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New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-11-03
PROSPERITY AT ANY PRICE

The Democrats boast that the country
is enjoying prosperity, but it is a blood-stained
prosperity wrung from war-stricken Europe
and only the Democrats are enjoying" pros
perity purchased at such a terrible price. Dur
ing the first year and a half of the Wilson
administration and before Europe suddenly
went war mad, 100000 idle men were ex-
periencing a real taste of Democratic "pros-
%perity." President Wilson described it as a
psychological condition." but men out of en-
ployrnent and unable to find work had a diff
ferent name for it, They are not deceived
by the extraordinary impetus given to bus
mess in this country while the European ma
tons are at each others threats and they do not
banker for another taste of Democratic pros
perity after the war is over and normal con-
ditions are restored.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-11-03
THE SHEER AT A woMAN's WRONGS

The Mcdonald press bureau is becoming
careless-or reckless. Earlier in the am
paign it showed diSCretiOn-at intervals be-
tween libels. 1t has undertaken, as its latest
effort to meet the steady, inevitable exposure
of the record Of the Mcdonald administra-
ton, to explain way a grave wrong done to
a defenseless woman-by s~neering at the
wrong and at the woman.
A woman resident of Lincoln county, who
has lived in that county all her life as a
~neighbor of Governor William c. Mcdonald,
has shown in a statement over her signature
that the Governor used his power in the exc
cutive chair to prevent her securing certain
state land selections which were necessary to
the continued success of her little cattle bust
ness which she was struggling to conduct
along side the powerful interests of the Gov
ernOr in Lincoln county. She showed that the
Governor, by holding up her applications,
sought to force her to make a compromise
with him as to a division OF lands they both
desired, and that he succeeded in SO doing
that further applications for lands were per-
~sistently held up, not in the state land office
but in the executive office, by the refusal Of
the Governor to sign the WOman's appliCa-
tons; and which signature is absolutely ne
ccssary under the law to complete such a
transaction. That during this delay she was
persistently annoyed and even persecrtcd by
agents Of the department of the interior, who
Investigated and warned her but who never
brought the matter into a court where mutual
rights could be tested; that as she states it
Governor McDonald's course "welln;gh ruin
ed my cattle business.
This Governor McDonald's press
bureau makes the subject OF a painful attempt
at hunor-which is in fact a sheer at a wrong
committed against a woman by the Governor
of this state.
There are some cases wherein neither
humor nor sneers prove acceptable to men who
have clear ideas about right and wrong and
Justice. This is one of those cases.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-11-03
DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINES

Democrats don't have anything to say
in this campaign about States rights, which
was the stock in trade of Democratic stump
speakers for more than a generation. They
have consigned the free silver issue to the
limbo of things forgotten and strange as it
may seem they are now putting the soft pedal
on the tariff-for-revenue-only proposition.
They maintain a deafening silence on high cost
of living, over which they raised such an aw-
full howl four years ago; likewise as to their
for a return to that simplicity and
economy which befits a democratic govern
Considering that the cost of living has
been increased instead of reduced and that
the two Congresses under the Wilson admin
~istration have broken all records for extravag-
ance, it is not at all surprising that the Demo,
Gratis are anxious to "forget it."
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-11-03
MR. CUTTINGS COMPLAINT

The Santa Fe New Mexican is a bank
rupt newspaper, legally the property of a
bankrupt corporation, proof against effective
libel suits because one cannot collect from an
individual or a corporation incompetent to
pay. This is the legal status of this news
paper, according to those who have had to do
with libel suits against it.
The New Mexican is owned by a young
millionaire, Mr.. Cutting, who came to New
Mexico, so far as is known, in order to wage
political warfare on Frank A, Hubbell and
others to whom he contelnptuously refers as
"Sheepherders', and for the further purpose
of enjoying the society of Gillie Otero,
George Armijo and other widely known re-
formers.
Mr.. Cutting does not assume response
bility for anything that goes into his news
paper. He is merely president of the corpo-
ration and owner of the mortgage.
So the unfortunate bankrupt millionaire
newspaper blithely follows out political poll
cies laid down by Gillie Otero and George Ar
milo and libels everybody with great freedom.
In contempt for "~sheepherders" Mr.. Gut
ting, through the protecting person of his
protege, Gillie Otero, has gone to about the
ultimate limit in libel in this campaign. On one
occasion an accent lie was revived and re-
printed concerning a man named Dreyfus
who lievs in Socorro. The incident angered
Dreyfus and like all Americans save the over
fed he wanted a chance at justice. He dis
covered that a civil action for libel was hope
less, no account, no funds, so he swore out a
warrant for criminal libel against the sacred
person of Mr.. Cutting. Suffering shekels,
what a shocking thing! A lean, competent
sheriff actually dared to come up and pro-
pose to lay hands on the person of Mr.. Gut
ing and drag him off to an actual jail-real-
1y.
1t was at this stage of the campaign that
Mr.. Cuttings newspaper became incoherent.
Up to this incident il had aIsyed iCnlew hat
far from the truth. but it did manage to stick
to the general line of subjects before the
people.
But listen, folks, by careful measurement,
since that crude person, the sheriff of Socorro
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-11-03
JONES AND TALLMAN

