Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-02-06
UNITED and HARMONIOUS
Meeting Of Democratic Territorial
Committee at the Court House
Last Night.
LAS VEGAS, ON MONDAY, JUNE IS, 1896,
Unanimously Agreed Upon as the Place
and Time for Territorial Convention
Strong Resolutions in Favor of
Silver and Statehood.

The Democratic territorial committe
met pursuant to call at the court house i
the city of Santa Fe at o'clock last ever
ing with Chairman Crist presiding an
Secretary Rafael Romero officiating at tn
desk. Besides members of the commit
tee, 100 or SO active and faithful Dem
ocrats of this city and vicinity we're pres
ent by special invitation. .....
HARMONIOUS WORK.
The committeeman actually presen
were Messrs. H. B. Ferguson and 0.
Marron, of Bernalillo; Pinto Pine, O
Dona Ana; W. B. Walton and j. W. Elem
ing, of Grant; W. p. Cunningham and J
f.. .Crist, of Santa Fe; Rafael Romero, o
Mora, and W. S. Hopewell, of Sierra
Alloys Schenrioh, of Taos.
As number of gentlemen present hell
proxies, a committee on credentials. con
sisting of Messrs. Marion, Cunningham
and Hopewell, was appointed to examin,
proxies and report upon same.
This committee reported twenty.seve
sOpSo i0PtCoOhtGu LII uHO IICCtlIR "
proxy or otherwise.
Among those who held proxies were
A. A. Jones, of Las Vegas, proxy fol
e.. A. Richardson, of Chaves county; Z. l.
Hall, of Santa Fe, proxy for Gov. Thorn
ton and others; j. II. Crist, of Santa Fe
proxy for G. Ii. Gildersleeve; A. Scheur
ich, proxy for Juan Romero, of Taos.
Thereupon, on motion of Sheriff Gun
bingham, Mr.. j. G. Hubbard was unani
mously elected rs a member of the com
mittee from San Juan county, vice Frank
E. Prewitt, removed from the territory
and Mr.. Hubbard took his seat.
Secretary Romero then read a com
municetion from Mr. j. II. Crist rendering
his resignation as chairman of the com
mittee.
Mr.. Cunningham promptly moved thai
the resignation be laid on the table and
the motion was seconded by Mr.. Jones.
Pending this motion Mr.. Crist called
Mr.. FERGUSON to the chair.
Upon taking the floor, Mr.. Crist ex-
planned that he had not rendered his re-
signation because he wished to shirk any
duty he owed to the Democratic party
he had been an earnest worker in the
cause of Democracy for twenty-three
years and always expected to be such;
his devotion to his party was only seoonG
to his loyalty to his family; but, under
all the circumstances, he thought the ac
ceptanco of his resignation at that time
would promote the interests of the part y
and for that reason it had been rendered
The resignation was then laid on tn,
table by unanimous vote.
Upon resuming the chair, Mr.. Crist SAID
that he respectfully bowed to the express
ed will of the committee and would allow
the resignation mporarily to lie on the
table.
QUESTION OF DELEGATES.
The question being asked at this juno
ture how many delegates New Mexico
would be awarded in the Democratic ma
tienal convention in Chicago, Mr.. Fer
gusson, national committeeman from
this territory, took the floor. After ex
pressing deep regret that imperative pro
fessional engagements prevented his at
tendance upon the recent meeting of tn,
national committee at Washington, ht
explained that he had given his proxy te
Mr.. Allen W. Thurman, of Ohio, with ex
plict instructions to use his best en-
deavorsto secure recognition of the ter
ritories to the extent of six delegates in
the national convention, and had also
urgently written Chairman Harrity to tht
same effect. He said he was aware that
at the close of the last Democratic ma
tional convention, Messrs. German, Brice
and some others had spoken very bitterly
against the territories having six vote:
each, accusing the delegates from New
Mexico and Arizona Of having cast the
votes needed to nominate Mr.. Cleveland
and had then declared that this should
not happen again. Hence he had beer
particularly careful to urge the matter
upon the attention of Messrs. Thurman
and HarritY and was surprised that the
latter's call only awarded the territories
two delegates each. He believed thai
New Mexico should select six delegates
and, besides writing personally to all tn.
members of the committee on the sub
ject, he would certainly attend the mex,
meeting of the committee in few weeks
and felt confident he could secure {
change of the apportionment.
Mr.. Hopewell then moved that the
Democratic territorial convention to SO
lect delegates to the Democratic nationa
convention to be held at Las Vegas or
Monday, June 15. This motion wal
unanimously adopted.
After some discussion, the committe,
decided that tho representation in tn,
territorial convention should be on thu
basis of one delegate for every 100 vote
and one for each fraction over fifty votel
cast for Hon. Antonio Joseph at the las
election for delegate in congress. Thi
will result in a convention of 154 mem
bers.
II was also decided to invite all who in
tend to act with the Democratic party il
the future to participate in the primarie
and county conventions.
Mr.. FERGUSON was confident that tn
Democratic party would take such an un
equivocal stand in favor of silver that al
friends Of the white metal would fee
bound to support its candidates.
The following committee was appoint
ed to draft suitable resolutions: Messrs
j. W. Fleming, W. S. Hopewell, H. B. Fer
gusson, A. A. Jones and j. G. Hubbard.
After deliberating for half an hon
the committee on resolutions, throug
Mr.. Jones, reported the following:
THE RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, That the Democratic part
Of the territory of New Mexico is hearth
in favor of the free and unlimited coinag
Of silver, equally with gold, at the rati
of 16 to l, without waiting for the actio
or consent of any other nation, and tina
| we invite all believers in such bi-metal
ism in New Mexico to attend our pr
maries and act with the Dem ocratic part
in striving to attain this great relief {
the common people.
Resolved, That it is the earnest desir