Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-18
RAILWAYS AND CORPORATIONS.

The absorption of wealth by the few,
the consolidation of our leading railroads
systems, and the formation of trusts and
pools require stricter control by the
federal government of those arteries of
commerce. We demand the enlargement
of the powers of the Interstate COM
MERGE commission and such restrictions
and guarantees in the control of railroads
as will protect the people from robbery
and oppression.
REPUBLICAN ExTRAvAGANoE.
We denounce the profiigate waste of the
money wrung from the people by oppres-
sive taxation, and the lavish appropria-
tions of recent Republican congresses,
which have kept taxes high, while the
labor that pays them is unemployed, and
the products of the peoples toll are de-
pressed in price till they no longer repay
the cost of production. We demand a
return to that simplicity and economy
which BELTS Democratic government,
and a reduction in the number of useless
offices, the salaries of which drain the
substance of the people.
FEDERAL INTERFERENCE.
the federal authorities in local affairs as a
violation of the constitution of the United
States and crime against free institu.
tions, and We especially object to govern
ment interference by injunction as now
and highly dangerous form of oppression
by which federal judges, in contempt of
the laws of states and rights of citi-
zens, become at once legislators, judges
and exeoutioners, and we approve the bill
passed at the last session of the United
States senate and now pending in the
house of representatives, relative to con-
tempt in federal courts and providing for
trials by juzy in certain cases of con-
tempt.
PACIFIC FUNDING BILL.
No discrimination should be INDUCED
in by the government of the United States
in favor of any of its debtors. We ap-
prove of the refusal of the SD congress
to pass the Pacific railroad funding bill,
Republican congress to enact similar
measure.
UNION SOLDIERS.
Recognizing the just claims of deserv-
ing Union soldiers, we heartily indorse
the rule of the present commissioner of
pensions that no names shall be arbitrari-
ly dropped from the pension rolls, and
the fact of enlistment aud service
should be deemed conclusive evidence
against disease and disability before en-
listment.
| NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA.
| We favor the admission of the terri
tories of New Mexico and Arizona into
the Union as states, and we favor the
early admission OF all territories having
the necessary population and resour-
ces to entitle them to statehood, and
while they remain territories We hold that
the officials appointed to administer the
government of any territory, together
with the District of Columbia and Alaska,
should bs bona fde residents of the terri
tory or district in which their duties are
to be performed. The Democratic party
believes In home rule, and that all
public lands of the United States should
be appropriated to the establishment of
| free homes for American citizens.
We recommend that the territory Of
Alaska be granted delegate in congress,
and that the general land and timber laws
of the United States be extended to said
territory.
We extend our sympathy to the people
of Cuba in their heroic struggle for liber-
ty and independence.
| INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
The federal government should care
for and improve the Mississippi river
and other great waterways of the repub.
lie, so as to secure for the interior states
easy and cheap transportation to tide
water. When any waterway of the re-
public is of sufficient importance to de-
mand aid of the government, such aid
should be extended upon a definite plan
of continuous work until permanent i'm
provement is secured.
OWL SERVICE AND THIRD TERM.
| We are opposed to life tenure in pub-
lie service. We favor appointments
based upon merit, fixed terms of office
and such an administration of the civil
service laws as will afford equal oppor-
tunities to all citizens of ascertained IT.
ness. We declare it to be the unwritten
law Of this republic, established by
custom and usage of 100 years and sane.
toned by the examples of the greatest
and wisest of those who founded and have
maintained our government, that no man
shall be eligible for third term Of presi-
Dental Office.
APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE.
| Coniiding 10 the justice Of our cause
and the necessity of it's success at the
polls, 10 submit the foregoing declara-
tion Of principles and purposes to the
considerate Judgment of tho American