The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-07-01
"LEADERs OF DE GANG"
AND THEN A FEW.

The great vast majority of Republi-
cans are, The Record believes, strict
ly honest as men CO. They are no
worse and no better than are their
Democratic fellow-citizens, but there
are some men in the Republican party
of New Mexico who a hardly be
classed in this category. AS private
citizens they may do very well and
then again they may not, but some of
these men have so mismanaged the
affairs of the Territory that their &C
tons have become a stink in he nos
URLS of the great mass of the people
of both parties. They have more thar
doubled the tax rate and have given
nothing to show for it. They have de-
liberately appropriated vast sums of
money and have never given a. ac-
counting for its expenditure. n ac-
tons of these men have bee charac-
terized as di~sgraceful pom the floors
of both houses of congress and their
legislative labors repudiated in dis
gust by the administration of their
own party.
Yet in spite of all these things and
Of this odious and disgusting gang
there are honest office holders in New
&4C4A1O man vi NhCALt 1hd vi DOAi
parties. and conditions are daily i'm
proving. because honest newspapers
make charges against the men who
nave permitted the past conditions to
exist and who were responsible for
them, there is no reason to assume
that these newspapers charge all Re-
publican officials with being crooked
n politically d~isgraceful. Yet this is
just what some of the newspapers of
the Territory persist in doing. notably
the Santa Fe New Mexican, which
had given some reasons for believing
that it had reformed along this line,
but now appears to be getting in the
old rut of misrepresentation and false
hood. Here is its latest barefaced
twisting of Uhe Records statements:
AT last part of the mystery has
cen solved. The ca is out of the
bag. For years, the Albuquerque
Morning Journal. the Roswell Daily
Record, and a few other papers of
like ideas and like ambitions have
been limiting mysteriously at the ter
rible gang that is having the people
by the throat; that Is the cause OF
all the political and material misery
from which the Territory is suffering;
that has restored the credit of the Ter
rito-y when Democratic nisrule had
ruined 1t; under whose guidance the
Territory has doubled population and
wealth and will be admitted to state
hood within another twelve months;
under whom the administration of jus
tice has been swift and fair, under
which there has not been a single con
viction of any territorial official for
misdoing and no losses by defalcations
or embeZzlement by territorial officials.
There were repeated challenges TO
name the gang. to unmask these high
way robbers and pirates. to haul them
before the courts of justice so that
their horrible crimes might be expiat-
ed in due and proper form, but the
same mysterious silence was main
tanned ron Albuquerque to Roswell,
until Saturday. when the Roswell
Daily Record comes out with a par
tial list of de gang" Il says:
1.-THE Pecos Valley News wants to
NOW who comprises the gang The
men who have been generally denomi-
mated as members of the New Mexico
ring of politicians are the following
and a few others: Reynolds. Bursum,
Otero, Prichard. Martin. Andrews.
Llewellyn, Fall and II might be well
to put Curry In the list
Among the few others of course,
Is every other Republican Office old
er and every other Republican lead
er, who has stood in the way of the