The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-09-25

credits law IVES an effort Of sinister eastern interests to
'ohlorofosm' the west into a feeling Of security while these
interests robbed and wrecked 1t.
In this particular phase Of the recent campaign, then.
we find q clearly defined effort to misstate facts, to misiead
the people, to yet up sectional antsgonisms by false state
ments, 10 arrest the return Of confidence, 10 continue the
period Of depression by fostering fear, and TO retard pros
perty for this region all in an effort to enlist votes for q
partisan purpose Of the distant future.
Mr.. Cuiberson would not have made his statement to the
Rotary club In advance Of the election. I. Is q non political
organization and does not permit partisan discussions.
Coming after the election IL was illuminating, as well as en-.
couraging 70 the fifty or more business men who heard IL.
Tell EN- anything TO catch their votes."
It's an old slogan Of a type Of politician that flourished
in the dark ages. In that time the people were not well In
formed. Their sources of information were scanty. They
had 70 take somebody's word for H. To trick them was
comparatively easy for q time.
Under present conditions, with newspapers in every
farm and ranch house. with the long distance telephone in
reach Of the people of every township e is mighty hard to
successfully put over a campaign Of misrepresentation or
succeed with a trick.
In the recent campaign o deliberate effort was made 10
convince farmers and livestock growers that the national
government they elected last November had failed them. It
was a well organized, shdllfuly conducted effort. II reach
ed all corners Of the state. 1t might have succeeded, in con-
nection with the difficult conditions with which we are stIl
struggling, but for the fact that the farmers and stociunen
knew the facts in advance. and knew that instead Of having
failed them, the Harding administration had come to their
rescue just in the nick of time, with adequate aid.
Pooling any considerable number Of the people any Of
the time is becoming increasingly difficult in New Mexico,
even for the skilled foolers and their industrious propagan.
dists who have been engaged in the job in the name Of the
democratic party.
There is some evidence TO show that this particular
attempt to tell the producers of this state that a friend was
an enemy, aroused a not unnatural resentment among people
who did not like to be mistaken for gullible rubes, and that
II resulted in increasing to some extent the great majority
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ministration.
The democratic party will wake up, sooner or later, TO
the fact that a new system has been at work in New Mexico
for some years past; that the republican party has been
using 1t and that IL consists Of telling the people the truth.
At the same time the rank and file Of the democratic party
will wake up to the fact that its official Leadership has been
using the methods of the political dark ages and leading them
to repeated defeats; not only dumping the democratic party
in the path Of successive disasters but at the same time
~hampering the welfare of New Mexico.