Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-10-03
UNTERRIFIED OF
SAN JUAN COUNTY
Nominate T,cket--Unique Resolutions
Condemn Every Thing
In Sight.

The Democrats of San Juan County
met in convention at Pennington on
the goth of September, and nominated
the following ticket:
Delegate to the Constitutional Con
vention, Walter NJ. Danburg, Farming
ton.
Sheriff, Boone G. Vaughan, Aztec.
Probate Clerk, Ia. G. Eblen, Aztec.
Treasurer, w. G. Black, Fruitland.
Assessor, Richard Hendricks, Cedar
Hill.
County Commissioner, 1st District
l.. Garcia, BlancO.
County Commissioner, I'd District
R. }. Chambers, Flora Vista.
Probate Judge, Frank Mir, Pine Riv.
er.
County Surveyor, Charles F. Holly,
Pennington.
Superintendent of Schools, C. D.
Smith, La Plata.
Nomination for representative to
the Thirty-seventh Legislative Assem-.
bly, was left to be filed by the Coun-
ty Central Committee.
The convention had a full repre-.
sentation from every precinct and har,
mony prevailed throughout the entire
meeting. Most of the nominees were
county officials during the past two
years. The following resolutions were
adopted:
We, the Democrats OF San Juan
County in convention assembled, at
Pennington, New Mexico, this 29th
day of September, 1906. again an
nounce our allegiance to the time
honored Jeffersonian doctrine-"Equal
rights to all; special privileges to
none.'
We take special pride in the fact
that our national party is recognized
as the only party devoted to the in
terests of the masses, and not to the
classes-in other words, it is the de-
sire and object of the Democratic
party to build a better government of,
for, and by the people.
We especially point with pride to
the hearty and most unusual welcome
home given our great Democratic lead
er, William Jennings Bryan. We look
upon him as the embodiment of the
hope and confidence that the common
people of our nation have in a Demo.
cratic form of government.
We heartily endorse Joint statehood
with Arizona under the enabling act
known as the Hamilton bill.
We are in favor of the fullest self
government possible under our terri.
torial form of government.
We condemn the corrupt and ex-
pensive Thirty-sixth Legislative AS.
sembly in it's special legislation for
Republican politicians, and the man
ner in which the pnonlr'y i.a.sitey was
handled by the finance committee.
We heartily endorse the movement
of the Republican party of San Juan
County in its effort to dislodge the
grafters at the head of their party.
We emphatically condemn the dis.
honest election methods of the Repub-
lican officials in some parts Of the
Territory, in padding registration
lists with the names of absent, flc.
titious and alien persons, in tamper-
ing with the poll books ami ballot
boxes and making false returns, and
we pledge the untiring efforts of our
party to the detection and punishment
of such crimes to the end that every
American citizen may have a free
ballot and fair count in the exer-
else of the highest privilege of citi.
zenship. And we further condemn
the mean practice Of employers Of
labor in certain sections of New
Mexico of coercing their employees to
vote prepared tickets without regard
to the free will of the voters.
We condemn the National Republi-
can administration in establishing and
charging unreasonable rents for graz
ing stock on forest reserves; insomuch
as 1t will have tendency to destroy
the livestock industry in this section.
We believe in fair and just dis.
tribution of bridges In our county, so
located that they will be of the great
est benefit to the greatest number ir-
respective of locality.
We heartily endorse the policy of
Governor H. J. Hagerman in his ef-
forts 20 eradicate graft from the Ter
ritory, San Juan County included.