The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-07-19
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
1T MAKES THEM MAD.


The jas Vegas Optic has been SO
busy scolding the irreconcilable and
quarreling people of Las Vegas and
East Las Vegas that it has had but
little time 90 devote &C anything else,
but 1t now shows signs of recognizing
that there Is a big world outside of
the narrow limits of the town of Las
Vegas. The Optic mar boasts of car
rying a lance. while everyone knows
that Ghe ~up-to-date newspaper man
should tote around nothing except an
automotic of the latest design. but
then, of course. the Optic man Is
from Las Vegas. Here is his latest:
"It has been many days since we
last couched our republican lance and
entered the lists to tilt for the terri
torial administration. During the re-
spite we nave given ourselves the
Roswell Record has com imbued
with fresh energy and is attacking the
party with r~edoubled vigor.
1T might be noted in passing. also.
that the Albuquerque Journal, the pa
per with the variegated editorial poll
cy, has again gone back to the demo
cratic party. The Journal manage
ment must have cen afraid that the
proposed 100000 rea democratic
newspaper would do some damage
and so decided to get there first, Pri-
ority will not do the Journal any good
in hat field. Even the democrats re-
aize chat IL never has been consistent
in anything except inconsistency. and
never will be. For some reason or
other our Albuquerque contemporary
has not even been able to pursue an
Independent policy. II hankered af-
ter the flesh pots during the admins
tration of a certain young gentleman
who received a job that was too big
for him. More recently 1T has partak-
en- of the feast at the official GA oil
Governor Curry. Probably its glut-
tonous NAV hides an appetite that is
unsuitable; at n rate, the papers
policy has again taken on a different
hue. a pale and sickly hue. The Jour
nal is a good newspaper; the best in
the Southwest. But 1t las no policy.
not wen an independent policy. And
everybody knows it
THE Roswell Record is a paper
who's editorial policy is made of diff
ferent stuff. 1t is a democratic paper
in every sense Of the word. And. IL
IL purported To be an independent pa
per, an independent paper II would
De. Just now the Record is showing
its policy by raising seven different
kinds of political cain with h repub-
lican administration; by enuneraGng
the members of the gang; and by
referring 20 what 1t terms the vicious
blow to New Mexico" caused by the
summary removal of a governor oh
noxious to the rang because he was
honest" This is all vastly amusing
because Il Is o so well and with
such apparent good faith. The Record
is to be admired and oCnplimented ra-
Their than blamed and censured. II is
good democratic politics to illuminate
against the republicans, to say hat
some of them are honest and intimate
that the dishonest ones are in the ma
jority. to lament the downfall Of a po-
litical infant in arms who would un-
knowingly have carried US bag M
baggage into the democratic camp and
left the republican party high and dry
OF the shores of betrayed trust. Yes.
that Is surely good politics and we
don't blame the record for crying
about 1t. II the boy-governor had been
allowed to proceed along the path
marked out for him by the democrats
who had his shelllke ear, which
same was the path he was rapidly
ave obtained control in New Mexico
without the trouble of winning IL at