The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-08-25

Y OF thc least r|rnlarkhuic OF
M many remarkable conditions
present In the staud-pat Re-
publican party in his state is the
utter Indifference of the leaders of
tho marty machine Ca the efforts u
sincere we'll wishers to reform those
leaders nnd nu the parry 10 a high
90 political aud moral plane. The
stubborn. oven wooden indifference
OF these machine bosses to the earn
cst rcformers must grow discouraging
at times.
II b. difficult 20 withhold sympathy
from those whose persistent work
tor the bettermcnt ct this party ma
chine has gone for naughi n whose
every advance has been So coldly, not
60 say contemptuousiy. repealed our
Albuquerque contemporary. the Nor
ming Journal for instance. has been
engaged for ten long years In Il per
fitont. uninterrupted struggle to get
those hardened political sinners 20
see the light. The journal. by It's
oNn statement, is the leading Re-
publican paper of New Mcxico, sup
porting tho principles OF the Rcpub-
liran party an the time. and the
methods Of the Republican party
when they are right During the
ten long years during which Il has
beef the leading Republican paper
Of New Mexico the Journal has been
forced In each succeeding election
10 admit that The methods of It's
party were wrong. aimee II has found
II impossible to support, them; and
The admission OF wrong methods by
the leading paper OF the party must
In tho long run bring conviction TO
the minds OF the people that those
methods are very wrong indeed At
times 1t hus seemed that the Jour
nal was drawing near to al least a
partial success IN It's courngeous cf-
forts To- lead It's Republican brethren
away from The paths OF political sin.
Hut always. at the showdown, they
have been found back ~ the old
methods. the Did system, and play
ing the same Do game With the same
supreme Indifference 10 every yarn
ing and every threat Of the party's
political mentor.
u appeared for a time that In the
campaign now under way the Jour
MAI was going to he able Co find the
methods Of the Republican party
right and thus be able to support
those methods. The journal brought
forward as "a candidate for congress
Bull Andrews and presented him 10
the party a. one whose methods the
party would do well 60 emulate. The
campaign for Andrews wus q vigor-
ous one. and for "a time % appeared
that the concealed bosses from the
frozen north were going Co listen TO
reason and be good.
But. while she frec-for-ail party
night Ia santa Re, known as The Re-
publican state convention, is still
under way al this writing. and while
the outcome b. stlll moasurably ia
doubt h appears hat dhe bosses
have forgotten al the lessons they
have been taught in the past; that
hey are ignoring present preach
ments and warnings n threats with
tho same blthe % Inference which
has characterized t0cir attitude ln
the past. and that, as the Journal
puts o., "they are running true a.
form.
Ten years g. "a long time 90 put ir
nt any task and when RESULT
arc as utterly and unCompromisingl'
lacking as in this case OF wilful sT
the situation must be extremely dis
%couraging. AZ this writing the part'
Leaders appear 90 have determined
not Go accept Mr. Andrews as thci
standard bearer. although there
uIli "a hare chance that they ma
turn 10 him az the last moment ~
fegn Haca. with his threa. to expos.
the true ln%Wardness OF tho "roon
a. incident. appears to have car
ried more weight with the northern
bosses than has the Journal with ID
stand for Bull Andrews and hi
political methods Dishelttening }
a word hardly adequate 60 "a sltua
lion 30 utterly hopeless.
A. INAMpIE on HnssIsM.