The nerve of A. A. Jones in asking to
be elected United States senator after his neg
lect of New Mexico while he was First As
sistant Secretary of the Interior was enough
to make the voters gasp, but to bring Clay
Tallnan, Commissioner of the General Land
Office, here to make campaign speeches in
his behalf seems too much like rubbing it in.
When New Mexico and her institutions
are losing thousands of dollars annually be-
cause of the dilatory and obstructive tactics of
Tallman's office, and when it is remembered
that Tallman's office was under the direct
supervision of A. A. Jones as First Assistant
Secretary of the Interior until his resigna-
ton two months ago, the people can hardly
be expected to cheer delightedly for Mr.. Jones
or his erstwhile subordinate, now halted in
his work of obstruction in the Land Office
long enough to make speeches for Jones and
WilsUn.
Instead of eulogizing Mr.. Wilson and
Mr.. Jones, it would be more to the point if
Mr.. Tallman would explain why, during the
incumbencv of himself and Mr.. Jones. lit has
required three or four years to get a state
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-11-03

application for a tract of state land through
his office; why his office has allowed New
Mexico state selections of government land to
accumulate undisposed of, to the amount of
more than 100000 acres, while the state
and its institutions lose the revenue from it.
For the shabby way the state of New
Mexico has been treated by the department
of the Interior while Mr.. Jones was a high
official thereof, Mr.. Jones deserves defeat at
the polls. He failed to serve the people of
this state when he was the active head of
the Department of the Interior, yet asks that
they boost him on to higher honors. Since
Jones forgot the people when he had honors
before, they will do well to forget him now.
He is unworthy of the senatorship to which
he aspires.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-11-03
WHY HUGHES SHOULD BE ELECTED
Il statement by II. !. Hdge,1nan.
1t seems to me that Mr.. Hughes

1t seems to me that Mr., Hughes is pre-
eminentlv the man for President because of
his positive fitness for that great position.
The lack Of fitness OF his opponent is certainly
an additional strong reason why Mr.. Hughes
supremacy well qualified, should be elected.
although in my opinion, not the strongest
reason. That Mr.. Hughes is supremacy well
qualified to be President is, | think, the strong
est reason for electing him. Can any reason
able man now doubt that he is qualified, by
character, by disposition, by training, by ex-
perience? He has made good in every line
of endeavor he has ever undertaken, private
or public. He has not only made good" in
the ordinary sense of that phrase, he has gone
much further, he has done good, he has done
great, positive lasting good to the public in
every position of responsibility he has ever
held. No one but the most biased partisan
will deny this.
1t seems to me that Mr.. Hughes is the
kind of man that we must have in high posi-
ton in this republic, if the republic is to en-
dure. That he should have received the nomi-
nation for President from the Republican
party, in the way he did receive it, seems to
me the greatest tribute that has ever been ten
dered to any man in this country since the
days of Washington. 1t is an unprecedented
tribute. Only a great man could have been
given such a tribute. That he is a really great
man his career up to this time indicates, and
his career, if he becomes President, will surely
confirm it.
Much has been said about the failure of
the present democratic national administra-
tion-fully enough, perhaps, about some of
them. In my opinion, not half enough has been
said about one of them, and that is. its fail
ure to even attehpt to check the avalanche of
profligate waste of public money. 1t doesn't
make a bit of difference to me what party,
nationally or locally, is responsible for such
waste, it is equally reprehensible. The pre-
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-11-03
JURIST JOB FOR N

President Wilson may have to appoint
a Republican as federal judge for the dis
trict of New Mexico to keep peace in the
family. Every Democratic lawyer in the state
appears to be either an active or a receptive
candidate for the place. In any event the
astr1te Mr.. Wilson finds is expedient not to
fill the vacancy until after the election. Maybe
he is saving the job for Jones. (
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-11-03
WHOLLY MALICIOUS AND MISLEADING.

