The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-07-15

they should be allowed to continue
substantially unmolested in their eff
people.
Any reasonable doubt as to the ex
~istence of this relation has been for
ever dispelled by he sworn testimony
of witnesses examined in the insur-
ance investigation in New York, and
the open Observation-Disclosures by
the Republican national committee
of a single Individual, that he him
self at the personal request of the
Republican candidate for the party
raised over a quarter Of a million dol
lars to be used in a single state dur
ing h closing hours of the last cam
paign. In order that this practice
shall be stopped for all time, we de-
mand the passage of a statute pun
ishing with Imprisonment any officer
of a corporation who shall either con
tribute on behalf Of or consent to the
contribution by a corporation, of any
money or thing of value to be used
in furthering the election of a Pres1-
dent or Vice President of the United
States or of any member of the con-
gress thereof.
We denounce the action of the Re
publican party having complete con-
troll of the federal government, for its
failure to apss the bill introduced in
tho JoCt oNn0rncc To mol tho M h
LEGATION of the names of contributors
and the amounts contributed toward
campaign funds, and point to the evil
dence of their insincerity, when they
sought by an absolutely irrelevant and
impossible amendment to defeat the
passage of the bill.
AS a further evidence of heir in
tention to conduct heir campaign in
the coming contest with vast sums
of money wrested from favor-seeking
fact that the recent Republican N
tional convention at Chicago refused,
when the issue was presented to it,
to declare against such practices.
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to the enactment of a law prohibiting |
any corporation from contributing to
a campaign fund and any individual
from contributing an amount above
a reasonable minimum, and providing |
for the publication before election of
enable minimum.
Rights of the States,
Believing with Jefferson, in the
support of the state governments in
all their rights as the most competent
administration for our domestic con-
Germs and the surest bulwark against
anti-republican tendencies" and in
1.-The preservation of the general gov
inner in its whole constitutional
vigor, as the sheet anchor of our
peace at home and safety abroad"
We are opposed to the Capitalization
implied in the suggestions, now fire.
quently made, that the powers of the |
general government should be extend
ed by executive n legislative action
and by judicial construction. There
is no twilight zone DeIWeen the ma
ton and the state in which exploiting
interests can take refuge from both.
n it is as necessary that the federal
government shall exercise the powers
delegated to it as it is that the state
governments shall use the authority
reserved TO them, but we insist that
the federal remedies for the regulation
of interstate commerce n for the
prevention of private monopoly shall
be added to. not substituted for, state
remedies.
Tariff.
We welcome the belated promise
of tariff reform now offered by the
party in YrecognIuon
of the righteotsness OF the Demo