The chronicle=news., 1914-10-30
OLD DEMOCRAT
WON'T STAND FOR
g. ARSON JIM

The candidacy OF jim LAWS OF
Aguilar for sheriff does not set well
on the stomachs of some of the old
Democrats in Las Animas county.
This is clear from the published let
ter received today. It is from
Democrat of Aguilar who gives his
name, but which is withheld. The
writer throws new light on the no.
torious record of Arson Jim.
Editor Chronicle-News:- lsaw in
a recent issue of the "Dynamiter's
journal" that Jim Davis promises
protection of property rights and hui
man life-the same protection pos
sibly, he gave Pedro Armijo when he
turned him over to the strikers who
killed him-the same protection he
gave j. ]. Cordova when Mr.. Cordoya
tried to get his daughters out of
burning house-the same protection
he gave Estaba Belardi when the
strikers brutally assaulted him in the
streets of Aguilar-the same protec-
tion he gave the women and children
at the Empire mine, who had to take
refuge in the mine while human
bowling hyenas dynamited the en-
trance to entomb them therein--the
same protection he gave the ranch-
men who had to send their women
for provisions and to trade and then
lprayerfully hope for their safe re-
turn. If that is protection we pre-
fer to be in Europe where at least
one knows what to expect. No. Mr..
Editor, we don't need much of that
kind of protection. Why was 1t
necessary to have that letter writ
ten? Does he think we can possibly
forget his record. Doesn't it make
one sick when Jim Davis and the
l"Dynamiters' Journal" ta": OF law
and order and protec.Ion? One
would think we have had year OF
pleasure and enjoyment.
Do they forget that Major Ham,
rock told Davis that he was legally
and morally murderer? DO they
tell that the military court upon ex-
amination of proofs. declared he was
dangerous character and said 1t
was unsafe to have him at large?
Do they further tell that grand
Jury composed of fair-minded citf-
zens, sworn to do their duty without
|,prejudice upon the evidence they
heard. indicted him for murder and
arson?
What kind of character should
sheriff of Las Aninas county possess
to make good peace officer? All
of the above people were not mistake
en-, surely. Jim Davis was a mine
guard or police officer here in Hast
ings once and as such. associated
cries. We don't doubt he would have
been a company candidate for sher-
III If he could have gotten the cor
porations to back him. But they
have gone out of politics and he now
is the candidate of q new politica!
Organization commonly known as the
"Rednecks'. This Is the first time
in the history of Las Animas county
that man indicted for murder and
arson has been a candidate for sher-
III Of Las Animas county. He speaks
Of his record. We suppose he
means his JAIL RECORD as he has
quite bit of that and If convicted.
as we think he will be HE COULD
|1MPRISON HIMSELF!
And If man needs no character
for sheriff. why not elect Davis and
then do away with all sense of right
and wrong, all sense of honor and de-
cency and go it "hog Wild. Why do
We need churches and schools to
train the young and rising genera
tion in the parts of rectitude, II we
flaunt such examples in their faces.
Can all the moral deprosy and vile
vituperation of the "Dynamiters'
Journal make black white? Can a
|self-respecting Democrat who loves
his home and his family and who
tries to bring them up in the fear of
God and to respect the property
rights OF his neighbors, vote for Jim
Davis? Where are we at? Is this
the Twentieth Century civilization
we brag 30 much about. or have we
slipped backward seven or eight cent
uries? II living today how our Pill
grim fathers who founded this fair
land Of ours and made it possible for
kus to live therein, would raise their
hands in holy horror at the slipshod,
easy standards of our Redneck
friends. The Boxers of China and
the cannibals of the South Sea ISL
ands have carried the standard a lit
tie more to the extreme, possibly.
"As a man thinketh. so is he." II
you think 1T is right to let down the
bars to moral delinquency and illeg-
al acts against life and property.
vote for Jim Davis and then in Gods
name, consider yourself one of the
same tribe!