Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-06-04


throw still more light upon the char
acter of the transaction The whole
procedure will bear no other con-
struction Why should Ex-Governor
Hagerman have shown 50 much anxi-
ETY. to get the deeds in the hands OF
the Pennsylvania Development Com
pany after the admonition he had re-
ceiyed from Washington? What pur-
pose did he have in waiting for the
absence Of the Commissioner of Pub
lie Lands and then invade that gen.
tleman's office, practically abstract
| the deeds therefrom, and atfix seal
thereto over which he had no official
control? No explanation will exon
crate him from these acts and the
motives accompanying them"
What have YOU to say to the
charges of Ex-Governor Hagerman
| that the officials under Governor
Otero's administration were a lot OF
grafters?
"l will not say what might be said
and perhaps ought to be said, but let
us look at the matter from stand
point of common sense. What oppor
tunity have The officials of this Ter.
ritory to become grafters? There
are no great enterprises carried on
by the Territory calling for the ex-
penditure of large sums of public
! money. No fat contracts have been
! let to any Of the Territorial officials
that | know of One man and one
man alone handles our Territorial
| funds, and that man is the Territorial
| Treasurer No one has ever charged
/ him with misappropriating dollar Of
public monies that ! have ever heard
Of Take the Office hold | have
been charged with being a CRATER.
NNhat could ! graft. The Territory
allows certain amount for the Of
! flee Of Attorney General / do not
handle dollar of the public funds.
Between this Office and the Territory
is the law and rhe Territorial Audi
tor. The same things may be said OF
the Secretary of the Territory, the
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
the Territorial Engineer, the Commits
| sioner of Public Lands, the Superin
tendent of Insurance and others.
Grating is reduced TO a minimum in
this Territory perforce Of conditions
If Mr., Hagerman or any of his friends
know of grating why does not he or
they point it out, who the graf.ers
are, and show what the grating is?
| Why not name them? Why try to
cast obliquy and shame and disgrace
on reputable men by The wholesale
charge that they are grafters and dis
honest9 Why try to get the people
!, of the States and the people who are
coming into this Territory to make
their homes, poisoned with the idea
that we are a set of thieves? Ex-Gov-
ernor Hagerman was in the Office OF
Governor about fourteen months. He
, had with him his own Attorney Gen
eral. If there were grafters such as
he claims, why did not he and his
, Attorney General devote little OF
= that fourteen months to exposing the
q, grafters and bringing them to JUS
a tice? A well earned reputation for
integrity and honesty counts for
nothing with a fake reformer and a
: trader in public offices but good
no Oh 6c 1.rt In
: in an effort to carry out the schemes
of an ambitious misguided novice" I"
4 What effect will the removal of Mr.
Hagerman have on the Republican
party in his Territory in your judg-
ment?
n "The incident will strengthen the
I party. 1t does away with the incen-
g tive for treachery to party principles
O for The sake of official favors. The
@ removal of disturbing factor is al
\ ways helpful to an organization.
s may say here, no man in this Terri
e tory ever received a warmer welcome
$ than was given to Mr.. Hagerman by
l. LhC lsSpuulICdI 1il W VII ulo ttpPolAt'
J. ment as Governor. 1t is true his APP
O poin.ment was not asked for by the
J. people of the Territory, but they
n wanted to see him have successful
! administration. The party had moth
q ing to ask Of him except to honestly
q maintain and build up the organiza-
e ton, and properly discharge the du-
d ties of his office. He did neither. Re.
# publicans were Indifferent as to who
d should take positions under him Sc
y. long as they were faithful and honest
[. members Of the organization. He
8 spurned the request and began at
l. once an attempt to disorganize and
e disrupt the party of which he professed
V to be member. Then came his troubles
n as troubles always come to everyone
IS whose head swells with the fancy
le he is bigger than his party. His
D. sympathies from the first were shown
Il to the leaders of the Democratic
Is party with only few insignificant
10 exceptions. We have positive proc
h that he advised the election of al
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