Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-04-16
DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM
Resolutions Adopted at Silver
City Naturally Denounce
Republican Legislation
and Officials.
THE STATEHOOD PLANK
1t Demands Payment Of Territorial and
County Railroad Debts by the Ma
tionaI Government.


The following is the text of the res
olutions adopted by the Democratic
territorial convention at Silver City,
this week, the New Mexican being the
first to publish them in full:
We, the Democrats of the Territory
of New Mexico, in convention, assem-
bled at Silver City. this 18th day of
April, 1904, do declare:
That we reaffirm our allegiance to
the well established principles of Dem
ocracy which are fundamental in our
governmental structure and for the
highest interests of the greatest num-
ber
We remember with pleasure the
steadfast adherence of the Democratic
party to these high principles, and we
confidently look for the speedy return
of our party to control in the affairs
OF the government to the end that the
rights and interests of the masses of
the people may be protected and adj
vanced against the grinding depreda-
tions of the classes in the form of
enormous aggregations of predatory
wealth.
We express with emphasis our dis
approval of the tendencies of the Re-
publican party toward a colonial sys-
tenn and the accompanying evils of mil
itarism, the enforcement of the con-
stitution and the flag in our island pos
session, the maintenance of war tar
ff in time of peace which has become
the parent of trusts, and which we de-
clare to be the greatest evil to which
the masses of the people are subjected,
and we denounce the national Republi-
can administration for its duplicity in
dealing with this great evil, and for its
| failure to apply the criminal as well
as the civil remedy in the interests
of the people, for it's attempt to dis
tract the attention of the people from
the real issue by prosecution of petty
crimes in the postofice' department.
while the predatory kings of aggregat-
ed wealth go scot-free under the Grim
inal laws made for the protection of
the people.
We denounce the Republican terri
torial administration for its corrupt ex-
travagance in more than doubling the
burdens of government on the people,
in taxes, without any pretence at Civ
ing corresponding benefits, for its COM
plete failure to. call corrupt Republi-
can county officials to account and re-
move them for open and notorious
theft of public funds, while it has ev-
er been prompt to call Democratic Of
| ficials to account on the fiimsiest
charges and to remove many of them
without any charges at all
We hold up to public scorn any ad-
ministration that approves and contin-
ues in Office as it's party manager
man who has been openly charged and
convicted by an honest Republican dis
trict attorney of the bold theft OF pub
| lie school funds, and we charge that
the present Republican administration
in this Territory, by it's failure to re-
peal bad laws and enact good ones. by
| its failure to remove corrupt RepuDll-
can officials, by it's corrupt and extrav-
agant appropriations of public funds,
and by it's general conduct, viewed as
whole, is the least commendable of
any this Territory has had in many
years.
| We denounce the practice that has
been followed in some of our courts of
aggravating the evils of our present
Infamous jury law by appointing jury
commissions hereunder, composed en-
tirely of Republicans, so that instances
of jury manipulation have become so
| frequent as to be scandalous, as well
as the practice of some of the district
attorneys to condone crime and COM
pound felonies by affording protection
to wrong-doers who will promise sup
port to the Republican party in ex-
change for such protection.
On the absorbing subject. of state
hood we reiterate our expressed views.
and having exhausted all effort to Sc
cure single statehood for New Mexico
within the near future as a matter OF
right, we charge our failure in that re-
spect to the reputation of platform
pledges by the Republican majority in
Congress, and we recognize it now to
be the will of Congress to give us joint
stakeholder not statehood at all.
Believing joint statehood to be prefer
able to no statehood, we respectfully
submit to what appears to be the inev-
table and we urgently request our ma
tional legislators to confer upon us
some additional benefits by way of
amendment to the pending bill as fol-
lows, to-wit:
An appropriation of sufficient
amount of money out of the national
treasury to pay the public debt of the
territories of New Mexico and Arizona,
and the debts of the counties Of Santa
Fe and Grant, In New Mexico, and
| Continued on Page Eight.
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