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man who splits 1t. 1t is political folly. Mr..
Bursum is through as a Republican leader.
He is done. He has shown twice that he
can't rally the party strength and that the
people don't want him. The fact that he
can dominate the organization and the legis.
lative majority makes no difference. He
can't dominate the vote. No use to dress
him up as a Progressive, or Prohibitionist,
or anything else. 1t doesn't fool the voter.
And you never get anywhere by fooling the
voter, anyhow; because he is sore when he
finds 1t out.
Fl. o. Bursum is out of date. He can't
see far enough beyond his personal grudges.
He is making himself ridiculous right now
in spending two months in Santa Fe pull.
ing wires to put the New Mexican out of
business" If the party again endorses him
and his platform, it is going on record as
making the suppression of a daily newspaper
the first order of business as a prime requf
site of success. Probably nothing fufnier
could be done in politics.
A newspaper is the hardest thing on earth
to kill, anyhow. 1t is a heart.breaking.
money-eating job. 1t is an endless task.
And if by hook or crook you manage to
suppress one, another one Of the darn things
hobs up in its place. You can't pull off
something that is intrinsically wrong and
get way with 1t for any length of time.
You get in deeper and deeper all the time.
When the full details of Mr.. Bursufn's at
tempt to "can" the New Mexican are print
ed, they aren't going to be pleasant reading
for Mr. Bursum or his party. Our advice
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common sense politics, is to back away from
Mr.. Bursum and his private grudges. He
can't put this newspaper or any other honest
out of business and it is throwing
money into a rathole to try it. No politi.
clan with an atom of Judgment would try
it. We are talking from a really imper-
sonal viewpoint. If Mr.. Bursum realized
his ambition and got us all inside the bars
looking out, his very success would be his
ruin.
Mr.. Bursum is the victim of a delusion
and an obsession. He's lost his perspective
IF he ever had one-and has become politi-
cally crosseyed. He can't think abUvt any
thing but getting even with somebody for
his second and most painful defeat; and
he has had his head full Of taking it out of
the New Mexican He CAM see that the
people of the state and not the New Mexican
him.
The Republican party has twice tried out
Mr.. Bursum. In both cases it lost. Elk.
plantations and alibis were accepted the first
time; are they going to be accepted indef-
Twice the party has sacrificed sue
cess on the altar Of Mr.. Bursum's ambition
and selfish grudges. Twice it has been the
goat for Mr.. Bursum and his petty politics.
Twice it has let the Bursum faction run
it into the ground. Twice it has been
played for a sucker. Isn't it about time to
get wise?
Perhaps this advice will be treated Just
1t has been treated before. We intend
to keep on giving it, however, at every op.
portunity. So long as the Republican party
in New Mexico ties itself up with a disap-
pointed perpetual Office seeker with an in
crouch at the votes which the party
needs, it might as we'll go out of business.
We point to two state elections in New
Mexico to prove it; and we submit that few
organizations in the country would
so blind as to need any further lem
onstration.
The committee is here ''for the good of the
The first thing to subserve the good Of
the party is to retire H. O. Bursum as a
party boss.