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'WE; GET THE NEWS FIRST"
VOLUME 21.
ALBUQUERQUE. NEW MEXICO. SATURDAY EVENING. AUGUST 10. 1907.
NUMBER 188.
SECRETARY'S SPE
KEYNOTE OE HIS
POLICY
Declares in Address at San
ta Fc That All Men
Will Be Treated
Fairly.
SAYS
NEW MEXICO
PEOPLE ARE HONEST
He Is Getting Into Close Touch
With Territory and is Well
Pleased With His Trip
Over the
Country.
Santa Fe, N. M., .August 10.
(KMt'ml.) 'Following la the speech
made by the Honorable Secretary of
the Interior Mr. Garfield before a
large audience of representative peo
iple In the hall of the house of rep
resentatives at 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon:
Mr. Gurlicld's Siieecli.
"Ladies and Gentlemen: It Is In
deed with a great deal of pleasure
that I have been enabled to come
here and have an opportunity of
meeting the people of New Mexico,
and of discussing with them those
matters that are of intense and keen
interest to them, affecting, as they
do, their lives and their property.
"As the mayor has well said, the
people of New Mexico are of no dif
ferent type, moulded in no different
mould, than the people of any other
Iportion of the country. And I am
glad to say in the very beginning
i ha. i what I have said, not only here,
but In the east, when men have talk
eri to me about the west, that so
many people there do- not understand
t he west" at all. I do not pretend to
understand It thoroughly, but I have
been here for many years. I Btarted
coming west, and came through your
territory, nearly twenty years ago,
and I have kept in touch with many
i of the men who are doing things
here, and I know what your mayor
.has said regarding the honesty and
integrity of your people is true; and
I want to say to you right now (ap
plause) that this administration nev
er has and it has not now, and It
does not Intend in the future to have
any presumption of guilt against any
citizen ot New Mexico. They stand
In exactly the same position as the
citizen of any other state or territory,
and it questions arise which Involve
an Intrepretation of law, an inter
pretation of acts, why of course the
national administration will interpret
those laws and wul ask the interpre
tation of those laws and interpret
those acts in the light of the facts
as presented to them.
Jinn in Another State.
"It sometimes amuses me to hear
the discussion regarding other sej
tinns of a community. It is always
the case of the man in the next coun
ty, or the man la "he next state as
the one that has done wrong; it is
never the man at home. And o it is
if the peiple in the community, if
they hear criticisms of their own fel
low citizens. Sometimes people that
are not of the world look upon that
community as having done wrone.
Well, that is not true, we know. We
know why they naturally differ with
the people of this great eomman
wealoh; that while wrongs have oc
curred, it Is true, yet the man who
has done wrong is always in the mi
nority. The man who has done 111,
whether it be in person or corporate
act, is always in a tremendous mi
nority In any American common
wealth and that Is what we are
here, an American commonwealth
and not a commonwealth of foreign
ers. (Applause ) t
GimrunKvs I'atrnrm.
I do not l-n'V to say much on
this subject, mil the ina.vor has sug
gested it, and so-1 want to lell you
exactly what this administration f.em
and what It Intends to do In regard
to those particular matters. 3t is
true that complaint have been made,
charges have 'been preferred. Inves
tigations have been mad find are in
progress. Hut every instance, any
man who is charged with any act
will be given th s fairest kind of hear,
ing; will be given every opportunity
to explain .iv act with whlcn he
may be entire 1. or any coiplaint
that has been made against him, and
no final action would be taken
against any citizens of New Mexi-:o,
et up as against any citizen of any
state, until that klna o' fair, square
treatment has been giv?u him that
you are entitled to expect from this
national administration. (Applause.)
Kigliu-d Ity ll'Miie J'cople.
"Of course. If in any instance
things have gone wrong, as your
mayor has said, those things will be
righted by you people here, not by
anybody from the outside. They will
lie righted because you people here
believe in having things run on a
right basis, and of having things
done In a lawful, proper fa-shlon.
