Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1896-05-04
NEW MEXICO DEMOCRACY.
The Official Call for the Ieffit0ri"
Convention - -APpOrt1onmrnt OF
Delegates from Counties
Tho following is seaf-explanatory:
HEADQUARTERS DEMooRAT1c
Territorial Central Committee,

The following ls setl-eA p'aho'o's
HEADQUARTERS DEMooRATIc J
Territorial Central Committee, (
Santa Fe, May 2, 1896. =
Whereas, At a meeting of the Dem Q.
crasi, territorial central COMMITTEES, bel
at the city of Santa Fe on the 9TH day OF
February, 1896, it was ordered that ter
ritorisI convention be held at Las Vegas
on June Is, 1895, for the purpose OF elect
ing six delegates to the national Demo-
cratic convention to be held at Chicago
on July Z, 1895.
Now, therefore, pursuant to said ORDER
and, i'll accordance with the general nu'
thority in Us vestedy a oenveutioh OF Vhe
Democratic party Of New Mexico Is mere
by proclaimed to be held al Las vegas on
June Is, 1896, at the. hour u IL O'CLOCK d.
M, to be constituted acoordz2sG to the Or
o.er of this committee made at It's sald
rneeting as follows, to-wit: Que delegate
from each county for each 100 'voses cas'
for Antonio Joseph for delegase'te 'te con
Rress at the last general electiony ane one
delegate for each fraction Of 100 Soses 40
cast amounting TO 80 or more.
Upon this apportionment Of dele yasee,
so authorized, the various counties WIZ
be entitled to delegates to said con ven
ton, as follows:
Rernalillo county IL, Chavez county o.
Colfax county 8, Dona Ana coanty ~
Eddy county 4, Grant county 8, Guaoa-
lupe county 4, Lincoln county =, mora
county IL, Rio Arriba county II, san
Juan county 2. San Miguel county Sl'
Santa Fe county Is, Sierra county y, 80
oorro county 8, Taos county IL, Union
! county S, Valencia 3. Total l6S dele
gates.
The county central coaiInittees OF the
respective counties are hereby requeeseo
to call comfy conventions to be neia III
/ due time for the selection OF the authot
ICED number Of delegates to said terri
toria convention in accordance with the
rules and regulations, or the usages ano
prao tices of the party in each county. ~
is gu, ygested that primaries be held IN sne an
varie ,us counties not later than May ~
and that the county conventions be heio
not 4 ater than June 6, 1886.
In carving out the orders of this com
m ista at its said meeting, all Democrats
ard q Il those who intend to act with tn'
Demo cratic party are hereby invited &c
psrtic ipate in the primaries ar the re
specti 70 counties.
In '. lew Of the great weight wanch th'
Democ ratio delegation from this TERRITORY
had in the last national convention "a tint
selectio. of candidates for presi dent ant
vice pre sident, and in view of the masGl
tude Of he interests involved in the coE
ino natl onal convention and of the re
curing possibility for the exercise OF po
tent inf, ,ence by New Mexico's delega
tion, par tlcularly in silver's cause, tn
Democrat in all counties are urged Il
make thei, voice heard 10 the primarie
and IN the county conventions to the emf
that onr , territorial convention may b.
largely ttended ana fepfesen'ssi,s ,o
one. thus az suring the election of a dele
t;on 70 the . ational convention composed
Of Democrat ,y's strongest and truest sons
This ia a vii, i year for silver's cause AMI
4 Ia the hon1 of this committee that New
Merico Den,e ,crats will take vital part
beginning do wn At tne primaries. u ~
RAFAEL Ron ,ERo, .. =. CaiSI'
Secretary, ohair"ah'