El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-08
M'AIListcr Was About to
Ask House to Make Its
Apologies to the State
Expelled Newspaper Man Who Perpetrated Coat
Tail Outrage Also Regards Bryan as Merely
Excuse For Old Guard to Take Hack at His
Newspaper; Foolish and Frivolous, Reporter
Declares
Editor New Mexican:

Editor New Mexican:
will greatly appreciate the OPP
portunity to conclude in the col
umns Of the New Mexican the
remarks which I began in the
house of representatives Sat
urday afternoon and which were
Indignantly and summarily inter
rupted by the joint action of
Messrs. Barnes, Llewellyn and
yArchuleta.
] believe / had gotten as far as
the statement that, while the bus
mess of a%pologizing for jokes was
proceeding it was in order for
Union county to apologize to the
legislature for the joke perpetrat-
ed in sending Mr.. Bryan to Santa
lFe as its representative. 1t was
my intention, had / been allowed,
next to call attention to the i'm
p~ortance Of the legislature itself
apologizing for the much more
serious and expensive joke that
was being perpetrated upon the
taxpayers Of the state at that mo-
ment by wasting the precious
hours of the closing days of the
session in such utterly foolish
and frivolous procedure as was
then in progress.
Had | been permitted / would
have gone on to explain what
should have been too obvious to
need explanation-that in pin
ming a piece of paper on the coat
tail of Hon. G. w. B. Bryan at a
moment when the house was in
an uproar created by the member
from Union county himself there
was no intention TO wound or
offend, much less to insult Mr..
Bryan, for whom / entertained
and still entertain only feelings
of kindness and sympathy. I
would have gone further and free
ly admitted that this piece Of
playfulness on the floor of the
house was a sacrifice of my own
dignity, and to that extent repre-
hensible. I would have been glad
to explain in detail, also, that my
action Thursday afternoon was
not intended as an arfront to the
dignity Of the house OF represen-
tatives-indeed, it would have
given me pleasure to show that
the course of a majority of the
members Of that body during the
present session has been such as
to remove far from my mind the
suspicion that such a thing as af-
fronting the dignity Of the house
of representatives was possible.
I do not flatter myself that
the indignity placed upon me Sat
urday afternoon by the wholly UNI
necessary procedure of having
the sergeant-at-arms take phys
ical possession of me, as If I were
some Guy Fawkes caught in an
other gunpowder plot, was per-
sonal to myself. I am keenly
alive to the fact that it was my.
paper, and not ]. that was before
the bar Of the house. Every intel
ligent person c%onversant with the
facts knows that there does not
exist on the part of the Repub-
1ican majority of the house any
tenderness for the dignity Of
Representative Bryan, and still,
less for the dignity Of the house.
The Journal and the New Mex
lean have been the objects Of the
deep hatred of old-guard Repub-
lican bosses for a long time, and
that hatred has been Intensified
greatly since the last campaign.
The legislative representatives
of both papers have been in con
slant danger of expulsion from
the floor OF the house ever since
the session began, Tor no other
reason than that they were mn
ployed by those papers.
There are, in the house OF rep
resentatives, a number Of able
and patriotic men conscientiously
devoted to the discharge Of their
official duties. Unfortunately,
the influence of these men is to a
great extent nullified by the sub
servience Of the majority to un-
patriotic and unintelligent out
side influences.
Permit me in conclusion to ex-
press my %appreciatin Of the many
assurances of friendship, regard
and support extended to me by
both Democrats and Republicans
since 4 became the target Of this
attack on my paper. We who play
the newspaper game are well
aware that this sort Of thing is
all in the days work and that
such attacks constitute the high
est sort of compliment to the eff
ficiency of our work. .