New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-09-15
CRisT CRUcIFIED

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fact that while Menelaus was far from home,
assidulously hustling the wherewithal to dis
charge the family grocery bill, old Priam's row.
ing son did steal away the matchless Helen
and some times history repeats itself.
While Hon. J. H. Crist, that old time lead
er and worker in the Democratic ranks, and
erstwhile editor and lessee of the Santa Fe
Eagle, a bird of prey on the pocket book Of
Crist was in Rio Arriba county asslduously
seeking to get on the delegation to the state
Democratic convention. the Mcdonald Jones
gang did steal away his prestige and former
power, and left the old man wandering on the
sands of a long forgotten time the gang nam
ing as candidates on the state ticket men whom
God in his inscrutiblc wisdom had permitted
to accumulate a little Of this worlds goods,
while brainier men, like the editor of the EAGLE
were left to trail the meek eyed burrow in the
lonely bean patch.
And this is not the first rap winch the
editor of the Eagle has received at the hands
of his party. After wearing away his Sub
stance and his cash in a vain endeavor to fur
nish a mouth piece for the party he loves he
daily sees the Democrats in power sending
their printing to the Santa lc New MeXican,
while Crist hrstles early and late in a vain
cndcavor 10 keep the sheet 'agoin.
And this is not all the half has not vet
been told you. Some time ago, through a feast
provided for the stol1achs of the politicians
in the committee meeting to arrange TOR dele
gates to the national convention at -. LOUIS,
a banquet planned and carried out by Ci1ai and
his henchmcn one Billy Walton was r~utilIessIy
SLAUGHTERED for state chairman OF the demo
cratic party, and Judge Laugh'in. a man with
more reputation than ability, and a member OF
the Crist-Laugllin combination, was elected
in his stead. Again there was a dr'nocratic
convention in the village OF Albuquerque, and a
keynote speech was to be made. knowing that
his Did friend and cohort, l.aughlin, as state
chairman, would call on him for The keynote
speech. Crist sat for hours in the quiet1des OF
his own sanct1m, preparing the ~slunguilon
which he would give the populace, hmt when
the New Mexican, that unho'y cross between
incipicnt insanity and wholesale political as
saninitv and the brains OF whose owner shines
like a clean cuspidor in a Democratic sane
t,un. a1nearcd on the streets Of the city, lN!
Issac Rartl,'s name led all the rest, and again
Crist had received the dirty end Of the rope
from the man he had elevated to power. $
But the "most unkindest cut Of all came :
in the state convention, when Crlst, poor devil, ,
holding a seat by virtue OF the proxies OF de- !
legates from Rio Arriba county, attempted to
second the nomination of this same Billy Wal /
ton for congress, and at the inst'gation OF the
McDonald-Jone gang, some riscI'leVous ras- t
cal. who had more respect for the welfare OF t
the party than for Mr.. Crist, placed one food i
on the benches and the other on the blcachers, (
and in thunder tones eNclai1ned-"s1 Town. Y
But the blow that lifted the cuticle from the
high tower of father happened early IN the reign
of Mcdonald as governor OF the state. Forlf
thirty-two years Mr.. Crist has guided the ola /
Democratic ship in RIO Arriba county. Al t
though the county was largely Republican this K
genlenan's name has appeared on the ticket n
each and every election held in that county
for the past two decades. For tfnrty-tWo s
years he has beat the bushes, spent his own
money and neglected his own business in the
interest OF the Democratic party. In the cam
in which Mcdonald was elected Cover
nor, poor Crist wandered far from home,
the highways and hedges for Dem =
ocratic votes, and during this time saw his re-
gander in the clutches of the coyotes,
his horses and cattle shiver and die for want >,
care. and his own purse strings grow lean
link from Democratic toll, but when a L
vacancy occurred in the high office of road !.
seer Ill MO LNi1Ibi NtIilAJ 'NoN' 4:
had the audacity to make the appointment with =
out consulting Mr.. Crist-and thereby hangs Il
a tale.
And today there is weeping and wailing and ,
CRASHING of teeth in the sanctuln of the Santa /;
Fe Eagle. On a three legged stool, where - -
,nce the mighty LOOMS sat, is an old man ~
his head bowed low. his career almost run, :,
his political heart hung on his sleeve for the .;
, z,I ,r +lo Ir,,u faDr tr1rkIpl u
his checks and fall into the ash cuspidor, ~
you can hear him mutter the feature para ~
graphs of that keynote speech and Judge Il;
Laughlin.
Poor Crist- it must be sad indeed when the
men you have elevated to power and upheld ce
70 long, like the viper, turn and sting the breast
hat warmed them into life. --..... .,
In Mr.. A. A.. Jones acceptance speech be- ii
lore the democratic convention he made sew II,
,~,1 ,I1,c;o,,c 70 the GREAT Measure If had been