Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-08-27
LATEST TERRITORIAL
POLITICAL POINTERS

J. Fl. Crist of Monero, the platform
maker, has been selected chairman o.
the central committee of the Democrat
ic party in this Territory, and the Sc
lection is undoubtedly as good a one
al could have been made. He was
empowered to appoint central and
executive committee and secretary
He will make his headquarters at San
ia Fe, and will occupy his house on
Grant and Palace Avenues, which is
very convenient for that purpose.
The Democratic platform adopted
at Las Vegas reads as follows:
The Democrats of New Mexico, in
regular biennial convention assembled,
take pleasure in publishing our allie
glance to the essential principles of
the Democratic faith so clearly and
forcibly set forth in the platform, unan-
imously adopted by our late ma
tional convention, and we applaud
that convention for opportunely sum-
marizing and embodying in that plat
form the fundamental tenets of Demo
cratic faith as set forth in that political
classic, the first inaugural address of
the father of Democracy They are
the principles which underlie free gov
ernment as exemplified in the Great
Republic, and their faithful observance
alone, can guarantee our national sta
bility and the perpetuity of our insti-
tutions.
1. To the end that our party through
out the Territory from leader to the
humblest in the ranks, may be again
reminded of those cardinal principles,
and thus be edited and freshly in.
spired thereby, we deem 1t appropriate
to republish that summary, to wit:
"The freedom of the press, of con-
science and of speech, equality before
the law Of all citizens, the right of tri-
al by jury, the freedom Of persons de-
Tended by the writ of habeas corpus,
the liberty of personal contract, un-
trammeled by sumptuary laws, the SUI
premacy of the civil over the military
authority, a we'll disciplined militia,
the separation of church and state,
economy in expenditures and low tax
els, that labor might be lightly burden
ed. the fulfillment of public and pri-
vate obligations, fidelity to treaties
and peace and friendship with all ma
tions, entangling alliances with none.
absolute acquieEcence in the will OF
the majority the vital principles OF re-
frb,ias- 1-hase arc the doctrines which
Democracy established as the proverbs.t
of the nation, and they should be con-
stantly enforced.
We take much pleasure in approving
and ratifying the action of our national
convention in nominating for the pres
idency that masterful man, Judge Al
ton Brooks Parker, of New York, he OF
integrity, proven by a long and distin-
guished career in highest judicial Of
fee, of courage of conviction estab-
lished and superb and of a dignity, and
equilibrium and breadth that is
known and read by all his
and purity and sim
plicity of public and private life,
which is the admiration of all men.
We congratulate our party, both in the
nation and in New Mexico, on the
bright and still Frightening prospect
for the election of this honorable and
competent man to the exalted ONCE
where we believe he will adorn the
lofty seat of Washington and Jefferson.
We also congratulate our party on
the nomination of that patriot and
statesman, Henry G. Davis, Of West
Virginia, who is such worthy" COM
panion to the distinguished head OF
the ticket.
We desire to especially and point
edly direct the attention of the
people of New Mexico to the not
able difference between the Ma
tional Republican and Democratic
platforms on the absorbing subject
of statehood and on the vital subject
of home rule for the Territories, in the
interim, as the next best thing. While
the Republican national platform OF
four years ago declared for single
statehood for New Mexico and Arizona,
the Republican administration since
that time has juggled with the subject
until it's publicly announced caucus ac-
tion is Joint statehood for New Mexico
and Arizona, or no statehood at all for
a generation, and now their platform
for this campaign is ominously silent
on the subject which we rightly inter-
pret and charge means no statehood
at all for New Mexico and Arizona,
either joint or otherwise. This juggling
is not only deceptive and unjust,
but it is also contemplate to an
extreme degree, and we roundly de-
nounce the Republican party for its
faithleasness. In strong contrast to this
deceitful Republican practice we point
with pride to the unequivocal Democrat
ic record on this question. Democrat
ic national platforms have declared con-
sistently and regularly for single state
hood, and in the present critical condi-
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