The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1917-10-06
REPUDATED BUNCH DETERMINED TO WRECK
COMMON JUSTICE IN EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

on another page of this issue will
be found the proposed constitutional
amendment to make a change in the
eighth judicial district of New Mexico.
W. hope that every reader of this
paper will read it closely and study
it carefully. If you do so you may
discover the sinister purposes behind
the proposal. 1t is a machine gerry
mander pure and simple and the intent
is to rid the eighth judicial district of
democratic and Embossed court Of
fiaials. particularly Judge Thomas d.
Lieb. who has made an enviable rep
utation as the Judge of the people
and has done more to establish exact
justice in this district than all former
Judges combined. When the eighth
district was formed it was considered
safely republican and corporation con-
troIled. but the people of Quay. Union
and ColfaN counties got busy and
showed the political fixers a trick.
The trick was the election OF Judge
candidate, since appointed to the bench
of this state by the holy gubernatorial
partnership that doesn't know the
politics of the sheriff of Union county.
but appears TO have plenty of ears
with which to listen to the dulcet
tones of the old guard managers. The
trouble is, the eighth district as now
constituted, has aligned itself on the
side. of democracy. right and justice,
and the coal barons and political boss
es % Colfax and Taos counties, who
have always considered the court a per-
sonal asset are Mortified and up in
arms against any such unwarranted
assumption of authority by the decent
and justice loving people living with
in the district. The election of Mr..
Kiker last fall was the last straw.
Something had to be done. Marshal
ing the King of Socorro. the Giant of
Dona Ana, and the redoubtable
Charles of ColfaX and San Miguel,
they hied themselves to Santa Fe and
during the past session of their minor
ity elected majority i'm the Legislature,
pat through the proposal for the dis
ruption of the eighth district and to
uullify the will of the common justice
loving people living within the dis
trict There is a question as to
whether they did this. The bill pass
ed the senate 12 for and IL against
several honest republicans, Disguised
with such partisanship and unfairness
voting with the democrats. The con-
stitution provides that such a proposal
must receive "a majority vote of all
the senators elected, and IL is certain
ly not majority of "a Senator
Clark, Of San Miguel was presiding
officer at the time and did not vote
So far the machine has been running
smoothly, The candidate defeated
by the electors of this district five
years ego, now on the bench by ap
pointment. by some process of reason
ing aud figuring unknown to mathema
tioians has decided that - is more
i, -,ssu half of "a. The question is now
= fore tie supreme court and th'
Nlerd is anxiously awaiting the decision
Of the august judges on the abov'
mathematical problem. Meanwhile
preparations for the election are goinl
ahead. and il il should prove possible
that the supreme court of this stat
Is so far deficient in arithmetica
knowledge as to uphold the patentl,
erroneous decision Of Holloman, tn
good people of the eighth have no othe
recourse but to appeal to the higl
court of justice represented by the en-
tire electorate of the state Of New
Mexico