Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-30
DEMOCRAT PLATFORM
Is BASED ON RECORD
OF PARTY IN STATE
CONTINUED from Page one)

ION and not OF record, hence II Will
not be discussed here.
The women of the state are con-
graduated upon their enfranchise-
ment and the hope is expressed in
the democratic platform that they
may be allowed by constitutional
amendment to hold all offices.
Here the congratulation appears
sincere. The democrats have
sought repeatedly to have a suf-
frage amendment submitted. and
on every test OF strength have
shown more sympathy in the fight
to bring about the equal suffrage
rights of women than have the re-
publiCans. The record on suffrage
resolutions has already been given
in this series.
The platform demands taxation
reform, particularly reformation of
the mine tax law. In this conuec-
ton it might be we'll to mention
that the republican platform does
not specifically provide that the
mine tax law shah receive atten-
ton; it merely deals with the tax
alton situation in generalities. The
democratic members of the 1915
legislature cast o few votes for the
mine tax law, but they did it mere
ly because they were powerless to
insist on anything better. Cover
nor Mcdonald himself put his
finger on the joker in the bill and
the democratic members in the
1919 legislature stood solidly be-
hind Fl. b. 1862 which would have
WInpH tho pnnt5ottnhtG lDnA
clause of the 1915 bill.
Favor Primary Law.
The party declares Itself in favor
of a primary law. The attitude of
democrats needs no further proof
than the fact that they now con-
duct their own party primaries on
the eastern side of the state and
also that a democrat has proposed
primary bill at each of the four
state legislatures.
The free text book plank is
again inserted, This has appeared
twice before, and both times bills
have been introduced asking the
legislature to legalize this system
of extending educational oppor-
tUnities. There is a demand that
SNtitt IiASNlNutlOiio anu DuDllC StIlDOlS
be removed from the pickering in
fluence of politics. Senator Bryant
tried to secure this by his resolu-
ton in 1919 which would have sub
mitted a resolution for a central
lied non-partisan board of control
for the state institutions of learn
ing.
The state land plank asks for
the appointment of a bipartisan
board for their management. mol
bill suggesting this has been in
trodueed in the past, but a number
of democratic suggestions for the
improvement of the land office
have been made.
The Highway Plank.
The public highways plank has
been under fire due to newspaper
errors in publishing an incomplete
platform; yet the democratic stand
is practically for the present sys-
TEN with the expensive county su-
perintendents eliminated.
The democratic labor plank needs |
no elaboration. The party record |
has been unquestionably favorable |
to the labOring man. Such bills as
house bill 23, introduced by Car
ter, democrat, in 1912, an employ |
er's liability measure; senate bill |
125, of Evans, democrat, 1912, linn |
iting the hours of employment for
females; house bill 100, proposed |
in 1915, by Ryan, democrat, abol- |
ishing the employers historic de- |
fences in liability actions; senate !
bill 70, 1915 bill by Evans, limit
ing female employment, and senate |
bill 95, an effort in 1919 by Dun. /
lazy, democrat, to establish an |
eight-hour day-these show plain
ly the democratic attitude toward |
the working man.
The democrats have pledged their |
party to a program of adequate pro-
vision, legal and financial, for
health work. They supported this
view by their votes in 1919 on the |
health bill, which they endorsed
strongly, and again in 1920 on the |
special health levy.
Aid For Service Men.
The soldier settlement pledge is
by the action of the
democratic senator's in seeking to
keep the republican majority in
that body in 1919 from destroying
the vitality of the soldier settle
metn bill by rendering it uncon-
When it was rendered
except as a means of
furnishing employment for repub-
licans who were not service men,
the democrats refused to endorse,
the bill, holding as they hold now,
that "all laws passed for the direct
benefit of ex-seryice men and
women, shall be administered for
their benefit by veterans and they
shall not be made sinecures for po-
litical derelicts," The democrats
further showed their attitude by
to stipulate that all
of the mounted police
force, exclusive of the captain,
should be ex-service men.
Whether by the exercise of ex-
IRENE care or by political accident,
the democratic platform hardly
contains a plank upon which the
record does not substantiate the
promise. One or two new planks
have made their appearance, but in
the main, the principles are the
ones for which the party has been
standing ever since statehood
waiting for an opportunity to con-
troll the machinery Of government
and effect their reforms.