Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-01-25
GOV. PRINCE AND SANTA PE.
A Review of the Situation of Inter
est to Santa Feans.
How the Albuquerque Citizen Looks
at the Matter and Its Com
meuts Thereon.

There is prevailing impression tina
Gov. Prince is So identified with SAINT
Re and so enamored of that place ant
it's people that he would support tina
town under all circumstances, ever
against the public interest and the public
will. But is this true, and is there really
any foundation for such an idea? HI
has no special reason to care for thai
town, and is certainly not under obliga
ton to Its people, in any way or manner
fact quite the reverse. The dominant
influence there has been opposed to him
politically, from first to last, and has ac'
corded him hardly decent treatment per.
sonaly. He came to New Mexico with
modern, progressive ideas, and accus-
toned to fairness and principle in poll
tics, and he found at Santa Fe a condition
of things exactly the reverse of all this.
So there was at once natural antagon-
ism.
When he was first proposed for the
nomination for delegate in 1882, Berna-
lilo, Socorro and several other counties
supported him cordially, but Santa Fe
opposed him, vigorously and viciously,
and though he had clear majority of the
delegates legally chosen to the convention
enough of his friends were deprived of
seats, through the influence of that coun-
ty, to leave him in the minority and lose
him the nomination., man who is a
politician doesn't soon forget "favor"
of that sort.
In 1854, when they found it impossible
he was nominated, only half the delegates
from Santa Fe supported him, and all the
old gang-or "old guard" if you think it
sounds better--were his bitterest enc
mics; they kept up the bolt to the end Of
the campaign, and we're responsible for
his defeat. A man who is in politics re-
members a "favor" of that sort for long
time.
When he was a candidate for the posi-
ton he now holds he had no supportfrom
his own county. All the Republican lead
ers of Santa Fe were for Dryer or Nor
rison-and the governors memory is still
pretty good.
At the Silver City convention last
spring, the solid delegation from Santa
Fe were against him, even those who were
under obligations to him, and who were
living from appointments he had given
them, unblushingly turned against him.
And the same thing was true in the mat
ter of choosing delegates tc the Las We
gas convention later in the year. Do you
suppose the governor has forgotten all
this!
In short the political machine at Santa
Fe has been "dead set" against Prince for
a dozen years, and has opposed him at
every step, while devoted friends in nearly
all other parts of the territory, and es-
pecially in Albuq uerque, have as persist
emily and faithfully stood by him. Does
anybody think the governor does not re-
member these thingsS
Notwithstanding this persistent and
relentless hostility toward him by the
Santa Fe people, he has never missed an
opportunity to work for the good of his
town. He was one of the originators of
the Board of Trade, he devoted months
to the ''Tertio Millennial" celebration in
1888, and has been active in every pro-
gressive movement in that town to this
date. For ten years, at least, he mas done
more to keep Santa Fe alive than any
other citizen of the place, but his most
important service was probably that of a
year ago, in getting the troops and band
sent back to the town after all other ef-
forts to that effect had failed. Santa Fe
was as dull and dead as the grave, when