Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1920-10-28
TO THE VOTERS
Democratic County Committee)

, The 1920 campaign is drawing t.
a close. On next Tuesday the agon,
. will be over. We have carried OF
. fair and clean fight
III, oorn+v democratic ticket will
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The election OF the county ticket
is no "clnch. 1t is OIL great impor'
tance that you get out the vote.
| The Democrats nave submitted the
merits OF this election to the people
OF New Mexico on Two man issues
First, for re,dlstrlctlng the state,
and second, tne revision OF the pres
ent NINE tax law.
The Democratic party has pledged
itself to re-district the state sena-
torial and representative districts on
a fair and just basis.
Under the constitution of New
Mexico this can come up but once
in ten years; or after each federal
census is taken.
At the present time the state is
divided into districts so that the
counties with large Republican ma
jority can control the election of a
majority of the state senator's.
The 10Th district is composed OF
Torrance, Socorro, Oter and Lin
coin counties. Socorro is also in
three other districts and Socorro
usually goes Republican by seven
or eight hundred majority. And
while we, here in Torrance county
will vote for either DR.. Jameson or
Fred Ayers Socorro Will vote on
three candidates. Now, this is but
sample OF how the Republicans
have deprived the Democrats OF this
state proper representation.
For years the Republicans and
Democrats of Torrance county have
condemned this, and no one has ev-
er defended it.
On next TUESDAY. the voters Of
Torrance county will have a chance
to do the only effective condemn
ing of vicious districting that they
have ever had.
No voter in Torrance county need
expect the correction OF this wrong
by the Republican party. The Repub-
lican party stands pledged to the con-
tlnuatlon of this outrageous law.
The candidates Of the Republican
party for senator and representa-
tive in this district and county have
never indicated to the voters Of this
county whether they, if elected, will
be in favor of giving the people of
the county fair representation, or
whether they Will be bound by eau
Gus rule. Both the Democratic par
ty and its legislative candidates,
DR.. Jameson and John W. Corbin,
are pledged to the correction of
this wrong.
So anxious are the Republicans to
perpetuate this wrong that they (for
once) came to Torrance county for |
a candidate and picked one of the
best Republicans in New Mexico as
their senatorial candidate. But he |
stands on the party platform and
has never repudiated the Republican
methods of coercing a majority of |
the voters of New Mexico with the
rrookedest gerrymander that ever
cursed state and made possible
the continuation of the worst "in-
visible" government in the history
Of the nation. The same may be
said OF the candidate for represcn-
tatiye.
The mines of New Mexico pay
TAX on the net profits of their busi-
ness. You and all of us bean farm
ers, stock men and business men
pay on the value of our property,
and it makes no difference whether
we lose money three years out of