Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-10-04
RODEY OF BERNALILLO
THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE

n NONINEt
to pay for the oil they consume NOR
than double the price paid for better oil
by the people of Colorado, Texas, Cali
fornia and other surrounding states an,
territories. We therefore favor sucl
national legislation as shall establisl
complete legal control over all trust
and monopolies, and we emphaticall,
demand that the next legislature of thi
territory, after a full investigation O
the subject, pass law which will pre-
vent unjust discrimination against ou
people, and provide for the punishment
of those who seek to destroy homes
competition. We favor the repeal of thu
so-called coal oil law of this territory.
16. We condemn the provisions of thu
so-called Stephens BILL now pending be-
re the congress of the United States
wl...h il bill, in terms, inhibits the people
of this territory from acquiring rights
In the waters of the Rio Grande and its
tributaries. such as can be and are now
being acquired by the inhabitants OF
Colorado and Texas; which prohibits
the use, impounding and detention fol
legitimate commercial purposes OF
waste waters arising and flowing
through New Mexico; and which re.
moves from the jurisdiction of our ter.
ritorial courts litigation over the loca
rights involved in these momentous
questions. We further favor the imme.
diate construction of the Elephant
Butte dam.
II. The reasons for keeping New
Mexico under territorial form of gov
ernment have long ceased to exist 1t is
our right to have this territory admit
ted as state, and we insist that it is
the duty of congress to admit it. The
Philadelphia Republican national con-
vention of last June, representing the
whole Republican party Of the United
States, declared as follows: 1--WE favor
home rule for, and the early admission
to statehood of, the territories of New
Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma" We
call the attention of this pledge to the
president and the congress of the Unit
ed States, and confidently expect its
observance and the early admission Of
our territory as state.
Is. We and the people Of New Mexi-
co are unalterably opposed to the main
tenance and creation of all forest re-
serves in this territory, as being inju-
rious to our people and their best inter
ests.
10. We are opposed to the leasing of
the public domain under any manner or
form whatever, believing it injurious
and detrimental to the interests of the
people, and to the advantage Of large
and trusts; and we re-
spectfully and earnestly represent to
congress that all bills now pending be-
fore that body, having as their purpose
the leasing or allotment of the public
lands of the United States to individ-
uals, companies or corporations, be not
passed.
20. We recommend the governor of
this territory to appoint seven of the
leading members of the Democratic
party, and like number of the Repub-
lican party to act with him, to consti-
tute committee of fifteen Of our citi-
zens of which he shall be chairman, to
go to Washington during the coming
session of congress and urge by all hon.
orable means the passage of an en-
abling act for the admission of New
Mexico as state in the union.
21. We favor the extension and addi-
tional area Of the present county of Nc
Kinley and that all delinquent taxes
arising and becoming due from that
portion of the territory embraced with
in the limits of the present county OF
Mckinley should be turned into the
treasury of said county.
GREETED WITH APPLAUSE.
The reading of the resolutions was
interrupted WIN ONAeso VI
applause, particularly the parts making
mention of the candidates for president
and vice president, and the resolution
expressing the horror Of the convention
at the brutal insults visited upon Gov
ernor Roosevelt at Victor, Colo, anc
the platform was finally adopted as a
whole amid scenes of unusual enthusi-
asm.
A motion that the convention take a
recess until 9 o'clock in the morning
was overwhelmingly voted down.
A committee, consisting Of Marcelino
Ortiz and Celso Baca, was appointed to
escort the permanent vice presidents,
B, M. Read and 8. H. Sutherland, to the
platform.
Colonel Jaramillo, Of Rio Arriba coun-
ty, moved that the convention proceed
to the nomination of delegate to con-
gress, but the chair ruled that this mo-
ton was not necessary, as the rules
provided for this proceeding.
A motion to take a recess until 5
o'clock in the evening was voted down.
The chair then announced that the
next order of business was the nomina-
ton Of delegate to congress, that the
roll of the counties would be called in
alphabetical order for nominations, and
that no one would be recognized under
the rules outside of this order.
When the county of Bernalillo was
called Hon. B. 8. Rodey eloQuently pre-
sented the name of Hon. Solomon Lu-
ma, Of Valencia county, as the most
suitable one that could be placed Upon
the Republican ticket as a candidate foI
the delegateship to congress. He did
this in the interest Of the Republican
party and the people Of the great ter.
ritory of New Mexico, in spite of the
fact that Bernalillo and nearly every
othav oo,ptv IN tho torritorv had ar