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EH PASO HERALD Saturday January 27 1912 The Last Year Of New Mexico As a Territory Was Most Profitable Farmers Made Splendid Crops Fruit Orchards Yielded Abundantly Cattle Had Plenty Of Grass and Wool Clip Was a Big One Politically It Was Most Important In History Of the State As It Marked Its Transformation From Territorial Government New Mexico Scenic Highway La Bajada Hill SXSTX FE N It Jan 27 Political ly 111 has been the most eventful year for New Mexico since the American occupation In January the constitution drafted the year before wu ratified by more than 18000 ma jority in a total of 66000 votes cast Uesplte this overwhelming ratification congress found fault though Taft ap proved and compelled the people to wte on a proposition to make the constitution more easily amendable and this proposition carried on Novem ber 7 the statetobe at the same time ejecting William C McDonald a Demo crat governor electincr four other Democratic candidates to state office dui runng tne majority oi oirtces wit Republicans electing a legislature publirans electing a Republican su preme court and a Republican corpora tion commission glsing every proof that New Mexico is Republican by several