Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-13
PERNICIOUS PROPAGANDA.

1t has been the post-election policy of the Jour
nal to keep silent in the interest of goodfeeling
We did not chide neighbOr about the singing
rebuke" in Bernalo county as'it did the journal
a short time before with less cause. Such unknd
things as have been said about us, because of iri-
tation we have ignored. We had no animosities
toward others and wished all bad feeling to die
In the face of a continued studied propaganda
directed at the Journal however, it is just for US
TO speak out plainly in self-defense
An evening paper has been reproducing almost
daily editorials reprinted from little republican
weekes and dailies, throughout the state These
editorials have uniformly condemned the Journal in
an attempt to create the impression that the spon-
taneous sentiment of the state is of criticism of
the Journal.
These editorials practically all, if not all,
the work of His salary is being paid,
one-half by w. A. Hawkins attorney for the
Phelps Dodge company and one-half by John M.
Sully, general manager of the Chino Copper COM
- pany Where they get the money and why, the pub
lie may infer.
This man for many months in the employ
of the Journal When the present management took
over the paper his salary was being paid as above
indicated His chief duty had been to see that
nothing Objectionable to the mining interests of the
state got into the Journal and to send out news and
editorial material to small weeklies and dalies
which would suit the purposes of his employers.
Under the present management of this paper
his employment was continued An offer was made
to continue the payment of his salary from the
same source. This did not accept because Of
the obligations it implied.
During the fight for better conditions which the
Journal made prior to the republican convention
this man daily struggled with us to hold us back.
He fought CALAMITY but without avail for his clan
destine employers. When the friction became dis
concerning we discharged him,
His services then offered, without cost, to
the state republican publicity bureau where he
worked continuously during the campaign in send
ing out propaganda to the country papers Most of
the editorials in the republican papers of the state,
attacking us were written by this who
and is now, in the employ of these interests.
In the face of all this silent We did
not to what knew through private
business relations unless the attack the Journal
continued. That time seems to have arrived
Since the election this has been employed
in writing and sending out to these papers, propa-
ganda intended to annoy the Journal. These in
terests intend to attempt to make US uncomfort-
able by post election bush whackng in a systematic
way. We can not permit such submarine methods.
II these gentlemen wish to indulge in further
personal assaults in retaliation for effort to
them pay their just proportion of the taxes,
they will be forced to do it in the open. We have
in our possession volumes of material which will
interest the public but which we have preferred not
to use because Of the quasi confidential manner
in which received it. We will give these
tlemen chance to change their tactics But
positively will tolerate further systematic sin
lister efforts to annoy without striking back hard
All the charges of the Journal being erratic, sell
fish, radical and business destroyer" have EN-"
anated from this Its authors believed that
by the law of suggestion it would be accepted as
true by the public if asserted often enough.
We stood for' this during the campaign, be-
heving it only propaganda to win the election. But
the election is Its continuance now shows
malice.
If Mr.. j. M Hawkins, brother of w. A. Haw
kins, and paid employe of his brother and Mr..
Suly, is to continue his press bureau activities
in New Mexico behalf of the mining interests he
must point his gun other way, than at the
Journal startling developments will follow
A word TO the wise should be sufficient
We sorry to be compelled to say this, but
"self preservation is the first law of nature"