Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-09-22
DEMOCRACY'S PLATFORM,
A Scathing Arraignment Of Repub-
licanism and Its Thirty Years
of Misrule.
Silver and the Interests of the Laborer
--Statehood-Good Government
Earnestly Endorsed.

Appended is the full text of the plat
form adopted by New Mexico's Democ-
racy at the Las Cruces convention:
Whereas, during the past thirty years
the so-called principle of protection has
reigned supreme and has plunged Ameri-
can industry into the depths of financial
distress which has eliminated during the
first two years of Democratic administra-
tion, and which was most deeply felt be-
fore the Democratic congress had per-
formed one act of legislation, fully estab-
fishing the fact that the Republican legis-
lation of the past thirty years was wholly
in the interest of monopoly at the cost
and ruin of labor and industry:
Therefore, we commend President Cleve-
land for his splendid effort for the great
Democratic principles of tariff reform,
and, although disappointed that more was
not accomplished, we congratulate the
people upon securing such an excellent
and advanced effort at reform of rob-
Der tariff that has worked to the di5ad
vantage of the producing classes; and we
further commend the administration for
the great reduction IN useless expendi-
lures in the government departments of
Washington, whereby millions of dollars
are saved every year to the tax payers of
the nation.
Believing that the restoration of silver
as money of ultimate payment and stand
ard of value, in equal terms with gold,
with no discrimination against either
metal, at the ratio which existed prior to
the decentralization of silver by the
fraud of the Republican party of 1873, is
the issue of foremost concern and great
est importance to the people of this ter
ritory and of the United States, and that
the change from the double to the single
standard, has been, and will continue to
be, until reversed, grievous and grow
ing wrong to the people of this territory
ana of the United States, and believing
that large majority of the Democrats
of this territory SO feel, and that the time
has come when the welfare of the Demo-
cratic party in this territory demands
plain and unequivocal declaration on this
sub ject; therefore be it
| Resolved, That the Democracy of this
territory by their representatives in con-
vention assembled, hereby declare in favor
of the free and unlimited coinage of silver,
at the ratio of 16 to /, as it existed prior
to its characterization by the Republican
party in 1878. And we pledge ourselves
not to support by word or vote any one
who is not heartily and earnestly in ac-
cord with the above declaration.
| The enactment of the law taxing in
comes in excess of $4,000, we refer to
as an illustration of the spirit and pur-
poses of the Democratic party to relieve
the toiling masses and place the burden
of taxation upon those best able to en-
dure them. And we call upon our ma
tional congress to further carry out the
spirit of this enactment until the boarded
capital of unlawful combinations and
trusts shall be made to bear its just pro-
portion of taxation.
We congratulate the people of New
Mexico upon the repeal of the federal
election law making it no longer possible
for unscrupulous Republican politicians
to surround tho polls with unnecessary
deputy marshals and through intimida-
ton, violence and fraud defeat the honest
will of the people.
We endorse without stint or qualifca-
tion, the zeal of our delegate in congress,
the Hon. Antonio Joseph, and we point
es pecially to his persistent labors and the
ripening fruit thereof in placing before
congress and the nation the injustice of
turning deaf ear to our imploring cry
for admission through the thirty years of
Republican rule, while Republican terri
tories of one-fourth the population of
New Mexico were admitted.
We are proud of and stimulated by the
splendid record of our delegate and go
confidently before the people thereon,
asking their confidence and support at
the polls so that his hand may be upheld
for the final effort in the crowning work
of the Democratic party for the admis-
sion of the territory of New Mexico to
an honored place among the states of the
union.
The warmest gratitude of the people of
New Mexico is due to the present terri
torial executive and his able and fearless
assistants for exposing and bringing to
deserved punishment the bands of oath
bound thugs, murderers and assassins,
who for SO many years perpetrated their
crimes in safety under preceding Repub-
lican administrations, and we assure him
of the continued, earnest and loyal sup
port of the good citizens in his vigorous
efforts to enforce the law.
We demand such legislation, both ma
tional and territorial, as will give en-
ployes just protection against the care
lessness of corporations, and guarantee
to them the regular payment of their
hard earned wages. And we pledge the
Democratic party of the territory to the
support of such equitable legislation as
; will be just to both labor and capital.
We again take the opportunity to speak
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ing the immediate passage of the enabling
act for the admission of New Mexico now
pending in the U. s. senate, as matter
of right and justice and not as matter
of favor, believing earnestly that the
greatest good in their history will come
to the people of New Mexico through her
admission into the Union of the states
and we pledge the united and unremitting
efforts of our party to this cause.