Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-06
rprD,y JUNE 8. 10
LOOKING BOTH WAYS.


where the three RS We're taught lie
wrote most entertaining report 10
the party conference, and read it with
pusto. The expert figuring demon
strated to a mathematical certainty
how political victory can be won
next year.
Eliminating rhetoric, multiplication
and addition. his schemes conclseE
stated, will be simply to get the most
votes. in the following divers manners
or most any other old way:
Enlist all the soldiers.
Hog-tie the progressiVes,
Let no voter of Spanish descent
desert.
Show all the unsophisticated how
10 make out their ballots.
Use propaganda to slide into the
democratic ranks al! the independent
voters,
Get money from every democrat in
New Mexico.
Pull down a fat amount from the
national organization.
Put the money largely into daily
paper plant,
Keep a salaried force at headquar-
tiers to stir up organizations and clubs.
The admirable activities the conf
prehensiye chairman has programmed
are enough to meet necessities of the
national organization itself. They lead
10 the thought that the party erred
in going to Yankeeland TO choose a
chairman, whose home town Is of
Santa Fe size and Deopled mostly by
New York trust magnates,
If the democrats of Texas aud the
south who furnish cabinet officers,
congressman and president were not
to be allowed to head the direct party
organization, It might have been bet
ter to have put it in charge of the
New Mexico chairman with his broad
western ideas and with a dream ca
pacity equal to that of the president
himself.
Chairman Seligman not only has
foresight to spare, but HIS hindsight
remains as comprehensive as that of
Il sub perscope that peeps out of the
water and discovers IN a circle more
than ordinary eye can see. For the
report looks backward as well as for
ward and tells why the party did not
. score success in 1918. The loss is now
officially explained in such clear
manner that they who have not seen
through the fog can rest satisfied.
Here is one cause after another.
Any person who does not accept one
reason may take another IN prefer
encc, and steer clear of that particular
trouble next time.
Fourteen thousand voters had gone
TO war If all had stayed al home and
voted the democratic ticket. every
thing would have come out fine.
Eigteen hundred had gone away to
work in munition factories, If they
had remained IN the state and voted
right the democratic organization
would now be as chesty as the Big
-Four in Paris
caused LOO tentative faithful to turn
backward and migrate to the regions
where they had been educated to vote
the party ticket, rain or shine. Had
the heavens but been kind the repub-
lcans might have been driven from
the trenches
And again. there were 1.1G5 votes
not counted because voters did not
sabe the manner of using them. The
chairman modestly declines to admit
that more than IS per cent of the un-
intelligent errors were made by demo-
Gratis.
But the "saddest words of tongue or
pen" of the Santa Fe leader arc those
showing that 5oO--count 'cm--5Oo
DEMOCRATS actually laid down and
did not vote according to orders,
Why, the chairman tells not Per-
haps because he does not wish Wash
ington TO hear that policies of the
men hisher-up We're not palatablc to
New Mexico's Five Hundr ed"
The report says nothing of any stray
democratic votes going to the socialists
whom President Wilson advised by
telegraph to vote against Senator Fall
There is no Crouch in that direction
shown in the interesting report
With all this information, past and
present, before them the committee
men have gone home to iron out
wrinkles.
According TO the computations of
Chairman Seligman there will be 2O,-