Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1911-11-06

Q solute stagnation.
+ These are matters that strike deep
q ly home to every man who works
q to every man who has money to in
, vest, to every man with business
to every man with property. with a
farm, with livestock, in. fact to one
and all of us. They form the great
common ground upon which we all
: stand, our future.
Under republican administration
the state now has a full treasury with
a cash balance on September II 1911
of s592,76S.2
New educational and charitable in
stitutions have been founded; the
former ones rejuvenated and modern
lied until all are today filling the
needs Of the people and are running
with full corps of instructors, within
their income and in fact Fulfilling
the ends for which they were Great
ed.
You have good roads to replaue the
lold cross-country trails of the miner.
prospector, cowboy and freighter.a
You have fine capitol building and
a handsome executive mansion Just
completed. Your various counties
are today in excellent financial shape
where under democratic regime, in
the territory, many of them could not
pay the salaries of their officials be.
cause the people had not the money
to pay their taxes.
These are cold hard facts that can |
be verified from the figures Of the
territorial auditoSs off% and the Of
fee OF the territorial treasurec
When the last democratic admins
tration ended the prosperity of your
educational institutions was worth
about $25O,O00. Today it Is worth in
excess of $2,O0O.O0O and is increasing
in value every day.
We invite your attention to the
fact that the same democrats who
conducted the Thornton adninistra-
tion, who were the leaders of the
democratic party under the last dem
ocratic governor, are the same men
who, in the face of the record they
made then, now ask you to place in
their hands, the conduct of the state !
upon its entrance into the union. Do
you want to start off your new state
with incompetency, debt, ruined
credit, wrecked schools, mismanage |
ment and an empty treasury, with its
people, capital and industries idle
You will answer this question by |
the ballot you cast Tuesday for the
first officers of your new state. We
point for your guidance, to the rec
ord of the republican party on which
it today stands. We point to the
record of the democratic party, about
which you have not heard either their
candidates, their speakers or their
newspapers make single commsnt
during the entire campaign.
AS to the Blue Ballot. The first
essential of government that is to
be a success, is that it must be stable.
The adoption of the Blue Ballot
means that all check, of any kind
whatsoever, is removed and that a
majority of the people voting may
change your constitution at will A
constitution If 1t is worthy of that
name, must be an agreement between
the people that while majority shall
always rule, it shall never rule with
and iron hand against the minority
but that it shall rule according to
the stipuIations set down in your con
stitution, thereby insuring that all
men shall have equal justice before
the law and equal rights at the polls.
The very purpose of constitution
is to restrain the majority; to pro |
tect the weaker against the stronger;
to secure the rights of the minority |
and of the individual This. the con-
stitution you have adopted, absolute
ly guarantees to you. Why then, con-
tinue to risk stable new state,
prosperous new state, settled and
conservative policy, by favoring the
Blue Ballot amendment?
The Blue Ballot is simply a web
disguised attempt TO apply the recall
to your constitution.