Now I think that Is enough to say
Mwut any disagreeable subject, Mr.
Mayor. (Applause and laughter.) It
is true that the department of the
interior has a great deal to do with
the people of the territory, and yet
i am inclined to believe, from cer
tain evidences, both In the speech of
your honorable mayor and In the re
marks made by a number of your
eminent citizens, that yuu are ail
anxious to creep out from under the
a in t r 1 of the department of the in
terior. (Laughter and applause.)
Now, whether you are In a position
where you do not have to creep, or
can stand upon your own two legs
and walk alone, is something that the
future wi'l determine. but Judging
from the i harm ter of the people that
I have seen here, and the industries
that they have developed during the
i-r feu years, I do no believe it is
going to be long before yo" can walk
l (0
V
upon your feet. (Prolonged cheers
and applause.)
(Jetting Into Touch.
"I have been going about through
the great west for the last two
months or more for the purpose of
etUng in close touch with these
test lono that are interesting par
ularlv to the people of the wet.
yet, as I have said in other
?s, the west is not a definite lo
y You people here pride your
as we people In Ohio do, tiiat
ip a pretty large proportion of
'h'8 sunrface and yet youknow
.est is a thing that has been
lleeing from year to year from one
point to another. It was only . Ilfty
years ago that Ohio was went, and
that you people out here had to bo
hunted for with a telescope we
couldn't find you In any other way.
Now the west is constantly moving,
and it Is not the west, the section
of the country, but the spirit of the
west, Is what we deal with. It was
the spirit of the west that first open
ed the land beyond the Allegi.enys.
It was the spirit of the west that left
Ohio and Indiana and Illinois' and
crossed the Mississippi. It was the
spirit of the west that loft this great
west here across the Kooky moun
tains and developed the coast. It
was the spirit of the west that car
ried our commerce across the Pacific
and finally took possession of those
Islands out in the ocean, those Is
lands in the far south, and carried
that spirit of the west over to a peo
ple who until that time had had
their eyes closed to the most funda
mental ideas of liberty as we under
stand it. (Applause.)
Spirit of Citizenship.
"It Is this spirit that we want to
foster and engender, not only in our
own lives 'but to hand down to our
children. It is the spirit of the right
kind of freedom; it is not the spirit
of license; it is not the spirit or law
lessness: it is not the spirit simply of
land grabbing, but it is the spirit of
free American cltizenshp, that wshes
to expand and extend, carrying out
its own ideas in its broadest and best
way to the population .of these ter
ritories, of these lands, and fill them
not with a people who are lawless,
but with a people who are home-
loving, a people who believe in build
ing up the American home ana man
ln that here, as it has been through
out other sections of the country, the
corner-stone, the key-stone, the en
tire arch of American citizenship
(Applause.) And when I see such
an audience as Is here today, with so
many of the ladies of this city pres
ent. I am confident that this is the'
type of citizenship that Is being
taught here. We men sometimes call
ourselves the lords of the universe;
we only do that when we are In nura
bers and together, we never dare to
do It when we are al"ie with our
wives (applause); but know very
well that we are not the lords of the
universe. We know that it is the wo
men of any community that makes
that community a place worth living
in.
Comiillnients Ijulle.
"Tqai have a .community where
there are women, right minded wo
men, who are believing in the de
velopment o-f tholr own community.
women who understand what it
means to hand down true, ideals of
humanity and morality to tne next
generation, women who foster the
highest and best thoughts in the
home life of our country why, they
are the rulers of this country and
they are the ones who build up this
ureat land of ours. (Applause.)
There is not a man of us ho has
ever tried to do anything, who has
ever made any success oi ary kind,
but that when he turns the pages tf
his own life, the history of his owx
life, but finds that It la the lnilue.ue
ot sooiie trood woman that ha
brought out in him the best that la
in him, and the inlluence or some
good woman who has saved him Horn
trouble, who has lifted him up and
given him the higher ideais oi me
lAipplause.)
