Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-18
TIE ANDREWS MENACE

Tx ANOnE W0 mGNNS@s
Under the foregoing caption the Al
buquerque Journal, a republican news
paper, prints the following editorial;
If there be one feature more strik-
ing than another in the political situa'
ton within the republican party in
New Mexico at the present time 1t is
the unaniimIty Of the feeling among
men of all factions and all shades of
political afiliatlon that William II. An
drews cannot be elected to congress
from New Mexico on the republican
ticket or any other ticket.
Press the close personal friends of
Mr.. Andrews into corner and these
men viii ;ell you:
"Tm afraid the Old Man can't make
it,
They viii go on TO tell you that
they believe Andrews entitled to the
nomination because of such work as
he has accomplished in congress, or
such work as he claims TO have accom-
plished. But in every case, pressed TO
the final corner, they will admit that
they fear he cannot be elected.
Those who are not Mr.. Andrews
close friends. and those who are will
ing to see a nomination out of the par
ty and not out of the machine, are
free in their expressions of certainty
as to the result if Andrews is nominal
ed. They assert he will be defeated.
They can prove it to the average man
in five minutes of cauvassing of the
situation.
Among his friends, who are few;
among his enemies, who are not so
few; among the great mass Of the
rank and file who do not care about
the Andrews personality one way or
the other, the opinion is that the dele
gate cannot be reelected. This feel
ing alone, were there no other good
and sufficient reasons, would insure
his defeat, and the defeat of the party.
Mr.. Andrews has come to the end
of his rope, politically, in New Mexico.
It was never very long rope, but it
has been all too long for the good of
the territory and the welfare of the
republican party. There is very little
use in going at length into the An
drews political record at this time
either as to his career before coming
to New Mexico or his career since he
became nominally at least a citizen of
the territory. The people are thorough
ly familiar with that record in almost
all of its phases. 1t is perhaps because
of this familiarity that the present
popular sentiment is so unanimous. AS
political influence the Andrews ca
reer in New Mexico has been unfortu-
nate. It has been somewhat more than
unfortunate for the republican party.
1t is largely due to that influence that
the party today, whoever its nominee
may be, will have to make the battle
Of a decade in order to defeat a not
overly strong democratic candidate.
1T is being said in political circles
today that Mr.. Andrews friends and
allies in the republican machine will
force his nomination on the party on
August II. 1t may be true. The An
drews wing of the machine may be
strong enough to force his nomination
upon the rank and file. It is difficult
to believe this statement, and it is
even more difficult to believe that any
set of men, however far they may
have progressed on the road to .polit
ical lunacy, would deliberately wall
into their own eternal finish in such
fashion. For it is well known to al
thoughtful republicans now; it is vel
known equally to the Andrews sup
porters and TO the Andrews adverse
ries, that he cannot be elected, thai
his nomination means the utter. ant
complete defeat of the party at a tins
when a decisive, clean cut, honorable
victory is absolutely vital to it's future
part in the affairs of the territory Of
the state.