Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-04-02
Same Old QuaItette of Spell
binders Occupies Stage in
EIks Theater With Line Of
GIittering GeneraIities.
NOT A PROMISE MADE NOR
A REPUTATION STAKED
Not a Word About the Sewer
System Cost, or the Cost Of
Its 0perationi Each Issue. Is
Carefully Dodged,

zone good term deserves another
This was the catchy legend which
hung at the back of the stage in the
Elks' theater last night when Mayor
Felix II. Lester, @. ~. Marion, II. b.
FERGUSON and Neill Il. Field, the
same quartette who occupied that
same platform two years ago for the
same purpose of getting Mr.. Lester in
to the mayors office, made a series
of promises to the people which a
majority Of the people believed.
TO have been entirely consistent
with the meeting of two wears ago.
the legend al the back of the stage
should have had below II in red let
ters.
I'VE fooled the people two years
ago-it was easy moncy-we arc here
TO do it again
The only differences between the
meeting Of two years & and the
meeting Of last night were these:
Two years ago the theater was
packed to the doors with q bowling
mass of enthusiastic humanity. The
gallery was filled and people crowd
Cd to get In the doors. Last night
The front rows were empty-the gal
lery was empty, save for the band
there were four hundred and sixty
four people in the house-by actual
count-in Il house with a seating ca-
pacity OF more than a thousand-this
count does not include the speakers,
the candidates and the campaign
workers who occupied the platform.
Two years ago these -four men made
promises to the people of Albuquerque
elaborate. detailed promises-chief-
~ about a sewer system. Last night
they made no promises at all-not a
promise. When they reached the
sewer system in the logical course Of
a discussion Of the present issues.
each and every one of them SHE'D bad
lily and backed up.
Two years ago Mr.. Nell y. Field
stakcd his reputation on his asser-
ton that the new sewer system could
be built for $4,000. Last night Mr..
Field did not stake his reputation
he did not even mention his reputa-
ton. The only possible reference to
il a his indignant denial thai he
had yer deceived the people of Al
Duquerque. Mr.. Field not only omit
ted all reference to his reputation
but to practically everything else hay
ing to do with this city election. Two
years ago when Mr.. Field made his
stake on the eve system
his every sentence was greeted with
applause-tumultous applause. Last
night the hands he got were scatter
ing and far between. This may have
been because the audience was tired.
Mr.. Field closed a somewhat extended
program of speechmaking.
Two years ago Mr.. II. B.. Ferguson
expressed the opinion that we could
build the new sewer system for S110,-
000 Last night he failed to express
opinion as to its cost, or what II
viii cost to run il. He was most
conservative about sewers. He was,
to be exact, conservative about every
Two years ago Mr.. Q. n. Marion ex-
pressed the opinion hat we probably
didn't need a sewer system. but could
along with the old one. Last
night Mr.. Marion had no opinion at
All to cXpress about sewers in general
the Lester sewer in particular.
The speech by Mayor Lester was, in