Read 7vhat Theodore Roosevelt says Of
the Democratic campaign in Ne7V MEXICO.
Theodore Roosevelt, former president of
the United States visited New Mexico last
month and made an address at Albuquerque.
Citizens of New Mexico we're delighted to
welcome him, regardless of political beliefs.
But the Democratic candidates and their
campaign bureau could not permit even a form
er President Of the United States to visit New
Mexico without smirching him with their libel
campaign.
In a political advertisement appearing
within a day after Colonel Roosevelt appeared
in Albuquerque, the Democratic c%ampaigners
caused to be published this advertisement con-
tanning among other statements, the follow
ing:
On Phoenix on Saturday Colonel
Roosevelt made 4 special appeal for sup
port for Judge Joseph II. kibbcy, Re
publican candidate for senator from Ari-
iona. I'm Albuquerque on Monday he
refused to ask for support for IIubbcll
or Bursun, though they appeared on the
anne platform with him and rode in the
same parade with hm.
Colonel Roosevelt knew Judge Kib-
bey. Colonel Roosevelt also knew
Frank IIubbcll and II. O. Bursum. Bur-
sum has always been a strong Roosevelt
man. Apparently, Roosevelt isn't a very
strong Bursum man.
Colonel Roosevelt has returned to
the Republican party but he can't stand
for the kind of Republicanis1m represent
ed by Frank Hubbell and II. O. Bursum."
Now read what Colonel Theodore Roose-
welt says about this particular piece Of Dem
ocratic campaign falsehood:
New York, N. Y, Oct. 80, 1916.
w. II. Clearwater, chairman
Republican state committee,
Santa Fe, N, M.
"The statement of the Democratic
committee is of course wholly malicious
and misleading. In my speeches any
where | have not spoken of the local cam
didates and | mentioned Judge KibbcV's
name in Arizona only in connection With
joint statehood. | am everywhere sup
porting the entire Republican ticket and
at Albuquerque | explicitly said that no
man who valued the honor and safety of
the United States should vote for Mr..
Wilson or any of his supporters"
Can you trust your public affairs in the
hands of men who lie deliberately about pub
lie affairs and public men on the chance that
they can get off with it?"
A.. A., Jones, w. c.. Mcdonald and Gil
lie Otero have conducted their whole campaign
on the basis that if you lie to the people often
enough you can catch enough of them off
guard to secure a majority of the votes.
Figure up the number Of falsehoods
these three men have told you and caused to
be told during this campaign. then decide if
you can trust them with your public bust
ness.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-11-03
COMMENT.

found out that E. C.. de Baca is running for
governor on their ticket.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-03-03
PHYSICIAN OF THE OLD TIME
Perhaps There Are Some Who VIII
Remember That They Were Not
Afraid Of Him.

Doc Robinson never looked wise and
kept things to himself about a case.
He'd let one tell him every little symp-
tom and listen respectfully, and he'd
never go and whip out one OF those
surveying instruments and go all over
patient as IL he were laying out a
new state road. No! He'd crack
Jokes, gossip delightfully."-. and sud-
denly turn around and ask Margaret
IL that wasn't a brand new dress she
had on; feed little peppermint candies
to the children. ard sit with several
on his knees while he talked. He
made mis- call a pleasant affair Every
one in house enjoyed 1t and got the
benefit Of it-even the invalid
Well" he'd say reluctantly, Kit
and I've got to jog along, though IT'S
mighty comfortable sitting here by
your fire. We gotta go way out on
the Cedar Mill road."-Helena Smith
Dayton, In Cartoons Magazine.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-03-03
ALLIES SHIPS ARE BURNED
Two Steamers and 20 Barges De-
stroyed at Brooklyn-loss
Put at $4,000 600.

New York, Feb. 1.-Two big Brit
ish steamships. partly laden with mu-
nitions and other war material for the
allies. 40 lighters and their cargoes Of
oil. cotton and shells, and Pier No. So,
on the South Brooklyn waterfront
were destroyed by a fire which Is be-
lieved to have resulted from a bomb
plot.
A third British munitions ship, the
Bellagio, was badly damaged, but the
fire on this freighter was extinguished
by firemen after it had ragged for five
hours.
The total loss is estimated to be at
least 100000.
The steamships Bolton Castle and
Pacific, owned by the Castle line, were
swept and wrecked by the flames.
Thousands Of tons of war munitions
stored in Pie No SO were burned.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-03-03
FIVE ARE KILLED IN WRECK
Six Others Injured When Northern
Pacific Limited CoIlides With
Train No. ~.

