The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-03-13

M. L. MEcHEM,
Notary Public, Quay County. n. NJ
Again shall it 20 down in the
history that New Mexico has been
a sacrihcial offering upon the altar
OF mans revenge upon man. This
time her hopes have been slaugh,-
cred by the representations OF n
she delighted to honor and he has
spared neither effort nor conscience
ia his insistent demand that for the
reason that he was forced to resign
as her governor, New Mexico shall
pay the penance with her freedom.
From the spleeny and ascetic old
father before him he has taken
cradle lessons whose impressions
shall never be eradicted or sweet
ened. Upon this paternai teach
ing he will lean and the ego OF both
is the rock upon which our ship OF
state is nigh wrecked. These men
are bigger than the needs or desires
OF New Mexico, bigger than her
demands, and their i~nsistence upon
this selfish sequel to her hopes
brands them as the possessors OF
hearts OF selhshness.
Suppose their charges e true
is the semedy in further subluga'
ton OF a people to such practices
Suppose 90 per cent OF u people
speak Spanish, which is Tar from
true, is the enlightenment to come
through the execution OF such plans
rs are included in the future these
sons OF Nero have laid out Tor this
territory with the richest resources
and the most ambitious people the
turquois sky covers over. Ormsby
McHarg is said to have declared
that go out OF every 100 in that
territory have no conception oil
what citizenship means" We do
not know Ormsby McHarg but we
know his servant sent here TO do
the bidding OF his superior. This
man drank and caroused night and
day and lived a lecherous lite with
any low enough to fall his way. He
was known in Denver, Ration and
Trinidad, as a low debauched and
debauching man. In his cups ne
told the story OF his ambitions and
his degrading methods OF obtaining
evidence, by which he swore &c
climb to the top OF the depart
ment." Did hei No, and why.
Because citizens OF repute and
honesty barred his way aud show
ed him up for the l~ascivious thing
he was. The stories OF his de-
bauches went to Washington and
this evidence deposed this keepei
OF his brother, this ferret who stol'
truths and furnished them with lies
who took the sworn statements o
the weak minded OF demented II
his attempt to prove frauds upor
honest pioneers who had taker
their homes on government land
upon which this scoundrel, thii
thug upon the throat OF justice
took oath were valuable minera
lands. II they are il will TAX
more than his years OF life to prov
the statements made by this Office
OF the high and soverign majest,
OF the law, since not a vein h
swore to has been discovered 4
hold q ton OF marketable coal
This was the sort that worke'
under Mr.. McHarg. aecuser OF on
people OF whom he said go pc
cent are unfit for statehood" Ye
are we not privileged to wonde
what per cent OF those who hav
lived under the boon OF statehoo'
all their lives are really FIT to liv
under il. The large portion o
New Mexico citizens are the pee
OF Herbert Hagerman, the 'bo.
governor" whose accomplishment
was his ability to go q swifte
round than the older men OF his se
at Santa Fe could live under
and whose bachelor quarters wer
ths scene OF far more foolishne
and folly than OF the labor OF a ma
who ssneiy sought to govern
HagosnzAn lacked the very small
est qualities necessary to q ruler