Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-10-06
POLITICAL GRIST.
Felix Martinez and the District Clerk
ship-Newsy Notes Picked Up
s'94 Among the Politicians.

The dispatches from Washington an
nounce that the appointment of Chief
Justice Thos. Smith was confirmed by the
senate yesterday. The new chief justice
will probably secure his commission to-
day and start tonight or tomorrow for
New Mexico. The district court which
opens on Monday in Colfax county will
doubtless be opened by the sheriff and
adjourned from day to day until Wedues-
day, by which time it is thought Chief
Justice Smith will arrive at Springer.
He may take his oath of office before any
justice of the peace in the territory, and
Justice Keenan,: of Springer, will doubt
less be called in to administer the oath of
Office to him.
The contest over the clerkship of the dis
trict court under the new chief justice, Col.
Thos. Smith, wakes hot. There has been
some doubt expressed among many as to
whether or not R. w. Webb is really a
candidate for the place. The New Mex
loan learns positively that he is. The
statement that the new justice has not
committed himself on the matter of the
clerkship may have been correct few
days ago, but the situation has changed
now and it comes very direct that
Hon. Felix Martinez has got in on the
ground floor and is pushing candidate
for the clerkship, whose pole Is very like
ly going to knock the persimmon. The
dear people will naturally conclude that
j. L. Lopez, of Las Vegas, is Mr.. Mar
tinez candidate, but such is not the case
by joyful; at least not at this writing.
In TACT, it is said if Mr.. Martinez himself
wants the place he can get it.
An applicant for the west side post
Office, who wrote to Senator George, of
Mississippi, about the preferment, re-
ceived letter in reply that he, the appli-
cant, had as much, or more, influence
with the present administration as he,
the senator, had-indeed, Senator George
went SO far as to say in his letter that he
couldn't even get q fourth class post
mastership in his state at the hands of
Mr.. Cleveland. How about the appoint
ment and confirmation of our Mr.. Hem
ingway, to be U. s, attorney, Ell? Or
was this appointment to office made be-
fore matters became so warm, over the
repeal bill, at the seat of the national
government?-Las Vegas Optic.
The Optic was mistaken the other day
in speaking of the appointment of Fila
delfo Baca as the first federal appoint
ment from San Migul county; for the
simple reason that the position of second
clerk to the Mexican legation, which was
given Mr.. Baca, is not federal appoint
ment at all. 1t was made by Minister
Gray, and was secured for Mr.. Baca by a
Las Vegas friend, working through in
huential eastern channels. San Miguel
county has yet to attract the attention of
the federal Observation-Disclosures.
W. A. Thompson, of Folsom, an old
time resident of that part of New Mex
leo, is a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for sheriff of Union county.
The Democratic county committee of
Union county meets in Clayton to-mor-
row for the purpose of consultation and
calling convention for the nomination
of ticket for Union county.
There is good deal of fight over the
next postmaster at Ration; among the
candidates are: Hon. Robert Bland,
John Bcrringer, George Mccormick, V.
j. Thomas and Miss Agnes Lee.
Demetrio Chaves, we'll known mer-
chant OF La Mesilla, is being urged for
appointment to the vacancy of the board
of regents of the agricultural college at
Las Cruces, caused by the death of W. L.
Rynerson.
Hon. Thos. P. Gable, of Santa Fe, is
said to be an applicant for the position
of clerk of the court Of this judicial dis
trict. His selection would please the
people of this section of New Mexico, re-
CARELESS of politics. Bange.