JlopurtiiH'iu's Plans,
".Now, as to the things that the
interior department is trying to do,
One of the principal things, one ot
the principal subjects that 1 am
studying In this trip, Is that of Irrl
gallon and reclamation. 1 am going
tomorrow down the splendid valley
that runs up and down this territory'.
lor the purpose of studying more
carefully the basis of development,
agricultural development, In that val
ley. We have already made a start
in the southeastern portion of the ter.
ntory. and 1 am. very sorry that I
cannot accept the invitation of the
men down there to come and see
what has already been accomplished
There are some JO.OUU acres of splen
didly fertile land that will be sub
jected to irrigation, and as the years
roll by, as we are able to expend
mora money to develop yours, we
W make hundreds of thousands of
new un-rea of land otpen to settlers
who will make new Improvements in
this splendid territory. (Applause.)
lteuulrcs Work.
"It merely requires painstaking
work, and I know you people have
all courage and all ability to work,
it means that as the water is put on
that land you must not simply let
it lie there, or think that things are
going to grow becauso water Is put
on; it means that the farming class,
the agriculturalist, the man who U
going to make the most of the irri
gated country and the irrigated dis
trict, is going to use his hands. Ir
rigation is not a simple matter. It
means long hours of work; careful
study to know how best to irrigate
the individual suction. The federal
government has started into this
splendid scheme, to spend millions
upon millions to develop these arid
and semi-arid portions of the great
west. All through these territories
we are building great works, and In
the course of the next two or three
years we will have millions of acres,
perhaps more, open to settlement.
All that will be done as rapidly aj
we have money to spend; and year
by year, as that money Is turned
back again Into the treasury of the
I'nltexl States, it will be rolled over
again. New projects will be built,
and ultimately we will be able to re
claim almost every acre of what la
now considered non-tillable land.
Indian Problem.
"You have aiso in your community
here one of the problems with whicli
the Interior department has to deal,
namely, that of Indians I have tak
en great pleasure today In going out
and looking over the Indian school
here, and I am pleased to find It well
managed. In the hands of a man who
understands what is best for the In
dian wards of the nation, a man who
Is doing his level best, with his wife,
and with those teachers about him,
to give to those children the oppor
tunities that you and 1, as Amercan
;
if :
- . - , . , . .... i i i Hi r-- " " - - j-. H--1
citizens, are claiming for ourselves.
(Applause.) It Is a problem, I say,
that is not at all free from very seri
ous difficulty. I looked at thoso 111
41e Indian villages as I came along
the railroad today; I looked Into the
happy faces of many of those peo
iple at the stations, and I felt this,
that there ought not to be a white
man in this community who would lu
any way endeavor to take advantage
of those people; who would in any
way attemipt to take away from theia
the land which they and their ances
tors-have cultivated for Hundreds of
years. They were there before them
they have their own civilization; now
it is our duty to try to help them
Improve that civilization, not to throw
a stone in their way not to make one
step of thelr's harder by endeavoring
to take away their lands or prevent
them from carrying on their Indus
tries In the ways best suited to their
condition. So I hope that I shall
have the hearty co-operation of the
people of New Mexico in working out
this Indian question in a way that
will be mere than fair to those who
are less foitunate than we are. That
question is in an acute form over in
the Indian Territory where I am go
ing next. Those peoiple there are en
tirely different from the people you
have here. But in every Instance we
ought to try to treat our Indian
wards, not only as I say, meeting
them half way, but we ought to treat
them, very much better than we treat
a white man under similar condi
tions, because they have not had the
chance that we have, they have not
had the opportunities that we have,
and we want to see to it that they
are given those opportunities in a
great, kind, broad way, so that their
children and their children's chil
dren in years to come will say: The
white man has been honest and fair
with them, and has given them the
opportunity and the chance to make
the most of their opportunities, as
he is making the most of his.
