Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1896-06-12
CURT.

CITY papers, has ~bOycOtted the ais
trict court.
The Liberal is reliably informed
that the reason the Headlight only
printed a synopsis Of the grand jury
report and the Eagle and Enterprise
never mentioned it, is that if printed
in full the following sentence would
have appeared and none of these pa
pers were willing to say a helping
word, ven in quotation marks, for a
man falsely accused. This is the par
agraph: 'The rumors as regards the
collectors ofice we have thoroughly
sifted and find them to be unfounded
in every respect"
The democratic county convention
at Silver City last Saturday was not
exciting, it was a combination of the
Flemingites the Office holders and the
populists of 1894, with a few. demo-
cratic spectators. Fer the eighth, or
eighteenth, time Jack Fleming was
the chairman, both temporary and per-
manent. Jack has had so much expe-
rience 10 the chair that he is now able
to run a convention to suit himself.
The committee on resolutions con
sisted of three pops and two demo-
Gratis. The resolutions did not point
with pride" to Growers successful
bond sales, but did demand the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, the
world over, time without end, no COM
promise and instructed the delegates
to Las Vegas to vote for no delegate
to Chicago who was not a free silver
man and who would not pledge him.
self to always work aud vote for the
white metal. The delegates elected
to attend the Las Vegas convention
were j. w. Fleming, John ]. Bell, w.
Brahm, r. V. &ewsham, J. A. Ma
honey, B. A. Knowles and Martin
Maher, all of whom received 81 votes
except John j. Bell, who got 43, beat
ing by six votes Chief Justice Thomas
j. Clark of the ella. The Deming
democrats were disguised to see the
pops run the convention. DE-. VIII
liams, Bay Shannon, Tom Helm, John
Gillett, Con Nolan, j. S. Fielder and
numerous other democrats express
their opinions OF The convention in
terms more forceful than graceful.
Willie Walton was a member Of the
convention but this foxy youths par
participation in its proceedings was
confined to smiling the smile Of the
Office holder who is not in it. This
smile is an extension and expansion
of the well known "bicycle face"
The genial smile and the political
pointers of Slgmund Lindauer were
sadly missed. 1t is feared that he
may not come back to the fold. AT
ter the ball was over many chunks of
harmony the size and temperature OF
cakes of ice were found in the hall.
The miners at Globe entered on a
line of lawless action last week. The
car mems pay was cut some time ago
from SO to $3.50. Last week il was
cut again to 1925. The miners met,
formed a union and decided to strike.
A committee was appointed to wait
on Superintendent Parneli and notify
him of their action. The committee
found the superintendent on the
dump at ten o'clock at night and pre-
scented their demands, which were:
Wages 50 per day for all persons about
the mines; all Mexicans be discharged;
hospital fee be abolished; no union
man be discharged, ana that no one
be employed except on the approval OF
the union. The superintendent was
informed that If he did not accede to
these demands he would have to walk
to Fort Thomas, a distance Of sixty
Ave miles. Naturally the superin-
tendent acceded to these demands.
The distinction between such a hold
up and highway robbery is quite hazy.
Superintendent Parnall is very UNI
popular among the employees. lie and
Alex. Mclean, superintendent Of the
mine, could net agree aud as a cOn5e-
quence Mr.. Mclean quit the mine d
month ago. OF course this will not
end the matter, but whether there
will be a shut down or a new superin-
tendent cannot O be told,
The Headlight reports that Miss
Alice Parker left Deming for Chey-
en3e, Wyoming, where she will this
month no r,,rria1 "a liant pobart