The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-08-27
THE ENDORSEMENT OF HUGHES.

IT ON Hughes. who al chairman of the committee on resolutions,
by the republican county convention yesterday for the republi
can nomination for governor. This Endorsement, which pledges Ber
nation Of Hughes. Aside from partisan politics this would not be a
bad thing for Albuquerque and Bernalllo county. 1t would mean
that whatever the result of the November election the next governor
of New Mexico would be an Albuquerque man.
friends Of Tom Hughes. not So much because IL NAV o S tie wy
for him to the eovernorship,, but because it is the answer of the over
whelmine majority Of Bernaillo county republicans to the peculiarly
evil personal attack directed upon him by Carl C. Magee, the editor
Of the Morning journal, and the ring leader in the LarrazoloIIubbell.
Processing personal friendship for Hughes, Magee undertook a
S ds1iS e s' nrngss. to iI n"..,, him ,d nsTSon' M,d j" the sss Of Of his %.d home me-
newspaper in an attempt to- destroy the confidence of this community
planned attempt to eliminate Hughes as a force in local republican
affairs; deliberately carried out in the personal interest of Magee and
his political associates who saw in Hughes an obstacle to the accom-.
plishmep- of their plans. The methods employed in this attack are
fully revealed in the editorial columns f the Morning journal dur.
ing the past two months. They are methods as utterly unworthy as
the selfish personal political objectives sought.
This assault was made by a political adventurer who has been a
member of the community for less than six months. against a man
whose thirtysix years from birth have been spent in this community
Pretty much every one anticipated it hut Magee. II il none the less
gratifying to his business associates and to other friends of Tom
Hughes that his marty here at home, by an overwhelming majority,
should give him the definite expression of confidence and respect con
veyed in the Endorsement of him for the nomination for governor.
Tom Hughes has not been a candidate for the nomination for
governor in the sense of actively campaigning for delegates. Mapee
truthful statement Of a conversation alleged to have occurred between
them. The effort was to injure Hughes personally with his fellow
citizens; TO damage his personal business and to impair his usefulness
as an enthusiastic worker in the ranks of his party. The result has
for the goveFnorsh;p on a platform he has long been known TO adj
yocatei . platform 50 much more definite in is demands for better
cleaner and so much more unselnsh in origin and objects than Magecs
alleged program of reforms that we cannot refrain from pointing out
the contrast. .
The fact that Tom Hughes is a business associate docs not seem
10 MS sufficient reason for failing to point out another contrast right
at this time however objectionable II may be to Mr. Hughes to have
his character discussed in a newspaper with which he is connected.
Mr. MaRee since the moment he embarked upon his career among
81. has loudly proclaimed from his editorial housetop his personal
independence, his honesty Of purpose, his political purity. He has
courses ON Sunday and in connection with a wholly different assort-
ment Of editorial standards on week days. lie has not hesitated to
proclaim his own purity Of purpose and nobility Of character and
appealing Independence in the. same paragraph with deliberate libel
and p~reaeditated untruth.
Tom Hughes, during the course Of a lifetime of boyhOod and
Young manhood In Albuquerque. has never protested publicly his own
high standards or proclaimed himself as a superior type Of citizen
ship. Steadily, peraistenly, modeatly he has worked his way along
from the keyboard Of a printing machine where he did a good day