The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1915-06-12
News of the State Capitol

Santa Fe, N. NJ, June 9.-There
will be a very active prohibition
element cutting around in the re-
publican party this coming year or
so, and a few first class political and
personal feuds win be taken from
the local field into the wider state
field. During the late local option
campaign here prominent men cali
ed one another liars, political cut
thrOats, alcoholic thugs, and large
number of other names of equal
meaning, and even worse.
So far as the prohibitionists are
concerned Catron is in bad. 1t is
true that he refused TO appear on
the platform at a public meeting
held by the vets, but it was be-
cause he got nervous, and didn't
like the looks of those selected 10
appear on the platform with him.
Someone old him that a United
States senator was expected to be
fairly clear of certain kinds of polit-
ical mud, and for some unexplained
reason he believed. But he was so
active in forcing the republican Or
ganization into line behind the sa-
looms that he must reckon with the
prohibitionists when he runs forthe
United States senate, if he gets the
nomination, and what those pro-
hibitionists will try to do to him will
be plenty. They say that as he in
iected politics into their prohibition
movement, they will inject prohib--
ition into his politics, and give him
a Knockout dose right at the start
and there are many strong republi-
cans in the open against him.
Reports coming in here from the
different counties indicate a warm
and general protest against the
workings of the "Bursom' tax law
1t never was expected that the law
would work fairly, because it was
passed at the command of those
bosses hanging around the legisla-
ture who had a two-fold object in
view when they wrote tito protect
their corporate interests and cam
paign contributions, while at the
same time discreting the admins
tration of Governor Mcdonald by
fixing the law so it would discrim-
mate against the majority of the
tax payers of the state. But the
tax commissioners have been work
ing on the law until they have made
it as fair as possible so far as its
provisions will permit, and if it was
not for the county salary law, and
a few special appropriation bills
passed by the same legislature, there
would be little or no increase TO the
individual tax payer.
The record show that the state
board of equalization had increased
the assessed valuation of the state
from about S6O,OOO,0OO to more than
S270,000,O0O, and that the railroads,
alone, were raised from valuation
of Si5,6SO,O9l to $28, ,276,823. To meet
the necessary expenses of the state
overnment for the coming two years
it will be necessary that the state
have something more than four
hundred millions of taxable pro-
perty. Anything less than that
mean a deficit.
1t must always be born in mind
that besides the regular appropria-
tions that the legislature paid thir-
ty-five thousand dollars for fifteen
thousand dollars worth of books,
and two thousand dollars for trans
lating laws which former legisla-
lures had already paid for translat-
ing. Such items soon count up, and
materially increase the burden for
the tax payers TO carry.
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