The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-11-02
FOR AN HONEST ELECTION.
Governor Hagerman Takes Steps to
See That One is Held.


Governor H. J. Hagerman has sent
to each and every district attorney
of the Territory a letter of which the
following is a copy:
Santa Fe, n. NJ, Oct. 81.
Dear Sir l have the honor to
advise you that representations have
been made to me by prominent citi-
zens in many parts of the Territory
botn Republicans and Democrats, that
there is considerable danger that, in
many places, the election laws of
New Mexico will not be enforced at
the coming election.
Our laws in respect to these mat
tiers are very full and detailed, and
point out without any possibility of
confusion or mistakes the methods
whereby dishonesty and fraud in
elections can be avoided, and pro-
provide specifically the penalties and
punishments to be imposed for the
infringement of the provisions of sucn
laws
| beg to call your attention partic-
ularly to the following sections of the
Compiled Laws of 1897.
Section 1855. That it shall hereaft-
er be unlawful for any person who is
not qualified elector. to vote, or to
offer TO vote at any election held in
this Territory, or to register or offer
to register as voter; and it shall be
unlawful for any persons to register,
or offer to register, or to vote or of
fer to vote in the name of another
person, and it shall be unlawful for
any person to register his name as
a voter, or to cause or procure mis-
name to be so registered in any 9th
er election precinct than that in
which such person resides. Or will
in good faith have resided, the re-
quisite period of time prior to the
day of the next ensuing election; and
it shall be unlawful for any person
to solicit, procure, aid, abet, induce
or attempt to procure or induce any
person who is not duly qualified, to
register as a voter, or to vote at any
elGcIIOn Helu III lIllS ANY
person who shall violate any of the
, provisions of this act shall, upon con-
viction thereof before any court of
competent jurisdiction, be fined in
any sum not less than one hundred
dollars and not more than five hun
tlred dollars, or by Imprisonment in
the county Jail for not less than three
months, nor more than six months, or
by both such fine and imprisonment,
at the discretion of the court trying
the same.
Section 1886. 1t shall be unlawful
for any person after the passage of
this act, at or prior to any election
authorized by the laws of the Terri
tory, to influence or attempt to in
fluence any voter to vote for or
against any candidate for office. or
any question or person or to refrain
from voting at any such election, by
the offer of any money, property ar
ticle or thing of value, or by the of
fer of employment, or by any menace
or threat to discharge from employ
ment, or by any threat of violence
to any such voter, or by any threat
or menace to sue any such voter or
any other person, or by any promise
to refrain or abstain from suing such
voter or any other person, or to in
fluence or to- attempt to influence
any voter to cast his vote in any par
any voter TO take or receive any bribe
reward or promise of reward, or for
any voter to take or receive any bride
compensation, money, article or thing
as an inducement to vote for any per-
son, or question, or to refrain from
voting for any person, or to obStruct.
interfere with or impede any quail
fed voter from registering or voting
at any such election, or to abruptly
or violently, or without his consent
take from any such voter any bal
lot or ticket for the purpose of chang
ing the same, or to examine the same
or to interfere with the easy access
of any voter to the polls for the pur
pose of voting at any such election, OF
to mislead or deceive any voter by
furnishing him with a ticket or ballot
under the pretense that such ticket
those printed or written thereon, OF
s to deceive or defraud any voter by
falsely causing. such voter to vote fol
a person, thing or question other
than such voter desired or INTENDED
to vote for. Any person violating any