New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-09-16
PARTISANSHIP, MUD AND MONEY
VS..
THE PUBLIC WELFARE
(By Clyde Earl Ely
Ex Service Man OF World War

(By Clyde Earl Ely
EX Service Man OF World War
,, The Deming Headlight OF Septembe
, 9, contained an article directed agains
!, Senator Holm .. Bursum so crudel,
defamatory and abusive that it shoul,
and no doubt will have the effect 0
disgusting every fair minded man AM
woman with the cause of the candi
date who permits the use of such cam
paign publicity in his behalf. Thi
article was alleged to be an interview
with an unnamed republican. 1t bore
all the ear-marks of the matter emin,
ating from the Seligman publicity bu.
reau in Santa Fe. But for the fact
that it is typical of the defamatory
and abusive methods OF the Seligman-
Hanna campaigns of the past -four
state elections and which are being
used again in the present campaign, il
could be passed over as ridiculous
Being part of state wide propag-
anda of similar nature merits public
attention and the rebuke of an over
whelming vote against the man in
whose behalf such methods are en-
ployed.
Says the mysterious unnamed re-
publican; "Bursum never reads and
knows only what he sees and hears.
He is morally and mentally unfit to
sit in the senate of the limited States "
Think OF it, you men and women of
Luna county who know Senator Bur-
sum personally; who know his wide
knowledge of history and literature
and economics and the deep reading
| from which he has CLEANED it. Think of
his clean life record and of the mental
capacity and vigor that served to ele-
vate him from a switchboard boy in a
! Denver telephone office of early days
to a seat in the Senate of the United
States, and Judge how desperate must
be the situation of the opposition to
resort to such abuse in wild effort
to trap a few uniformed voters into
voting against him.
This unmentioned and unmention-
able alleged republican concludes his
creed with this statement:
THE crookedest horsetrader that
ever knew was SWede who was called
Honest Ernest Inc crookedest poll
iician IN New Mexico is Swede who
has palavered the people with his bunk
um about reform and devefopment tor
years-and during all those years he
mas never had ram TIT to show al
the state iair' or an acre OF land mat
gave evidence OF tnrlit, nor an aspira-
tion mat moved nm toward bette.
Even those but casually acquainted
with Senator Bursum's position in this
state, with the work he has done and
the progress he has fostered, and who
have only an outline of what he has
accomplished tor the farmers and
stockmen OF this state during his brief
service IN the senate WI understand
me rotteness OF this kind OF political
attack' fet II Is typical OF the materi-
al that is beng issued to democratic
newspapers all over the state and that
beng used by number OF them.
some oi them, be II SAID nave mad
the decency and good sense to refuse
TO print H.
Under the prodding of the democra-
tic national committee and no doubt,
with campaign funds furnished from
that source, the democratic state or
ganization under Arthur Seligman, has
begun bitter last hour effort to head
off the approaching landslide to Bur-
sum. The democratic national commit
tee is pouring speakers into the state.
Senator Jones has been sent out to sup
,Ah IL -
defeat Bursum but they hope to pre-
vent a repetition OF the landslide by
which this state went for Harding and
the whole Republican ticket last Now
ember.
To this end the well known Selig-
man-Hanna campaign methods. with |
mud and money as the tools have
been brought into play.
A full mage advertisement in Sum-
days Albuoueroue Journal printed
some of the Santa Fe New Mexican's
scurrilous broadsides. There was half
a mage of ouestions stating nv infer
ence that Bursum had ACCOMPLISHED
nothing in Washington. The charge
was made that he passed his vote on
the adiupsted compensation act for the
war veterans. Thi., Ike every o,b.r
reflection ON Bur.um'. record wa. .
deliberate f.lsebood. Bursum did not
p.s. hi. vot. ON IN. Adjusted eomn.n.
,ation act. He voted for IN. inter.
eat of tb. veteran. Of m. gr.., war
a promptlv and openIv and v;eorou.lv
!. he .tooJ and voted and ,vorL.d Co..
every measure that wa. for their b.n..
n.
The charge was made in This Journal
that Bursum is aligned
with the "reactionarvD proun in the
,enate. Lodge and Penrose being men
ioned: and that he was opposed TO
he agricultural proup." II would
,e no disgrace 70 be on friendIv re-
ations with and to enjoy the conf