Good Id-port.
"Now then, ladies and gentlemen,
I know that I ought not to keep you
longer here. It has been a great
pleasure to see you, to look Into your
faces, to gasp the hands of
many of you, and to learn the condi
tions that obtain in this territory.
As has been said, I shall take back
my report, not only of this, but of
your adjoining territory of Arizuna,
and of the other states that surround
these territories; and I am very
pleased that I can take back so fine
a report of the conditions in all of
this great west. (Applause.) YV
have been traveling up and dowrf, we
have been finding out what these
conditions are, we have been learn
ing the difficulties that you have had
to meet , with here, and there Is but
one word of warning that I want to
throw out to you as you go forward
In your progress here. Learn not only
to be fair with yourselves, but to
be fair with the industries that are
going to comu into your territory
here. Do not make the mistake of
believing that the great industries of
this country are all wrong because
some have been wrong. Give to those
Industries, and the managers of those
industries, to the railroads, and to
the managers of those railroads, the
same plea for honesty of conduct that
you claim for yourselves. Do not put
them down all wrong because some
have done ill. Do not .suppose that
because one railroad has done what
it ought not to have done, that all
railroads and all railroad managers
would follow In their footsteps. Do
not suppose that because some mlnea
have failed to obey the law, or the
managers, that all mine managers
will fail to obey the law. And In the
IfgisMation that may come hereafter,
deal fairly with these great Indus
tries; see to It that there Is no dis
tinction made between the laws that
you will apply to capital and tne
laws that you will apply to labor.
( A pplause. )
Painless to All.
I. i t every class of this great com
monwealth, as you grow In Import
ance and grow In political rights let
It be understood that every class In
this great commonwealth will be
treated with equal Justice and equal
fairness. There should be no special
egislaiion. We have had too much
WOODMAN, SPARE NO
CHILD FATALLY BURNED
BY KEROSENE
E
Poured Oii on Hro and Was
Burned Almost to
Crisp.
HOME AND CONTENTS
TOTALLY DESTROYED
El Paso, Tex., August 10. By the
explosion of a can of kerosene, with
w hich she was attempting "to kindle
a fire to prepare supper, seven-year-
old Maria Hortencia Barela waj
burned so badly yesterday that she
died an hour later at the home of a
neighbor. The Barela home and Its
contents were practically destroyed
by the fire, a neighboring house was
damaged and Mrs. Barela suffered
severe burns about the hands and
face in attempting to save her daugh
ter. The little fclrl, who was the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Pablo Barela, re
siding at 608 Florence Btreet, was
sent by her mother to kindle a fire,
while the woman remained about
some work in the front of the house.
The child poured some kerosene into
the stove and the explosion follow
ed. Her clothing caught fire and she
ran into the yard screaming.
Her mother rushed out and at
tempted to extinguish the fire, but all
the clothing was burned from the lit
tle girl's body, and her ilesh was
cooked. She was carried to a neigh
bor's home where her death occur
red. Before the alarm was turned In,
the Barela home was practically de
stroyed, and the firemen had hard
work to have an adjoining house.
of It In other places. A bit of leg
islation that Is good for capital. If it
Is really good, ought to be equally
good for labor; and likewise, if it Is
good for labor It would be good for
capital. If it is special, if it Is good
only for one side, it is not the kind
of legislation that you want. (Ap
plause.) We need equality of peo
ple. We are getting today a larger
measure of equality of opportunity
than we have ever had In this great
country. This national administra
tion has stood for doing away with
discriminations, doing away with in
equality of opportunity. It is im
possible to make all men equal; we
know that It is not possible. Men
are born with great inequalities;
men have aiaptabllity for one thing;
another has adaptability for anoth
er; and hen you say that those two
men are equal you are stating a
falsehood. AH that the laws can do
Is to give equality of opportunity to
these two men. Open the door with
It, throw no Impediment in the way,
and then the man who has brain, the
man who has muscle, the man that
has uprightness and decency In his
heart, the man who has a character,
and who is Uod-fearlng and law
abiding, that man under conditions
of equal opportunity, will naturally
forge ahead, and he ought to forge
ahead. (Applause.)
