The Estancia news. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1904-1912, 1908-09-11
To the Editor of the Morning Jour

nal, Albuquerque,
Dear Sir:
In recent issue of your paper you
had an article upon the political situa-
tion, in which you stated chat you had
nothing to retract from the opinions so
frequently expressed as to the suitabil-
ity of Mr.. Andrews to represent New
Mexico in the next congress- Many Of
your readers, have no doubt, felt re-
lieyed when they read that article. A
feeling had been growing recently that
you who led such splendid fight for
clean politics had for some reason or
other concluded that having succeeded
in accomplishing the overthrow
of the Hubbell regime in Albuquerque,
there was nothing more to be desired
and you could let the whole fight drop,
and proceeded to boost for Andrews as,
a At and proper person to represent the
territory in the next congre IS. There
is large number of persons who are
good republicans that will venture to
differ with you on this point, who would
hold the opinion that on moral grounds,
Mr.. Andrews is not the man for whom
they can register their votes at the
forthcoming election for representative,
believe that he claims, and the ma
chine claims for him, that he has been
the means of turning large stream of
money from the treasury into the ter
ritory, that Albuquerque, particularly,
ought to show its gratitude for financial
benefits received by placing him at the
head of the ticket, that all who are in
terested in the Irrigation congress must
of course give him their votes, that the
postoffice, because of his diligence, has
received large gratuity and that the
G. A. R. men owe him life long debt
which can only be repaid at the polling
booth for individual favors received.
Did it never occur to you that this ap-
pears very much in the light of claiming
to have bought the votes of all of these
persons? Has he any right to lay claim,
as he does, and as the republican ter
ritorial convention also claim for him,
that it is owing to him, and to him alone
that congress has given this money for
the territorial enterprise in providing
for the Irrigation congress, for the
more efficient conduct of the mail SER
vice, and for the increase to the pen
sions of the veterans of the G. A. R.?
Had some other person been the rep
resentative would it not have been his
duty to do all that Andrews has claimed
to have done and with an equal pro-
liability of success? Allow me to ask if
he originated the idea of the subsidy
for the Irrigation congress? Was it not
the idea of other persons entirely? The
only service that he could render being
to place the matter before the proper
authorities, did he not at the first look
coldly upon the request until he saw
that it was likely to be successful?
When seeing that it might be used as
an additional argument for his re-elec-
tion? AS to the G. A. r. men what
ever can he, or any other man, do to
render their claims more just than they
are, so as to induce an increase of their
pensions? If he claims to have got an
increase, because, from lapse of time,
it was their due, would not this have
come about in the usual course of the
business of the pension bureau? If by
any influence he may possess he has
succeeded in obtaining apension, or an
increase of pension to one not rightfully
entitled to it both Andrews and the re-
cipient are dishonest, anyway he has
no claim on any Of these grounds to
the support of thevoters. But the issue
is moral one.
There are many who believe that on
these grounds, g. e. moral grounds)
Mr.. Andrews is not man who can
represent them. The incidents connect
ed with the Pennsylvania bank, and the
tragic suicide Of the cashier, have not