Spokane Wash, Feb 21.-Five per-
sons were killed and six injured three
seriously. when Northern Pacific pas
senger train No. 2, known as the North
Coast Limited. eastbound, crashed into
the rear end of Northern Pacific Bur-
lington train No AZ. eastbound, at
South Cheney. Wash, II miles from
Spokane. The dead and injured are
all from the Northwest. The cause of
the accident has not been ascertained.
The dead and injured were brought
TO Sr2kane. The dead are: Elton
Fulmer, state chemist, Pullman,
Wash; |. ]. Minnick, deputy grain in
spector, Spokane; B. L. Berkey, ]. j.
White, Lee NJ. Conroy. travelling pas
senger agent.
On the body of Professor Elton Full
mer was found an accident insurance
card. providing for $4,000 insurance
in case of death on the trip. The pol
icy was obtained just before he board
ed the train at Pullman, Wash
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-03-03
RATIFlES NICARAGUAN PACT
Canal Route and Naval Base Treaty
Is Approved by the Senate,
SIS to 10.

Washington. Feb. 19-The senate
on Friday by vote of 55 to Is rati-
fed the long pending and persistently
opposed Nicaraguan treaty, whereby
the United States would acquire a 49,
year option on the Nicaraguan Canal
route and naval base in the Gulf of
Fonseca for $3,O0O,OOO
Included in the ratification resolu.
On was a provision declaring that
the United States in obtaining the
naval base does not intend to violate
any existing rights in the Fonseca
Gulf of Costa RIGA, Honduras and Sal
vador, which had protested against
the proposed acquir ement.
Immediately after the senate had
acted, Senior Cfammorro, the Mica
raguan minister said he expected
ratification of the convention by his
government would soon follow.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-03-03
LINCOLN, GERMAN SPY, TAKEN
U. S. Agents Capture Teuton Agent in
New York-Escaped More Than
Month Ago.

New York, Feb. 21.-Ignatius T. T.
Lincoln, former British parliament
member and famous international SPY.
was too daring. and again fell into
the hands of the federal authorities
after eluding capture for more than
a month. Betrayed, he said, by a
rooming- house keeper. Lincoln was
arrested and taken to Jail. Lincoln es-
capped from Deputy Marshal Francis
Johnson in New York on January IS
by simply walking out of a restaurant
where they were dining. He was being
held pending the outcome of extradi-
ton proceedings brought by the Brit
ish government to have him tried os-
tensibly as a forger. The trial was
said merely TO be a cloak for the
graver espionage charge.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-03-03
NEW YORK DELEGATES TO
G. O. P. MEET UNPlEOGED
at New York, But Governor
Loses Control of Body.

New York, Feb. 1S.-New York Will
send its delegates at TARGETS Big
Four unpledged to the Republican IA
tlonal convention in June.
An effort on the part of Henry l.
Stimson, ex-secretary of war, to In
struct them for Elihu Root for press;
dent was defeated by William Barnes
the Albany boss. who explained later
that he was acting as Root wished him
to act.
The Big Four selected 10 the Rergb.
mean state convention in Carnegie hall,
are: James Wadsworth, Jr, United
States senator; Charles s. Whitman,
governor; Frederick c. Tanner. chair.
man of the state committees; E,on B.
Brown. Republican leader In the state
senate.
The governor obtained certain con-
cesslons that he had demanded and
lost others. Mr.. Barnes won some adj.
vantages and lost others.
The principal points of the platform
adopted are:
VI NoniplCtO preparations
for the common defense, economic in
dustrial and financial, as well as mili-
tary" including a recommendation for
naval general staff and substantial
strengthening of the naval and mill
tary forces of the United States.
A demand that in international rela-
tons the United States insist upon
universal observance Of the principles
and rules OF international law.
Denunciation Of the Wilson policy
toward Mexico as one of Inconsistent
and irresponsible interference" and
demand for the protection Of Ameri-
can rights in Mexico, either by a re-
sponsible- Mexican government or
through cooperation with other Amer.
lean republics.
Denunciation Of the bill to grant in
dependence to the Philippines. which
has already passed the senate, as an
abandonment OF the duty Of this ma
ton and a breach of trust toward the
Philippines"
A demand for restoration of the
Republican policy of tariff commits
sion," and for adequate measures for
the quick upbuilding of an American
merchant marine"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-03-03
LEWIS FLAYS ELIHU ROOT
Hurts Broadside at Ex-senator in Re-
ply to Latter's Arraisnment of
Wilson's Policy.