Now, Mr. Mayor, I want to thank
you again for this very cordial re
ception that you have given me.
You have given mo a reception here
that makes me feel that I am very
much nean r New Mexico than I
was before, and if any of you will
come to Washington you will find
the door of the secretary of the In
terior's office wide open. (Prolonged
applause and cheers.)
TREE!
LEWIS STILL
THAT HE KILLED
TERHUNE
Confession Obtained by bead
Man's Wife In Prison
Cell.
QUARREL OVER HER
CAUSED SLAYING
Roswell, N. M., August 10. Moses
L. Lewis, who is confined In the
county Jail here for the killing of
Lcland S. Terhune, has not varied
from the confession which he made
at the Jail Thursday, when Mrs. Ter
hune, handcuffed, guarded and
weeping with apparent fright at her
predicament, was brought to his cell
and he was told that she was under
sirest for killing her husband. She
pleaoed with him to tell the truth
nud he confessed. Mrs. Terhune has
been freed from suspicion.
Lewis, whom It Is stated, was In
fatuated with Mrs. Terhune, had a
quarttl ten days ago with the hun
band rbout the woman, and he kill
ed Ter',. une with a blow on the head
with a shovel.
Ilody Hurled In Pitch.
Terhune had been missing since
Thursday of last week. Parties who
went to the Bowman farm, where he
and I ewb i-d been working, found
that the wagon used by Lewis had
blond stains on its bed. From the
wagon they followed a trail which
led to the Irrigation ditch and In the
bed of the ditch they saw plain In
dications that a hole had been dug.
On digging down at that spot, Ter
hune body's wag discovered.
The forehead had been crushed by
a blow from some heavy Instrument
and the eyes were protruding.
When arrested, Lewis vehemently
dnclared he was Innocent of the
crime and said Terhune was tue
beKt friend he hnd on earth.
Terhune was 24 years old and
Is survived by a wife and one child.
Thy came here from near Sherman,
Tex., three years ago, and have been
living on a claim near Hagerman.
Iewls Is 34 years of age, and came
here from Sherman five years ago.
The two have been farming the Bow
man and Bud Wilson farms, near
Orchard Park, In partnership.
TELEGRAPHERS IN
ilNYJITIES STRIKE
The strike in the Western
Union telegraph offices has ex- 4
4 tended to practlcaly every big
city In the country, and all
commercial business is sadly
crippled. New York. Chicago, 4
t St. Iouls1, Kansas City, Denver, 4
San Francisco and all other clt- 4
les are compelled to do with- 4
4 out service, except such as a 4
4 few wire chiefs can furnish. 4
4 Owing to this fact, the As- 4
4 soclated Press service of The 4
4 Citizen Is necessarily small to- 4
4 day an the operators In the 4
4 main offices used by the Asso- 4
4 elated Press are with the strlk- 4
4 ers. The Citizen will give all 4
4 the news possible and to attain 4
4 that end has used such tele- 4
4 graph und telephone facilities 4
4 as can be obtained, but the 4
4 general Associated Press ser- 4
4 vice Is liuht. However, this con- 4
4 dltion will undoubtedly be bet- 4
4 tered within a day or two. 4
4 4 4 4 4 4 4 C b V 4
LOST SPANISH BULLION
ADS TAKEN FROM
HISTORY
Men Who Created Prospectus
Testifies That lie Used
"Conquest of
Mexico."
LOOKED UP LEGENDS
BDTJ01 THE MINE
Post Office Inspector Tells of De
vious Path to Mud Deposit
land Says There Was
Only Lowest Grade
of Ore.
