El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-17
POLITICS THE ONE ABSORBING TOPIC
AMONG ALL THE new MESIGANS
All Agree That the Coming Election Is the Most Mo
mentous Situation in the History Of the State
Fusion Tickets Receiving Help From
r. J. Hagerman's New State
Organization
Organization

office Of governor. a direct primaries |
law and the use of the Australian bal |
lot in elections in New Mexico
Mr.. Flood explained at considerable !
length the meaning of the blue ball /
lot amendment to the state constitu- /
ton to be voted on at the time of the
election Of state officers and urged its |
adoption If the people were to be freed !
from the thraldOm Of machine politics.
A Hybrid" Ticket.
The Silver City Enterprise thinks Z
otherwise. Under the heading, "a Hy-
. brid, it has this to say on the sub
ject:
Those Democrats in Grant county
who have been in the habit Of voting
'er straight, cannot do so at this cleo
ton as the Democratic state ticket
contains the names or two sOre-head
Republicans for two of the latest Of
fices- corporation commissioner and
supreme judge. We wonder how our
Democratic friends viii like this dose
administered to them by the bosses. 1t
is either this mixture or the straight
Republican ticket for them and many
I Of them VIII prefer the straight ticket
to the hybrid put out by their own
party"
aPrOgressivesv Organize.
The new Progressive" Republican
| league for Curry county, organized
I with about so members October Z, has
| for Its president r. 2. ROWeu, one Of
| the leading attorneys Of eastern New
| Mexico, and hitherto prominent in the
!
present probate judge Of Curry cOun-
I y, and for secretary, Harry w. Craw-
ford, mayor Of Clovis, and a resident
| Of New Mexico for 80 years, brother Of
I Mrs d. ". Reckhart Of FL Paso, and
I son Of Capt. Jack" Crawford, the poet
/ scout.
1t is predicted by the members Of
/ the league that before the campaign
I closes there will have been enrolled
I within its ranks fully so percent Of
/ the Hepubncan voters Of Curry county.
We DO not intend TO put ticket in
/ the field, said Bert Curless, a prOmi-
nent business man Of Clovis, and one
/ OF the charter members Of the organi-
Zatl0n. But continued Mr.. Curless,
we do want to register our dis
approval OF boss rule and to go on rec
| ord In favor Of progressive measures.
such as are today in force in many of
/ the Republican states Of the west and
| northwest"
Hagerman's View.
Herbert j. Hagerman, the socalled
father OF the Progressive" Republican
| league, when asked recently as to the
attitude Of the league, replied.
Il have no authority TO speak for
I this organization, being merely one OF
many who met for the purpose Of in
augurating a movement within the
I lines of the Republican party for the
purpose of helping to save the party
from the disgrace which would follow
the election Of the men nominated
as Republicans at the Las Vegas con-
VentiOn.
Most OF the members Of the Pro
8resslFe League Of New Mexico, he
continues, are men who have been
l Republicans all their lives and men
{ who intend to remain Republicans. but
I they DO not belong to the class OF Re
publicans that judge Mann belongs to,
VINO SAID the other day, i don't care
7 III ne Is so crooked he can't stand in
I the shadow Of a cOrkscreW all day I
I viii stand by him. They are not the
Alnu OF hepuolcans who, In the words
I OF another standpat friend of mine.
would vote Tor q yellow dog and the
hole he ran into if he was on tina
l Republican ticket"
PRECURSORS Views.
H. B. Ferguson. whom the Demo-
Gratis OF New Mexico have named TO
represent them in congress, has de-
clared himself as follows
My friends, let us moi be deferred
I by the charge that we are enemies Of
wealth The man with great wealth
honestly acquired under the laws OF
this republic, should be protected
Z Corporations are a good thing and a
necessity and they viii be a part Of
I this great civilization, this economic
development OF society. Moreover we
welcome corpora lions to New Mexico
! We have vast resources to be devel-
oped which we all must honestly ad-
init can best be done by corporate
wealth.
ct is absolutely necessary. If the
people are to be sovereign. that thew
7 be sovereign also over corporate
wealth as over the Individual man.
With tbs great responsibility on us
OF making the platform which is form
al notice to the public Of New Mexico
as 10 what we propose to do it is inn
portant FOR US on the one hand to be
I brave enough to declare in unmistak-
able terms our real principles and on
the other hand, show that we are con-
serVat1ve men at the same time Many
I 81 these quesuons are stiu moot Ques-
( tons; very little criticism is left all
over the United states Of the initiative
and referendum. In honest minded
communities no question is left as to
( the wisdom and the necessity of direct
election OF United States senators. No
question IS LETT as to the wisdom and
the necessity, If we would overthrow
bOssism in New Mexico Of direct Dri-
maries; no question is left in honest
I minded communities where they have
tried these great principles Of the wis
dom or a corrupt practices act. Great
men have originated these PRINCIPLES
not only men of profound intellectual
capacity, but men Of true patriotism
A Great Moment for state.
IL IS the DeLet OF the Roswell News
[ as apparently Of the whole New Mex
leo press, that there will never again
be day in the future history Of this
sunshine state fraught with a cues
ton Of so much import to the Dreseuf
people and their pOsterity as the day
upon which our first state election ia
held Believing this, The News an
peals to every Democrat and every
other good citizen in New Mexico in
general. and In southeastern section in
particular, Ito consecrate November
the 9TH as a day for patriotic devo-
tiOn to the good Of this new state"
The Alamogordo News sees work
ahead and eXhOrts as follows.
mo Walkaway is hoped for, and il
is earnestly hoped that every good Re
publican will put his shoulder to the
wheel and not let up for a minute un-
til the polls are closed November 9TH
BY no other means can we achieve
victory"