The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-07-28

of forming q Just, equitable and wfS8
constitution, q serious and response
Bile duty devolving upon the members
of the constitutional convention, will
be that of providing for the election
of officers for a full State government
including members of the legislature
n two representatives in Congress
at the time of the election for the rat
iication or rejection of the constitu-
ton. Seldom in the history of great
events has any body of men had more
serious questions to consider than
| will this body of 10 delegates when
they assemble in Santa Fe on the
3rd day of December, 1906. Much of
the future prosperity and success of
the new State of Arizona will de-
pend upon the constitution which
they will draw up and the kind of
government they provide for. The
measures they adopt should not be
Influenced by any passing or transit
tory considerations. What they de-
eide upon, if it is good, will live for
generations in the hearts of a CRATE
full people; if it is bad, will cause dis
corr and trouble for many years. 1t
behooves he people of every part of
the Territory, for their own sakes,
for their children's sakes and for
the SAKE of their children's children,
to see to it that only the best men
in each county, the men most emf
nently qualified by high character,
learning, training and experience, are
selected for delegates to this aH-im-
portant convention, so that not only
our present but our future welfare
may be s~afeguarded.
With all earnestness, therefore, I
urge upon the people of New Mexico,
whatever may be the local questions
or issues, influencing the selection of
candidates for county or Territorial
Offices. to let the paramount consid-
erations in the selection of delegates
to this convention be the honesty, in
tegrity, ability, experience and sim
cerity of the candidates.
No enabling act ever passed by the
Congress of the United States. was
so liberal in the grants of and and
money for educational purposes as
is this me-. For the support of free,
public, non-sectarian common schools
there is set aside, including sucn sec
tons as have heretofore been grant
ed, nearly o~ne-ninth of the whole
area of the proposed State, amount
ing to nearly eventeen million acres,
together with five per centum of the
net proceeds of the future sale of
public lands lying within said State,
and over and above all, the sum of
five million dollars to be invested in
trust for the benefit of said schools.
In addition to this, 2,184, 900 acres
are granted for the benefit of various
State Institutions
For more than fifty years the peo-
pie of New Mexico have been eagerly
seeking and urgently demanding from
the National Congress legislation to
enable them to become a self-govern-
ing State, and this Act which they
are now called upon to accept or re-
ject extends to them the first oppor-
tunity they have ever had of securing
the boon that every free American
citizen desires. l commend a careful
reading of the whole enabling act to
every voter in New Mexico.
Done at the Executive Office this
the 14th Day of July, A. D. 1906.
Witness my hand and the Great
Seal of the Territory of New
Mexico.
BY the Governor:
H. ]. HAGERMAN.
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