Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-04
SENATOR FALLS VICTORY.


On the eve Of the election the New
York Herald, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
and pro-administration in politics,
comedies the election of Senator Fall, |
republican, in New Mexico. The Her
aid is proud of the accuracy and fair
ness of its election forecasts and jeal-I
Gus of their accuracy. For years they
have been based upon the facts Sc
cured by unprejudiced persons, and
they have not often failed Of complete
justification at the polls. Here at
home we know from expressions and
estimates by responsible observers in
every county that the Herald's fore
cast as to Senator Fall is correct. He
will be elected tomorrow.
There are reasons, however. why
the people Of New Mexico should re-
turn Senator Fall by a majority that
is overwhelming, An effort has been
made by Senator Falls opponents to
fool the people, Such an effort al |
ways merits reproof at the polls. In.
this instance it will probably receive
such a reproof. The republicans have
been content by placing Senator Falls
record before the voters. just as Fall
himself has written it into the pages
of the Congressional Record and into
the stirring history of this nation dur
ing the past six years, and particu-
larry during the past two years. In its
ability. its courage, in its far-seeingI
wisdom: in its utter loyalty to thei
communicating of nation att
war and its vigorous prosecution of
the war. there was no questioning that
record or its value to this state and
to this nation. The democrats had
two courses one to admit the record
and rest their case upon partisanship;
the other to undertake to fool the
people by unfair attack, inuendo and
deliberate falsehood. They choose the
latter course. They undertook to ques-
ton the loyalty of a man whose rec
ord is one unbroken record of vigorous
loyalty. These cowardly attacks were
made upon a man unable to come toI
his own defense by the kind of over
whelming g.ief which renders any
real man Indifferent to public attack
upon him. 1t was the extreme of
cowardice. Its reaction upon the pub
lie mind judgment and conscience,
was inevitable ANY other than theI
bundercrs who now control the dem
ocra lie party in this state would have
foreseen its inevitable result
On top of this Insult to their intelli
gence, the people were offered as the
democratic candidate for senator al
man wholly unable to measure up toI
the Job; and dwarfed and rendered
ridiculous by comparison, in his pub
lie record, in ability, in courage and
force Of character. with Senator Fall.
The people of New Mexico know Mr..
Walton. They know his record and its !.
limitations. The effort to transform
him into a statesman overnight sim !
ply made MN ridiculous.
And when the president of the
United States undertook, in this situa-
ton, to demand of the people of New
Mexico that they turn down a mani
with a great record of national sery
ice and effective loyalty, the people
instantly resented that insult to theirI
intelligence and that clearcut attack
upon their individual right to choose
their own representatives in congress.
Senator Falls opponents. going much
further than the president intended
them to go, took Mr.. Wilson'S tele-
gram to the socialist candidate for
esenator and deliberately twisted it into
an attack upon Falls war record,
which the president did not care to at
tack; and upon Falls loyalty to his
country, which the president did not
question. Public resentment was in
Simultaneous and Overwhelming.
The people, also, were quick TO no
tice that while President Wilson, in
pursuance of his effort TO dictate the
choosing of the next congress of the
United States, had endorsed the char
acter of La Monte. in New Jersey, of
Moorehouse in Nebraska, and of DEM
ocratic candidates in other states, he
gave no such endorsement to the
character and ability of MIR. Walton.
He held himself rigidly to the attack
upon Senator Fall. The omission of
d single word by the president in Wall
tons behalf, and the fact that he sent
his message to the socialist candidate
for the senate, instead of 10 the man
whose election he hoped to bring
about, have not been lost sight Of by