The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1910-08-26
Republican Candidates for the
Constitutional Convention.
PLATFORM.

publican Party of Chaves County in
the Campaign for constitutional
Delegates Ending Sept. 6, 1910.
We, the delegates to the Republican |
County convention held August 6, 1910,
set forth the following as a declara-
ton of principles binding our dele
gates, and which should be contained
in the constitution of the new state Oh |
New Mexico:
/. The Constitution should absolute
ly prohibit gambling in all forms, and |
we favor a provision in the COnsti
tuition of New Mexico for statewide
and we condemn the so-called local
option as a saloon make-shift.
2. 1t should provide absolute pro-
lection for vested rights of all kinds,
from the most modest holdings of the
poor man to the largest interests of
rich men, and there should be no I'M
Just discrimination against corpora
prohibition, thus settling the question
of the saloon and the liquor traffic,
lions organized for the purpose of help
full industry or enterprise. In other
words the same careful protection that
is extended to the individual shall be
extended to the corporations.
3. 1t should provide for a Utility
Commission, to be elected by the peo-
pie, whose duty it shall be to maintain
an oversight over and properly cor
rect the iates and charges of all car
riers and utilities, and whose deci-
sion shall be final, except, of course,
normal appeal to the supreme court
A. 1t should provide for a compre-
hensive system of direct primaries
and a system of elections that will
insure the electors a fair expression
of their will in both primary and
major elections. The use of money or
undue influence of any kind shall
constitute a felony.
5. 1t should abolish absolutely the
fee system for county officers, pro,
viding in it's place an equitable sys-
tenn of salaries, the income OF the
various offices passing direct to the
people. Under this plank it is meant
that the people shall pay no more
for service than would be paid in or,
binary business.
6. There should be a general ano
positive system of tax reforms, the
base of which should be assessment
by voting precincts, and the abolition
of the office of county assessor, the
return of an honest valuation on ex
actly the same ratio with the man who
has little and the man who has much
concluding with the enforced collec
ton of every cent of tax imposed.
Z. 1t should provide for a system O
judiciary based as closely as possible
upon that in use in other states, tn,
base of which should rest upon tn,
aIaaffOn nf oil i,1duas hxr +Lo
for long terms, at a time when NJ
other issue is pending
8. We believe that the Constitution
should be as short and clear as posi-
BILE, providing for the usual neces
sary divisions of government, and leav
ing to the legislature all plainly sta
tutory matters. The section fixing tn
powers of the legislature in this di
rection should be very plainly out
lined, as should the right of the pee
pie to amend the constitution in a rea
sonable manner in such rational wa
as Is recognized by the best governe
states in the union
8. We are squarely opposed to tn
placing in the constitution of untrue
phases of governmental policy, an
insist that the document be broa
enough to admit the adoption of neces
sary reforms by legislative enactmen
when the trend Of the times make
it advisable.
10. We believe in the fullest D. {
lection and extension of the educs
tional system of the state, that eve:
school should be taught in the Ems
fish language the use Of other tor
CUES being purely supplemental an
optional
II. We believe in the equal prC
lection of capital and labor, and III
fullest recognition of the rights of III
individuals, with special privileges I
no man or combination of men.
IL. We insist that there shall neye
be in the state of New Mexico an