Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-03-25
THE SPOILS HUNTERS.
The Latest Political Gossip-A Tip on
EX-G0v. Rosa FightOn Fer
guss0n Inaueurated.

Ex-Judge T.. V. Long is also in Wash
ington hobnobbing with tho statesmen.
1t is understood that ST. ong fight is
being made by Democrats against Fl. B.
Ferguson for governor.
Up to date the nomination of F. p.
Gayle as receiver of public moneys at
Roswell has not been confirmed
1t is said that H. B. Fergusson's free
silver proclivities have been spread out
before Mr.. Cleveland, and hat his chances
for the governorship are Oh the wane.
Hon. H. B. FERGUSON is in the field for
governor, and if he is in the field you
may bet he wants it. We wonder what
the colonel, the judge aud the senator
said when they found it out.-Socorro
Chieftain.
This city has five Democratic appli-
cants at Washington for the five princi-
pal federal offices in this territory. If
they all get scooped, will they ever come
back?-Albuquerque Citize,
! 1t reaches tho New MEXICAN straight
from Washington that ex-Attorney Gen
eral Garland is working hard to secure
for ex-Gov. Ross a disappointment as
governor of New Mexico, and is hope
full that in the ex-governors case the rule
against the 'exes" will not prevail.
1t is reported that Mr.. Clark, of New
York, is an applicant for the governor
ship of this territory. The idea of a
plain "mister' aspiring to govern tho
people of this territory Is not to be Sc
riously Saskatchewan Register.
One by one the statesmen who went to
Washington on and about the 4th of
March are dropping in. They are sadder,
if not wiser men. Only one day last
week our own Il. V. returned, and we
noticed his grip was not bullying out to
any great extent with the U. s. district
attorneys office for New Mexico.-So-
CORE Chieftain.
DR.. L. H. Skipwith is prominent can
didate for the position of U. S. marshal
for this territory. He has first-class rec
concentrations and is man in every way
fitted for the place. This valley deserves
some recognition in the makeup of the
territorial government and We know of
no one more entitled to preferment than
DR.. Skipwith.-Roswell Register.
The NEW MEXICAN states that its
friends, the Democrats, have prepared
a strong protest against J. G. Albright,
editor Of the Democrat at Albuquerque,
being appointed to any federal position
whatever. If the friends of the blacklist
Republican paper in the territory have
done this Cleveland should certainly
know it in time to appoint Albrig hit
Eddy Current.
Hon. VIM. Burns, e1-speaker of the
goth legislative assembly, is circulating a
petition in central southern and eastern
New Mexico for the appointment of q.
M. Shannon, of Clifton, A. T., as collector
of Internal revenue for New Mexico and
Arizona. The New MEXICAN understands
that the petition is being quite numer-
ously signed.
AT the city nominating convention the
other night the Democrats of East Las
Vegas adopted resolution by vote of
~ to IS providing that the candidacy for
the postmastership there be submitted to
a vote of the people, the applicants to be
governed by the result at the polls when
the city election takes place. DR.. Gould
announced that he would not submit his
candidacy to an election, being upon prin-
ciple opposed to that method.