The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-04-30

aad View the facts IN the light Of re.
cent history.
Party managers win be taught
that amy further opposition to clean,
honest government in this Territory
will mean political destruction
The Big Stick will not be held
by one individual. but by the sover-
eign people of New Mexico, and all
obstacles to the successful enforce
ment of law will be removed.
Be warned, let me encourage you
to your high duty as citizens and see
that the wise and honest measures
that have e introduced to enforce
a square deal' are not defeated. and
eliminate political bossism in poll
tics and control in our legislature.
How will you do this? ATTEND
THE PRIMARIES AND ELECT TO
PUBLIC OFFICE INDEPENDENT
AND FEARLESS MEN WHO WILL
WORK FOR THESE HIGH PRINCI-
Piles UNTIL THEY ARE BNCORPO-
RATED INTO LAWS, AND WILL
THEN SEE THAT THESE LAWS
ARE ENFORCED.
Il beg of you to come to a full ap-
probation of your obligations of citi-
zenship, and don't let your Territory
exist for h benefit of a set of cor
rupt men, but secure to each and all
the fullest opportunity for personal
development, and have answering
faith in the possibilities of the fu-
ture and the ideals of popular gov
eminent. The Individual citizen is
the country's hope. He may become a
power. He has a duty i. e. THE NOM
NATION OF ALL CANDIDATES
FOR PUBLIC OFFICE BY DIRECT
PRIMARIES WITHOUT THE INTER
VENTION OF DELEGATES OR CON
MENTIONS.
This is the only way you will de-
stroy the political machine. The pre-
ponderalce of public opinion express
ed at the primaries will make it dan
gerous to refuse the demands of the
people.
This proposition must appeal ,forci-
bly, to every honest man who believes
in truly representative government,
and will meet with disfavor only
among those who desire the contil-
uance of a system under which self
ish and pernicious interests are more
easily served.
Against this good government
the charge has been made that those
connected with it are not regular. i
understand hat Governor Hagerma1
has been denounced as a political
apostate. who is seeking the destruc-
ito of the Republican party. Is this
true? Not in the slightest degree.
Governor Hagerman has been true to
all the principles and traditions of
the Republican party, and if he has
not been true, neither has the Presi-
dent been true, for the two men stand
for identically the same principles,
i. e. a government whose functions
should be exercised for the greatest
good for the greatest number.
Governor Hagerman is not a spoke
in the wheel of the machine. He is
not the servant of any boss nor the
willing tool of a ring of corrupt, dis
honest grafters. Governor Hagerman
takes the same ground the President
takes against all men who show that
the only measure of real party regu-
larity is fealty to the bosses, and I'M
compromising hostility to the men
who stand for public rights in their
determination to drive the corrupt
men out of politics. Governor Hager-
man has executed the desires AID
stood for the principles of the man
who appointed him to Office. Cover
nor Hagerman's fight has not been
with the Republican party. 1t has
with the bosses who have abus-
nave become agents for special inter
ests, and who have arrogated to
themselves the right to use the pow
er of a great and useful party for the
accomplishment of the selfish ends
of the few at the expense of the ma
ny. They have used this power to
compel otherwise honest men, by
threatening their political prospects.
They have used the same power to
discredit and injure and drive from
public life honest men who have pro-
tested against their wrongs. They
have been untrue to the teaching
and traditions of their party, and like
leeches have Slapped the
life-blood of the party that nourished
them.
Governor Hagerman has been
fighting for the destruction IF these
melt. This is the sum and substance
Of his offence"