The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-11-21
WHAT ALBUQUERQUE JOUR.
NAL SAYS OF TEXAS VOTERS

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The editor of the Albuquerque Jour
nal is mad because a Democratic min
lister stopped his paper and the editor
proceeds to belittle any voter who was
born in Texas, many of whom reside
in Quay county and other counties on
the Eastern border of New Mexico.
The following Is what the Jorunal
says about the Texas voters:
Texas is a great state, though not
a very progressive n considering its
resources. The same is true Of the
solidly democratic states of South Car
DINA, Mississippi, Alabama and Ark
ansas. The people of those states
know practically nothing Of political
conditions in this country. Not one
in a thousand of the voters of any one
of those states could give an intelli-
gent reason for voting the democratic
ticket.
with the people of the solid south
party affiliation is a matter of birth,
not of reason. Few Of them ever read
al article p%urporting to give reasons
for the existence of the republican
party-the party with a majority of
lUt NObtS VI VIC itltlOl anu WIN July
seventy-five per cent Of the nations in
telligence and with eighty per cent
of the nations wealth."
The above paragraphs show what
this editorial writer in the Journal
thinks Of a MA from Texas or the
Sunny South. There is no doubt as
to where he wa Oorn. 1t must have
been in u college town in Minnesota
and he was never out of his home
county until he accepted a job on the
Journal and the reason for coming to
New Mexico was his health was bad.
You can tell by the way he writes. No
person would write such rot unless he
was sick. What he says about "sev-
enty-fve per zen, of the nations III
telligence" show that he's sick. Take
New Mexico foI instance. The inhab-
itants Of the / ustern tier Of counties
average less than five per cent who
can neither read nor write, while the
strong republican counties in the cen
trail and west hc about half who can
NOT read nor vIite. This comparison
show whether the republican, are
any moIe intelligent than he d,l o.
Gratis. No one will deny that the Re
publicans control eighty pei cent of the
nations wealth. The democrat I..rty
a always considered the pocr mans
friend. Even the high raiIrvsd eff
cials and some bankers voted with ire
republicans this year because the pres
emit administration favored the man
who works and loaned the farmer
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worship nothing more than the cal
mighty Dollar" and it is understood
that they won the election this year
in New Mexico by paying the price
for newspaper space and even the edi-
torial columns of some of the leading
papers of the state. The Journal has
been "A favorite in days gone by be-
cause of its neutral policy, but it has
gone bug house" on account of the
recent Republican victory, but it's our
opinion this trough stuff" had better
be cut out.
The state of Missouri could always
be counted upon to give the Democrats
a safe majority until Teddy Roosevelt
favored the 'niggers" to such an ex-
tent that they felt indebted to the Re
publicans Of that tate. Now nearly
ninety-nine per cent of them vote the
Republican ticket in Missouri. That
accounts for the defeat of Joe Folk,
Democratic candidate for U. S. senator.
One congressional district elected a ne
gro to congress this election. Kansas
forces the whites and blacks to go "a
the same school and Kansas has been
under Republican, rule for man years
A person does not need any more in.
telligence to vote the Republican tick.
ct than 20 vote the Democratic ticket
President Wilson is considered one OF
the b%rainiest men OF today, not by the
editor of the Albuquerque Journal but
by men who are broad enough to know
Even old Kaiser Bill has realized tina
Wilson's pen is what put Austria Hun.
gary out of the fight. His message
made them think and finally act. He
is "A democrat from choice. Most OF
the big Republicans are republicans be
cause its to their financial interest.