New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-10-27
EDUCATIONAL
in NEW MEXICO
Democratic Promises and Claims vs.. Republican Pol
icies and Achievements, With a Review of Edu-
cational Benefits Secured for the Schools of New
Mexico by the Republican Party Since Statehood.
A Republican Congress granted

A Republican Congress 0ranteu
statehood to New Mexico.
A Republican President Of the
United States signed the bill
which made New Mexico a state.
Republican members Of Con-
oress secured for the new state a
double allotment of federal lands
\for the schools of New Mexico.
A Republican state land depart
ment has carefully administrated
those potentially rich lands, deveE
opins their riches, developing the
state and making of the lands a
source of revenue for the schools
Of today and an endowment for
The schools Of tomorrow.
a Republican constitutional con-
ventIon, framing the constitution
upon which the new state would
stand, carefully provided for the
boys and girls of New Mexico by
writing into the constitution free
and proper education from the
state as their i%naIienable right.
Three successive Republican
state legislatures, building upon
the foundation laid by the makers
Of the constitution, have enacted
laws to secure more schools, long,
er school terms, better teachers,
better method CT instruction, bet
ter school houses-so that your
children, people Of New Mexico,
whether you live on remote ranch
Or farm or In the centers of popu-
Iation, may have the inestimable
advantages of the best education
to be obtained. And to the contin-
uation and development of such a
policy are the Republican party
and-its candidates pledged.
ANEW MEXICO'S great strides in ed
~ ucation has been one of Governor
". c. McDonald's chief topics in his
speeches in this campaign. Although
hs has taken credit to himself and his
administration for this progress, the
hct is that Governor Mcdonald has
been uttering praise of the Republican
party.
The Republican party is responsible
for the great educational advancement
Of New Mexico since statehood, just
as 1t led the way TO educational en-
l%ightenment and progress during the
days when New Mexico was a strug
Cling territory. apparently forgotten
by the national government.
Governor Mcdonald and his Demo
cratic politicians are not willing to
give credit where credit is due. They
admit the growth of education but
would have the voters believe they are
responsible.
The voters should know the facts:
Official records show that every
Law looking to an extension OF thu
public school system, every move t,
secure better teaching, better schoo
buildings, longer school terms, the
best approved methods of education
and the dissemination of the best
there is in education to the children
Of the poorest, least-populated section
~ Ala nfafo NJ, xynJ1 a- thA xyoY.ap,taro
In more favored communities are at.
tributable directly to Republican legis.
latures.
Do Governor Mcdonald and his pol.
iticians have the temerity to deny It?
There is no denying it. The public
records prove it.
From the first efforts to build up a
school system in he so.called
County unit law" raising the mini
mum school year and enabling the
poorer districts to have the same
amount of education as the richest
districts, was written by Republicans
and enacted by. the 1915 Legislature
, Republican Legislature.
This law, framed and placed on the
books by Republicans, is ra-
as the best piece, of educational
legislation ever enacted in New Mex
loo.
Governor Mcdonald gives It high
praise in his speeches, and would have
you believe that the credit is due him
md the Democratic party.
Far from helping the Republican
legislatures in furthering the advance
n education, Governor Mcdonald, in
he time he has been in office, has &C
ually hindered 1t. He and his Demo
ratio advisers vigorously opposed the
aw enacted by the 1913 Republican
which makes it possible
or communities to secure better
.chool buildings, where their children
nay be comfortably and h~eaIthfulIy
while at their lessons.
Do Governor Mcdonald and his Dem.
'cratic politicians attempt to deny it?
A review Of the educational develop
nent of the state shows that il al.
Ways was the Republican party which
made the fight for school advan
ages TO" the boys and girls of New
Mexico, and it is the Republican party
today that has provided more ana
more advantages for YOUR Chill
and YOUR NEIGHBORS
CHILDREN, and is pledged to con
inue that policy.