The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-04-10

u was, anyhow, and IL she broke
a contract, which the verdict
establishes, it is letting her OFF
entirely to easy to only touch her
Tor $50.
There are a few newspaper men
IN the southwest who are not
interested in the game OF checkers
that rs going on with the old I'll
Paso News as the pawn, which is
to Jump into the king row by
translation to Albuquerque and
entrance into the territorial fields.
h News has been a creature OF
many vicissitudes, and many OF
those who bnow it smile while
reading OF the reasons Tor the
change. II has never been in the
class OF its contemporaries, and #
Il doesn't Improve by transplant.
ing II will tall tar short OF the
albuquerque Journal, which i, is
Chiefly supposed 10 buck. The
chief reason Tor its removal from
the more OF less sterile soil OF FL
Paso was simply because it could
not compete with such a remaTka.
bic journal as the Herald. To be
sure It had the best heavy editor
iaI writer in daily harness in the
southwest, whoever he was, but
editorials don't make a newspaper
by a big majority. The matter OF
Mr.. Martinez ambition to be Unit.
ed States Senator from New Mex.
leo was a contributory cause, OF
course. In spite OF his denials,
practically everybody knows tina,
the deal has been made, that he is
to be senator il the democrats can
deliver the goods, in return for
the establishment Of a great demo.
cratic daily, which wouldn', be
hard, he being more than a mil.
lionaire, II he had the practical
sense to hire men TO put out his
sheet who knew how to make a
great newspaper. Past expert.
ences does not Justify the belief
that he will do any such thing,
and since it takes more than
money to make a newspaper great,
II is difficult to see Just where he
is going TO get on at Albuquerque.
! n spite OF IT'S we'll known political
concubInage, It mus, be conceded
BY every fair person who knows
that the Journal is a great paper,
really the greatest in the Rock
Mountains south OF Denver. Lay.
ing aside the editorial equation,
constructive and economic, it is a
marvel as a newspaper, consider.
ing its field. The presumption is
that by raising the party cry, Mr..
Martinez will be able to mix things
with the Journal, and open up a
wide territorial pay streak. To
think that he will, unless he puts
out a better paper than the Journal,
Is not good newspaper sense. The
people do not make
such switches permanently, and
they will not do it in this case,
unless as before said, Mr.. Mariner
sets the gait a little faster than the
track has shown before. Judging
from his past methods in I'll Paso,
he is utterly incapable OF such a
thing, unless he has had a new
and will employ his intelli.
gence in the absence OF the real
goods 10 himself. As to his sen.
atorial dreams, that is another
story altogether. We may and
We may not get statehood next
winter, ! think we will. In any
event, 1t W e do get it, is now practi.
cally admitted that the senators oil
the new state will be elected by
the people, and his candidacy will
have to be submitted to the cleo.
%torate, along with that OF anybody
else who wants to rum. The
senatorship IA take care OF itself
Tor all anybody now cares, and so
can Mr.. Martinez in the Albuquer-
que held. He should, however.
sing low about the wonderful grade
OF his new sheet. Some OF the
long talks about it that is now
floating around makes an old news.
paper worker, who knows condi-
very much tired.
There are brave men and brave
men, but It must be confessed that
this fellow Clearance S. Darrow,
the great Nihilist attorney, who
Haywood and Mover.