ting to what they know is wrong,
for the sake of getting a little appro-
priation of some sort for their own
county? A question embodying the
high sense of honor which stands out
SO c-onspicuously all over the forego-
ing, can only be properly answered
by asking another: Why should Ju-
nas not have sold his Lord, when he
could get thirty nice, bright pieces
of silver for doing so?"
The people of course exercise no
control over their servants, and have
no right even to look on from the
galleries. 1t strikes the Parson that
there are about seventeen men in
the legislative body small enough to
do a cake-waIk on the head of a pin.
Referring to the Bernalillo county
members, who are independent Re
publfcans supporting b policy of
Governor Hagerman, the Daily Citi-
zen say
@As far as getting anything for
faeIr constituents while maintaining
fhedr fight against the majority, it
would be better II b county a no
members in the Legislature"
An of which is offered as evidence
BENDING 10 prove that getting things
Is the sole idea Of government in
New Mexico.
Now. according TO all precedent. is
not the Parso1 justiied for just
once IA saying. damn the system
One OF the Records correspondents
at santa re say that b biggest
club OF all In this legislature is the
new county scheme. This hoes not