The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-08-30
PERSONAL AMBITION VS.. PRINCIPLE.

vTvHE platform adopted by the republican county convention does
not satisfy Mr.. Magcc. We feared as much. Mr.. Magee did
not write it. This alone would condemn it in the eyes of our
infringe upon his personal monopoly of all that is fair, progressive
and honest in politics and government, which it does to a considerable
extent. .
There are other reasons why the county convention platform
does not meet the approval Of Mr.. Magee. One of these reasons is
is not a windy generality. 1t says something in words that can be
understood at the first reading and that mean the same thing today,
This county platform is not at all the kind of platform MI. Magee
a large number of citizens of the county stand and i seeks certain
definite accomplishments in state and local government which they
very much desire. 1t is the declaration Of a political party seeking
to get somewhere in progress for county and state and is IN no way
a ''s Mr. mssee m ss%s 10 e Se ssr Mes 2 i q r yesnSiS f %itS PG q psrson n%T political
objective in view. That objective was to induce this state to send
elected two years hence. 1t was MI. Magees general idea to assume
the leadership of the republican party in the present political cam
10 go to the United States senate is not IN unworthy one by any
privilege Of any citizen to aspire and strive.
MI. Magee chose as his political associates Governor Larrazolo
wisdom of his choice. the farts concerning it are abundanty set
forth in the editorial and news columns OF the Morning journal
alliance in the task Of battering his way to a dominating position in
i ins ' snS Mri h Ra5Ssi S ~s. f hsIainSl1 fo %' a f rsnssasen n%r : as a . Soss.
They at least offered reinfOrcements of a sort in an attack.
which he thought would embarrass a number of influential republi.
cans who might not fall in readily with his personal enterprises.
make Il impossible for men who stand for definite things in govern.
ment and who fight for them in the open, either to approve or
The ,cheme was not without cunning. Its weak points, of course,
were the men Magee chose to help him carry out his enterprise,
and the fact that. despite his desperate effort to convince the eii.
zenship Of our state that it is morally inert and intellectually ossi.
fled. the people were able to'make their own estimates. to judge as
between personal ambition and principle, and to reach their own
conclusions.
The failure of the ee-Hub -Larrszoo enterprise in Ber-
nalllo county, and the blistering rebuke accompanying it, sent Mr..
Magee scurrying to Las Vegas to the democratic state convention,
where, according to the newspaper reports, he received a flood OF
none too subtle flattery that tended to soothe his irritation. The
result has been an unveiled threat to New Mexico republicans that
unless he is accepted as its leader and mentor, he will be forced to
switch.
II might not be a bad thing for Mr. Msgee to do, looking at
the situation from the angle of personal ambition. His attempt to
dominate the republican party has ended in grief, not to say catas
trophs, along with the fall Of the hopes of Larrazolo and Hubben.
The democratic party lacks a daily newspaper in this part of the
state, and Il is not ungrateful. Mr.. Hanna, when he left the re-
publican party was not denied 3 cordial welcome and was promptly