Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1896-10-13
T.B, CATRON WAS "RATIPIED''
District Court Room Last Night Wit
messed Formal Ratification of
CatrOn's denomination.
BUTTON GANG VERY MUCH IN EVIDENCE
Gen. Bartlett Presided-Catron Opened
His Address by Referring to Bor-
regos as Prosecuted Fellow
Citizens"

nouncing that the Mckinley and Hobart
club would meet in the court house at 7:3(
in the evening for the purpose of ratify
ing the nomination of 7. B. Catron fol
delegate in congress and that the great
man himself would be present and shet
the refulgent rays of his ponderous phYsi
cal personality upon the meeting.
AN ASSORTMENT OF PEOPLE.
It thus happened that at o'clock last
evening the court house was filled with a
miscellaneous assortment of people Tin.
cluding numerous Democrats), this music
of brass band and the hoarse and hys-
terical bowls of members OF the Button
gang, who manifestly regarded the gath.
ering as ratification of Mr.. Catron's
success in again temporarily interruptlng
the orderly administration of justice in
the case of the convicted and condemned
assassins of ex Sheriff Francisco Chavez.
At the hour named Mr.. Sam G. Cart
wright, president of the Mckinley and
Hobart club, gracefully opened the meet
ing with brief speech, in which he in
timated that the presence of Republican
badges upon SO many manly and palpi-
tating breasts before him afforded him
much inspiration and encouragement. AS
this was peculiarly great and impressive
occasion, with Delegate Ca.ron actually
present awaiting to be formally ratified"
the speaker announced that it had been
thought fitting that distinguished and
stalwart Republican leader in the person
of Gen. E. l.. Bartlett should be called
upon to preside.
Accordingly Gen. Bartlett was invited
to the platform for the purpose indicated
and that martial gentleman accepted the
invitation with the alacity of true pat
riot but with "emotions of mingled sur
prise," etc. He then proceeded savagely
to arraign the Democratic party as
"odious and bad;" to assail the present
executive and judicial officers of New
Mexico as Ruthless tramplers under-foot
of the rights of the people and defiers Of
law and Justice; to denounce the sheriff OF
this county and his deputies as outragers
of society, and persons wholly destitute of
merit, and generally to rip the Demo-
cratic party and Democrats up the back
with gleeful and fisndish cruelty that
filled the "Button" gang with unspeak-
able rapture and caused cold shivers to
chase up and down the spinal columns of
Democrats and dismay to clutch their
vitals. When veteran warrior like Gen.
Bartlett puts on his battle.stained uni
form and buckles on his shining soimiter
and begins to emit sparks of fire from
his distended nostrils, it is just as well to
lie right down and beg for mercy.
DELEGATE oATRoN SPEAKS.
Delegate Catron was then introduced
as a man who didn't need an introduc.
tion to a Santa Fe audience any more than
"San Miguel church." Whereupon there
was wild burst of applause from the
assembled members of the "Button" or
Borrego brigade and the band played
"The Wild Man from Borneo has just
Come to Town."
Mr.. Catron spoke in English for thirty
minutes and was ably interpreted by Jose
D. Sena. After indicating that he was
overioyed to have his nomination SO
spontaneously ratified, and limiting that
this was precisely the correct caper, he
i'm pressively announced that he had
recently returned from the east where
he went on Emission of mercy"
in the interest of some of "your perse-
cuted fellow citizens" Then he con-
tinued that, while in the east, he had
studied and mastered the political situa-
tion and was consequently able certainly
to forecast the election Of Mckinley as
president of the United States and the
restoration of the Republican party to
power. This he insisted would restore
prosperity to the country, would I'LL
everybody's pockets with money, and
would especially confer inestimable bene-
fits upon New Mexico, provided ofcourse
that the speaker was reelected to con-
gress.
The speaker then entered into an as.
sertiye and hurried discussion of the al
legged protective tariff system, dwelling
particularly on the subject of wool, and
followed with an exceedingly weak de-
fense of the Las Vegas platform G lara
tion in favor of the coinage of the Ameri-
can product of silver, which he claimed
was practically an original idea with him
and was in the line of protection. He
falsely represented that the Sherman sill
YER purchase law provided for the coin
age of the silver purchased hereunder;
claimed that this law had been stricken
down by Democratic president and
Democratic congress, and since then no
silver had been coined. These represen-
tstons were an insult to the intelligence
of his audience, as every school boy
knows that the Sherman Law merely pro-
vided for the purchase of silver bullion
and not for its coinage, and that the gov
ernment is now actually coming silver
dollars at the rate of $2,500,000 per
month.
Touching the subject of statehood Mr..
Catron represented that he had labored
hard to that end in congress, had made
himself acquainted with all the members
of congress, and had statehood bills on
the calendars of both the house and SEN
ate, which would be reached in due time
and passed, always provided ne was re-
turned to congress.
NOTABLE OMISSIONS.
He then announced that, as he must
catch the train for Albuquerque to fill a
speaking engagement there this evening,
he must cut his speech short. At this
point Mr.. Catron quit and Gen. Bartlett
hastily put q motion to "ratify the ratifi-
cation" which was carried with a whoop
from the "Button" gang and the "ratifica-
tion" meeting dissolved, dissipated and
dispersed.
Owing to Mr.. Catron's frantic rush to
catch train that was not scheduled to
leave for over an hour, he overlooked
several important bets. He forgot to
allude even remotely to the part he
played in defeating the approval BY con-
gress of the capitol rebuilding and other
mcr,torious territorial institutions bonds
by attaching to the bill providing there
for a provision validating the fraudulent
Brice-Coler railroad bonds against Santa