Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-04-02
Why The Republican City Ticket Should Be
Elected.

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The citizen who tomorrow does not
vote for the municipal ticket nominated
on last Saturday by the Republicans in
his city is opposed to economy in city
affairs. opposed to progress, opposed to
good government, and cares little for
the prosperity of Santa Fe. The very
names of the men who head the Repub-
lican ticket should inspire confidence in
every resident and voter in the city.
Their election will be a sign that Santa
Fe has at last been aroused out of it's
slumber, will at last leave the rut which
was surely but slowly leading it to de-
cay in a business as we'll as in a polit-
ical sense. No arguments should be
needed to persuade every citizen, who
has any interest whatever in the well
fare of the city, to vote for the Repub-
lican ticket. But if any argument is
needed a glance at the administration
of city affairs in the past twelve months
is sufficient.
Almost $40, 900 was paid over to the
city treasurer. All this money is gone.
Where to-? For the payment of just
debts? For electric street lighting? For
street repairs? For street sprinkling?
No! The streets have remained I'M
sprinkled; the streets We're not lighted;
no street repairs were made; no appro-
| priation was paid to the Woman's
Board of Trade; the firemen received a
mere pittance; large bills remain un-
| paid; few interest coupons We're met;
licenses, fines, bicycle taxes and other
incomes that pass the collectors
hands We're apparently not pub
licly accounted for; ordinances that
exist We're not enforced; new ordinances
We're passed hat are a burden to resi-
| dents; an attempt was made to increase
Illegally the city debt and to increase
| the burdens of the taxpayer: a resolu-
| ton to have the accounts of the city
| audited by a committee of representa-
tive citizens was voted down. No finan-
| cial reports have been published. Such
was the answer during the past twelve
months to the promise of reform, of
| economy, Of progress, made by the
| Democratic candidates prior to their
| election last April. The city has become
a bankrupt, a byword to other cities, an
example of what a city should not be.
| On account of this the Washington au-
thorities refused to turn the Fort Marcy
military reservation over to it, fearing
that it would be used to further corrupt
city government. The arrangements
against the Democratic city government
in the Republican resolutions adopted
Saturday are just: their only fault is
that they are too mild.
The city government has been neg
lected and corrupt. This condition must
be changed if Santa Fe is to regain it's
dignity as the capital city of a territory
seeking admission as a state, and the
citizens have ar opportunity tomorrow
to restore to Santa Fe its good name
and it's prestige.
With Maj. r. ]. Palen as mayor, city
| business will not be neglected; e%XtraVa-
| gance will not prevail; progress will not
| be killed; outside capital will not turn
| away with distrust. With w. j. Nc
| Pherson as city clerk, records will be
kept accurately, city documents will be
| arranged, indexed and secured; it will
not be necessary to pay an outsider 5000
to revise the city ordinances. With
| Manuel Valdez as city treasurer, every
| cent will be accounted for, nc money
| will be paid out unlawfully, and ac-
counts will be kept in such shape that
at any time the administration will be
in shape to turn the books over to a
committee of representative citizens to
be audited.
The Republican ward tickets are in
many respects excellent, and should be
elected. With a Republican board Of
education the schools of the city have
been within one year brought up to a
standard unsurpassed by my other city
in the west. With the Republican NOM
inees for the board Of education in Office
the next twelve months such economies
will be practiced, without sacrificing
progress, that the city will in a few
years be in position to erect a modern
school house without mourning a debt
or increasing the burden of the taXpay-
ers. Is it not worth while to cast a bal
lot for thpca thinpcP
The Republican nominees are repre-
sentative men, the names of many of
them we'll and favorably known beyond
the city, while most of the Democratic
nominees are men unknown except to a
small circle of friends and to their par
ty bosses for some political service done
in the past. While the Republican tick
ct il. in no sense a politicians ticket, but
a citizens ticket in the true sense of
the word, yet it's election will keep the
| city in line with the rest Of the county,
nation, as representative of the party
in power. the party of prosperity, the
party that will give New Mexico state
hood, and that will give the city the
Fort Marcy reservation as soon as a
I city administration is elected that can
be trusted not to use it for corrupt pur-
poses.
This Is no time, then, to wreak politi-
cal vengeance for imaginary personal
grievances, no time to desert the Re-
ment to territorial leaders who have
nothing to do with city affairs, no time
to desert the city in order to gain polit-
ical advantage of one kind or the other.