Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-05
Is SENATOR FALL A BOSS?

Ths newspapers who supporting the state re-
asdbrcan ticket evidently joking with They
@ask us to prove" that Senator Fall is boss" in
this state
Mr.. Bursum, in his letter to the Journal gave us
his definition of boss He said boss is "a person
who secures support for his by coercion,
threats, barter promise of reward in some manner
or by promise of political preferment" BY that de-
finition he showed his state of mind to be that of
the boss.
According to Mr.. Bursums definition boss is
who is actively and positively corrupt Some
bosses are and some not We have never at
tempted any complete classification of Mr. Bursum
under his definition.
But we have classified both Mr.. Bursum and SEN
ator Fall under definition of a boss. To us n
boss is who obtains undue control a party
for the attainment OF personal ends without any
solictude for the public interest. Those ends may
be corrupt money, personal preferment the salts
faction some men feel in welding excessive power.
The second the moving motive of Senator
Fall. The latter the controlling influence with Mr..
Bursum
Neither have ever shown any sort of solicude
for the welfare of the people Of the state. They
have shown complete indifference to it. Conditions
in the state prove it beyond all doubt.
Senator Fall was a leader in the constitutional
convention. He openly and defiantly nominated
Judge Spess attorney and political manager of the
Santa Fe railroad presiden. of that convention.
Thus he put the corporations who had controlled
the state for years against the interests of the people
in complete control of writing fundamental law
The result is the most rcactionary constitution
which has been written in seventy five years in the
United States. So digent were these gentlemen
that they sought to fix it that the constitution
could not be amended by the people for twenty-five
years. This only prevented by Congress which
insisted upon the separate blue ballot amendment
being voted upon.
Although direct primaries had become the rule
in the United States, it carefully omitted in the
interest of control by the few
Woman suffrage made impossible for TWEEN
ty-five years except for the amendment to the.
United States constitution and well nigh impossible
even at the end of that time.
The corporation commission was left without
power to curb greed. In many respects the consti-
tuition a disgrace to its makers, of whom sena-
tor Fall was the leader of the majority.
When. since that date has Senator Fall been a
leader of thought and progress in the state? When
has he made single battle for the people? When
has he sought to arouse spirit of civic righteous
and fair dealing? Never! He put the state
under the domination of the special interests and has
left it there
He and Mr. Bursum more prominently than any
other two men, responsible for backward
ditions in the state and its control by the special
interests.
He had the presumption to come into the state
and hold the De Vargas Hotel Junta where he sought
TO make and unmake governors by the fiat of his
command in utter disregard of the public will.
He was on hand at the Albuquerque convention to
help Bursum put oyer" Mechem the state. .
Yes the state has conferred great honors upon
Senator Fall. 1t has received no reciprocal bene-
fits from him. The public welfare is foreign his
thought. He cares only for his selfish aggran-
dizement He helps his friends because they in turn
help him.
Senator Fall not boss and a handicap to New
Mexico? As the Irish say at is to laugh"