The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-05-15

permits t. n to do. Therefore, we face the possibility
of a commission consisting of FIVE members belonging to
one element of all the people. l am not saying that think
ing union men and women sanction the scheme of con-
trolling the city in all its entirety. But we can only read
the handwriting on the wall and expect such things to
happen.
Inotice that the labor agitators are making a big fight
on Walter Cornell and Captain Jim Gladding, the city
manager. Well, it SO happens that l know Walter Con-
nell very well. He is a big success as a business man and
he has built that success with his own hands and his own
brain. Hei is known throughout New Mexico and Arizona
as the cleanest, squarest, fairest, wool producer and sheep
buyer that is in the business. He has devoted a vast
amount of time to Albuquerque business interests while
he has been chairman of the commission. He has brought
knowledge and experience to the job and a desire to give
Albuquerque the very best government it ever had. And
Jimmy Gladding! Those bunk artists are trying to pull
him into the scrap and are trying to make him say things
he never said. Listen mother was at Chateau Thiery
when the big whiz bangs were knocking our boys west
every two seconds. Jimmy Gladding was right there on
the job HI was a captain and on the staff of the third
division. He was a fighting man." He left his wife and
family to give to the little old u. S. A. the technical
knowledge that he had gained after years of study and
experience as a civil engineer. They worked him as an
engineer and then when things began to go to smash and
a bunch of captains in our outfit were killed, they showed
Gladding along up our way and he was in the game strong
at Bots de Fay in the Argonne. He was a man there and
he Is a man now. Ii the ex-service men doEt stand by
Jim Gladding in this fight they are poor sticks and that is
all can say for them.
And about the other men on the commission, whom
they are trying to recall-Jack Reynolds and MIR. Nc
Laughlin. 1t would be a 10. , only it's SO serious. Why
mother, it would be practically impossible for you to get
two men who would serve as commissioners more faith
fully and more inteligently than Reynolds and McLaugh-
lin. Both of them residents of New Mexico for twenty
years and more; both experts in their line-Mr. Reynolds
a banker and hnancier; Mr.. Mclaughlin a mining man
with wide experience in engineering work. Il will surely
be a calamity to Albuquerque if Connell, Reynolds and
Mclaughlin are recalled.
1t will be up to the women. They have the balance of
power now. They have the ballot they prayed for and
fought for. | am going to see how they exercise the right
of franchise. Ibelieve they will vote right. And by that
mean against the recall and against the charter amend
ment. | feel that they are satisfied with the present ade-
quate, efficient city government and that they will not
gamble on what the future may bring under an admins
tration dictated to, in all probability, by the Hon. William
Ball, Hon. w. S. Patterson, Hon. Whipple, Hon. Hatton,
and a few other labor agitators and walking delegates in
Albuquerque who are doing their very best-or very
worst to hoist fractional strife on the town that we all
love and call home, and this, when it is absolutely I'M
called for As ever, your son,