The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-19
MITCHELL's COUNTY.

GallegOs are going to quit assOoiat-
ing with us benighted taxpayers inn
what will be left of Union county.
They don't like us, so they are haV-
ing created a little bailiwick of their
own and leaving us to our fate. The
line of demarkation between us
c0mmoners and the new grand
duchy is being so fixed as not to
leave one inch of their many state
land acres in Union county Mr..
Mitchell brazenly acknowledges that
the lines have been drawn with that
object in view; and when reminded
that these lines when so drawn to
selfishly satisfy his and his friends
convenience, play the merry devil
with the lands of other people.
merely shrugs a shrug and sneers a
sneer that implies the famous
/ Tweed classic
I one is led to the conclusion chat
/ Mr.. Mitchell CONSTITUTES his election
as senator by The people of this
county as license 90 fix things for
/ the sole convenience of himself and
Mr. Gallegos It hasn't done any
good to remind him that there are
a goodly number of hundreds of f.
citizens of this county who will be
greatly inconyenienced by the sell /.
fish arrangement that makes things
nice for him and Eulracio.
Take the people i'm the DE Haven
country, the Miera country, the
Bueycros country the Holland coun- /
try-hardly "A one of them is will !
ing to go into the Milchell-Ciallcgos /
county; not a one Of them wants
his land cut up by a county line
certainly none of them want TO traV-
cl many miles of awlully bad road
To- am inconvenicntly located county
seat. Practically all of them haVeI
signed protests against the personal
two-man county proposition; butt
according to the Mitchcll-Gallegos
code they can go TO hcll-or Mos
queroaiong with, the two gentle
mon Who have SCI heir kearts EN-
.du1tung us easy MARKS IN ihis neck
Of the woods.
Another thing Mitchell doesn't
care about: IL takes money to start
new counties. The salaries of two
SETS Of officials must be paid in
stead of the salaries of one set. Il
takes money lo build courihuuscs
and put in records and God knows
the people .taXpaying people of
this state are paying enough taxes.
But men who have had passed spec
iaI legislation That only causes them
to pay ON a five per cent valuation
= have no worry on the taXpayng
score. Nou and / do the paying
) they get the grapes i'm other words.
"a specially constructed county that
.suits their convenience and doesn't.
cost them a cent And all the time
they are supposed TO be represent
ling US. But Us. WE, YOU and 4
are evidently prOnouns foreign to
thcir vocabulary.
There is another thing connected
with this program that needs a
little air. Ed. Mitchell is a former
democrat, and il is a well known fact
that when man turns traitor toI
his people animus begins to gcner-
ate in his restricted hide He seems
to consider that ne must make good
with his newly found masters, and
i'm his zeal his former political as
sociates become bcnighled ignorant
.uo-account unworthy excuses for.
humans, fiji only 10 pay the bills
for his elect, to whom hc elected
himself.
He makes mo- bones OF the fact
that he doesn't want such men as
Don Francisco Micra. John Knox
land numerous others in his county.
. Why? Because they are democrats.
and in his category fii only to do
the will of he. and his kind. The
real reason is that they are men and
Americans who will not lend them
selves TO dirty political cXpcdienl
They are men who believe il is
right To tax everybody ON the same
basis and To guarantee to all equal
right and privilege before the law
He doesn't want them I'M his county
5 because they would be 0ld-fashi0n-
ed enough lo vote inlellgently and
Z democratic, and such a course might
result i'm relcgaling this new Viii
helm to the scrup-heap. lie leaves
{ their residence and vote i'm Union
3 county but takes almost an their
: taxable property iplo the new
{ scheme. He wants their money i'm
taxes but not their votes in elcc-
{ tions.
1t is the rawest deal ON record.
r. L. Bennett of Pennington was
caller at The News office on Thurs
. day and advanced the date of his