Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-01-28
HOME RULE
ITS MOTIVE
Says Mr.. Beach of
District Attorn-
ey's Bill.
Nm IIITCpI0p DIlpDncr
NO ULTER|oR PURPOSE GOAL SHAFTS BLOW UP
As Charged Strong Argu-
ments Its Favor-.-Should
Become Law at Once.

81 want to state that I am bust
ness man---not a politician. That
owe allegiance to no individual ant
have no axe to grind: that ! was sent
to the House of the Thirty.seventh
Legislative Assembly from the Seven
teenth District, Grant, Luna, Dona
Ana and Otero Counties, TO repre-
sent the people and it is the people OF
this Territory | am going to work for
first, last and all the time"
This frank statement was made tC
a New Mexican reporter Sunday by
Frank w. Beach of Orogrande, Oterc
County, father of House Bill Number
One, an act with regard to the offices
of district attorneys, and for other
purposes which passed the House by
vote of II to Z Friday last.
Il am amazed that statement
should be so generally made that this
act is intended as a retaliatory meas
ure against the Governor of this Ter
ritory or any other individual 1t is
nothing of the kind and who ever
makes such a statement, knowingly OF
unknowingly, does so exactly contrary
10 the truth.
House Bill Number One of which
have the honor to be the father and
which | drafted, after consultation
with other legislators, is nothing more
nor less than home rule.
do you know what home rule is.
Its government of the people by
the people and for the people in the
words of Lincoln. It's the platform
upon which Folk of Missouri, and Je
rome of New York, oyer-rode bossism
and secured the endorsement Of the
voters and thinking men all over the
United States.
IF | tried, | could not give better
explanation of the bill than is con
tained in the copy read before the
House last Friday and which was pub
lished Saturday in the New Mexican
,.ly one who can find any snbterfuge
hidden meaning, or anything else OF
that nature in the bill, you can say
this for me and that is--Frank w
Beach would not have introduced OF
voted for that measure in the House.
'T know that the measure has the
approval of citizens all over New
Mexico. There is not another state
or territory in the Union where dis
trict attorneys are not elected by the
voters.
"a pretty state of affairs this--New
Mexico asking for statehood and then
acknowledging that she is not capa
Bile of electing by vote of her tax
payers, the public prosecutors of hei
own territory. 1t seems preposterous
to me that we should aspire to elect
a Governor, a treasurer, auditor and
such other important officials as a
state, when according to the state
ments of some few legislators, we are
not fit to elect our district attorneys
as territory.
Il am not asking anything person
ally from this Legislature but an
advocating and working for every
measure, | know the people of New
Mexico want ] could not vote 9th
erwise on House Bill Number One
and fulfill the obligations of the oath
of my Office.
'The charges that an attempt tc
railroad through the house, the dis
trict attorneys bill, is also fabrica
ton.
"The motion to suspend the rules
and take up the bill was for nothing
else in the world than to try and
have the bill read so that its cortents
might be known. A legislator who
would vote for bill without knowing
its contents would be nothing but
fool and unfit to hold place in any
Assembly. Some of the House mem
bers misunderstood what was being
done last Thursday when the bill was
introduced and voted contrary to theil
own and the peoples interest
"No attempt was made to conceal
the nature of the bill and statemcr,,s
to the contrary are not true.
81 am in favor of having the CHIEF
clerk in both Houses of this Assem-
bly,, instructed to submit any bill te
the press and to others interested a;
soon as possible after it is introduced
''The day of Home Rule is here to
stay and those who attempt to oppose
1t, will gain nothing but the loss Of
confidence on the part Of the people
and political ruin for themselves.
House Bill Number Is good
measure for the benefit of the people
and should become law without de-
law