The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-09-05


Washington business in Mexico.
and after Macmillan had been re-.
tired on a galena basis, the coun.
try settled down to business under
Felix Hernandez. the first presi.
dent, who was a pretty good sort
OF chap. There has been no more
foolishness in Mexico since DiaZ
became president along about 1875.
\ whole lot OF ducks have bobbcd
M who thought they knew more
about government, but Portoro was
always able to convince them they
didn't know how to play dominocs,
and that the proper thing to do
would be to call a priest and get
JUNCTION mighty quick. Some OF
them didn't have time to get the
priest, but just simply petered out
to the tune OF the musket or the
Springfield. That was the playful
way in those DAYS, and knowing
the game, they deserved what they
got, and their getting it has made
Mexico n OF the best governed
monarchies on earth.
That is condcnsiug q whole lot
OF history into mighty small space,
but II accounts tor all the prepare.
tons that are being made tor indie.
pendence day, and il YOU have any
sense OF ialr play YOU will admit
that remembering all that bunch
that were sent Tor and couldn't
come, Juan has a right to all OF the
doings OF the day, to shut up shop
and - n fishing.
II there v was n minute when
New Mexico wasn't in it, and the rc.
cent pardon 10y Gov. Geo. Curry OF
Frank G.. Sherlock is proof that
Kansas City with it's Williams
January. and Paris with it's lean
Vatican ,lare not even a beat ahead
OF the Sunshine Territory and the
great commoner who sits in the
governors chair at Santa Fe. In
the Sherlock case there was no
need Tor the petition signed nv
thousands, OF columns and columns
OF newspaper dope. When they
were brought to his attention bv
the Albuquerque Sun, the COVER.
NOT reached over tor the proper
blank and sent a pardon down to
the penitentiary. a few hide bound
people have criticised the governor
tor his action in this case, but TO
my mind 1t simply proved his
sense. Sherlock was at one time
an inmate OF the New Mexico pen.
itentiary. How he got tn ere
doesn't matter particularly AT this
late day. Probably he deserved
his sentence. Lots OF people who
are lot ever arrested ough, to have
longer sentence than he got. ANY,
now he served several years and
then got 4 chance to skip and skip.
! ped which was perfectly natural.
Instead OF turning out as an outlaw,
TO be eventually shot full OF holes
or Ierked to the shiny shore on the
short end OF a hemp rope, Frank
vas wise. He had learned his les
son, that it pays to he good, and
that any man who will knowingly
get himself in shape for Indictment
isn't smart. He didn't get up in
the amen corner and SWIVEL and
promise a lot OF things that his ma.
ture wouldn't let him keep. He
went over into Arizona, where no
one knew him and began to behave
himself. He found il paid, and tor
ten years kept clean. lie respect.
cd himself and Ike many other
people u here on the edge OF
things, his past was none OF the
other fellows business. lie was
trusted and given responsible posi-.
tions, finally having charge OF a
big quarry in the Grand CANYON.
Among the rutiScufi whom he had
10 boss was one whelp who was a
convict AT the same time at Santa
re, and presumed on the fact OF
his identification OF the man OF at.
fairs TO soldier on the Job. Sher.
lock very properly kicked him off
the works, and the low down skunk
proceeded 10 enter Information
which resulted in his arrest, re-.
commitment 10 the pcnitentiary,
and as soon as the facts ere
known, his pardon by Gov. Curry.
There is a moral in this case that
1t does not take a lawyer to figure
out, and also n rebukc TO that class