Denver. Colo., August 10. The
)t Spanish Bullion mine case Is
attracting much attention. This Is
the case in which It Is claimed that
a company was organized to sell
stock in a mine, alleged to be located
In a cave near Silver City, N. M., and
In which the postal department has
caused the arrest and indictment of
all the officials of the company, al
leging that they used the malls to
defraud. The government will at
tempt to prove that the mine is
valueless and that the company
knew It at the time it was selling a
large amount of stock.
Ada Written from History.
Charles A. Llndsey, who wrote the
prospectus sent out by the Lost Bul
lion Spanish Mines company to in
duce speculators to buy stock, was
on the stand yesterday at the trial
of the officials of the company in
the United States district court on a
charge ot fraudulent use of the
malls.
Ijlndsey is employed by the Na
tional Advertising company of this
city, whidh secured the contract to
prepare advertising for the Lost Bul
lion company last fall. The story of
the discovery of the mine by Spaniards-at
the time of the Aztec con
quest In Mexico and quotations from
Prescott's .-"Conquest of Mexico"
formed the nucleous of the story
Llndsey wrote for the prospectus.
On the stand Llndsey said he was
employed to plan the advertising ot
the Lost Bullion Spanish Mines com
pany.' He went to an office In the
Temple Court building in Septem
ber, 1906, he said, and met C. L.
Blackman of the brokerage firm of
Blackman & Co., and afterward went
to Silver City with George DuBoia
to gather data for tne prospectus.
Legend.-) Used. '
He made no effort, he said, to
learn whether the claims of rich ore
made by the officers of the companr
were correct, but satisfied himself of
the truth of the legends connected
with the mine before writing the
pamphlet. The pictures In the pam
phlet, he said, wero mostly repro
duced from magazines and other
publications, and had no direct bear
ing on the mine In question.
Insector Found Stud.
C A. Macomlc, the postoffice In
spector who investigated the case,
was on the stand again yesterday.
He went into detail concerning his
trip through the "workings" In the
"mine," and told how he was forced
to crawl on hands and knees, wrig
gle along on his stomach and in one
place actually roll along the pas
sageway to reach the point of the
"new discovery," which, according to
Engineer Clymo, who accompanied
George Du Bots and Maomio, was
absolutely no discovery at all, but
loathsome black mud and an ordin
ary quality of low-grade ore that
might have contained almost any
kind of mineral in small quantities.
Ills Belief.
It was at this place, Macomlc tes
tified, that Du Bols first told him
he was certain there was nothing in
the mine, but that the company In
tended to raise money in advertising
the cave, so that it might prospect
and develop other property nearby.
Fol owinar this conversation in tne
mine,' Macomlc said, Du Bols volun
tarily made the statements submit
ted as evidence Wednesday, and
signed them In the presence of three
v I In esses.
Macomlc then went Into detail re
garding his trip and the discoveries
he made regarding tne moaum op
erandi of the company.
100 INJURED BY GREAT
AT
Boulder, Colo., August 10. Fire
originating from an unknown cause
In the Colorado & Southern freight
dapot at 1 o'clock this morning de-
troyed the depot with a great quan
tity of freight In half an hour, and
spreading a hundred feet enveloped
a powder house containing one thou
sand pounds of dynamite which ex
ploded, throwing the firemen and
hundreds of spectators to the ground,
fatally injuring two men, breaking
the plate glass lu every business
house in tnwn as well as windows lu
hundreds of residences. The loss 1-t
estimated at $1250, 0UU. The fire was
re-ported under control at 3: 3d
o'clock.
The Boulder police report one hun
Ired persons iniuied. tweutv-five be
ing cared, for in the hospitals.
I he fatally injured are: Hoy Li-
favre and Ike o. Wilson, volunteer
firemen, who were nearest the scene
t explosion.
GOVERNOR CURRY IS Oil
THE JOB WITH
BOTH FEET
-S
Self Reliance of New Execu
tive Gives People Con
fidence in His
Ability.
