The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-06-04
THE COMING GOVERNOR.
officiaI Record Palpitates With Ora
matte Incidents.

OHIcidi RECORD faipIIdteS win Ora
matte Incidents.
From the New York Sun.
The newly appointed governor OF
New Mexico will return from the
Philippines, and incidentally from a
career of great excitement and vicis-
situde, to tax up the humdrum rou
tine of American civilization. We re
fer to the o George Curry, lately
governor of Samar, previously an of
ficer of the insular co1stabulary, be-
fore that chief of police at Manila,
and away back in 1898 captain of
troop H of the Rough Riders. No
doubt, after nine such tempestuous
years, Governor Curry will welcome
an interlude of leisurely and peace
full ease. No doubt it was with a view
to this well arned recompense tnat
his old commander, President Roose-
welt, recalled the appointment of the
Hon. Herbert ]. Hagerman as COVER
nor of New Mexico and transferred
the job ito his old comrade in arms.
The new governors official record
fairly palpitates with dramatic Incl
dent and suggestion. 1t may be true,
as alleged, nat his troop did not get
away from Tampa with the lucky
ones who went down with the Shafter
expedition of june Z, 1898, to exter-
liz oPEAAAAcL oo o-AN JtO IOS1
lars under Young, Lawton, Sumner,
Kent and others from humiliation,
but we can safely assure ourselves
that he maintained during the period
of his detention on the f1eta-ridden
shore of western Florida a thorough
ly unterrified. not to say ~sanguinary
bearing, and exhibited every symp-
tom of a burning thirst for war and
devastation. h exploits of the
Rough Riders in this town from n
breakup at Montauk Point are still
of vivid remembrance. There was also
a Washington episode, relating to
one of the newspaper offices, il
which Captain Curry distinguished
himself cry considerably, co%ntribut-
ing at the same time to the gayety
of the capital. Afterward, the homing
heroes vanished from general obser-
walton, to crop out sinely at eccentric
intervals as Office nollers, beneficial
ries of various state institutions.
fruits of shooting scrapes n bashful
evaders of attention by the sheriff.
Captain George Curry, however,
went to the Philippines, where, as
we have shown, he acted many parts.
On this side of the world ne has at
tracted attention chiefly by mis- per-
formances as governor of Samar and
- p0A SASu1o W liz LLhhoCSAAg
igy On the occasion of the peace on
ference at Mlalcoan, when the Pula-
james treacherously attacked his par
ty, and where he covered them with
lhumiliating disappointment by rush
ing down a precipitous decIivity,
plu1ging into a raging torrent almost
as formidable as the Bag Bag river
which Funston had swaIm across some
time before, and successfully seclud-
ing himself for thirty-six hours in
the tangled bush. The Pulaianes have
not yet rallied from that miserable
setback. The governor of Samar,
therefore, will bulge into New Mexi-
co crowned by many haloes, and
one more President Roosevelt's wis
dom in the distribution of rewards
the Rough Riders will receive
signal illustration.
We are told that tine displacement
Governor Hagerman il favor of
Governor Curry must be credited to
the potent influence and the diplomat
ic finesse of the Hon. Bull Andrews.
1t will not do, however, TO believe
everything one hears. For our part
We shall always think that Curry has
won upon his merits as a typical
Rough Rider.