Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-09-26
GOLDITES WIN FOR CATRON
The Free Coinage Republican Cham
piOn Turned Down at the Las
Vegas Convention.
CATRON CERTAIN OF RENOMlNATION
Socorro County Makes a Hard Fight
While Grant Flunks-Strong
Talk of Bolt by the Sill
yer Men.

Special to the New Mexican.
Las Vegas, Sept. 26.-The friends Of
silver suffered severe defeat at the hands
of New Mexico Republicans to-day.
The fight was between Catron, the
present delegate, and OK Gov. L. Bradford
Prince, the acknowledged champion Of
the free coinage principle among Repub
loans of the territory.
HOW THE PLAY CAME UP.
The contest came up on the PROPOSE
ton for temporary control of the conven.
tion. The goldites, or Catronists, backed
solidly by the gold delegations from Ber.
nalillo, Valencia and San Miguel coun.
ties, at once threw themselves into the
breach, and, by small margin, voted a
majority of the ninety three delegates in
the interest of Oatron and gold. As a
result the forty-odd silver delegates are
very sore and bolt is freely talked of.
THE CONVENTION IN SESSION.
The convention was called to order al
II O'Clock this forenoon by Chairman E.
L. Bartlett, of the. territorial central com.
mittee. T. A. Finical, of Albuquerque, was
made temporary chairman, Fred A. An.
derson, of the Rincon Weekly newspaper
was elected temporary secretary. The
usual committees we're appointed and an
adjournment taken to 2 p. N.
At the above hour Catron's friends
cinched the convention by installing Col.
j. Frank Chavez, of Valencia, as perma-
nent chairman of the convention. This
announcement was received with cheers
by the Catronists and the silver advocates
looked correspondingly glum.
THE BALL STARTED.
W. E. Martin, of Socorro, started the
ball rolling for the silverites by declining
to act as interpreter and making a strong
silver appeal. Baca, of Socorro, would
not serve As vioe-president, making an
other silver speech. Socorro has been
doing most of the hard fighting. Grant
and Sierra funked. The Socorroites
came instructed but two of their dele
gates have Topped to the pie-counter
brigade.
II looks at this hour as if Catron will
be the nominee on gold platform. Cat
ron's friends claim they have nearly two
thirds in the convention. There Is a
gloomy outlook for silver plank in the
but the silverites will take ad-
vantage of every fighting chance.
A BOLT IN PROSPECT.
Later, 4 p. m.-The arbitrary conduct
of the Oatronist goldites has touched the
free coinage men to the quick. At this
hour the committee on resolutions is in a
hot contest over their report. The gold
tics are in majority. There is vehement
talk of bolt.
No nomination will be made until TO-
night.
LIST OF DELEGATES.
Following is the list of delegates enti-
tied to seats in the convention:
Bernalillo-W. j. Dixon, s. M. Salt
marsh, Thos. Hughes, W. h. H. Allison,
T. A. Finical, Nos Ilfeld, E. W. Dobson,
Manuel Salazar y Otero, Pedro Perea,
Alexandra Sandoval, F. A. Hubbell, E. s.
Slower, j. R. Armijo, n. F. Lee, e. A.
Pearson.
Chaves-Nathan Jaffa.
Colfax-Jacob Smith, W. @. Wrigley,
q. B. Stewart, ]. R. Arrellano.
Dona Anal. R. McFie, Marcial Val
dez, A. l.. Cristy, W. Il. H. Llewellyn,
Martin Lohman, 8. Pendragen.
Eddy-S. I. Roberts.
Grant-Charles M. Foraker, j. E. Sher-
ldan, Don. H. Kedzie, Richard Hudson.
Lincoln-G. w. Prichard, ". s. Talia-
Ferro, Demetrio Perez.
Mora-O. A. Hadley, Rumaldo Royval,
Sanchez, Victor Gallegos, Pa.
tricio Sanohes.
Rio Arriba-L Bradford Prince, T. d.
Burns, Leocadio Jiron, Francisco Serna,
J. y. Woods, Us. Sargent, Jose Ortiz y
3alazar.
San Miguel-R. E. Twitchell, Nestor
5ena, Miguel Salazar, Eugsnio Romero,
Lorenzo Lopez, Torriblo Sanchez, Marga-
rito Romero, Victor Lucero, j. G. Mon
tano, o. L. Houghton, Rafael Gallegos.
Santa Fe--Max. Frost, Antonio Ortiz y
R. j. Palen, E. L. Bartlett, Geo.
A. Johnson, Jose Ortiz y Pine, s. n. Day,
o. A. Spices.
Sisrra-Gus. Duval, T. q. Long.
Socorro-Estevan Baca, O. Il. Bursum,
N. Oooney, W. E. Martin, H. H. Howard,
". 8. Williams, Pedro Trujillo, Demetrio
Perez.
Taos-Malaqu uias Martinez, Pedro San
,hez. Gregorio Griego, Vicente F. Mar
tinez, Squire Hart.
Urion-Edward w. Fox, Saturino Pi-
nard.
Valencia-Solomon Luna, Max. Luna,
J. Francisco Chavez, Guadalupe Otero, A..
N. Bergere, Victor Ssis, Manuel Padilla
, Chavez, Jesus Sanohes y Aragon.