WHAT HE SAID
WAS TO THE POINT
- k
Republican Leaders Met Him as
Head of a Republican Admin
istration and He Publicly
rv i
ueciareo nimseii on
. Points at Issue.
Santa Fe, N. M., August 10.
(Special) Its all over. The crowd
that attended the inauguration, the
brilliant reception and ball and the
reception to the secretary of the in
terior, Mr. Garfield, is leaving on
each outgoing train. The advance
guard left late Thursday, but most
of those In the city remained until
Friday night.
Today the balance Is leaving, ex
cept a few and there Is much ru
mor and speculation about those
few who are undoubtedly here for
a purpose. The inauguration ot
Governor? Curry while a brilliant af
fair, was one of the most remark
able events In New Mexico's political
history. Never in the history of this
territory has there been such a cos
mopolitan gathering of representa
tive men politically speaking at an
Inauguration.
Never in the history of a territory
has a governor faced quite so com
plex a proposition as did Oovernor
Curry in the first twenty-four hours
of his governorship.
"On the Job." ?
But Oovernor Curry was "on the
Job" all the time and he made every
one feel good. Now there Is some
thing in making a good Impression
as everyone knows and the new gov
ernor did that.
He did not commit himself too
much in fact, he only said he In
tended to conduct a republican ad
ministrationcarry out the policies
of President Roosevelt - ant giv
every one & square deal.
Such an announcement might be
considered a good deal in some cir
cles, but it was no more than was
expected of a republican governor
and George Curry, despite attempts
to make hi mout a democrat, is go
ing to run a republican administra
tion, a clean administration and ap
point good men.
This was the beginning of th
good impression the governor made.
The end Is not yet but the way he
met the people and the honest, open
and frank manner in which he talk
ed to them did the rest.
Guess Work.
There was never more political
milling than was seen at Santa Fe.
The milling, however, was on the
outsme. it was conducted by a host
of those who did not understand the
situation and who did not understand
that the late reform element was not
running the ranch.
It was amusing, almost pathetic,
to hear some of the guess work that
was being done.
He- Is Governor.
When the smoke cleared away to
some extent, thos who were nar
enough to read the signs saw this
much unmtstakalbly:
Governor Curry was governor and
acting for himself he had recog
nized the republican party leaders
and they had recognized him he
had decided to run the executive of
fice himself and to start In to do it
when he got good and ready.
It did not take a magnifying glass
to discover that Governor Curry was
talking with the party leaders, that
he was talking with the people and
that he was drawing conclusions
slowly and wisely.
Knows Condition.
It did not take a second glance at
the situation to know that Governor
Curry knew the true conditions of
territorial and local politics and that
he Intended and eventually would
smooth out more than one wrinkle.
When all this percolated through
the system of certain Individuals,
there whs no further attempt t
crowd little factions to the fore. The
new governor said he wanted to be
Judged by his actions and there was
a wholesome desire not to interfere
with his wishes in this respect.
Open and Honest.
The republican leaders met Gov
ernor Curry in an open, honest way.
They gave h I in their endorsement
and support and they did not ak for
anything in return. It was not ne
cessary for them to do so: Governor
Curry, after taking the oath, publicly
declared himself for the very things
end the only things they desired
the president, the republican party,
snd the square deal. There was not
much of a chance for those desiring
anything else to break Into the pow
wow and they refrained wl:;. re
markable self control. But th
thing that Governor Curry did and
which did more than everything else
to bring the people to him, was to
display a self confideiwe In himself
and his ability tempered with Just
enough reserve to impress every man
woman and child that he had the
reins In his hand and knew how to
handle the.m.
I'Ve-llus of Confidence.
He distributed a broad feeling of
onii.lenee in his wisdom, ability and
Integrity, that it will take a whole lot
of errors In the executive office ft
undermine.
And the new governor is not a man
of errors. He may make mistakes -no
man lives who does not, but the
new governor wifl not make many
and he will not hesitate to correct
them when he does make them.
