Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-01


ever, and would put American labor
at even a greater and more disastrous
disadvantage. Free trade means in
dustrial disaster for New Mexico.
Senator Fall is opposed to such a
peace and will fight it in the senate,
That is why Woodrow Wilson is will
ing TO send message from the White
House and to use the prestige of his
great office to aid in seeking Senator
Falls defeat.
Mr.. Walton is rubber stamp" II
is his only campaign argument and
his only qualification for his candi-
dncy. In the senate he will vote to,
ratify any treaty Woodrow Wilson
may submit! and If there are enough
men like him in the next senate this
nation will be bound hand and foot
by treaty stipulations to permanent
free trade. A treaty can be abrogated
only by mutual agreement of the ma
tons signatory--or by war.
There is the issue: A senator who
will do the will of Woodrow Wilson
Mr. Walton. or a senator who will
do the will of his constituents, and act
as he thinks best for their welfare
and that of his country-Senator Fall.
To return to the kilograms and theI
advertisement. In addition to theI
flag is was cmbellshed with these
illuminating words:
mo one who wishes to support
Woodrow Wilson can intelligcntly
vote for Albert Bacon Fall for the
United States senate Straight
from the White House where our
great president is directing the
destinies of our soldiers and sail
ors, on land and sea--like bolt
of lightning from a cloudless New
Mexico sky--this telegram came
yesterday to the voters of this
state. ut was addressed to Mr.
Metcalf) II was characteristic
of woodrow Wilson--frank, fear
less, A BLOW FROM THE
SHOULDER. CAT senator Fall,
remember, the man who has just
buried son and daughter and
| who is yet to emerge from his
fight for the lives and health OF
other members OF his immediate &.
family--a elbow from the Shout
der" delivered from the White
House. by the way Of the New
Mexico democratic oampaigners,
at q man on his knees in sorrow,)
And now all the patriotic camou-
flage disappears. The partisan wolf
appears from beneath the patriotic
sleeps hide, for the advertisement
continues:
Men Of New Mexico. think
deeply and we'll In this great
crisis. sink personal preference,
abandon deeply rooted political
prejudices. Awaken to the needs
of the nation. Respond to the
call of n great leader. Send w.
e, Walton to the United States
senate and Granville A. Itichard-
son to congress.
"DO WHAT THE PRESIDENT
ASKS you TO Do
There it is in all its ugly nakedness.
The president did not endorse
Walton He only assailed Fall.
Woodrow Wilson has yet to reach the
point in partisanship where he will
recommend to great state as its
choice for seat in the United States
senate a man whose ability measures
even with that OF ward politiciani
known in legislative achievements as
the author of bill to change the
name of WhislSey Creek; the member
of congress, who, during a war crisis
was willing to go off on a pleasure
jaunt in an all steel train to the
bright lights of New York, as the
guest of william Randolph Hearst,
and who thus achieved his only ma
tional distinction. But his party
managers in New Mexico did. that FOR
him, The great office of president
of the United States was used in a
campaign advertisement to give
weight to an appeal to the people OF
New Mexico to send Billy Walton to
the United states senate---and theyI
put the American flag on the thing,
Voters of New Mexico, think deep
~ and well. There is a great crisis
before this nation. AS the democratic
advertisement SAYS, IT is time that we
sink personal preferences, abandon
deeply rooted political prejudices and
awaken to the needs Of the nation.
The crisis exists through the effort to
bend this nation to the will Of one
man, not in waging the war; for that
is practically done, but in settling our
foreign relations; in determining the
terms of peace; in making our treat