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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1918
Page
2
The Evening Current edited by S. L. Perry is published daily Sundays excepted from Carlsbad New Mexico. It is entered as second class matter April 16 1917 at the Carlsbad post office under the Act of March 30 1879.
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The piece questions state spending from the State Council of Defense noting 326000 dollars spent in seventeen months without public feed reports. It mentions Joseph W. Fordney as revenue head if Republicans win and cites over a million and a half dollars spent by the Highway Commission on roads. It also notes Governor Lindsey pardoning eighty four inmates since last January, about 26 percent of crimes.
Democrats in Congress narrowly backed renomination for thirty nine lawmakers and three senators who voted for or against the war stance. Republicans renominated fifty one congressmen who opposed the war vote, signaling sharp party divisions.
The passage lists criticisms of Republican funding and control across New Mexico counties and state bodies. It alleges misappropriation of wartime funds, factional control by Bursum Catron Holberl Romero Romer Spiess and calls for reform. It references proposed military affairs leadership born in Germany and opposition to a large appropriation for the State Council of Defense.
The text notes that while Republicans claim to back the President's war efforts, about a quarter of Republican members in Congress consistently voted against war measures and most of these dissenters were renominated.
A fragment notes that the State Council of Defense paid $20,000 in a lump sum to the State College led by Dr Crile, a Republican, while claiming all public moneys should be issued on itemized vouchers. It critiques the council's costly notices for every dollar spent.
A fragment notes asks if five accounts cover auditorial and electrical help. It mentions the Republican vice chairman who wrote a pro German letter from Berlin and notes Republicans refused to back him for national chairman. It cites Democratic county officials with tax valuation increases in 1918 versus 1917 and observes Socorro and Valencia counties under Republican leaders with only small gains.
The Republican boss and State Council of Defense chair Charles Springer refuses to publish an itemized expenditure report. The State Council likewise declines to release the list of its employees. A Republican Legislature allocated $35,000 to finish 6 percent of the Texan Boundary suit, while Democratic rule has spent only $19,000 on the remaining 95 percent over five years.
Journal and New Mexican oppose the 1916 Republican ticket amid a fragmented party scene. The piece recalls 1898 party divisions and warns against voting for Democrats while Republicans govern, reflecting era political tensions between Bursum Fall Hubbell Spiess and their rivals.
A commander of a Black unit at Camp Zachary Taylor faced constant questioning as a Negro woman pressed for letters from a man at the camp. She asked in pidgin dialect if he was allowed to receive letters from her husband.
J Mabry of Albuquerque born Cunningham Kentucky October 17 1885 son of J J Mabry and Dale Mabry moved to Oklahoma in 1890 settled Weatherford attended Weatherford High School University of Oklahoma and University of New Mexico published Clovia Journal and practiced law in Clovia and Albuquerque youngest member elected to constitutional convention 1910 and first state senate member from Curry county in 1911.
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