The Clayton citizen. [volume] (Clayton, Union County, N.M.) 1906-19??, 1916-08-31
ADDRESS OF ACCEPTANCE BY
BURSUM is CHALLENGE TO
GOVERNOR MCDONALD
Republican Candidate for Chief Exec
utive Sounds Keynote of His
Party for State Campaign;
Attacks Record of Men
Who Beat Him 1911
Gentlemen of the convention:

Gentlemen of the conventions:
am not unmindful of the high
compliment you have paid me and the
expression of confidence which you
repose by selecting me as your can
didate for governor. l accept this
trust, and shall expend every energy
to the utmost of my ability toward
assisting in carrying the republican
banner to victory. With a united
party, aggressive and constant devo-
tion in behalf of our cause, we have
every reason to feel confident that on
the 7th day of November next at
the close of the polls the republican
ticket from top to bottom, as nomin-
ated in this convention, will be trium-
phant.
This is republican year. The vot-
ers of the United States look to the
republican party for constructive
policy, for such action as will pro-
mote the progress and prosperity of
the people. This is but natural. After
nearly four years of democratic ad-
ministration the democrats have been
found wanting in craftsmanship, in
stability and in vision and American
citizens throughout this land feel hu-
inflated at the results caused by the
vacillating, unstable, changeable,
peace-at-any-price policy of Woodrow
Wilson. Never in the history of the
world has there been so little respect
in foreign lands for the rights of Am
erican citizens. The present chief
I executive of the nation has been on all
sides of all questions, and while the
people might be informed as to his
policy of today, they would be per-
fectly safe to assume that his policy
Of tomorrow would be the reverse.
| Vacillation and uncertainty in the poll
cies of government are calculated to
create distrust, and distrust means
| industrial depression. No nation can
prosper without absolute confidence ir
the stability of the administration Of
the government Here in this state
we have had nearly five years of dem
ocratic rule. The people are tired anC
restless of the do-nothing policy o.
,o Governor Mcdonald. During thes,
q five years not one sentence of con
"a structive legislation has been pro
- posed by your chief executive. Unde
the construction of this state the leg
islature and the executive are consti
tuted as the law making body of tn
state, the accepted theory being tina
tn there should be cooperation and con
sultation between the executive an
We the legislature. Yet during these fiv
nd years not one ounce of the spirit q
in cooperation has been exhibited by tn
ls- chief executive of this state. The po
lrt icy of Governor Mcdonald has bee
ill to shirk and shrink every responsible
,u- ity. He has been content to draw h
est salary and sit back on his dignity fint
,ss ing fault with that which others ha,
done and to exercise his prerogati,
re- of the veto.
am My friends, no progress can
of made, no new development can be e
IN. pected, either in government or il
md dustry, except by and through a CO.
for structive policy: 1t is only throue
md this sort of policy that mistakes a
er. ascertained. Mistakes we have ma,
in in the past and mistakes we will NAL
nd in the future, and these mistakes c;
Ike only be rectifed through experience.
be The democratic administration HI
is been scandalously negligent in Il
ck- supervision of our state banking i
nee stitutions and in. some causes tn
inp have not only failed to see that Il
ire. law was observed but have actual
err aided in an attempt to bolster up u
worthy institutions at the expense
the depositors. In Las Cruces the C
at izens of Dona Ana county were tC
ght by democratic officials that the FIJI
eek, State bank was solvent They we
and told this in the face of the fact tn
Irs. the governors tf0Veling audito
ned force well knew that the bank "
oOd hopelessly insolvent and the treasul
of the Agricultural college was POI
ing in state money with one hand a
ties drawing overdrafts with the 9th