The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-10-27

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the territorial treasury to be monk
eyed with, (ff / may use that expires
sion) by such legislative assemble
as the machine has elected and cor
trolled by the vilest methods. Wha
the people have got in return for thei
money paid in taxes is a bagaten
compared with what they would hav,
received with even fair government
! Boss Rule is witnering curse t.
every merchant, every banker, ever.
manufacturer, every farmer, ever.
man who works with his hands, ant
to every man who has anything tc
sell or VINO can be taxed. 1t saps the
foundation of prosperity at its roots
1t rewards, at the peoples expense
any thief, any liar, any misleader Of
ignorant voters who can do it service
and is equally ready to slander and
politically assassinate any man in a
high position who presumes to oppose
its high ,benests These are hard
things to say, and ought not to be
said unless they can be proven beyond
peradventure.
The Republican party was founded
to do justice, to give every honest
man fair chance, to encourage non
esty in official life, and care more for
the nation than for any selfish inter
ests of it's own. 1t appealed to mems
reason and conscience, and did not
attempt to hold them in the straight
jacket of any machine. From the day
of its birth it has, in the main, been
true to the principles of its founders.
But sometimes and in some localities
the party organization has been cap
tured by bad men who have used it
as shield to defend and a cloak to
cover every species of raScality, for
their own purposes. That is what has
been done here in New Mexico in a
manner and to a degree more shame
less and brutal than one can find
words to express. 1t is therefore high
time for self respecting Republicans
to do all in their power to rescue the
party from these pirates, and to make
it again worthy of the support and con
fidence of the people, and those who
are to blame for it are the very men
who are brazenly demanding the par
ty support because they are the reg
ular" nominees, they themselves,
through their cunning manipulation,
being their own nominators.
look at some specific things done by
this gang, and show what it is and
what it stands for.
To get a fair idea of this we need
not go farther back than the fall of
1904, when Andrews and Bursum first
came on the stage. 1t was an opportune
time for two men to do good work for
the party and for New Mexico. Mr..
Andrews was nominated for Delegate,
and according to usage he nominated
Mr.. Bursum for party leader. Few peo
pie knew very much about either. Mr..
Andrews was elected by about 5000
well. Andrews and Statehood was
the cry then, as it is now.
During his first term his troubles
in Pennsylvania came to light Wheth
er the serious charges were true or
not need now be discussed, but they
caused people to look up his history
and doings as Quay worker in Penn
sylvania, and we realized that we had
to iv, ocJ,
ington who could give pointers to the
worst boss we ever produced in New
Mexico. From 1904 the machine has
grown in power, in low cunning, and
in brutal defiance of everything that
is decent in politics or honorable a.
mong men, until it has reached ma
turity of corruption which leaves it
fit Tor nothing but burial.
/ know of nothing done by the mach
inc which has more deviltry in it than
the conspiracy it contrived to secure
the removal of Gov. Hagerman. Some
may say that am down on the mach
my son. That brings it closer home to
me than If he were not my son, ad-
NIT, but think it is a thing which ev-
cry man who cares for the present
and future good of New Mexico should
and take to himself. He
stood for honesty, for reform, and for
good government, and he could not
stand for these things without inter
fering with what the machine consid-
ered their vested rights. But Tam not
writing this to defend Ex-Governor