The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-10-16
Editorial and Magazine Page of

ESTERDAN the Herald discussed the very
general demand from the people for a air.
clean, abovc-board campaign in New Mexico
this fall. Reference was made to certain campaign
matter already issued which is not fair and above
board, and which it will he necessary TO discuss IN
detail after the state campaign opens, IN order that
the people may know the ia Is.
ln the meantime we have received a copy Of
New Mexico Democratic No. | which is the news
paper designation of a column of .cady print mat.
ter sent out by the democratic state committee. or
upon It's order, free to newspapers which wish to
dSc it.
"Ncw Mexico Democratic No. /" is headed
VI Voter, do YOU know o. and under that head
ing are twenty paragraph statements only two OF
which are even approximately correct those two
being clearly wordcd 50 leave u wrong impression,
or an impression of wrong Here is the first para
graph:
That the State Council of Defense
has had $685., 600 10 spend in the past sew
cntccn months and that no Itcmized report
has ever been issued to tell the people of
the state how il has been spcnt?'
This statement il clearly meant 10 mislcad
and Is outside the facts. First il undertakes 10
leave the impression that the state Council of De-
fcnsc has actually spent S325,000, when it is well
known from the published statements Of the tnan.
ccS of the council that it has spent no such sum.
Second, the assertion that no itcmi2cd report has
ever been given 10 the people Is rcfuted by the col.
umnS of four daily newspapers and = number of
weekly newspapers. which have printed n complete
report, signed by Judge G. Il. Bricc, of Roswell, a
democrat, the disbursiug officer of the council, and
a man whose integrity Is beyond amy possible qucs-
ton. Why his party associates should thus seek TO
bring 1t INTO question is utterly beyond solution
because Judge Bricc is II loyal democrat. devoted
10 the sicccsS of his party, and j. one of It's strong
est men. Moreover, IN addition TO Judge Brice'S
signature upon the published report, il was the
subject of u complete audit of every item of the
Defense Council = cNpcnditur :, made by a. T..
James, director of the New Mexico Taxpayers as.
ISOLATION.
The only theory upon which a statement like
the above can be put out, is that il Will escape IN
ycNtIgatOu. and ike a torpedo from Il German sub.
marine. dO its damage to the enemy by finding
iodgemcIt in the minds Of voters who never get
a chance TO learn the facts. Paragraph No. > states;
That il the next congress is rcpubli-
can the man who will have charge Of rais-
my the revenue for the government 10 ear
ny ON the war will bc Joseph NJ. Fordncy
of Michigan, a rank paclhst who voted
wrong ON SIX of the eight war questions
What "a foolish argument to put before IN.
tcIligcnt, ncwSpapcr-rcadiug American voters, even
were II true, when the mspcakablc kitchin of
North Carolina will remain chairman Of the great
ways and means committee, if the democrats retain
control of congress! All men now know that kitchiu
opposed the war, voted against the draft law and
against the declaration Of war and fought to stand
10y the campaign pledge on which his people elected
HIM, to keep us out OF war, while Fordncy voted
for the war and for the draft Read statement No. 3:
THAT if the republicans control the