Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-09-26
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

tHuilh tIlo pIeSlueul lOr CdlllllS VIC aItcu
ton OF congress in his messages to New
Mexico and her wants and the necessity
for aspeedy settlement OF our land CLAIMS ;
and We also thank the senate of the
United States for making special order,
during the present congress, the consid-
era ton of bill to create land court to
settle our land titles, and urgently impress
upon congress the necessity for speedy
action in the enactment of some law to
that end.
We commend the recent action of the
members of both houses OF
in passing the silver bill, as a
wise, salutary and good beginning; but a
still larger increase of our circulating
medium is imperatively demanded, and
We urge the passage of a law removing
all restrictions from the coinage OF silver
of the United States, and we
endorse and hereby approve the
action of Republican congress and adj
in imposing duty on lead
ores, in the bill which has lately passed
by means Of which the miners
and mining interests of our territory have
been protected from foreign competition
and mining property greatly enhanced in
value, and we condemn the Democratic
party for opposing the same.
We endorse the tariff legislation carried
through against the persistent and violent
opposition OF the Democratic party, where
by wool, the greatest product of New
Mexico, has been permanently placed
beyond the competition OF the cheap
products of Australia.
The Republican party remembers with
gratitude the services of the former SOL
diers of the nation in defence of its in
tegrity, and thanks congress for the
passage OF the dependent pension bill, as
well as vast number OF private pension
bills, many of which we're vetoed by
Grover Cleveland.
We thank the present administration
and congress for the repeal of the OBJ
noxious law, enacted by Democratic adj
ministration, whereby there were ex'
Guided from entry and purchase all the
public lands west of the Tooth meridian
and for removing the.obstructions, placed
by the Democratic party, in the way O
the settlers in obtaining titles to theil
lands and homes. Also for the liberia
aid extended to our agricultural college
and agricultural interests, appropriating
for us more than $50, 900 annually.
We charge upon the Democratic party
the responsibility for the enactment Of
the so called alien law, about three years
since, by means Of which foreign capita
has been forbidden to come within oul
territory and foreign money has beer
tnrnDI fynn, thoyohv ppnqtlnu q
scarcity in financial resources, absolutely
stopping investments in our mines anC
real estate, and almost stopping all bust
ness.
To this act alone we attribute the de
pressed condition OF business in this anc
all other territories.
We condemn our present delegate il
congress for silently folding his arms anc
quietly permitting, without protest, the
passage of the two laws before referred tt
and charge him with neglect OF his duty
and the abandonment OF the best inter
ests of our people and territory by max
ing no effort to prevent the passage 0
said laws and for making no effort to Sc
cure their repeal.
Resolved, That We admire and prais
the prudence, courage and common sens
OF Thomas B. Reed, speaker of tn
national house of representatives il
throttling and destroying the revolution
airy habit of fillibustering, thereby enab
ling the majority to enact the peoples vii
into positive law, and we rejoice with thu
friends of freedom and progress every
where at his triumphant reelection by al
increased majority.
The Republican party of New Mexic
declares itself as unequivocally in favo
at all times of the admission of New Mex
leo into the union of states, under an
possible circumstances, as the one essen
tial condition of our progress and advance
ment, without which our great natura
resources will remain comparatively IN
known and undeveloped.
We heartily approve of the action G
the constitutional convention in fixin
date for the submission of the constitu
ton to the people, apart from the time G
the general election, so as to remove tn
question OF statehood from the possibl
disturbance OF partisan political feeling
thus atfording an opportunity to all pre-
gressive and patriotic citizens to vot
in favor of our admission to the unio
freed from the embarrassment of ordinar
political elections; and we earnestly ca
on every friend of New Mexico, who ha
the public welfare at heart, and who i
entitled to vote, to 60 to the polls on tn
9TH of October next, and cast his vote fo
the best interests of New Mexico, ire
spective of party.
We earnestly insist that the question {
statehood for New Mexico is not an
ought not to be an issue of partisan pc
litical character. And we deeply regre
as unpatriotic and unstatesmentlike tn
effort, by the representatives of the Dem
ocratic party, recently assembled in con
vention at Silver City, to bring this ques
ton, which rises above all political fac
tons, down to fight between the tw
parties.
We indorse and approve the territoris
administration OF Gov. Prince as clean
wise and able, eminently satisfactory
the people of New Mexico at home an
adding to the credit and estimation of tn
territory abroad, and we point with grea
penses of the territory and the reduction
of the public debt under Republican Of
ficials.
Resolved, That we refer with pride t
the economical manner in which tn
courts Of the territory are conducted b
Republican judges, the cost per annur
being about 100000, while under the ad
ministration of Democratic judges it cos
the people 100000 for the same periot
or nearly three times as much.
We favor universal education and
complete and adequate system of fire.
public schools for the entire territory an