Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1894-09-21
And TWAS DONE.
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Oilti-
cal News.
Special to the New Mexican.
Socorro, N. NJ, Sept. 2l.-The terri
torial Republican convention concluded
its labors here late last evening and the
delegates left during the night for their
respective homes. The NEW MEXICAN is
to be congratulated upon the fact that it
was
THE ONLY NEWSPAPER
that yesterday announced the result, viz:
the nomination of Thos. B. Catron, the
we'll known Republican boss of Santa Fe,
to be the Republican party's candidate
for delegate to congress. In this vicinity
Dem ocrats and Republicans alike are to-
day complimenting the New MEXICAN
upon the clever scoop" and its enter
prise in publishing well executed
double column likeness of the nominee.
ENTERTAINING INCIDENTS.
There are very many entertaining Incl
dents connected with the work of, this
convention. The plans of everybody
miscarried, and as a result there were, to
the observer on the inside, many comlca!
Incidents. At times the scenes became
dramatic in the extreme.
Six counties from the southern part Of
the territory came here with the avowed
intention of defeating the schemes that
had been concocted by Mr.. Catron, and
their favorite candidate was j. A. Ancheta,
of Grant county. These delegates had
sworn loyalty to Ancheta first, last and
all the time, and purse of $4,000 had
been raised by his friends in Grant and
Eddy counties to aid him in the campaign
in case he was successful in the conven-
ton. W. A. Hawkins, Judge }. D. Bail,
Richard Mansfield White and men of that
stamp were
BACK OF ANoHErA.
On the other hand MIR. Catron had come
on still hunt. He carried in his pocket
eleven proxies from Rio Arriba county
and the delegations from Santa Fe, Taos,
Dona Ana and Valencia were at his COM
mard. Now Mr.. Catron was not actually
candldate-only on certain iron-clad
conditions. He had repeatedly informed
his friends that he was not candidate,
and had thus led many of his supporters,
such as Alexander, of Socorro, Pedro
Perea, of Bernalillo, and others into max
ing other combinations; but Mr.. Catron
DID WANT TO NAME THE NOMINEE,
and he thought his friends would stand
by him to this extent. In this he seems
to have been fooled. After Catron came
upon the ground, and became aware that
his program not to be candidate him
self but to name j. Frank Chavez as the
nominee, was meeting with very deter
mined opposition, then he took another
tack and would consent to take the nom
ination upon one condition only-tha'
was that it should be rendered to him not
only unanimously but spontaneously;
NO OTHER NAME THAN HIS,
he argued, was to be in any manner as
sociated with the deliberations of the
convention; in other words, the nomina.
tion was to be rendered him on polish
ed platter of gold, with no trimmings.
How we'll the plans of "that ancient
statesman" as Judge Warren terms him
carried in the long run will appear latel
on.
When Chairman r. E. Twitchell, after
calling the convention to order, stated
that adjournment would follow for the
purpose of going into
"a CAUCUS OF TIE WHOLE"
or words to that effect, there was q per
coptible frown on the faces of many o
the delegates. ."Whet in hades do the.
want to caucus for?" queried many
Well, the boss had willed it, so they wen
into caucus. This didn't last long. An
cheta's friends didn't like it at all, nor
did Miguel A. Otero's supporters; the.
could see on the surface that it was I
Catron- Chavez scheme to entangle some
body, so shortly after the caucus wa
called to order southern member spranl
to his feet, moved to adjourn and it wa
carried with whoop.
When the convention reassembled yes
terday afternoon the Catron.Chave;
crowd we're pretty
MUCH At SEA,
still Mr.. Catron had some hopes of STAN
peding the convention, at the prope
time, to the support of his man Friday
j. Frank Chavez. His mind WAS quickl.
disabused of this idea, however.
When the time came for making nom
nations the following got into the fielt
and "busted" Catron's polished gold plat
; ter proposition into thousand pieces:
THE NOMINATIONS.
Bernalllo county, being first on tn
list, through Pedro Perea and seconded
by Editor Thos. Hughes, placed in nomi
nation ex-Judge W. D. Lee.
]. "A. Ancheta, of Grant county, wal
placed in nomination by W. A. Hawkins
of Eddy, seconded by Don H. Kedzie ant
Judge Bail, of Grant
Miguel A. Otero, of San Miguel county
. was nominated by NJ. Salazar, of Las We
gas, and seconded by Margarito Romero
of San Miguel county.
G. Wash. Pritchard, of Las Vegas ant
t White Oaks, was nominated by Delegat
Sparks, of Roswell, seconded by MI
Barber, of Lincoln county.
Silas Alexander, of Sierra aud Socorr'
. county, was nominated by Elias Bacs ant
: seconded by DR.. Martin, both of Socorro
J. Frank Chavez, of Valencia, was nom
Z mated by Max Luna and seconded b.
Guadalupe Otero, of Valencia.
t THE BALLoT1Na.
:, The nerve of the several delegates II
> presenting these nominations almostt
Catron's breath away. He hustled for