Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-09-20


81 us more than $50 900 annually.
We charge upon the Democratic party
the responsibility for the enactment O
the so called alien law, about three wears
since, by means OF which foreign capita
has been forbidden to come within GU,
territory and foreign money has been
turned away from us, thereby creating 8
scarcity in financial resources, absolutely
stopping investments in our mines and
real estate, and almost stopping all bust.
ness.
10 this act alone we attribute the de-
pressed condition of business in this and
all other territories.
We condemn our present delegate in
congress for silently folding his arms and
quietly permitting, without protest, the
| passage of the two laws before referred to
land charge him with neglect of his duty
.Hnd the abandonment of the best inter
ests OF our people and territory by max
ing no effort to prevent the passage of
said laws and for making no effort to Sc
cure their repeal.
Resolved, That We admire and praise
the prudence, courage and common sense
oil Thomas B. Reed speaker of the
national house of representatives in
throttling and destroying the revolution
airy habit of fillibustering, thereby enab-
ling the majority to enact the peoples will
into positive law, and we rejoice with the
trends OF freedom and progress every
where at his triumphant reelection by an
increased majority.
The Republican party of New Mexico
declares itself as unequivocally in favor
at all times OF the admission of New Mex
leo into the union OF states, under any
possible circumstances, as the one essen
tial condition of our progress and advance
ment, without which our great natural
resources will remain comparatively I'M
known and undeveloped.
We heartily approve of the action of
the constitutional convention in fixing
date for the submission of the constitu-
ton to the people, apart from the time OF
the general election, so as to remove the
question of statehood from the possible
disturbance of partisan political feeling,
thus atfording an opportunity to all pro-
gressive and patriotic citizens to vote
in favor Of our admission to the union
freed from the embarrassment of ordinary
political elections; and we earnestly call
on every friend of New Mexico, who has
the public welfare at heart, and who is
entitled to vote, to go to the polls on the
9TH of October next, and cast his vote for
the best interests of New Mexico, ire
spective OF party.
We earnestly insist that the question OF
statehood for New Mexico is not and
ought not to be an issue of partisan po-
litical character. And we deeply regret
as unpatriotic and unstatesmentlike the
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 two
parties.
We indorse and approve the territorial
administration Of Gov. Prince as clean,
wise and able, eminently satisfactory to
the people of New Mexico at home and
adding to the credit and estimation of the
territory abroad, and we point with great
satisfaction to the decrease in the ex-
penses of the territory and the reduction
of the public debt under Republican Of
ficials.
Resolved, That we refer with pride to
the economical manner in which the
courts of the territory are conducted by
Republican judges, the cost per annum
being about 500 900, while under the ad-
ministration OF Democratic judges it cost
the people 100000 for the same period,
or nearly three times as much.
We favor universal education and
complete and adequate system of free
public schools for the entire territory and
state of New Mexico, and insist that ample
means shall be produced by taxation for
their support for period of not less than
six months in the year, and we further
favor the comforting upon the voters of
each school district the right to impose
additional taxes for such district for such
purposes, and we urge the election OF
members to the legislature who will favor
such measures.
We denounce and condemn in the most
unqualified terms the slanderous charge
of the Democracy that the native people
of this territory are mentally and morally
disqualified for self government on which
ground that party bases its chief objection
to the constitution.
We favor the protection OF laborers and
employees and the adoption of proper laws
securing to them liens for their services
and also establishing suitable courts Of
arbitration for the settlement of differ
ences between employees and employers.
Resolved, That we recommend and
adopt as designating evice, to be print
ed on the face and at the head OF the
ticket or ballot of the Republican party
to be voted at the various polling places
in this territory at the general election, to
be held on the first Tuesday OF November