Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-03-07
Former Governor Herbert j..
Hagerman Discusses Causes
Leading to Defeat of State
hood at Short Session,
PEOPLE SHOULD DEMAND
FULLEST INVESTIGATION
Declares New Mexico Must
Eliminate Politicians Who
Made Charges Possible Be-
fore We May Hope for Fav-
orabIe Action.

german arrived in Albuquerque last
been for a day or two, ON the way
to his home in Roswell Mr. Hager-
man has Just returned from a stay OF
several weeks in washington and
New York and has brought with him
to New Mexico view of the state
hood situation and Of the causes con-
tributing to the defeat of the bill at
the recent short session OF congress
which throws a strong light on the
extreme difficulties encountered by
the real friends and advocates Of
statehood in their work for New
Mcxicos admission.
While not approving the method
adopted in making use OF the charges
against New Mexico and some of its
citizens at the last moment in order
TO defeat the bill, Mr. Hagerman
lielaA il,l, II Will be ~ & py Cor thst
territory to thoroughly air those
charges ana to sift them to the very
bottom or to insist that congress or
the federal government siit them
and that at the same time New
Mexico must remove entirely some OF
the present political influences and
eliminate the politicians who have
made IL possible to bring such charges
before the territory can hope to have
the approval of the majority in the
senate.
Il have had time 10 read the news
papers of the past few days" said Mr..
Hagcrman last night. 'and to ascer-
tain to some extent the feeling Of the
people as regards the defeat of the
statehood bill. / have been particu-
larly interested in an interview given
out in El Paso by Judge A. B. Fall,
and which probably is indicative of a
certain extent of the feeling of some
OF the people as TO the causes which
brought about the defeat Of the bill
1T is undoubtedly true, as Judge
Fall has said in this Interview, that
the fear of certain senators that New
Mexico might contribute further ad-
ditions to the ranks Of the radical
element In the senate had something
to do not only with the defeat OF the
bill, but with tho manner in which
its defeat was brought about before
the committee; and it is certainly to
be regretted that those senators OPP
posed to statehood should have found
it necessary to use the charges against
New Mexico Just at tho last minute,
ana in a way calculated to do injury
10 the territory.
However, the fear of those sena-
tors who opposed the statehood bill
that New Mexico would send radical
men To the senate was not the chief
cause of the defeat of statehood.
"Thcrc was at one time a saying
that Senator Brice vas the third SEN
ator from New York. There is now
a saying, frequently to be heard In
Washington, that the senate does not
care to have a third senator from
Pennsylvania, and whether IL he well
founded or not, the fear does exist
that the admission of New Mexico
would bring into the senate a third
senator from Pennsylvania in the
person of w. II. Andrews
Il think it more just to those sem
HlOIH WHO are rhih " lihNf AfffaA' |
caused the defeat of the bill 20 at !
tribute their opposition to antipathy
TO Mr.. Andrews. rather than TO fear
that additional senators from the
west would hamper them. They fear
ineompetcnts and demagogues. but, |
according to my observation. they do |
not fear. and have never resented, the |
election to the senate of thoroughly |
and decent men.
But 1t is not necessary for us TO
waste time In impugning the motives
of the senators who are supposed 20
have been behind the defeat Of the
statehood bill. n The charges or ans
portion Of the charges
brought against IN" territory are
trne. no matter how, or why those |
charges may have been used. We
cannot obtain the support of those
senators who have the power to keep
Us out OF the union by recrimination
and abuse II the conditions nov
existing in New Mexico upon which |
they base thier refusal to admit us
are in any great degree rs represeu-
ted to them. Of there are conditions
here which are bad. IL Is only by
rcmedyinc those conditions that wei