Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-27
G. 0. P. 1920 STATE The
PLATFORM LIST OF
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proposal of Bafth, democrat, tC
submit the suffrage amendment tC
the electorate. The 1916 state
platform of the republican party
promised ito submit to the vote of
the electors the question extending
franchise to all adult people with
out regard to sex" Can Judge
Mechem show where this pledge
was carried out? Certainly not, but
he can find where the 1917 legis-
lature, republican, controlled, voted
down the suggestion that women be
given q franchise limited to voting
on constitutional amendments, the
democrats voting for the bin two
TO one and the republicans against
ii in the same ratio. The 1919
house resolution for a suffrage
amendment was defeated by a pre-
ponderance of republican negative
votes.
On Other Rights for Women.
The 1920 state platform recon-
mends a change in the law of guar
dianship which will provide that
the father and mother shall be
Joint and equal guardians of their
children, In 1912, Barth, democrat,
proposed a law giving equal prop
erty rights to women. In 1915 he
suggested one law giving women
equal rights in community prop
erty and another to allow a wife
to dispose by. will of her share of
community property. The bills all
failed, and while they do not di-
rectly relate to guardianship, they
show, with the suffrage vote the
republican attitude toward women,
I'VE favor n system of taxation
which will place the burden OF
taxes equally upon ALL" That is
another plank from the 1920 repub-
lican state platform. Here is one
from the 1911 republican state
platform: I'VE pledge the party to
correct the evils and inequalities of
the present system of assessment of
property for taxation" Why should
the 1920 plank be necessary? The
1911 pledge is still unredeemed.
The chief, result of the intervening
nine years is the tax commission
bill and the tonnage tax law with
its joker clause for the exemption
of contiguous mineral lands,
Another Unredeemed Pledge.
I'VE favor a direct primary law
for the nomination of all county
candidates and the selection of del
egates to state and district con-
ventions" from the 1920 plat
form. We respectively refer
Judge Mechem to the fact
that the 1915 republican con-
trolled legislature refused to pass
house bill 1913, providing that state
and district officers be nominated
at delegates conventions and the
delegates thereto and all county Of
ficers be nominated by direct pri-
mary, The democrats supported
the plan then; q primary plank
is in their platform now.
Another plank from the repub-
lican state platform; I'VE are in
favor of the conservation of our
natural resources and pledge the
party to the enactment
of such laws as will safeguard the
state forest lands and prevent their
Compare that plank
with the recent timber sales con-
Quoted by republican commission
ers of public lands, or ask officials
of the forestry service what is be-
ing done to state forests,
Attitude Toward Labor.
Here is sentence in regard to
labor: I'VE insist upon such legis-
lation as may be necessary to reg
ulate the hours and conditions of
labor of women, and We favor the
of a child labor law that
will protect children from such
labor as will interfere with their
education or their moral and phys
zeal growth" That is the greatest
joker in the whole document. The
entire republican record on labor
legislation is reviewed by detail In
the Morning Journal for October
20. A few instances will suffice
here. ~
On the child labor score, there
have been II. b, 116 of 1912, S. d.
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