Washington, Feb. 81 Senator
James Hamilton Lewis, OF illinois.
from the senate floor hurled a broad
side denuDeiation at ex-senator Eljbu
Root, in reply TO Roots arraignment
of President Wilson's foreign policy.
With hypocrisy OF craftsmanship"
as his subject, the Illinois senator said
that if Root had been "a person less
conspicuous his remarks would have
meant either deliberate. ignorance or
malevolence." He charged Root with
insincerity and with playing politics
10 provide his party with a platform In
the coming campaign.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-03-03
GERMAN SEAPLANES RAID
TWO TOWNS IN ENGLAND
Drop Bombs on lowestoft and Walmer
Three Persons kiIled-British
Aviators Pursue Invaders.

London, Feb. 21.-"Te Deum lau-
damus. We praise. Thee. Oh Cod"
sang the congregation of a church at
Walmer, little town on the Kentish
coast ten miles north of Dover. toward
the close of the service Sunday morn
ing. Suddenly a loud explosion just
outside the edifice interrupted the sing
ing of the hymn of thanksgiving and
threw the congregation into panic.
Every window in the church was
bio IN In.
The Zeppelins." was the cry among
the church people as they rushed into
the street. Soaring overhead were two
German seaplanes, less than two-thirds
of = mile high, dropping bombs on the
Town at intervals of few minutes. Be-
fore the raiders turned back over the
channel they had killed two men and
a boy and wounded British marine.
Beside the raid on Walmer and an
attack on Lowestoft, on the Suffolk
coast by two other German seaplanes
half an hour earlier, in which II bombs
We're dropped without casualties, one
German f1ier dropped bombs on Dun
kirk and on the French lines near
Luneville. while other aeroplanes at
tackled Logoschin and Tarnopol. in the
eastern war theater Berlin tells of an
air battle near Peronne in which two
British fiers were killed.
British and Italian aviators also
were active. The British airmen
shelled the German aerodrome at
Cambria. France. during the night A
squadron of italian Caproni battle
planes raided Laibach, Austria. drop
ping several dozen bombs, one of
which fell near a hospital Both Wen
ma and Rome agree that one of the
aeroplanes was shot down by the Aus
TRANS.
The most spectacular CT the raids,
however, were those against the coast
of England
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-03-03
TWO PENSION BILLS PASSED
One Measure Applies to Spanish War
Widows and Other to Indian Cam
paien Veterans.

Washington. Feb 1.-Two pension
bills passed the house. proposing in
all the addition OF more than $500
600 annually TO pension expenditures
One would grant pensions 10 the wild
ows and minor children of officers and
enlisted men who served ninety days
or more In the army. navy or marine
corps during the war with Spain or the
Philippine insurrection The other bill
would give $40 month TO survivors
OF Indian wars
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-03-03
LEVY MAYER MAKES CHARGES
Tells Senate Committee That Interna.
tonal Harvester Co. Furnished
Mexican Rebels Money.

Washington. Feb. 19.-Charges that
the International Harvester company
had furnished money for arms and am
munition for the Ortez-Argimedo revo-
luton against the Carranza govern
ment in Yucatan. Mexico. were made
by Levy Mayer OF Chicago in the sen
ate agriculture committees investiga
ton of an alleged monopoly for con-
troll of the sisal market
secretary of the interior and now coun
sci for the Harvester company. denied
the charges.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-03-03
u. S. REFUSES NEW SEA ORDER
Notifies Consuls That America Be-
Iieves Merchant Ships Have
Right to Carry Guns.

Washington. Feb. 19.-All diplomatic
and consular officials abroad have
been notified in circular communi-
cation from the state department that
the position of the United States is
that merchant ships have a right to
carry defensive armament. This move.
which became known here. is the
first formal announcement that the
United States does not accept as
legal the announced intention OF Ger
many and Austria to sink armed mer.
chant ships without warning after
February 20 as coming withir inter-
national law.