The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-09-24
THE BUM SPORTS CLUB

A T the risk Of being prosecuted for violation Of the copyright law,
"A we are going to reprint below an editorial from this week. 5
= = Saturday Evening Post, entitled 1.-THE Bnm sports Club n
Ia being printed with full credit to the Saturday Evening Post, not
only credit in the sense Of the copyright, but also with credit for
having SAID something that needs to be said In the United States.
In rcprinting this editorial we hope that no one will take our use
of Il as in any way personal. We trust this may be understood espc
cialy by Governor Cox, the democratic candidate for president, who.
holds that a republican campaign fund is a crime and that a cam
paign fund for his election - a virtue. We trust also that it will not
Fe New Mexican, and Frank A. IIubbcr, or that Governor IarraSoio
and Mr., Magee of the Morning journal will find in it anything dis
turbing.
This is the editorial
The time is now ripe, ovcrripc in fact, for the formal organiza-
ton Of an adjunct to the political parties of this country, to be called
The Bum Sports Club, and TO include in its membership the large
number Of bum sports that inest our politics. The idea is not new,
but the work of organization and designation Of brethren who arc.
bad losers has been dcsultory, casual and somewhat local.
We nominate for membership all thoso eqoistic and cpoustic mil
iiicians who, when they find that their own ideas cannot prevail
threaten to bolt and wreck their party-if they c%an-becausc they
cannot have Just what they want; and in making this nomination we
specify the mouthers who bluff instead of bolt, and who despite their
continuous threats to bolt never get on their way.
We nominate for membership all those politicians who, having
lost the prize themselves, refuse to come forward and support the
winner, but sheer at his abilities and fitness for the place he seeks
and sulk under the mantle Of their own cgregious interpretation
We nominate for membership all those politicians who consider
any methods used TO win with justified IL they win themselves, but
instantly claim a foul if the same methods, used by their opponents,
win for those opponents.
We nominate for membership all those politicians who inject
personal matters into public campaigns
We nominate for membership all those politicians who consider
the use OF money by themselves and to promote their own candi
dacies as Legitimate and necessary expenditure for the advancement
of the cause and the establishment of their own consccrated claims
to preference and denounce the use of money by other candidates as
venal and corrupt debauchery of the SURFACES of the people.
We nominate for membership those politicians who, when beaten,
cry that the voters who selected their antagonists over themselves
were intimidated by their employers, by the interests and by the
fnancicrs.
their attempts to procure the support of the interests, try to gain
support for themselves by denouncing those whose favor they failed
to procure.
These are a few Of the types that should be included in the mem.
bership OF the organization. There are many Others. The fact Of il
that a good loser in politics is so rare in these days OF seltexelta.
ton and selfrighteousness that the roster Of The Bum Sports Club
will be very long and widely inclusive.