520 



NEW JERSEY. 



NEW MEXICO. 



Trenton, May 6, when candidates for presidential 

 electors and delegates to the national convention 

 were chosen. The platform declared the traffic in 

 intoxicating drink to be the crying evil of the day, 

 and demanded its total suppression ; expressed con- 

 fidence in the stability and progress of the Prohibi- 

 tion party ; declared for equal suffrage ; for the 

 extension of civil service ; for the establishment of 

 courts of arbitration to settle disputes between na- 

 tions as well as those between capital and labor ; 

 and for the restraint of monopolies. "Those who 

 vote in favor of any party which recognizes, advo- 

 cates, or upholds the license system are jointly re- 

 sponsible for the results of the liquor traffic with 

 those who are directly engaged in the business." 



The Democrats met in State convention in Tren- 

 ton, May 7, and selected delegates to the national 

 convention. They adopted a platform containing 

 the following declarations : 



"We are in favor of a firm, unvarying mainte- 

 nance of the present gold standard. We are op- 

 posed to the free coinage of silver at any ratio, and 

 to the compulsory purchase of silver bullion by the 

 Government. 



" We believe that the Federal Government should 

 be divorced from the business of banking : we 

 therefore demand the repeal of all laws authorizing 

 the issue or reissue of legal tender or Treasury notes 

 by the Government. 



" We are opposed to any effort to alter materially 

 the present just and conservative tariff." 



The platform favored liberal expenditures for 

 coast defense and for the navy, approved of Presi- 

 dent Cleveland and his stand on the Monroe doc- 

 trine, and advocated recognizing the Cubans as 

 belligerents. 



On Sept. 9 the coriwntion again met in Trenton 

 and selected candidates for presidential electors, 

 and adopted a platform approving the candidates 

 and the platform adopted by the Free-silver Demo- 

 cratic National Convention in Chicago, insisting 

 that the latter was "thoroughly Democratic anil 

 purely American, and with its enforcement we 

 firmly believe that relief will come to the toiling 

 masses and will advance the general prosperity of 

 our country." 



The State convention of the People's party met 

 in Trenton, May 30, and selected delegates to the 

 national convention. The platform urged the na- 

 tional convention to insert a plank in its platform 

 favoring the initiative and referendum, and reaf- 

 firmed the national platform of 1892. 



At a second meeting of the convention in Newark, 

 Aug. 14, a State committee was chosen, which was 

 instructed to name 10 candidates for presidential 

 electors at its first meeting. Resolutions were re- 

 ported which approved the platform and nominees 

 of the People's Party National Convention ; opposed 

 the proposed amendment of the State Constitution 

 to lengthen the terms of office of Senators and As- 

 semblymen ; favored woman suffrage ; and opposed 

 the control of the State's watershed by private cor- 

 porations. In September the State committee sent 

 out this circular : 



" In order to prevent confusion and to save the 

 labor and expense of separate tickets, the People's 

 Party State Committee recommends all Populists to 

 vote the electoral ticket printed for the Democracy, 

 as it will contain the same names which have been 

 chosen by this committee." 



July 6 the State convention of the National Sil- 

 ver party was held in Trenton, when delegates to 

 the national convention were chosen and a declara- 

 tion of principles was adopted, containing the fol- 

 lowing: 



" That this convention demands the free and un- 

 limited coinage of gold and silver at a ratio of 16 



to 1, without the concerted action of other coun- 

 tries. 



"That we denounce the attempt to retire the 

 greenback and Treasury note, together with that of 

 silver, and in their place to substitute interest-hear- 

 ing bonds to the amount of over $800,000,000, upon 

 which to base a national-bank currency, as class 

 legislation of the most infamous nature." 



The Socialist-Labor party held its State conven- 

 tion. Aug. 1, choosing candidates for presidential 

 electors and making congressional nominations in 

 the Second, Third, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Dis- 

 tricts. The platform concluded with these words : 



"The Socialist-Labor party repudiates and warns 

 the toilers of New Jersey against the damnable 

 snares set by the Democratic, Republican, and Pop- 

 ulist parties in the shape of protection, free trade, 

 free silver, and gold standard, to catch the produ- 

 cers of all wealth and to further exploit and rob 

 them of what they produce, and urges the toilers to 

 turn a deaf ear to their cries and rally around the 

 standard of the only party that stands for the 

 emancipation of labor from the competitive system 

 of wage slavery that is crushing humanity to-day." 



The Sound-money Democrats met in Trenton. 

 Aug. 26, appointed delegates to the national con- 

 vention at Indianapolis, authorized the State com- 

 mittee to name candidates for presidential electors, 

 and adopted a platform containing the following : 



" We are in favor of a firm, unvarying mainte- 

 nance of the present gold standard. We are op- 

 posed to the free coinage of silver at any ratio, and 

 to the compulsory purchase of silver bullion by the 

 Government. 



" We believe that the Federal Government should 

 be divorced from the business of banking. 



" We condemn the assault upon and the threat- 

 ened degradation of the Supreme Court of the 

 United States. 



We condemn the approval of mob violence con- 

 tained in the censure of a Democratic administra- 

 tion for suppressing mob violence." 



"The principles announced by the Chicago con- 

 vention and advocated by the candidates that con- 

 vention nominated are not the principles of the 

 Democratic party. Such principles, carried into 

 effect, would dishonor and revolutionize the Gov- 

 ernment. We refuse to support either the platform 

 or nominees of that convention." 



At the election the electoral tickets received votes 

 as follows: Republican, 221,367; Democratic and 

 People's, 133,675 ; National Democratic, 6,373 ; Pro- 

 hibition, 5,614 ; Socialist-Labor, 3,985. The Repub- 

 lican plurality was 87,692, and the whole vote cast 

 was 371,014. Neither the National Democrats, the 

 Prohibitionists, nor the Socialist-Labor party re- 

 ceived the necessary number of votes to enable them 

 under the law to nominate their next State ticket 

 by convention. 



For Congress, the present 8 Republican members 

 were all re-elected, the Republican plurality on the 

 congressional ticket being 87.1-53. 



The composition of the Legislature of 1897 is: 

 Senate Republicans 18, Democrats 3 ; Assembly 

 Republicans 56, Democrats 4. 



NEW MEXICO, a Territory of the United 

 States, organized Sept. 9, 1850 ; area, 122,580 square 

 miles. The population, according to each decennial 

 census, was 61,547 in 1850; 93,516 in 1860; 91,874 

 in 1870; 119,565 in 1880; and 153,593 in 1890. 

 Capital, Santa Fe. 



Government. The following were the Terri- 

 torial officers during the year : Governor, William 

 T. Thornton, Democrat ; Secretary of State, Lorion 

 Miller: Auditor, Marcelino Garcia: Treasurer, S. 

 Eldodt; Adjutant General, G. W. Knaebel ; Solici- 

 tor General, J. P. Victory ; Superintendent of Pub- 



