The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-10-27
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both branches. By that ear they
hoped to so tie the hands of the Gov
emo and to so harass and embarass
him that he would resign. 1t vas a well
laid scheme. As much effort was paid
to getting the fright kind of mem
Andrews. AS to the house they succeed
ed perfectly. They had seventeen mem
bers out of twenty-four who always
obeyed orders. But as to the Council
they failed miserably. 1t had eight
men out of twelve who stood like a
stone wall for what was right. The
session was half over before the con-
spirators struck on a plan to ham
string the Governor" as they boast
ingly called it, which did not depend
upon the cooperation OF the Council,
but which could be done by the obed-
lent House alone.
The House was well organized to do
anything the machine might demand.
It's leader was Mr.. H. B. Holt, whom
the Governor had removed from the
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Agricultural College for pocketing a
large sum of money which he had col
lected as interest on Territorial funds
| and for other sufficient reasons.
The Speaker of the House was Mr..
R. L. Baca, a man of we'll known bad
character. He failed to get any rec
ognition from the Governor, and every
bad instinct of the man was aroused
to the highest pitch. This made him
doubly fit for the service the machine
chose him to perform.
On March 4th, 1907, Mr.. Beach of
fered a resolution charging the Cover
nor with misconduct in the famous
Pennsylvania Development Co. land
matter, n providing for a commit
tee of five members, to be appointed
by the Speaker, to Investigate the said
charges, n report their findings to
the House. The resolution was adopt
ed. This was the first gun fired under
the plan of assassination which had
been agreed on by the machine.
Speaker Baca Immediately appointed
four of the most bitter enemies of the
Governor to be found in the House.
The fifth member, reluctantly, / am
| told, at last did what the Gang de-
manded. The Chairman of and attor-
ney for the Committee was E. C. Alb
bolt, whom the Governor lac remov-
ed from the office of District Attorney
of Santa Fe County, when the Bursum
affair was up, because he (Abbott)
was a protege of the machine, the head
of which it would have been his duty
to prosecute. He was abusive in his
hostility to the Governor, and was
therefore an ideal man in the eyes of
the machine to be made attorney for,
and foreman OF the jury to try the
freres had invented.
The next most active member was
Mr.. Beach who was one of the most
abusive enemies of the Governor.
Such was the constitution of the
Committee or Jury appointed to try
the trumped up charges. The star wit
ness was H. B. Holt, who was watch
ing for a chance to "get even" with
the man who had removed him from
Office for the reasons already stated.
The report of the Committee was,
OF course, just what was expected by
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, false,
t~reacherous and reeking with enom
The Governor sent a special ness
age to the House fully explaining the
case, which was a perfect defense of
Representative Hudspeth called for
the reading of this message. The Speak
er ruled that the reading OF it would
be out of order, the question of order
being raised by leader Holt. Hudspeth
appealed from the decision of the
by the Gang vote, and the message
was never read, and never communi-
Gated to the House in any manner
They were not looking for the truth
but for a stilletto. Amid angry protest
against the outrage the Speaker put
the motion to adopt, and it was car
ried by only n vote, the Speaker
himself casting the deciding vote.
Five of the machine members revolt
ed, the outrage being too rank even
them.
During the two weeks this thing was
Mr.. Bursum was in Santa
doing all in his power as party
boss and dispenser of party favors to
keep his tools up to their work U. S.
Attorney L1ewellyn, who posed as the
and intimate friend of the
neglected the duties of his
Office, and used every art known to
Iago to urge on the work to a con
satisfactory to himself.