Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1911-10-27
AT A SMALL EXPENDITURE
WHILE DERIVING THE BENEFIT,
TAXPAYERS HAVE NOT FELT
THE BURDEN.
COMPARED WITH DEMOCRATS
UNDER REGIME OF DEMOCRATS
ROADS WE'RE MERELY COW
TRAILS OR MUCK HOLES.

In the good old days of the demo
cratic plunderbund and the Thornton
administration, when the same old
gang of democratic bosses who are
now in the saddle. ran New Mexico
with a high hand, they had never
heard of a good road.
I In less than three years, that ad-
ministration had a deficit of $4,000
and an empty treasury.
But under republican regime in
stead of deficit there was on Sep
tember 80, more than $500.00O in the
treasury, no deficit and every de-
partment of the government running
within its income. And in addition
over $4,000 has been extended for
the building of good roads
When you wanted to go anywhere
! in New Mexico in the lays of the
last democratic administra .l0n, you
took the nearest ''trail's 'sapd followed
! it as far as you could. Then steering
by the nearest mountain Or sandhill,
you continued your journey over hills
and arroyos until you finally got
where you wanted to go If you had
luck.
1t was then, all over New Mexico,
as its is today on the great cattle
ranches of the foreign cattle harons,
managed by w. c. Mcdonald. Good
roads, you know, mean that sooner
or later the homesteader will come
along, that sooner or later he will
take up the land, that sooner or later
he will haul his produce to market,
that sooner or later the longhorn and
the cattle barons will have TO move,
| that sooner or later the country will
be settled up with happy homes, itch
acres new people. The dem ocratic
bosses and the foreign cattle barohs
know that; they are not makioE any
promises of good roads.
But under the republican regime in
this territory, since the democrats
have been out Of power, there hove
been constructed about 500 miles cf
ood roads-roads that win be en-
during monuments to the repubH ~
rarty IN New Mexico and that viii
be the pathway for the settler and
| hamestaader into the land.
Down in the democratic county OF
Grant the first work was started, -or
the roads were built where needed
1 noitics did not figure IA her
building The road from Silver City
to Mogollon speaks for itself 1t is
a SILENT testimonial to the republican
5'ty in New Mexico, Ask tie
f-f aten the miner, the mail car
r'An the traveller whoever he may
be. Ask the citizens Of Silver City
and Of Mogolson and the mining
camps away back from the railroads
Grades were cut down, drainage sys
TENS installed and culverts placed
where the mountain torrents once Gu
the trail with arroyos and gulches.
Ninety niles Of road across tht
ps--fecm Roswell to Carrizozo-
r5ece OF work t1at has cost thous
ands Of dollars to both of those
towns. was taken IN and completed
under the Supervision of the terri
toris4 engineer and the road commits
sion, composed of the governor, th'
territorial engineer and the commits
sioner of public lands.
! Once there was haphazard trai
out of Deming and six or seven mile
> to the north. 1t ran across almos
!. impossible sands. Today, under tn
: re ublican good roads propaganda
0 there lis speedway, where the oil
q trail used 60 run, when it was no
5 lburied under the shifting sands as
!. often was a few years ago.
-sssss asssr e<zsf s.zrel Nf
ri Ask the many farmers down tGcf
d --newcomers. most of them, by th
\ way-wAai ahey think efxsood' road