The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-02-16
A SAMPLE OF THE NEW
MExICAN'S BEST HUMOR

1T sounds like exaggeration, but a
Roswell man who recently returned
from a trip t o Santa Fe says n sit
uation is more desperate than a Chi
cago labor strike. He would not be
surprised to hear of the assassination
of the Governor, the Attorney General
or any other man who dares befriend
these officials. Every stranger going
to the town is under constant espion-
age by an army of detectives employ
ed by the gang of grafters and it is
known hat there are eX-convicts
and cut threats enough lettering
about the Capital to execute almost
any crime that might be imagined.
The Record believes, however, thai
such talk is made at Santa Fe merely
to brighten the friends of the Govern
or and keep them out of town.-Ros-
well Record.
The Roswell man who gave the in
formation above to the Roswell paper
must have been drunk during his
entire visit to Santa Fe and that on
the worst whiskeythat he could pos
sibly find in the lowest dives of the
outskirts of the city. The story is a
crazy falsehood from commencement
to end. There are no detectives here,
excepting those belonging to the New
Mexico Mounted Police. As far as
cut threats and ex-Penitentiary con-
victs are concerned according to pop
ulatiOn there are not as many here
as there can be found any time and
any night in the Roswell city confines
The city of Santa Fe is p~roverbially
peaceful and quiet and has the best
record of any of the towns of its
size in the Sunshine Territory in
that line. The hidebound Democratic
sheet in publishing the above know
ingly md w~illfully ~slaldered and lib
eIled the inhabitants of the Capital
City of the Territory. There is no
excuse whatever for this. Unfortun-
ately, there is no help for it. No
names are given but the community
as a whole and citizens by innuendo
are libelled. The only procedure is
to brand the article as a Iibellous lie
and as base Islander. That these
chickens will come home to roost,
d~astardly and cowardly attack on the
good name of the Capital City and of
citizens of the Territory. will find
out in due course of time. 1t is a
long lane that has no turning. The
people of Santa Fe have been very
friendly towards the people of Ros-
well and have aided them in every
possible for many years. 1t is
gratifying to be able to say that the
decent AID respectable citizens ,of
on the Capital, its people and other
citizens and do not approve the dirty
and ~cowardly expressions. The par
ties who are responsible will be found
out in due course of time n when
this is done there will be fine chan
ces for getting evel.-Santa Fe New
Mexican.
The Record was doubtful about the
story at the time it was published.
and treated it rataer lightly. Howev-
er, this comment of the New Mexican
seem to confirm at least the
statement that the Santa Fe situa-
ton is desperate. We presume that
Colonel Frost drinks only the best
whiskey and patronizes only the high
dives-but if his diction be the vernac
ular of the higher classes at the cap
ital. the lower stratum surely is bad
enough to make a Roswell man i'm
agine things worse than they are.
The Record has asked its correspond
ent to have some of the Santa Fe
whiskey analysed and make report
as to whether or not, in his opinion,
that is what is the matter with a
lower house of the legislature.