El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-24
MAYES IS OUT FOR
THE GOVERNORSHIP
Governor Wants
to Be Chief Executive
of Texas.

Austin. Tex, Nov. 24.-Wiu H Mayes,
lieutenant governor of Texas, is in the
ring for the Democratic nomination
for governor For a long time, letters
have been going to the editors Of Tex
as-frOm communicating them how
important and necessary it is to have
a man Of letters" in the executives
chair; now Mr.. MayeS, who publishes
a weekly paper down towards Browns
vile, is out for the job Of chief exec
utive of the state
In part, he says:
Il am a Democrat, a PrOgT essive, and
a PrOhibitionist; Democrat because
I believe not only in the right of the
people to rule, but in their capacity to
do so; Progressive because, while
principles are eternal, new conditions
demand new expedients; Prohibition
ist because believe that the suppress
sion of that which tends materially to
increase vice, immortality and crime is
within the police powers of govern
ment.
"As a Democrat, a Progressive and a
PrOhibitionist I would as governor. re-
Sist any reactionary effort to repeal
the wholesome laws already enacted
in this state; such as the stock and
bond law, taxation of intangible as
sets, the franchise tax, the inheritance
tax, the gross income tax, the anti-free
pass law, the bank guaranty law, our
insurance laws. our public land laws
laws for the protection of employees
enactments to safeguard the purity OF
the ballot box, the direct primary law
our pension provisions, the blue SKY
law, our homestead and property rights
laws, our wholesome local option laws
and enactments regulating the sale OF
intoxicating liquors
some of these laws need amending,
but such amendments should be en-
acted with view TO strengthenlns
them and carrying into effect the pur-
poses for which they were enacted
Education.
4 favor making our common schools
efficient by an increase in the length
of the terms, by including in the cur
riculum instruction in manual training,
domestic science and arts, and the
elementary principles Of scientific ag-
riculture, by the payment of adequate
salaries to teachers, and by using
every effort to place q good common
school within easy reach Of boys and
girls in the humbIest homes OF the
state.
"As governor I would actively en-
deavor to have inaugurated thorough
business system of cond acting our
prisons and peEitentaries aid, at the
same time, would keep in view the fact
that one Of the chief objects OF punish
ment should be the reformation Of the
offender. I believe that our penitenti-
airy system can be made self sustaining
without relaxing humane treatment OF
prisoners.
CORPORATIONS.
Corporations are essential, but they
are the creatures of the law and should
be made to obey the law under which
they are created and exist.
Judicial Reform.
while we are making some progress
in reform in judicial procedure We are
behind the world in our methods.
see no reason why the business OF our
courts should not be conducted in the
same common sense and expeditions
way as is other business.
state and Local Self Government.
'I believe that laws that concern
only a particular county municipality
or communicated as local school
and road laws and municipal charters
should be left to the exclusive con
troll of such county, municipality OF
community. favor constitutional
state wide prohibition OF the manufac-
ture and sale of intoxicating liquors,
and until such a prohibition amend
ment is placed in our constitution faT-
or prohibition by local option and the