Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-11-01
DEMOCRATS ARE
GROP| INC; CAN 7
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Hill Says Opponents Shot
Their Ammunition Dump
Away in Opening Days OF
Campaign.

The Hill smile was even wider
than usual when the republican
candidate for governor stepped OIL
train here yesterday afternoon
"No," said Mr.. Hill in reply to
a question, "this smile isn't all be-
cause we have the democrats on
the run; only part of 1t is politi-
cal. The rest of it because | am
on nv way home where my cam
paign managers are going to allow
me to remain for three days after
having had me continuously or
tha road for more than a month
and il is the thought of those three
days that are in store for me more
than the thought of our victory
over the democrats that is making
me happy" .o.
When Mr.. Hill had his attention
called to the report of the speech
delivered here by his opponent
Mr.. Hinkle, Monday night he said:
1.-THE trouble with the demo
cratic campaign is that they start
ed it too soon and that weeks age
they ran out of ammunition. lr
the beginning they made all the
charges that they had to make
and the result has been that 1t has
, hardly been necessary for us tc
make any real denials. The people
themselves have had plenty OF
time to look into the charges and
from what l have seen in the past
month, l think that I am In a posi-
ton to state that the charges are
not believed.
Nobody in the state takes seri'
ously the charges that have beer
made against me to the effect thai
I live in Texas and that l will be
ruled by The bosses Mr.. Hinklt
has amused himself day after day
by repeating these harmless ac
cusations, and if they have cost me
a vote IA any precinct in the state
I haven't discovered it. The peo
pie simply know that these charges
are not true and Mr.. Hinkle ha'
only gone about the state wastint
his breath in repeating them.
Hinkle Can't Cut.
"The same thing is true In re
gard to the charges which Mr.
Hinkle made here last night in re
gard to the waste and eXtrava
gance in the state administration.
The people know that what Mr.
Hinkle says about school and roat
expenditures Is not an accurate
statement. They know that theil
school and road levies are made
by their own county boards ant
they have not been misled one bi
by Mr.. Hinkle's statement that, al
governor. he can intervene ant
materially reduce taxes.
81 have found that the voters o
the state are much better informed
as to the tax situation than Mr.
Hinkle gives them credit for. The!
are not nearly as susceptible o
being fooled as he thought the!
were when he started his cam
paign, and consequently when h
began to tell the public what h
was going to do when he becam
governor the public generally be
gan to ask itself the question
How in the world is he going t
do it?' And the public is Still
wondering, because neither Mr.
Hinkle nor his campaign mana
gers have given a satisfactory re
ply.
"The statement issued a fev
days ago by the democratic centra
committee in Santa Fe, which pur
ports to be reply, is one OF t
most interesting political mistake
that l have ever known anyone T.
make. The committee, in thi
statement, places at the disposal o
a democratic governor three agen
cies which they say he can use t
reduce taxes, and they forget en-
tirely that the most emphaticall
worded plank il their platform /
the plank condemning one of thes
agencies. l pointed this incon
sistency out last night in a speecI
in Gallup but 1t is worth while re
peating it again because it reveal
so plainly the weakness of the en-
tire democratic contention"
Mr.. Hill left here last night 10
his home at Hill in Dona An
county, where he will remain un
til Saturday, when he will retur
to Albuquerque to take part in
meeting in conjunction wit
stephen B. Davis and Mrs. Oterc
Warren.