Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-01-03
AT Fort (atrOn.

being thought unWlse TO omit auy 1alr
means of reconciliation.
| At Fort Catr0n.
| Huddled together in rear room of the
Catron block, guarded by shotguns and
amateur soldiery, the Republican mem
bers of the house have for the last twenty
four hours been waiting the commands
Of the boss who presldes on the opposite
side of the building. 1t ia indeed Cat
ron club. The club rooms are two in
number. The clubs meals are furnished
from tho Palace hotel and last night the
members of the club reclined upon bed
ding furnished by the Bon Ton restaurant
and reposed under blankets which were
obtained during the later hours of the
evening from the establishment Of Mr.. A.
Staab. The membership of the club Is
limited to the neighborhood of a dozen.
THE CHARTER
members are the Republican legislative
blymen who were sworn in by Sec
rotary Miller: j. G. Clancy. s. G. Har-
desty. yalento G. de Baca, Vidal MIRA,
Don T. Rankin, Roman A. Baca, Martin
Sanchez, Jose Armijo y Vigil, VIM. E.
Martin, D. P. Carr, Miguel Martinez. To
these eleven has been added A. L. Christy,
the Republican whom Secretary Miller
refused to swear in. Mr.. Christy has been
elected the clubs president. Several
Others who are laboring under the delu
sion that there is something wrong some
where have also joined the organization,
among them Mr.. Fountain, of Las Cruces,
who has been chosen as the clubs secre-
tary. The club is very exclusive in its
habits and it's members stick to their
apartments with tenacty that would be
remarkable, were it not for the fact that
the first law promulgated from the law.
| giver across the hall was that the mem
| bers
SHOULD FLOCK BY THEMSELVES
| for fear they may turn democratic If
their Republican countenances are ex-
| posed to open air and broad sunshine.
| 1t is stated that even in attending to
those duties Incident TO digestion and
| good health the club members are &C.
| com panied by guards who see that they
are not contaminated In the journey of
six feet across the narrow hallway. A
New MEXICAN reporter last evening paid
| a visit to
THE SEAT OF WAR
in the neighborhood Of the club rooms
and found matters in quiet condition.
By those who are acq TAINTED with the ar
engagements of the sacred precincts of the
| CatYon block, it will be rtcollected that
the building has two halls running east
and west and joining the main hall,
| which runs north and south. At the en-
trance to the south wing huge desk
bars the whole way except enough 10
permit the passage of one man Mt a time.
A sentry well armed holds the fort and
answers questions from incomers. AS
the reporter arrived about supper time,
and the guard was ina good humor, he
was allowed to cutter the hall in which
the club rooms are situated, after first
having assured those ON guard that he
was as harmless IA a cat. Here a walk OF
few feet brought him to the entrance
to the club rooms where the immortal
eleven sat, as he was subsequently in
formed,
| READING THE NEW MEXICAN
aud rejoicing that an hour of such rare
! pleasure had succeeded day of intense
enuui. The club was not ct home to Wis
itors, however, and as the guard accom-.
pauied the scribe on the tour of inspec.
tion it was not deemed prudent to in
slst upon an extension of hospitalities
Gu the floor, al a return was maze, was
found the cover of box containing
Winchester cartridges of the II ga. va
riAtv. On the sentry box REFUSED sew
eral boxes of the cartridges themselves
while shotgun lazily sustained itseli
against the wall, in the immediate vi.
cinity.
In conversation with one who had been
in the building all day it was learned that
at noon no less than
FIFTY ARMED MEN
were on hand, prepared to resist by force
any assaults upon the political virtue Of
the club; and that during part of the
day the outside doors of the building
were harricaded, SO that those gentlemen
who have Offices therein and who take Mt
hand in shotgun politics we're Obliged tc
get to their Offices only after long alter
cations with the doorkeepers and the
sentries with which the hall was lined.
A visit to the office of Mr.. Catron re-
vealed the fact that that gentleman had
tenn porarily left the hall with his assist
ants. henchman or two nervously
paced the floor to the music made by
II neiyhboriug type writer; they were
doubtless thinking of the sadness of the
might ,have-been.
| MORNING CALL.
| Another visit paid to Fort Catron this
morning met with Ill success, for the re.
porter WAS met at the very entrance Of
the building by a guard, who stated tina,
it wasn't good for his health to attempt
to 90 any further.