The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-03-27

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other side of the statehood question.
Have they aver shown any incHna-]
tion tostrain outside the corporation
ranks? If SO, cite us in instance.j
And then again, it is to laugh to hear
their farther statement that Aldrich,
Hale and Beverage were afraid that
two senators would be elected from
this territory that would train with
the Western radical bunch of Repub-
licans. 1t is altogether likely that
Andrews and Bursum, or Andrews and
Curry, or Andrews and whoever his
gang controlled compatr1ot might be,
should train with Cummins, La Fol-
lettte, Bristow ct al After the cam
paign funds you have seen expended
here in behalf of Andrews and know
ing his personal financial as
we do, they are certainly giving us a
bigger dose than the statement on !
the little red sticker was n giving
1t unsugarcoated at that, when they
expect US to swallow such sophistry.
While we do not agree with Senator
Beveridge's conclusions in the state
hood matter, We believe he has good
grounds for the charges he has made,
and we further believe that his course
in the statehood matter has been more
consistent and more honorable than
that of Roosevelt, whom these gang
leaders for good and sufficient reas-
ons are wont to eulOg1Ze. The latter
has beer for and against statehood
with such lightning changes as to
make he mind bewildered. If any
one man more than another, outside
the gang leaders in this territory, is
to blame for the failure of statehood
during the Roosevelt administration
that man is. Theodore Roosevelt. II
he had really wished to give us state
hood at any other session of congress
| except the last, he could have accom-
plished it. But true to his braggart
nature, he kept aloof from the ques-
ton while he had the power of patron
| age over congress-, but when that
had passed he then came out strong
for statehood-so he could pose be-
| fore our people as the friend of state
hood in the future. Beverages po-
| sition has been well known all the
time and it was well known all the
time and is was well known to Curry
and Andrews when they were going
about the country urging the people
to vote for Andrews and Statehood"
This paper at that time asked time
and again if Beveridge INT Nelson
had changed, and the question was
always evaded by these men who are
now pretending to be incensed at the
discovery that Beveridge is just where
he always has been.
1nen as II 10 dQu Insult 10 INJURY
the gang howls that Ex-Governor Ha-
german did it with his little Ratchet.
They never stop to explain the logic
of how Hagerman n Beverage
could, ZACH separate and alone, have
accomplished the same identical thing
They do not think that is necessary
for people of your intelligence, dear
reader. The truth of the matter is
that Governor Hagerman did not inter
l fnro in tho onntaSt Tho fa1Q0ran was
sent by J. J. Hagerman when the Elk
governor was in the east. While on
this Hagerman subject it Is a good
plan to trace the cause to those re-
sponsible. If it had not been for the
action of Andrews and his gan as
sociates in securing the removal Of
Hagerman, no such charge as that
made by Beveridge could have been
made to stand against he territory
by this time. Every fair minded mar
IN the territory knows this. Then
clearly h cause is found in An
drews and his gang ~co-workers and
not In Beveridge OF Hagerman or Hale
or any other man or set of men.
The men who kept us from getting
ry and company and try as they may
they can neither escape the respon-
sibility or fool the people further in
the matter.
We do not believe this statehood
question should be, made a partisan
one. We have said so frequently.
We condemned b Republican ma
chine leaders for trying to make it
one last fall. But while these men
are making their explanations just re-
member this. The week before the last
week of congress a motion was
made in a session Of the committee
on territories to report favorably the
statehood bill. MT. Beverage was not
present. Every Democrat present
voted for the motion and every Re-
publican voted against it.
Where was hat wonderful An
drewS influence then?
Governor Curry says hat he courts
the fullest investigation of the af-
fairs of this territory. That is all we'll
enough, now that statehood is lost for
another year, but why did he not
stand for a sentiment then Orms-
by McHarg and the other assistants
of the department of justice were
here investigating? That was the
time when, if encouraged and the ne
cessary cleanup made, it would have
prevented the charges that have
been made, which cannot but do us
frreparab1e injury in more ways than
political ones.
We may as well accept the fact
that we have got to have a thoro po-
litical house cleaning before we can
hope to secure statehood. And when
these charges of gan rule and cor
ruption are made by eminent Repub-
licans of the nation against eminent
Republicans OF the Territory we can
hardly do less than give them Gre
dence enough to ask for a full and ex-
plicit explanation from 9th parties.
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LOTS. LOTS. LOTS.