Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-10-23
DAVIS FAVORS
COMP PENsAT|ON
FOR VETERANS
Republican Candidate De-
Clares His Position Has
Been Misrepresented by
Opponents

Judge stephen B. Davis, Jr,, re-
publican candidate for United
States senator, who came to Albu
querque Sunday for a days rest
after a month of arduous cam
paigning, abandoned his attitudN
of impersonal discussion of nation
al policies and issues and in
statement to the journal last night
gave the lie direct to those, whom
he charges have deliberately mis-
represented his attitude toward
ex-service men and adjusted COM
pensation legislation.
II am not unaware or the eA-
tent to which the campaign mis-
representation is sometimes car
ried," Judge Davis said, "and was
not unprepared for certain meas
ure of it. But l have been frankN
amazed to find on my return from
a tourney through San Juan ana
Rio Arriba counties, that not only
| NV position toward adjusted com
pensation for the soldiers OF the
world war, but also my personal
business relations, have been not
only misrepresented but also, II
! would appear, deliberately lied
about by some of those opposing
my election.
HcaIy Charge Untrue.
"I find that on October 13 the
Las Vegas optic published an edi-
torial attacking man named Hea-
lv because of a letter he isNal-
! legged to have sent to all eX-sevice
men In the state at the request Of
the democratic campaign commit
tee, and in which he charges that
1 am opposed to adjusted compen-
sation legislation.
"The charge is untrue. My party
platform, adopted here in Albu-
i oueruue in September, specifically
pledges the republican candidates
Including myself, to the enactment
of an adjusted compensation meas
ure which will do justice TO those
who so nobly served their country
in time of peril l cheerfully ac-
cepted that pledge and gladly pro,
: pose to do all in my power to ala
in its fulfillment.
!. 'This editorial in the Las Vegas
Optic has been made the basis TOT
the direct charge by the santa re
New Mexican and other newspa-
ners and individuals supporting
nv opponent, that | am opposed
not only to the passage Of an ad-
,, iusted compensation law, but als'
TO the veterans of the world war
A more outrageous falsehood coulo
hardly have been conceived
"These supporters of my oppon-
ent, however, have gone 1urthel
and in order to support their firs'
falsehood have uttered another II
+, their charge that l own the Las
Vegas Optic and that l INSPIRED
and approved the editorial re,
ferred 10. These statements, o.
; course, are false and must nave
;, been made with full knowledge o.
: their falsehood Together VIII
MANY other Las Vegas business
, men. purchased a small stocf
interest in the Las Vegas Optic, 7,
, be exact, ten shares out of tota
! of $50 shares of the publlshlne
: companys stock that was sol1
For a time / acted as a mempe
a of the company board OF dlrec
tors. That connection ceased som'
time ago. / have never had an'
do not now have any control o.
: active connection with the editor:a
s or business management Of tina
!, newspaper. / did not know of tn
editorial in the Optic until NOR
d than a week after its puphcation.
: II am now informed that tnes'
published statements are pelnt
!, passed from hand to hand and uset
: by democratic campaign workers
I for the purpose of leading ex-ser
: vice men to vote not only aBalns
q me but in support of the wnol'
e democrats ticket and against sucf
q men as my associate and compan
= ion in this campaign, l1ildario Del
gado. who went down before TN
! German guns in the service o
>, his country.
supports Party's Pledge
"I have not posed as the specla
> representative and self-electe'
; champion of the ex-service men o
: anv other group or class, for Vot'
9 getting purposes. l nave peiieee' e,
and still believe that my party
straightforward pledge OF suppor
for a Just compensation measure
and nv own well-known approVa
: of that pledge, would be sufficien
: TO make my position plain an
proof against misrepresentation "
]. NV opponents. l find that ! nav
i underestimate their capacity 10
y instrumentation which has car
Y ried them in their pursuit OF votes
e tn the point of bald untruth. =.
"I am not pledged to the late au
e iusted compensation measure u
Il which my opponent has given nj
h campaign platform support. ina
u hill died with the sustaining or Tn
presidents veto.
IS II am not pledged to any parti
II cular compensation measure or U
support every compensation meas
ure which may be introduced int
4 congress. I am pledged t. supper
IS and work for such compensatio
e measure as my party's platform
: describes, which will do justic
! to those who served their country
II in the world war. am convinced
Y. is the kind of compensation meas
J. ure, and the only kind, which tn
Is overwhelming majority of ex-sol
II diers want, and that will do m
: utmost to aid in securing for then
is stand squarely upon my party
y pledge in this matter with flu
I. knowledge that my efforts to carr
; out that pledge will be consisten
with my every other obligation a
a senator.
s, Ex-Soldicrs' Best Interests
II 81 do not believe that ex-servic
'. men who think as do with regar
: to national policies in general, ca
be tricked by misrepresentation
: and falsehood into voting agains
= me and against their own inter
d ests, which are in the continue
administration of our governmer
and care for their interests by tn
republican party.
81 condemn as unworthy and di:
y honest the efforts that have bee
made by some Of those opposin
mo IN fnisrepresnnt NV position an