Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-10-11
GRANTS GRIST.
Democracy Steadily Gaining Ground
-SOre-Head Lindaner and His
Pops Not in 1t.
Correspondence New Mexican,

Correspondence New Mexican.
Silver City, Oct. S.-The Populist con-
vention is over and the candidates who
expect the suffrage of the voters of this
county are now all before the people.
The true inwardness of the Populist move
is out and it is apparent to the most OBJ
tuse that the Populist leaders are trying
to down the Democratic ticket, in fact
all the nominees are men who have with
in the past few weeks been training with
the Democrats and they will poll con-
siderable larger Democratic vote than
they will get from the Republicans.
The strength of the Populists has been
very much over-estimated and 1t is doubt
full whether they will poll one-fourth as
many votes as they are claiming. The
call for the convention provided for 23G
delegates, but there we're less than 100
present and the majority of these were
from points within ten miles of Silver
City. Some of the delegates in the CON
vention openly boasted that they were
going to disrupt the Democratic party in
Grant county.
Lindaner, of Deming, who was until
this year one of the most troublesome
men in the Democratic party in the
county, is the boss of the new party. The
nominations were made in accordance
with his plans although he had a little
opposition from some of the delegates
who jected to being led around by the
nose. A Majority of the delegates in the
convention, however, wore the Lindaure
collar without even so much as mur-
mur.
Lindauer is especially bitter against
the Democrats on account of the fact that
he has been effectually downed in the
Dem ocratic conventions here for the
past four years, and now he is trying to
play even, but the solid Democrats of the
county are going to work with renewed
energy to show the boss of the new party
that he is not so mighty as he imaglnes.
The Democratic candidates have seen
most of the voters of the county already
and the prospects for the success of the
tion in the western part of the county.
In many of the precincts the PopuIists
were unable to get man to act as dele
gate to the convention ard these pre-
cincts were left blank when the central
committee was named. 1t is expected
that the greatest detection from the
ranks will be at Deming, but the number
of followers of Lindauer there has been
very much over-estimated. After all the
hurrah there could only be dozen men
found in the precinct who would come to
the convention and it is very doubtful
whether there will be three dozen votes
cast for the Popullst ticket in the pre-
cinct next month.
Lindauer would like to be able to hang
the scalps of Ed Young, Baylor Shannon,
G. W. Miles and one or two Others at his
belt after the election, but he will not be
able to do so. Miles has gone into the
to win and he is a worker.
Shannon is making friends wherever he
goes His election is certain by good |
majority and SO is that of Young; in fact,
there is no reason why every candidate
on the Democratic ticket should not be
elected.
There is but little money in the cam
paign on either side but for all that the
will be one of the liveliest in
the history of the country. Nothing will
be left undone to elect solid legislative
ticket from this part of the territory as
was done two years ago and there is
every reason to believe that the county
will be carried by Joseph. j.