Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-04-19

/ { commercial club, town trustees Of Las
Vegas and Mr.. Salazar, vice.president OF
the board Of Worlds fair managers That
opinion must be one Of mingled pity and
| contempt, According to the published
report Of the board proceedings at their
last meeting, Mr.. Salazar's IS cZarlike ukase
was ignored so far as all the counties in
the territory are concerned. The mis-
guided aEdsfooish individual insisted that
San Miguels feather headed females
should rule the Worlds fair work in the
whole territory Mrs. Bartlett's resigna-
ton was not acted upon, which was un-
| inst to her and to her supporters. We,
are left without leader; We are brought
to "halt' when forced marches"
were necessary to bring us to our camp.
70 show that the action of the teri.
torial board in refusing to support Mrs.
Bartlett, will, eventually. act as a boom.
erang on the women and the men who
have thrown it, lquote from one OF many
letters | have received "At our last
meeting alluding to two mischief
makers-"to!d our chairman they
respected her old age, but that was all
they did respect her for, and when the
secretary's report was read giving honor
to Mrs. Bartlett, they hissel and spit and
said consider the source - Does any
sensible man or woman suppose that
women of that caibre can do our terri
tory aught but harm and that the rebound
will not come?
The petition gotten up in Las Vegas
was signed, in some instances, as WAS q
recent Albuquerque petition, and the end
OF neither one is yet. 1t is poor excuse,
from either man or woman, that their
names were appended without Il close
Inspection of the article, but six OF the
Las Vegas signers admit that and others
say the same thing. The petition
taken around here, to private houses and
public offices, was not presented at the
board meeting, according to the report,
but ii it had been, two, at least, OF the
slgners would have emphaticaIly repu-
dated the thing if it was duplicate-in
sense or wording-of the Las Vegas dis
graceful scheme, and their dispatches
were at hand to offset any treachery. |
do not know that it will ever again be |
necessary for me to write Of this shame
inl intriguing in our territory, which has
placed Us all in such an unenviable posi- |
tion, but il | have to "it will. be as free
lance"
| did not join the Bernalillo county
auxiliary because Mrs. Bartlett was its
head. The brainy, resolute lady was a
stranger to me, and knew of her only
through common report and the rare ex-
acutive ability she had shown. | love
New Mexico and | wanted to work Tor
It's interests, not to boom gang Of ad-
venturers and blackmalers. New Mex
co is my home and long years before the
whistle OF steam or the song of the light.
ling along the telegraph was heard, or
le" Albuquerque or east Las Vegas were
iieamed Of, | had lain my beloved dead
inder her cloudless skies and had looked
nto the eyes of my first born under
he shadow OF her mountains. 70 me,
New Mexico is moe than hope, it is
memory and shrine, and there is not q
nile OF her length and breadth that is not
lear to me. And | lay down my pencil
egretfnlly and resign my honors gruding-
y, but the time has come when this is the
'nly honorable course lett to those oy al
o Mrs. Bartlett ant her labors. 1t now
les with the territorial board to show
whether it can supply her place. We all
,now that no one can 90 on with her
work as she has mapped it out after
ear and half Of study, but the governor
# New Mexico and his appointees owe it
o US that the grand exhibit she has put
Ter heart and soul into, shall be carried
nut. And they owe US more than that.
md quoting the words of the New Mex
CAN, | will close: "If Chairman Thorn
on and Commissioner Salazar of the
'oard of managers want to know the
easons for this action" etc. =
OLIVE ENNIS HTE,
Chairman Press Com, Of Bernalillo Co.