When the weekly New Mexican was founded in 1849 in Santa Fe, at the southwest end of the Santa Fe trail, the editors decided it was politic to pick as few quarrels as possible. In brawling Santa Fe, arguments were usually won by the man who was first on the draw. So the New Mexican's first two-page issue carried a "let's-be-friends" note: "The New Mexican, in Politics and Religion, will maintain a strict neutrality, regarding partisanship as utterly unnecessary and a barrier to the general good . . ."
Last week, when the New Mexican celebrated its 100th birthday,* it...
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