The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-11-08
SANTA CELEBRATES
REPUBLICAN VICTORY
George w. Prichard Pro-
nounces Obsequies
Over Democrats

SANTA FE. N. NJ. Nov. S.-Re-
publicans OF Santa Fe held a colebra-
ton OF the recent victory in the state
here Saturday night. A long auto
mobile parade was held ending In n
meeting at which a number OF speak
ors talked on the result OF the cleo
ton. Among the speakers was
George w. Prichard, who spoke as
follows:
II confess It is with unfeigned sat
~isfaction. " not Joy. that we look
back upon our great victory and OBJ
serve the democratic wreck as n re-
Buit OF enlightened thought, and ir-
resistihle public sentiment.
1T liz n pleasure, however. not UNI
mixed with n ting9 OF sadness, as we
contemplate the melancholy plight
in which what is left OF the demo-
cratic party finds itself. 1t IL more
or less pitiful a. we sec it's members
struggling to tear themselves loose
from the broken fragments OF an eX-
ploded Wilson machine.
I'VE commlserate that great demo-
cratic statesman, Governor Cox. who
fell upon evil ways. and devoted 30
much OF his time TO applying oppro-
brious terms to the senate OF the
United States. and othcrs who did
not embrace his league OF notions.
I'VE commiserato our friend
Hanna, who left the republican party
n little too early, who drifted into
the democratic party a little too late,
and wound up as n victim OF disap-
pointed political ambition a little too
quick. Having run the gamut of
nearly every political party known TO
the ingenuity OF man except the So
cialist party, towards which We see
him drifting. he came to the con-
clusion that the republican party
was chloroformed, and while Il slept
the sleep of Inconsistencies, he
would be commissioned by the poo
pie to run the affairs OF state. Let
us say, II a party while chloroformed
can achieve such n distinct victory,
what might Il not do when not I'M
der the influence OF that fateful
drug.
1--WE commiserate L. Dana John
son Of the New Mexican, that great
exponent OF public opinion so egregi-
ousiy m~lsinterpretod. who waited not
for the coming avalanche OF repub-
lican majorities, but before the count
was made. hiked for the hills. whore
he Is now In sad. sober s%eciusion,
meditating upon the things that did
not happen, and perhaps repeating to
himself the lines of Longfellow:
of all sad words OF tongue or pen,
Inc bhuuNhl uIt lnNoNt II hAAhhN hNNN
been
1--WE commiserate the dilemma OF
Carl Mngee, Of the Morning Journal,
the gentleman fresh from the repub-
lican state Of Oklahoma. who for the
last few months has been so busily
engaged in shifting from one party
to another, n advising the old
timers of New Mexico how TO run a
Btate government free from the con-
terminating presence or political
spooks and imaginary bosses.
Nor should we overlook Don An
lions and empty phraSes on uhatudied
tins and empty phrases on unstudled
subjects, expected to reach congress
over the PROSTATE bodies OF smash
ed republican
I'm attending these obsequies OF
the democratic party. we do 1t In no
irreverent spirit-our sympathies are
with its mourners. We feel no bitter
ress over the demise OF that party.
We knew what II lived, what its fall
ures were. We knew II made
n promise that It would not break
in an emergency; that 1t adVo-
Gated n principle It would not sacrl-
flee. II by so doing II could gain n
political victory. But since IL Is dead,
we bear Il no III will. Its sin or
omission and commission are FOR
given, though II will be many years
before they are forgotten.
"As we turn from this sad scene
we face The great reconstruction
work we have before us. We VIII
approach II with courage and pa
thence for, let It not be forgotten,
that the process OF tearing down
moves more rapidly than that of
building up. A national republican
administration true to the traditions
of the party. will not only build
anew upon the ruins OF an incompe-
tent, outgoing administration, but
will cause.-the country to rejoice that
It is again in power"