El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-08-24
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM ADOPTED
BY CONVENTION WEDNESDAY NIGHT

-NNAH. ILL" IIHMtL
The Republican party Of the State Of
New Mexico, in convention assembl
ed, approving and endorsing the rec,
ord of its party in this State and in
the Nation, as the friend of the PEG.
pie, of labor, OF industry and OF cap
ital, and conforming to the platform
adopted by the national Convention in
Chicago, submits to the people OF
New Mexico this its declaration of
principles.
The Republicans Of New Mexico
recognizing that the cardinal prin-
ciples now before the people Of the
United States, being those Of an adj
equate preparedness of true Americ-
anism against foreign aggression and
an adequate protection OF domestic
Industry and labor, point with pride
to the record of their Senators upon
these two most vital issues.
We endorse in the highest degree
and with the greatest enthusiasm the
nomination of Charles e. hughes for
President of the United States and
Charles w. Fairbanks for Vice-Pres-
ident of the United States made by
the National Convention Of the RE
publican Party held in Chicago. We
believe they should be elected for the
good of the country, for the prosper
ity of the people, for the restoration
OF order in Mexico and resumption Of
business relations with that people,
for the maintenance of better rela-
tions with European nations, for the
better protection of the rights, life
and property of individuals, which we
do not believe the Democratic party,
through its present administration,
has done or they will ever do by any
other administration which might ac-
cidentally be placed in power by it.
catron's Roads
We congratulate the people Of New
Mexico upon having as a member OF
the Committee on Military Affairs of
the United States Senate, the Senior
Senator of New Mexico the Honor
able Thomas B. Catron, who had a
large and most important part in fore
ing upon the present Democratic adj
ministration that measure of pre-
paredness, which, while inadequate,
tends to that measure of prepared
ness to which the Republican party
has committed itself, and we com
mend the Honorable Thomas B. Ca
iron as a member Of the committee
on Post Offices and Post Roads in OBJ
tanning for the State of New Mexico
appropriations for good roads aggreg-
ating the sum of one million three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
and which are now a part of the as
sets Of the State for that purpose.
Fall, Amertcanistt
We congratulate the people of New
Mexico in having as their junior SEN
atOr the foremost exponent of Am
ericanism in the United States SEN
ate as evinced by his constant and
untiring efforts to protect American
lives and property in our %neighboring
country, the Republic of Mexico. And
in endeayoring to protect the people
OF the Republic OF Mexico from a war
upon them such as is the inevitable
result of the present administration,
and in en~deavoring to guarantee to
the people of Mexico the same peace
and prosperity as has come to the
people of the Republic of Cuba under
the Intervention of the United States
by reason of the policies of Presidents
Mckinley and Roosevelt and the adj
ministration thereof by General Leon
ard Wood.
We point with pride to the entire
efforts of both of our Senators in
formulating and the pressing of those
advanced principles in relation to the
public land laws and to the reclama-
ton service of the United States
which are embodied in what is known
as the Fall Bin" and we pledge the
support of the Republican party to
those principles therein enunciated.
Hernandez Real Gentleman
We congratulate the people of New
Mexico IN having as a representative
in Congress of the United States the
Honorable B. G. Hernandez, who by
his untiring energy, gentlemanly de-
meanor, and careful consideration to
the business of his office has reflected
upon himself and the State of his
nativity the utmost credit, and who,
in consequence of his great ability,
was selected by the Republicans Of
the United States to open the Re-
publican campaign upon the Atlantic
sea board.
Boundary
Believing that the first duty of al
State or of a Nation is the protection
of its sovereignty, we recommend to
the Legislature that it appropriate the
necessary funds for judiciaqly determ-
ming the boundary as between the
State of New Mexico and the State
of Texas.
Equal Suffrage
The Republican Party, in National
Convention, reafirming its faith in a
government of the people. for the
people and by the people, has declar-
ed in favor of the extension of the
elective franchise to women, recogniz-
ing the right of each state to settle
this question for itself. The Repub-
lican Party, in New Mexico, accept
ing this suggestion declares in favor
Of the submission to the vote of its
electorate, the question Of a Constitu.
Lional amendment, granting such
franchise to all her adult people,
without regard to sex. e
We endorse the legislation Of the
second Legislature of the State on the
of taxation. BY chapter 81
Of 1915 important progress was
made towards more equal assess
nents, by chapter SIS the equitable
principle of a tax upon mine output
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