The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-11-18
CAMPAIGN NOT FAR OFF


state officers will be elected for term
Of two years. This means that men
who stand for something will be chos.
en- in all departments. The indepen.
dent voters are thick and while some
vote the straight party ticket that prac
tice is being laid aside and the voters
pick the men who are the best fitted
for the place and work for them. In
Quay county the fight will be warm,
especially IL primary Is held.
Party bosses may stand some show
in winning for their favorite candi-
dates but their representative must
be man of quality or they will come
out the small end Of the horn. This
selection of candidates means a great
deal and every voter should have a
hand in the affair because the officers
selected will handle our funds and
disburse our money very near as they
see fit. We need honest men in all
departments as very few of the citi-
2ens of Quay county have time or i'm
clination to go in the officials Office
and see what they are doing. The
laws cannot keep thief from taking
money from another nor il cannot re-
pay the party from whom the money
is taken, even IL the thief is caught
and sentenced to serve term in the
state penitentiary, therefore IL be-
hooves US to pick good men and see
that they are properly supported at
the polls so they will not be humiliated
by being defeated by some no-account
political bug-bear who has lived off
the people all his life and expects to
continue unless the common people
awaken to the fact that they are be-
ing humbugged and fooled into believ-
ing that the right man will always
win.
When we get county official who
has proven his worth as a man and
servant of the people, we should not
turn him aside and take on some new
man and take chances on getting the
worst of IL. Leave good enough alone.
On the other hand when we have tried
a man and found him wanting there
is no reason to believe he would do
any better il he was elected again.
1t seemed wrong that the state legis-
lature cut down the term of Office to
two years instead of four. This was
done for two reasons. One was to al
low the people TO re-elect the county
who had proven themselves
big enough and good enough to hold
public Office. Another reason was to
allow the people to elect some other
man to I'LL the place of the county Of
fetal who had been tried and found
In the older states a big man was
made so by his friends. Many times
it was his money which made him
many friends. We have known mil
lionaires to buy their way into the u.
s. Senate and defeat great men who
did not have the money nor the in
clination to buy their way into the
high places of the government. Some
times the big monopolies put up the
money to elect men who were favora-
ble to them and their gigantic inter-
ests. This day is passing fast. Wall
Street no more dictates who shall be
our president and we hope the common
PEOPLE will keep their eyes open to
the fact that Wall Street sees no good
west of the Mississippi and cares less
for our financial interests.
II the majority Of the people want
n primary by which to select their
several candidates they should be wise
to the fact that rules should be made
which would give the people chance
to select candidates who will support
the principles Of the party and not al
low members of other parties to come
in and choose weak men to fill the Of
fees of the county and state.