Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-10-30
CAMPAIGN CARAMELS.
Cosby News Items Respecting the
Territorial Political Contest.

Hon. Sol. Spiegelberg and Count,
CLERK Hill got in last night from tou
OF the upper county precincts. They say
that matters political are looking fine il
that region for Democracy.
Las Vegas merchant received infor
nation by wire from st. Louis, yesterday
that an even bet of $4,000 that Bryan
would carry the states of Indiana, Ohio
and Illinois, was posted in the Southern
hotel in that city, the night before.
1t is an open secret that, in case of Nc.
Kinley's election and Candidate Catrou
can pull the strings, Gen. E. L. Bartlett
is to succeed Judge Laughlin on the dis
trict court bench. Gen. Bartlett is said
to have already picked out his clerk, but
several Republican politicians are op-
posing his selection and lively scrap is
on hand-provided Mckinley is elected!
Says the Optic: If New Mexico wants
statehood, Catron must be left at home.
This is plainly to be seen. The silver
men control the senate, and they will see
to it that no anti-silver territory is ad-
mitted to the Union. A delegate elected
on the st. Louis, gold standard platform,
had as we'll whistle jigs to dead Indian
as to ask the present senate of the United
States for statehood for this territory.
Candidate Catron spoke at Tamme's
opera house, East Las Vegas last night,
and will again speak there in old town,
tonight. The Optic says: "a promi-
nent and responsible business man of
East Las Vegas, and one who has hereto
fore been one of the staunchest Republi-
cans of the county, offered to bet 500
apiece, or $1,000, that every candidate on
the Union ticket would be elected next
Tuesday. He could find no takers"
There has been sad hitch in the Cat
ron itinerary. He was booked for trip
through Taos and Rio Arriba counties
yesterday and to-day, but in his wild eff
forts to catch Tom Reed and get speech
out of him he overturned all his commit
tees plans. Besides, Ferguson, Thorn
ton, Joseph and Crist are looking after
Taos and Rio Arriba just now and the
presence of these Democrats scared Cat
ron clean off the perch.
Fusion of the free coinage forces has
been fully accomplished in New Mexico
on the ticket for delegate to congress.
Mr.. FERGUSON has been nominated by
both the Democrats and the Populists
and he has received the Endorsement of
the silver Republicans. The sentiment
of the territory is strongly in favor of
free coinage and if it finds full expires.
sion Mr.. Ferguson will BIZ triumphantly
elected. He is we'll qualified for the Of
fee and would far better represent the
interests of the people of New Mexico
than his opponent, Mr.. Catron.-Denver
Republican.
The Goldites of Albuquerque and Der.
nalillo county second the nomination of
the Perea pie counter Republican ticket
by placing in the field this ticket: Will
lam E. Dame, delegate to congress; Bias
Lucero, W. B. Mclaughlin, territorial
council; Manuel Garcia Duran, Dona-
ciano Gallegos, Francisco Perea, repre-.
sentatives; Phil Barbour, Rafael Romero,
A. H. Jones, county commissioners; Juan
Chaves Pena, sheriff; j. G. Marshall,
collector; Edward Dodd, assessor; Fran.
cisco Armijo y Otero, probate Judge;
Mariana Armijo, probate clerk; J. W.
Mason, treasurer; Felipe O'Baunon, su-
of schools; Eugenio Chaves,
coroner; Pitt Ross, surveyor.