The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1922-02-20
FAITH WITHOUT WORKS

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be told the republican state committee last
" week that the people would respond 10
facts concerning the administrator 81 stat
business. including taxation. and that facts
would overcome the creation of political re-
formers with high. power imaginations. When
facts and insiuccrc r~rIorncrS meet in public
the facts always win both the applause aud tn
confidence, and the votes.
The governor was also right when he said
that the republican party had not gone on the
rocks Il has not gone ON the rocks|yrt, and
IL need not go If thos responsible for It's des
tiny win see thaf. the fact, of republican adj
minisiration and discharge Of duty are plnccd
before the people fully, ~frankly.-and in time
As TO the governors statement that the re-
publican party in this state ''s.ill possesses -
fighting spirit - that remains 10 be demon
stratcd. The said spirit rs not ia evidence right
now. Perhaps il 1T only resting. Perhaps 1t IS
asl,.p. PERHAPS it can come back in all its old
time vigor. Perhaps those who are, or should
be, responsible for awakening and organizing
it for duty at the front. figure that ~ they
need to do is to ring an alarm bell at the last
minute. as has been done NJ timv' m the past.
and that the forces of conservatism and con
s~truction will rally and sweep the ballots into
line with waves of enthusiasm and Hip, Hip,
IIoorays. The republican party has tried this
kind VI organization work aud campaign effort
before in this state and by so doing II has Sid,
as on gr-lsed skiis. to- disaster. There are
enough republican votes and enough people I'm
this state who believe in republican party prin-
ciples and sound. conservative administrative
methods TO carry the state IN amy election.
whoa those voters are aroused by and 10 or
ganizod effort.
The prospect just now for any such vigor-
ously organized aud ,ouragcously lcd campaign
in 1922 is gloomy. The republican state com
mittce is without a chairman. Several able gen
tlemcn have been rendered the Job. For var
ious reasons they have declined No one wants
the Job. II is not an easy job. 1t is an excep-
tionally arduous job in this particular oif-ycar
election. Why this Indifference TO a high polit-
zeal h0nor9 What is th, matter with the re-
publican state chairmnnship2 j. there a pnN
on iti
A very able man was proposed for state
chairman during the recent Santa Fe meeting.
Some one objected TO him because his selection
would cause 80 ~factioSal strife.
II there is going 10 he any faction strife
in republican ranks this year we cannot blame
any man of Craftsmanship size from du"king the
Job, because his time under those conditions
would be thrown away. Also II may be SAID
that any republican office holder who harbors
himself. or helps his friends and associates and
adherents 70 harbor or foment ''factional
strife" would do well to be on the lookout foI
a Job in private life. This happens Ia b. the
one year in which the republicans Of New Mex
leo who wish New Mexico 10 remain republican
cannot afford TO have any fractional strife. \
very little Of il will finish a job of wrecking
that is al too well begun.
There are plenty Of leaders and plenty Of
voters in New Mexico whose republican party
faith is beyond question. But this is a year
when faith alone will get precisely nowhere.
Faith without works is never much of a result
g%ctter. Tins year, IN republican party polite.
in New Mexico, faith without works means
failure.
These random remarks on the present status
Of republican party affairs may strike no one
in particular. They may strike a number OF
persons hard enough to wax. them M. The,
may merely irriiate ome Of the sleepers. fot
never can tell.