The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-02-21
AT LEAST TINS IS ORIGINAL.

perhead editorials IN the AIDuquer-
que Fakir Journal, in the Roswell
Democratic daily sheet and Demo
cratic weeklies generally, are pre-
pared and written in this city by
men who have anything but the
good of the Republican party and
the benefit of the people at heart.
1t looks that way. These things
will come to light sooner or later,
and h there will be fun.-Santa
Fe New Mexican.
The Colonel, having fatimated some
time since that Governor Hagerman's
message had been partly stolen and
partly dictated or written by some
body else, evidently has revised his
estimate of the Governors epistolary
prowess-and this last word is used
with fun knowledge of its special mil
itary and warlike application. The
Record editor feared for a time that
he might be accused of writing it
but instead, the Colonel now hints
that the Governor, recognizing the
futility of the sword, n taken up
the pen of a ready writer n not
only repares our editorials for us.
but plays first fiddle betimes for the
Albuquerque Journal, and toots a
horn for each of the Democratic week
lies of the Territory. Thus are we
robbed of all the fun there is in
editing a newspaper by this ~autocrat-
ic young governor who received his
first political training in Russia. Not
satisfied even with a mild censorship
over tae Territorial Republican press,
such as Colonel Frost has exercised
for years, the Governor, perhaps by
telepathic or other psychic means,
wields, directs and controls every
Inspired pen in the Territory-in-
cluding the n whose books CESca
. burned by MI. Bursum.
Thu Record zdose mr. acaiva some
.llss7Sy Interesting articles from Santa
Fe, but they are run with date lines
as special news. and written by Mr..
Loomis and another gentleman WHO
has been under indictment for over
a year for printing things which he
conceived to be the truth abou a
former legislature-and in spite of
his persistent pleading the case has
never come to trial. We admit, too,
that if we could induce the editor of
the Santa Fe Eagle to help us out,
our editorial page might be improved
and made even warmer than 1T is
but no doubt he too is under the hyp-
MOTTO influence of the Governor, of
the Attorney General.
The editorial writer of the Record
(also known a. the "Parson") being
the day linotype operator and tele-
graph editor as well, sometimes ex-
hausts SO much steam that he has
to borrow coal to keep the political
pot warm for one or two days of the
week-but he always gives due cred
ST for borrowed editorials from other
papers. and frequently finds things
worth printing even in h New
Mexican.
The Records business manager is
responsible for nearly all railroad
editorials; our correspondents at
Santa Fe often make comments that
are not strictly news. and local items
occasionally violate the rules of re-
porting by expressing opinions of
stead of merely reciting a facts.
AS Horace Greeley, Charles A. Dana,
or some other crowned king OF the
fourth estate" once said, There is
always q strong tendency In newspa-
per writing to insert the jackass per-
sonality of the writer between the
reader and the story"-just as we
are working the editor of the Record
into this article.
However, on the editorial page all
. political items. mai stolen outright or
credited to some other paper, are
manufactured right here in Roswell
the eserappiest" ones OF all usually
any copy at alE-and sometimes SO
hot that on second thought they go
back to the melting pot without
printing.
But. seriously, even II editorials
were contributed to this paper. they
would have to receive the sanction
OF the editor before publication, and
TIE Record would be entirely respon-
sfhle for the results. It Is the publ
gcatdon, and not the mere writing or
-<ypeset<ing that imposes RESPONSE
binty. Any person who 50 desires, in
Roswell, Santa Fe. or elsewhere. is
free Co ofer suggestions-and rs
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