Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-10-27
GRANT COUNTY
REPUBLICANS
Held Convention at Silver City
Monday Last and Nominal.
ed Strong Ticket.
ANDREWS ENDORSED
Stirring Resolutions Passed Com
mending Present National and Ter.
ritoriaI Administrations.


The Republican convention of the
County of Grant was held at Silver
City on Monday last William H. New
comb, chairman of the county central
committee, called the meeting to order.
Don H. Kedzie, of Lordsburg, was elect
ed temporary chairman and Russell
w. Goodyear, of Fort Bayard, temper
airy secretary. The permanent organi-
| zation was as follows William H.
Jack, of Oak Grove, president; Russell
w. Goodyear, of Fort Bayard, secre-
tary.
| The following county ticket was nom-
mated: For county commissioners,
First district, c. c. Shoemaker, Silver
City; Third district, o. R. Smythe,
Lordsburg; sheriff. Charles A. Farms
worth, Silver City; treasurer and ex-
officio collector, Arthur S. Goodell, Sill
yer City; probate Judge, L. H. Rowlee,
Silver City; probate clerk and record
er, Hugh A. Teel, Teel; assessor, s. II
McAninch, Silver City; superintendent
of schools, Howard H. Beets, Silver
City; surveyor, R. L. Powell, Silver
City.
The following resolutions were
adopted by the convention:
We, the Republicans of the county OF
Grant, in convention assembled, do
hereby renew our allegiance to the Re-
publican party and assert our adher-
ence to the principles of that party as
enunciated in its platform adopted at
the National Convention thereof, held
in Chicago, on the 18th day of June,
1904, and as reaffirmed at the Terri
torial Republican Convention, held at
Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the 18th
day of September, 1904.
We most heartily endorse the Ma
tional Administration under the patrl-
otic management and gallant leader
ship of Theodore Roosevelt
We likewise endorse the Republican
Administration of the Territory of New
Mexico, under the conduct of Govern
or Miguel A. Otero, and believe that it
has given to the people of this Terri
tory an honest, capable and efficient
administration. While, under former
Democratic administrations, loans
were negotiated in the name of the
Territory and deficits in various forms
were created and enlarged beyond the
resources of the Territorial revenue
laws. as then existing, to meet them,
the Republican administration, within
the last four years and up to June 80.
1904. has paid off $395,065 of the Ter
| ritorial debt, reducing that debt, as
left by the Democratic administration
of Governor Thornton, from 81 ,249,SOO,
to sS54,735, has re-established the cred
it of the Territory abroad and OF its
municipal divisions with its people at
home, and has. meantime, fostered.
supported and enlarged a system OF
HIGHER education throughout the Ter
ritory. upon which the disbursements
of 1903, including other Territorial ms
titutions, were $177,724.
We endorse the nomination OF the
Hon. William H. Andrews as the nom
inee of the Republican party for dele
gate in the Fifty-ninth Congress, and
we believe that he can and will faith
fully and efficiently represent this Ter
ritory in the council of the states.
we join with the Democrats of Grant
t County in felicitating the people OF the
a county upon the county's excellent
4 financial condition at this time. we
call the attention Of the voters Of Grant
County to the fact that this financial
condition has been brought about by
; revenue legislation enacted by Repub'
lican legislatures, and that the laws SO
q enacted, as to Grant County, In the
I years 1904, have been applied and
administered by Board Of County
s Commissioners, in majority Republi-
can. engaged in distributing a county
revenue assessed by Republican as
SCISSOR, upon one of the best and most
thorough assessment rolls ever made In
/, tGrant County We submit that these
. are reasons why the Republican party
is again entitled to the support OF the
voter at the polls.
: We pledge the nominees OF the Re
publican party of Grant County to q
full and efficient enforcement of the
Territorial laws controlling public
roads; and we pledge the Republican
! party of New Mexico. so far as lies In
4 its power. to secure, in cooperation
s with the National Republican party,
1 the passage and application to New
: Mexico of National Good Roads law
We again affirm the principle that
i the people of New Mexico are entitled
to and of right should have, exercise
and enjoy all the rights, privileges and
political franchises Of American citi-
: zenship. And we believe the best meth.
: cd of gaining to ourselves these iran,
chises is by a campaign OF education q
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