The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-06-16
WILL THE PEOPLE
FALL FOR IT.?

tFrom the Las Cruces Republican,
The discred.ting system IN politics
Is az bad on politics as the discredit-
ing system applied to business or
anything else. In daily life. In busi-
ness. the nan who discredits his COM
pctitor, who discrcdits mis- Commu-
nifty. the land in IL, the trade in IL.
the crops. the people in Il, this man
is condemned as "a "knOcker, and
the whole community ccnters on him
lis ire at his mean way of pronounce
ing himself a failure. ~ showing lac
has had bad faith with himself to
locate or remain in a place, and with
a people he SO dcprcciatos and dis
credits.
IL is not different in politics-the
man who attempts To draw attention
To his own party los petty dlscrcdit-
ins VI mother party and proving ny
this bad method that by comparison
his party b. quite decent, ~ making a
grave political mistake. What the
people want today Is better laws, bet
ter effort at solving taxation ana
county salary difficulties. better ways
Of liquor control cleaner and more
definite purpose ln AL pubic mat
tcrs, and evidence that such a course
will be pursued. This is what The
people want, but the want cot the ave-
crugc leader is office. salary. cmoiu-
mcnt. and ISSUES that viii continue
them boz ufruD are sought above ali
others. So tho tiscrcdit system be-
comes useful and the weaker action
OF n party iu power is taken a.
their whole Coursc and objective
point. ~ hy comparison with the
best things done los their prodecea-
ors IN ONCE "a bad reputation Is
made aud great disUrcdit shown upon
them.
Nov, d~isCrediting is "a good thing
when really true things are told or
used. but discroditng viii not have
enough force To work out "a victory
under present conditions. II instead
there are offered Republicans new.
strong men, who have new, strong
ideals and ambitions for the public
good, progressive plans FOR future
upbuilding of this new state aud real
determination To profit by tho very
obvious errors of the past in some
things, hen the outlook would be
most hopeful
But viii the people believe that
me who have failed for past years
and years 60 do the things they now
assert they stand Tor. men who have
had almost unlimited power In coun-
g., and state. and have failed 10 use
b to the best interests OF the public
viii the people he led willingly and
belirNingly into the same repeated
condition by the same leaders as for
50 long. into a condition such as the
state now suffers? We believe notl
Harmony that harmonlzos the dif-
ierences umoug political leaders only
promises little To The people them
selves. and the Fac hat the matters
that have put the leaders apart and
also out oi office. are the chief thinss
% be settled at this time rs ominots
FOR those who must In future live
under such rule
Most of us know that the leaders
~ the Progressive party und the
leaders of the Republican party ia
New Mexico have in the past all been
Republican leaders az u or another
time, and that Republican dissen-
sionH ana personal defeats in their
party relations. rather than real pro-
rAf&iff tANNtfA res hhNf MADE many
Of them members Of The new branch
Of progressiveness.
With the Republican leaders es-
saying Ia take over the progressive
ideas OF the new Progrcssivcs. and
the Progressive leaders ready % he
come the lamb inside the Republican
lion, what have the people promised
them as their political future? A
division OF spells among the same
old leaders, and q Continuation OF the
game old systems II tho Progressive
Republicans win. ana Democratic
rule n they lose. A. far a. the peo-
pie are concerned they who are now
Republicans ~ Progressives will un-
der the above alignment get the
treatment Pat gave his wife-'He
licked her II she fed the pit and he
licked her n she didn't"
Under the showing as made recent