Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-09-16
GETTING OUT OF 1T
ALL THE TRAFFIC Will
STAND And Then SOME.
INTERESTING FIGURES ON COFx COUNTY TAX SYSTEM AS RUN BY
THE ST. LOUIS ROCKY MOUNTAIN and PACIFIC ET. Al. WITH
GLANCE INTO CONDITIONS IN THE COAL CAMPS where FUTURE
CITIZENS ARE Being PRODUCED
SOME INSIDE FACTS concerning
THE ALBUQUERQUE CONVENTION ALSO

aside and new tools have been found
ready and anxious to carry on the
work of fooling the common people
OF the state. There was no grief in
the passing of Bursum or Hubbell as
their brand of politics should have
passed long ago. But the house clean
ing amounted to simply subterfuge
to re-entrench the same old crowd in
the same old party in the same old
way.
Days before the republican conven-
ton, Hon. Charles A. Spiess was with
Mr.. Springer and Mr.. Van Houten. He
was with other equally strong stand
pat leaders of the state. The Albu-
Querque convention was being framed
up. : 1t was quite cleverly done, but
not as cleverly as it might have been
since every move and every turn in
that frame up is known and was
known in advance and will be dealt
with as the occasion may demand.
The Colfax end of the game was
as the republican national committee
man, with Mr.. Herbert Clark also of
San Miguel county, as state chairman.
1t was planned that Mr.. Clark being
now in politics, knowing little or
nothing of the political game of the
shrewd gentlemen who engineered
the deal, would prove an apt tool, that
he would not wake up in time to find
that he was being used and that he
would in time succeed such men as
Fl. o. Bursum and Frank A. Hubbell,
after he too, had stood "all the traffic
would bear" 1t is always easy to
eliminate men no longer useful.
This is but brief sidelight on more
that is to come, whereby the men
higher up in politics in New Mex
leo are going to be compelled to play
the game clean, with decent respect
for the man who tolls or they are go
ing to be exposed until the people of
this state will no longer tolerate them
in public life.
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and it's preliminary frame
UP are known. 1t is up to the gentle
men who seek to pull off the show. to
back up or they are going to be made
to back up and the people of this
state are going to do it. In keynoting
at the Albuquerque convention, 1t
should have been known to Hon. T. B.
Catron, our United States senator,
that these were the things that the
people of this state expected to hear
discussed and that to ignore them was
a slap in the face to every voter In
New Mexico.
The man who tolls wants to know
why it costs so much at the grocery
store, why his coal bill is so out OF
to his weekly wage and
why he can't afford to educate his
children fully before he puts them to
work. The days of the good old
statesmen have passed. A great dis.
play of fine words, backed by an zen.
thusiastic> outburst" of oratOry, no
longer goes. The man who tolls can
not get to a convention of the grand
old party; he is too busy trying to
meet expenses. And the trouble with
his immediate political boss is that
he always neglects to bring home to
his voters copy of a keynote speech
together with the enthusiastic out.
burst"