The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1910-09-02
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 0.
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 un-
just discrimination against corpora
prohibition, thus settling the question
of the saloon and the liquor traffic,
tions organized for the purpose of help
full industry or enterprise In other
words the same careful protection that
is extended to the individual shall BIZ
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 rates and charges of all car
riers and utilities, and whose deci-
sion shall be final, except, of course,
normal appeal to the supreme court.
4. 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.
b. 1t should abolish absolutely the
fee system for county officers, pro.
viding in its 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.
olnary business.
u. There should be a general and
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
new system to be based upon 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. II should provide for a system of
judiciary based as closely as possible
upon that in use in other states. the
base OF which should rest upon the
election of all judges by the people.
FOR long terms, at a time when no
other issue is pending.
3. 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 the
powers OF the legislature in this di-
reetlon should be very plainly out
lined, as should the right of the peo-
pie to amend the constitution in a rea-
sonable manner in such rational wav
a is recognized by the best governed
states in the union.
.. We are squarely opposed 10 the
placing in the constitution OF untried
phases or governmental policy and
insist that the document be broad
enough to admit the adoption of neces-
sary reforms by legislative enactment
when the trend Of the times makes
1t advisable.
10. We believe in the fullest mn
lection and extension of the educa-
tional system of the state, that eveyv
school should be taught in the Eng.
hsh language. the use of other ton
CUES being purely supplemental ana
optional
II. We believe in the equal pro-
lection OF capital and labor, and the
fullest recognition of the rights Of the
individuals, with special privileges to
no man or combination of men.
IL. We insist that there shall never
be in the state of New Mexico any