Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-03-31
PROMOTERS AND RETARDERs.

The journal is dumbfounded by the methods
being used by the campaign managers of the TIL
umvirate to procure the election of these men
Have they wholly forgotten that there is hereafter
and that when this campaign is over we must all
pull together in community building?
Those who have followed the course OF local
affairs in the six months know that the Journal
has sixteen inch guns which have not been fired IN
this battle. We wish not to be forced to fire them.
We will not unless the methods used by the oppo-
sition compel US to do so.
Cleanness in political campaigns has not been
featured very conspicuousy in New Mexico in the
past. 1t is time for change. The people should
resent the methods being used,
Personal attacks the private character or
business standing Of the Triumvrate have been
avoided by US. These men our neighbors. We
do not wish to destroy them merely because we re-
gard them as unsuited TO our needs as public SER
wants In the next contest there will be align
ments. Men, now disagreeing, viii be in accord
then. Conditions should not be created which will
make cooperation impossible We all want to build
Albuquerque. Things should be avoided which Will
make community teamwork impossible.
The most dastardly thing dono in the campaign
Is the assault being made on the private business
character OF Sidney M. We'll We wish TO credit
our contemporary with It's refusal TO carry this
propaganda, except in paid advertisements which
it does not control.
effort is being made to wreck him. not merely as
candidate for office, but business man and city
builder. The charge is being circulated that he Is
to receive commission for his work in raising
money for the hotel This is utterly and COM
pletely false and is known to be untrue by those
who started the story. An effort is made to create
prejudice because of his nationality. Yet to his
inherited traits the city is indebted for much Of
the marvellous work he is able to do.
The people are asked to vote against him on
the ground that he is promoter" He is hat,
just as his antagonists "rearders" 1t is tenn
peramental in both cases.
Joshua Reynolds promoter" when he
organized the First National Bank more than forty
years ago. The men who brought the Santa Fe
Railroad here and added the shops to the accom-
plishment, were promoters. Col Breeze, in build
ing box factories furniture factories and sash and
door factories is a promoter. The people who built
the street car line and organized the paving COM
pany were promoters. Louis McRae was a pro-
moter when he urged the building Of school houses
There would be no city here except for its early
promoters who built water works, electric light
plants, gas plants and other improvements. What
Albuquerque has needed during the past fifteen
years is promoters. The step forward she is taking
now is due to the work Of promoters.
Sidney Well conceived the idea Of the COM
muniy hotel. He foresaw the gtimulus it would
be to the city. Every Of TIE Triumvirate said
that the money could not be raised. Never has the
Journal seen a man withstand the strain and per-
sist as Sidney We'll did to complete the hotel drive.
He succeeded. He dreamed but he made his dream
come true.
Now the Triumvirate says that the business
stimulus would have come anyway; that the hotel
had nothing to do with it.
Both newspapers told you that the atmosphere
OF failure which would follow unsuccessful hotel
drive would ruin the prospects for 1922. Both told
you that the atmosphere of success which would
follow the completion of the drive. would make the
Sidney Well is more responsible for returning
prosperity than any man in the city, His will to
win overpowered the short-sighted doubts Of the
Triumvrate Under their leadership there would
be no hotel and no stimulus.
The procuring of the s350,000 of hotel subscrp-
lions and the collection of third of the money
has cost about per cent We'll handled this. 1t
is the cheapest Job done for city. Yet they
accuse him Of extravaganza.
The city Sidney We'll very much. 1t does
not owe him election the city commission
But 1t does owe it to itself to elect him the COM
mission. His acute mind; his indomitabe courage
his persistent energy and his great vision. will make
him the greatest official asset the city has ever
had. He has too much sense to move faster than
he can carry public sentiment with him. Besides
he has four other commissioners to convince.
Voters should not allow themselves to be fooled
about the value of Sidney We'll 10 the city.
The Journal dwells upon Mr. We'll this morning
because the bitter fight ia centered him. Wal