New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-11-03
TO THE VOTERS OF NEW MEXICO

During the two months of the present campaign can
.didates on the Republican state ticket have been subjected
to a rising flood Of viiifIcation, SANDER and personal abuse
from the Democratic candidates, their campaign managers
and their newspapers. The campaign these men have made
from the platform and through their newspapers has been
more evil than campaigns made by the same men in former
years. In the past and during the present campaign these
assaults have been borne by the Republican party, its can
didates and its committeeman with patience, dignity and
restraint.
The campaign made by and in behalf of the Democratic
candidates has been unrelieved by any record or any state
ment of fact. 1t has been a campaign of unrestrained SANDER.
1t has been a deliberately planned and a ruthlessly executed
effort to ruin the characters of honorable men. Absolutely
nothing has been spared. The public records of the Repub-
lcan candidates, their private business affairs, their per-
sonal lives and their homes all have been asaled through the
newspapers supporting the Democratic candidates themselves
and through false statements, Systematically circulated among
the people by word of mouth.
The Republicans of New Mexico, their candidates and
their active party workers and committeeman have endured
these outrages will, patience and forbarance. They have met
SANDER with official public records. They have believed
and now believe that the people of New Mexico are OF sound
judgment and that they cannot be tricked by distortions OF
facts or fooled by lies.
As this campaign has drawn toward its close the flood
of Democratic abuse has risen to its crest. Within the past
few days the Democratic candidates and their managers
have gone beyond the limit of wrongful assault which men
OF honor and courage can endure in silence.
Posing as men Of honest records and clean lives the heads
Of the Democratic ticket, assisted by their managers and
their newspapers have exceeded anything heretofore done by
them in the PRONUNCIATION of falsehood, foul insinuation and
deliberate SANDER.
During the past few days there has commenced to ap-
pear in the Albuquerque Morning Journal and the Santa Fe
New Mexican, the principal newspaper supporters of A. A.
Jones and William c. Mcdonald, certain fragments of al
legged letters; a sentence and a half-statenent, strung to-
gether ingenuousv SO as to make it appear that practically
every man in any way connected actively with Republican
directly with transactions, mysteriously limited at, which, it
party affairs drrino the raSt ten wears has been connected
is made to appear. have been dishonorabe transactions and
against the public interest.
The direct inference drawn by these men through their
newspapers is that the whole active membership of the Re-
publican party from the leaders in Colfax County to the lead
es in Dona Ana County and throughout the State have been
grafters, corruptionsts and thieves.
The Santa Fe New Mexican, on Saturday, October 26,
printed in black type across the top of its first page the state
ment that "a dead mans tale" would defeat one of the Re-
p%ublicans candidates: and again on Monday. October 30, the
statement in large disnlay that dead men rise to point &C
cusng finger at a Republican candidate.
These headings have been followed by a mass of vile in
situation, barely escaping direct statement, and always suf-
ficiently direct to convey an impression of horried wrongdo-
ing.
Were there a shadow of basis for these publications and
for the snoken lIels of the Democratic campaigners the sit
uation might be less revolving to men whose sense of justice
and decency is sound. But the men who inspire these attacks
and the newspaper owners who publish them know them to
be without any foundation, without any justification; and
have planned them deliberately as a part of a monstrous cam
paign of falserood:
For several years A. A. Jones, the Democratic candidate
for the United States Senate, has been the directing force in
the Democratic party of New Mexico. He is the directing
force in the present campaign. Remaining always in the back
ground of the attack and posing always as a man of high