Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-08-31
NEW MEXICO POLITICS.
A GOssipy Letter on the Situation at
Albuquerque-The GOldites-COn-
ventiOn CalIed-NOtes.

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Albuquerque-The GOldites-COn-
venti0n CalIed-NOtes.
A private letter from Albuquerque un-
der date of yesterday contains the follow
ing: Well, the great gold convention was
held here yesterday. There must have
been as many as twentY-one delegates
present-eighteen from AlbuquerqHe and
three from other points in the territory.
Our mutual friend, Childers, looked lone
some and out of place. The company
that gathered to hear the U. s. attorney
speak his little piece must have been dis
specially in view of the fact
Childers, Clerk Marion, R. B. Meyers and
Mike McCue had 'rnstled' for forty eight
hours to drum up crowd at the 'conven-
tion.' The delegates to Indianapolis left
last night, all travelling on passes, of
course. Jack Lynch, the brick-layer, had
to be assured of a round trip clean
through to New York before he would
start. By the way, Jack doesn't believe
in either gold or silver as money.
"Our Bryan club is getting on swim
mingly, and bids fair to prove a strong
factor in the county election this fall.
We have membership of 150 and the
executive committee consists of twenty
five of the staunchest men in the county
"a ma ajority of them are tried and true
Ferguson men. Already great many
former Republicans have united with
this club and complete organization in
every precinct in the county is under way.
Some of the corporations are bringing a
good deal of pressure to bear on their
employees to support the Mckinley Hanna
crowd, but we take courage in the fact
that the workingmen of this day and
generation are not poems and have in
telligence and patriotism enough to fol-
low the suggestion of Mr.. Bryan and vote
as they please.
PEOPLES PARTY GALL.
The New MEXICAN has received the fol-
lowing with request to publish:
A delegate convention of the Peoples
party of New Mexico will be held at the
city of Las Vegas ON Wednesday, Septsm-
Der 23, 1896, for the purpose of nomina-
ting delegate to congress, electing a
territorial committee, and such other busi-
ness as may properly come before it.
The basis of representation will ba as
follows: Five delegates at large from
each county in the territory, and en- addi-
tional delegate for each fifty votes oast,
or fraction thereof, for T. B. Mills as del.
egate to congress in 1894.
Each county will be entitled to cast its
full vote through one or more of its del
egates present. M. P. SrAMM,
Chairman Territorial Committee.
REPUBLICAN VIEW.
WV Miller, the civil engineer of Santa
Fe, and one of the best informed young
men in the territory, is in the city. Be-
ing requested to give his views on the
political situation, he said: "In my opin.
ion the remedy for the existing financial
troubles, which now convulses our land,
is high tariff upon all foreign goods i'm
ported to our shores, and not the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of
Is to l with gold, as prescribed and ad-
vocated by the free silver cranks. On the
contrary, the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at that ratio would result disas.
Regarding the coming campaign in the
territory, I do not hesitate to say it is the
duty of every Republican member who
attends the convention at Las Vegas to
use all fair means to bring about the full
and complete Endorsement of the St. Louis
platform, particularly those who desire
statehood, for it is quite obvious our
next delegate to congress should be in full
harmony with the next administration,
which will be under the wise guidance of
VIM. Mckinley, of Ohio, who is the cham
pion of an honest dollar and the rights of
the American people" = Albuquerque
Citizen.
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Hon. Il. B. Ferguson spoke at Kelly,
Socorro county, on Thursday evening,
and will address the Ration Bryan club to-
night.
In Socorro county Elfego Baca and M.
Cooney are out for the offices of probate
clerk and collector, respectively, and
Nestor P. Eaton, for the position of as
SCISSOR.
This is the official announcement that
comes from the workingmen of Gallup:
"All the votes here are for silver and they
have the nerve to stand up and say so."
At Saturday nights mass meeting some
200 names were added to the membership
of the Bryan club.
W. B. Childers, j. W. Schofeld, dele
gates, and John Lynch, James Boyce and
Andrew johnson, alternates, left Albu-
querque on Saturday night for the ma
tional convention of the goldbug Demo-
crats to be held at Indianapolis this week.
Col. A. W. Harris, owner of the Illinois
mine at Hillsboro, is also en- route to In
dianapolis to talk for the gold standard.
The territorial superintendent of
schools says he finds nothing in the law
that inhibits lady from holding the Of
fee of county superintendent of schools,
and that if lady is elected he will GER
tainly recognize her. This declaration
has greatly encouraged the supporters of
Mrs. Harriet B. Kells, of Roswell, who
seeks the school superintendency Of
Chaves county.
Amongst the goldite Democrats in San
ia Fe county are W. E. Dame, ex-speaker
of the Dem ocratic house of the last as
sembly; T. j. Curran, photographer;
Adolf Gusdorf, merchant, and others. In
Eddy county there are said to be a good
many goldite Democrats, and in Chaves
county some of the very best men in the
party are in the movement. The gold.
ties, from appearances, will make quite
stir in political circles in New Mexico
this fall.-Sap Marcial Bee.