Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-02-11

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tiou. and as q result there has been
disposition ta buck up. which
means eventual trouble for the ma
chine
The prevailing disgust with the
Holt-Bursum campaign has been in
creased By the course OF one OF Mr..
Bursum's newspapers. the Daily Citi-
zen. of albuquerque Bursum con-
trolls the Las Vegas optic. and is one
of the controlling forces in the Santa
Re New Mexican. The New Mexican
has merely contented itself with some
veiled hints as 10 what "bribes' have
been offered 10 members Of the legis-
lature by the governor. The New
Mexican's chief has a severe case of
cold feet, and is afraid 10 come out
with the Bursum rumors in the open.
The Las Vegas Optic has said very
little and this little has not been very
important. But the Daily Citizen. be-
ing more completely under the Bur-
sum direction than the others, has
printed the Bursum rum0rs, with the
result that several members Of the
legislature are angercd. The Citizen,
for instance published a statement
during the week to the effect that
Hon r. d. Burns. or TERRA Amarilla.
had been brought down'to Santa Fe
In an effort to keen a member VI the
council "in line" with the admins
trauion. IL was said by the Citizen
that a very important office had been
placed at Mr. Burns disposal for this
purpose.
Mr.. Burns is one of the strongest
republicans of New Mexico. His re-
publicanism has never been ques-
toned. and the statement published
was simply one of the rumors started
/ here by the Bursum crowd. IN an ef-
fort to coupteract the effect of the
flat disapproval Mr. Burns and many
other equally stalwart republicans
have voiced for the course followed
! by the Bursum crowd While Mr..
| Burns has said nothing here for pub
I lcation. IL is known that he has writ
! ten very strong letter to the Daily
| Citizen. demanding its authority for
! It's statements concerning him, which
| letter the Daily Citizen has thus far
| failed to publish.
7 In the same article the statement
! was made that Hon. Jacobs Chaves,
of Los Bunas, had been offered. and
/ has accepted, two very important APP
.
/ Is known as another Of the stalWart
I republicans Of the territory He has
] failed to support the Bursum crowd
/ during its legislative campaign for tha
/ same clear reason that other repub-
/ licans have failed to support it. Mr.
4 Chaves also wrote to the Citizen, de-
| manding its authority for it's state
! mcnts concerning him and demanding
! also a retraction Up to today no
| such retracti0n has appeared. The
| fact Of the matter is that every mar
| who has failed TO stand with Bursun
and there are a lot of them-has
| found himself confronted with one oil
these Santa Fe street rumors to thf
effect that he had been bought will
| an office The further fact is wei
known here that Governor Hagerma1
has made no promises and that The
effort to create the IMPRESSION tha
he has done so is the crudest kind o
| back ALLEY politics pesorted to BY
| Bursum. with these rumors told Oh
the streets and published I'm the Bur
sum newspapers and by Holt with hi
bills in the house
And while these things are going VI
| the really important part Of the leg
islation desired from this assembl
appears to have been forgotten. 80
a word has been heard from the anti
/ fgamhling bills nor from the tax bin
I nor he county salary bill. IT is no
surp sing. however when it is re
calIc that the minds Of the member
have been fully occupied with the EN-
plOy question,
NJ conference committee for tn
drafting Of an election law has bee
chosen rnd will begin its sttings thi
weel- Ii Is expected that this com
mittee viii produce a sound electio
law. which can be placed on the stat
ute books with assurance that it wi
not tlngle up all political parties an
elect on officials as has the preseu
election law passed two years ago b
the ,ursum machine.
County division questions are sim
mering. There is going to be
pretty figh1 over the Torrance count
d bin which. however. will be delaye
until the recovery OF Councilman Da
lies. who Is I'm charge of the measure
which has passed the council TIL
san Miguel county bill is in but tha
is about all that can be said of !
white Il is rumorcd that one Of tn
members Of the house is carryin
around a bill for the creation G
Pyramid county out of the wester
portion of Grant county with Lords
burg as the county seat. This bi
) will meet with very determined oppC
sftfen I'm both houses, and the pros
poets are now that if introduced
will be defeated.