New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-10-13
LITTLE DEMOCRATIC HARMONY

Miguel A. Otero, Democratic Candidat
for State Auditor does not seem to be quit
in harmony with all of the candidates on tn,
ing to elect himself and to defeat the Wilson
Electors on the ticket with him. Here is wha'
he has to say in his newspaper, the New Mex
ican, and it has appeared under the heading
Our Platform at the head OF his editorial
columns every day for the past week:
The New Mexican is opposed to the re-
election OF Woodrow Wilson, Democratic can
didate for president, on the ground that the
national honor, national peace and national
prosperity are unsafe in his hands, as evil
lcnced by the results OF his four years in Of
flee.
In his New MeHican OF October :, Mr..
Otcro says cditorially:
For four years the pcacc-at-any-price, hit
hi-on-thc-Wrist and urn-the-other-check po-
licies Of President Wilson have kept us either
in daily danger Of needless war or in actual
The Too-Proud- To-l1ight and Fighting
Mood policies OF The Kaleidoscope Wilson
in one outrage upon our nationality
after another and the cynical disregard Of
mult.tudinouS notes.
The Wilson school takes the position that
rncroachments and outrages upon America
cannot be prevented without war and that
whoever c~riticises the president for his fail
IRE to prevent them is demanding war. In
effect this means that America should aC-
,ept such Entertainments silently because to
resent them means war. And yet we have not
them silently: we have b~latantly de-
Jared that ii occurred again terrible things
would happen, They invariably have done it
leain and we have invariably repeated our.
hreats, ad infinitum.
In his New McXican Of September 20,
Nr. Otero says in his humorous column:
The President rendered some more 1ntl-
ical blank verse yesterday. The usual ma
ional headache ensued.
One thing about IIughes-he talks the
american language and not the unintclligible
humanity jareon OF the Professor.
II The Democrats want a president who
an sit on a throne, they had better find one
Who fits the throne.
The Wilson single track mind has very
terminal facilities
And a few days before that on September
Mr.. OtcrO III ms New McNlcdll, ticdtcu
lis Democratic supporters to this bit OF hui
lorous wisdom:
Grandma Believes that the Vlclous and
ernicious Adamson law, which IS cNecrabic
nd undesirable, not to say rotten. legislation,
a splendid cNpcdicnt in that it has averted a
G%randma's Reasoning is nothing it not
rgent. -,
She Doubtless also believes that while
ne Wilson policy in McNIco is "nauseating,
nd disgusting and has turned the stomach
+ the entire nation it is highly praiseworthy
/ that it has Averted War With Mexico.
And That while it is highly reprehensi-
lc and disgraccful, also humiliatlng, that the
has never secured appropriation Tor
frichtful assassination of America men
1dvomen on the Lusitania, the fact that the
,attcr was allowed to drop is another triumph
diplomacy in that it has .Averted WA With
..
We have heard of such a thing as buying
pig in a poke The Democrats evidently
ought a hog in a bucket. If they fail to elect
inn State Auditor, he can demand \. ). Mar
nall from the Republicans for his support of
hughes. Verify, the office hog looks out Tor
imsclf,