New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-10-13
THE UNHAPPY "NEW MEXICAN"

The Santa Fe New Mexican is passing
through a series of nervous chills. Since long
before the state convention it has been pour
ing out streams of SANDER, abuse and plain
or garden lies about every republican in the
state OF any prominence or of any position Of
leadership. Since the conventions were held
its eXertions have been put forward to the ut
most limit of libel production.
Suddenly the New Mexican has found it.
self confronted with facts from the public
records, not ancient, doubtful, alleged records,
but from the immediate. well remembered
clearly written records of the men who. the
New Mexican has been holding I'D to the peo-
pie as paraeons of official rectitude and of
model private lives and personal character.
For a few days the New Mexican tried to
becloud the issue with an increased output of
mud. But having reached its maximum, the
attempt resulted in failure.
Then a few pages of the sworn public rec
ord of Governor Mcdonald was offered to
the paper at paid advertising rates. The New
Mexican refused to print the truth, under any
conditions. Tt announced that mo decent
newspaper would print such records, mean
ing the facts in the Mcdonald public record
The unhappy newspapers of New Mexico,
about ninetv-eioht per cent of them, have beer
shocked. not to saw orieved. by this assault
upon them by the cultivated organ of the dem
ocratic gang at Santa Fe. We find some
slight consolation, however, in the fact that
among the newspapers which the New Mexi-
can brands as "iindecent," are the Albuquerque
Journal. the Albuaueroue Herald, the Las We
gas Optic, the Ration Range, the Ration Repor-
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bles the New Mexico newspaper directory
complete, save for one o rtwo papers which
fear t. hurt the New Mexican's sensitive feel
ines.
The New Mexican. it seems, is almost alone
in its "decent" aversion to printing the truth
It's nervousness over its not unreasonable fear
being discreditcd has row reached the stage
of an editorial fit.
IF the New Mexican reaches a stage of wild
over so well understood a matter as
the ugly record of the Mcdonald administra-
in the Las Cruces bank scandal; if the
mere democratic crime of appropriating the
sacred funds of the State Agricultural College
for payment of democratic political campaign
notes can so agitate this v~irtuous consumer Of
,,nearned increment: there is cause for alarm
as to what will happen to it when it is invited
to consider for the information Of its readers
the official record of Ezequiel Cabeza de Baca,
democratic candidate for governor; of A. A
tones. also of San Miguel county. and the once
famous democratic regime in that county: Of
Gi1lie Otero, the New Mexican's political fac
totum and once proprietor of the pardon bu-
reau and the official sheep ranch, and of that
exemplary family institution the office of
of State Antonio Lucero, also of
the democratic machine of San Miguel county.
The New Mexican has gone nearly as far
as it can go with personal abuse. There is a
limit to the language, even to language which
ordinarily Indecent" newspapers do not send
the homes of their readers. 1t has now
a stage where the New Mexican must
choose between being permanently discredited,
or Of taking Up the real issues in this cam
paign about which the people are demanding
10 kilow-the truth.