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NEW JERSEY. 



NEW MEXICO. 



pursuits. We favor such legislation as will protect 

 the people of New Jersey from the imposition of un- 

 just rates for the transportation of freight, charged in 

 order to cover losses incurred by common carriers in 

 their competition for business to and from points in 

 other States. 



The Republican State Convention met on 

 October 5, and nominated Benjamin F. Howey 

 for Governor. The platform contains thirteen 

 declarations, as follows : First, reaffirming ad- 

 herence to Republican principles; secondly, 

 declaring the party to be the defender of 

 American labor, and protesting against im- 

 ported contract labor ; thirdly, pledging sup- 

 port to every just measure sought by organized 

 labor; fourth, favoring equal taxation; fifth, 

 declaring agriculture to be the foundation of 

 the nation's wealth ; sixth, in favor of gener- 

 ous pensions and the continuance of Union sol- 

 diers in public office; seventh, demanding pro- 

 tection for the Jersey fisheries; eighth, pledg- 

 ing the party to the principle of anon-partisan 

 judiciary ; ninth, for the redemption of the 

 trade dollar at face value ; tenth, arraigning 

 the Democracy for its disposal of Federal of- 

 fices ; eleventh, against unjust discrimination 

 in freight transportation ; twelfth, declaring in 

 favor of the "submission of the question of the 

 regulation, control, or prohibition of the liquor- 

 traffic to the votes of the people at elections 

 specially provided for this purpose " ; thir- 

 teenth, pledging hearty support to the candi- 

 date of the convention. 



The Prohibition State Convention met in 

 Newark on May 28, and nominated Clinton B. 

 Fiske for Governor. The following are the es- 

 sential portions of the platform : 



Rtsolved, That we reaffirm our allegiance to the Na- 

 tional Prohibition party, and favor both State and na- 

 tional constitutional prohibition of the importation, 

 manufacture, and sale of all alcoholic beverages, and 

 the enforcement thereof by appropriate legislation ad- 

 ministered by officials thoroughly in sympathy with 

 the same. 



That it is good law, reason, and logic, that all who 

 aid, abet, procure, hire, counsel, or in any way assist 

 in the commission of a crime, are guilty of the crime, 

 though not present at the commission thereof, and 

 therefore we affirm that all who license, or in any way 

 fiivor the continuance of this traffic, and all Legisla- 

 tures which license, and all political parties which fa- 

 vor license, and all men who vote for parties which 

 license, or for parties which will not declare for pro- 

 hibition (where there is a Prohibition party), do make 

 themselves accessory to the liquor crime and equally 

 guilty with the-man who carries on the traffic. 



That we sympathize with every proper effort of the 

 wage-earner to improve his moral, social, and financial 

 condition. But we declare that total abstinence for 

 the individua^ and the prohibition of the liquor-traffic 

 by the State, he at the threshold of labor reform. 



We do not and can not treat labor as a class ; but 

 every species of violence, corruption, and fraud is the 

 common enemy of all the people, and we denounce as 

 the common enemy of mankind all those who resort 

 to violence by explosives or other weapons, and all 

 those who secure land-grants or special privileges, or 

 exemption from taxation, or other improper legisla- 

 tion by corruption of public bodies, or by the use of 

 money corruptly in elections ; and all those who 

 wreck railroads, water-stock, and under color of laws 

 obtained by corrupt practices and orders made by cor- 

 rupt judges, plunder the innocent under cover of law 



all these, whether millionaires or beggars, are equal- 

 ly anarchists, nihilists, and public criminals, togeth- 

 er with all who aid, abet, or consent to profit by such 

 corruption/ 



That we favor equal taxation of all property, cor- 

 porate and individual, at the same rate where located, 

 by general laws, according to the Constitution ; and 

 we denounce as suicidal to free and equal government 

 the idea that any corporation can have any contract to 

 be forever exempt from equal taxation. 



That we favor the free competition of railroads, and 

 oppose any attempt to repeal or limit the operation of 

 the general railroad laws. 



That we demand the enactment of laws requiring 

 that physiology and hygiene, with special reference to 

 the effect of stimulants and narcotics on the human 

 system, be taught in our public schools. 



The result of the vote on November 2 was 

 as follows : Democratic, 109,939 ; Republican, 

 101,919; Prohibition, 19,808; scattering, 23. 

 Two Democrats (Fourth and Seventh Districts) 

 and five Republicans were elected to Congress. 

 The Legislature, when it met in 1887, consisted 

 of 12 Republicans and 9 Democrats in the Sen- 

 ate, and 26 Republicans, 31 Democrats, and 

 2 Labor men in the House, with one vacant 

 seat, for which a tie vote had been cast at the 

 polls. 



NEW MEXICO. Territorial Government The 

 following were the Territorial officers during 

 the year: Governor, Edmund G. Ross; Sec- 

 retary, George W. Lane ; Auditor, Trinidad 

 Alarid; Treasurer, Antonio Ortiz y Salazar; 

 Attorney-General, William Breeden. Supreme 

 Court: Chief- Justice, Elisha V. Long; Asso- 

 ciate Justices, William H. Brinker and Will- 

 iam F. Henderson. N. B. Laughlin claimed 

 to be Attorney - General by appointment of 

 Gov. Ross, while Mr. Breeden held under a 

 commission from Gov. Sheldon, the predeces- 

 sor of Gov. Ross. The Supreme Court recog- 

 nized Mr. Breeden as the de facto Attorney- 

 General. 



Political. The Republican Territorial Con- 

 vention met at Las Vegas on the 6th of Sep- 

 tember, and nominated Joseph W. Dwyer as 

 candidate for delegate to Congress. The fol- 

 lowing are extracts from the platform : 



That we arraign the Democratic Administration for 

 its failure in keeping its promises of civil-service re- 

 form. That its promises to the people of this and 

 other Territories to appoint residents thereof to fill the 

 several Federal offices have been repeatedly and per- 

 sistenly broken. 



We charge that the land officials appointed for this 

 Territory, disregarding their oath of office, in defiance 

 of the law defining their duties, without evidence, 

 without investigation, without even ex-parte inquiry, 

 and without a single tact to justify their allega- 

 tions in declaring 'in official reports and in public 

 prints that 90 per cent, of all the real estate owned IJ 

 citizens of this Territory was obtained by fraud, th: 

 titles to land in small and large bodies are worthless, 

 are guilty of a gross misrepresentation, and that such 

 declarations are false, and made for political effect. 



We arraign the national Democratic Admini^tratipi 

 for its hurtful and persistent disregard of the material 

 interests of the great Western States and Territories 

 of the United States. It raised the small-pox si 

 over our Territory and other Territories and S 

 in the West by suspending the issuance of patents t 

 lands upon which final proof had been made in more 

 than 30,000 cases, regardless of whether they were 



