The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-10-21

combe @has been effectively punctur-
ed, and thu Republican atmosphere
as a result has eel surcharged with
that wind and gas which the An
drews orga4s are fond of a%ttributing
to Mr.. Lar}azolo.
Any thinking, intelligent citizen
who heard the little speech of Mr..
Collins at The Larrazolo meeting here
the other hight, has had his eyes
| opened.
Mr.. Andrews has been Boosting of
his splendid achievements in secur-
ing a federal building for Albuquerque
and in securing alone and unaided
an appropriation of 10000 for the
irrigation congress.
On these marvellous achievements
Mr.. Andrews has bee building false
hopes of carrying Bernalillo county
in the coming election.
With the complete data, hard, cold
facts and figures or the table before
him. Mr.. Collins with no attempt at
oratory, calmly inserted the probe
that caused Mr.. Andrews toy balloon
to burst like a bubble. 1t was all so
bald, so plain, so patent that those
who heard the true in~wardness'' of
these appropriations for the first time
wondered that they had ever been
so gullible as to swallow the boasts
of the delegate.
Mr.. Collins, with the records be-
fore him, showed that the first appro.
priation of $4,000 to buy the site for
the federal building was secured by
Delegate B. S. Rodey. He showed
convincingly that without the efforts
of Mr.. Rodey the agitation for a fed
eral building here would never have
been started and that Mr.. Andrews
merely did what he could not help
doing without ~betraying the grossest
lincompetency I'M carrying out the
program which had already been as.
sured of success in congress by Mr.
lRodey.
Mr.. Collins showed beyond the
shadow of a doubt that the S30,0 0
appropriation for the irrigation con
gress was secured In SPITE of the
Handicap OF the inefficient delegate,
He showed that both of these appro.
tpriations were secured largely or the
stipulation that Andrews would keep
out of the proposition. He exposed
clearly and convincingly that Mr.
Andrews loud Dragging about these
appropriations is utterly without ba.
sis in fact, and that he had nothing
to do with the real work of securing
the money from congress beyond his
incidental connection in his official
capacity.
by hockey, I got 'em through"
ibrags the boastful delegate. Me and
lPenrose done it."
1t is ~nauseating to a man who
takes a second thought about the
jmatter and o not accept the brag
gadocio without taking the slight
trouble necessary to get at the truth
This is a fair sample of the And
lrews campaign arguments-the pen
isions which are allotted by law thru
regular channels and for which the
delegate claims credit; the home
seekers that follow the tide of immi.
grafton, for whom the delegate claims
credit; the railroad that he never
built, for which he claims credit; the
laws passed in spite of his incompe
itency and the prosperity that comes
ito the people in spite of their robbery
by the Plunderbund; the election
that he stole and which he claims
the people gave him.
Give the Ca~rpetbagger, the Boss
tErrant from Pennsylvania, the Elec
ltion Crook, and the Political Banker
his medicine at the polls, Mr.. Voter.
1t is right up to you.