Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-10-27
TERRITORIAL DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM

The representatives of the Democratic
party of the territory of New Mexico, in
convention assembled at Santa Fe, or
this Goth day of September, 1896, re-
affirm our allegiance to the principles Of
the Democratic party as declared by its
founders, and our belief that, for the first
time in more than thirty years, the party
has returned in its platform declarations
to the principles enunciated by Jefferson
and by jackson. We, therefore, indorse
every sentence of the Chicago platform
and declare that we believe it to be the
best expression of Democratic faith ever
emanating from ar assembly of Demo
Gratis, and, while thus indorsing and
adopting the Chicago platform, we desire
particularly to express our gratitude to
the members of that convention for
those portions of that platform which,
without equivocation, and in language
which can not be misunderstood, favor
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting
for the consent of any other nation, and
which declare for tariff for revenue with
duties so adjusted as to operate equally
throughout the country, and not discrim-
mating between class or section, thus
guaranteeing to our wool and live stock
interests that same measure of protection
which is accorded by law to the manufac
turing industries of the country.
We heartily indorss the nomination of
that magnificent exponentof Democracy,
the Hon. William Jennings Bryan, of
Nebraska, and of Arthur Sewall, of
Maine, always a steadfast friend of silver,
whose selection refutes the oft-repeated
charge that the Democracy of the coun-
try seeks in this campaign to array sec
ton against section and class against
class.
We heartily indorse the present Demo
cratic administration of affairs in this
territory by the governor. secretary and
the judiciary thereof, as we'll as the Off
cials of the land department including
the surveyor.general, the registers and
receivers of the various land offices, the
United States marshal, the internal rev.
enus collector, the assistant U. s. attor-
ney for New Mexico, and the inspector
of mines, and we commend the solicitor
general and the several district attor-
ueys of the territory for the ability and
zeal with which they have enforced the
laws of the territory, contributing so
much to the suppression of crime and the
punishment of criminals.
We invite the attention of all intelli-
gent voters of the territory of New Mex
lco to the administration of county af-
fairs in those counties where the Demo
Gratis control the county administration
as com pared with those other counties
where the Republicans are in control, be-
lieving that such comparison can but be
favorable to Democratic control.
We condemn the action of the Repub-
Iican delegate in congress IN making
subservient to the interest of his private
clients the interests of the whole people
of the territory of New Mexico, and pre-
venting the passage by congress of need
cd legislation in the interest of the whole
people, by amending the bill to validate
the bonds issued for varions meritorious
public institutions, including the capitol
so as to cast an enormous and unjust
burden upon the already overhurdened
people of the territory of New Mexico in
the interest of his private clients. We
point to him as most conspicuous fail
ure, so far as securing legislation in
which the whole people are interested,
and a complete success in his efforts to
further his own selfish ends.
We declare our belief that only through
the success of the Democratic party is
statehood for New Mexico possible, and,
the Republican delegate in congress hav-
ing failed to pass statehood bill through
a house with an overwhelming majority
of Republican members, we charge that
the Republican party in the territory and
in the nation is opposed to the admission
of New Mexico as state because of our
views on the silver question, and that
their professions to the contrary are
untrue. We call the special atten-
tion of the residents of this terri
tory DESTROYS of statehood to the ex-
plicit declaration in favor thereof in the
national platform and to the declaration
of the Hon. William Jennings Bryan, in
his letter of acceptance, in favor of state
hood.
We call attention to the hardship in
flicted upon our people by the lack of
legislation throwing open to prospectors
the mineral within claimed land grants in
this territory, and we pledge the nominee
of this convention to use all honorable
means to secure the necessary legislation
to correct this evil at the earliest possible
moment.