Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-09-22
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inc governors Uneasy Stockholders.
Friends Of Governor Mcdonald as.
sert that the governor has served dur
Ing the past four and a half years at
a tremendous sacrifice to his W and
the interests Of the foreign stock
holders who are the principal owners
In his great cattle and land holding
corporation. These foreign interests.
they assert, have become restless and
have demanded that the governor re-
turn to his knitting and to the furth.
er earning Of dividends. They say
that the governor could have had a
denomination at any time he asked
for It. but that his private interests
forbade him asking. They say this
in face of the well known fact that
the executive proposes to launch first
into an Immediate sixty day campaign
which will absorb and hold his en-.
tire attention, both from the business
Of the state and the business Of his
great cattle corporation; and Of the
further fact that because Mr.. de Baca,
the candidate for governor, is Just
from a sick bed and that the state Of
his health is uncertain in the ex-
IRENE. that Mr.. Mcdonald may be
called upon at any time, should de
Baca win on the hundredth chance,
to. resume full control Of the execu-
tive office. The explanation given
for the governors eagerness to get
onto the ticket. regardless OF dignity
and position has made Republicans
laugh and has caused Democrats gen
orally to smile behind their hands.
MeDonald's Administration on Trial.
The fact1s that the Democratic
party, in convention assembled faced
a proposal to go to trial before the
people on the record made by the Nc
Donald administration. They refused
to do 1t. Their reasons for not doing
Sc were voiced frankly and openly
during the convention. The governor
and his friends, by a last minute con
vention trick, forced them to do SO
in spite of themselves: for while run
ming for lieutenant governor the pop
ular impression is that Governor Nc
Donald is actually running for re-
election, and It becomes the duty of
the Democratic campaigners to take
up his defense and the defense of his
administration, whether they wish to
do 30 or not.
Republicans Grab the Opportunity.
The Republicans, candidates and
campaign managers have grasped the
opportunity with considerable salts
faction. They are ready for an aggres
sively offensive campaign against the
Democrats on the Mcdonald admins
tration's written record. Being prac-
tically certain that Governor McDon
old would force the Democrats to de
fend him the Republicans have beer
preraring for manv months with
careful, searching inquiry into every
detail Of four years and a half of
wasted opportunity in the conduct of
state affairs, and a period filled from
beginning to end with administrative
blunders which range from the
ludicrous to the most gravely serious.
With the record in their hands the
Republicans are going to the people in
this campaign with simple statements
OF the facts. They feel hat nothing
more than this showing will be neces
sary to convince New Mexico that its
experiment with a Democratic admin
istration has proven too costly to risk
repeating.
Tnere are said to be 2S recipes for
cooking German carp. They differ as
to detail, but all agree the carp should
be buried in some out-of-the-way
place.
Inventors Of household appliances
appear to be singularly inefficient in
the face of the demand for a tool
with which the cherry in the bottom
OF the cocktail may be gracefully
rescued.