Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-05-10
THE ROUGH RIDERS
Ell Paso Drops the Strings She
Thought Would Pull the Reunion
to the Texas City.
BRODIE FOR new MEXICO
First Annual Meeting Will Be Held in
This Territory and Governor Roosevelt
Will Undoubtedly Keep His
Promise to Attend.

Roosevelt's rough riders will meet in
New Mexico June "A, and Governor
Roosevelt will attend, Captain Bruce, of
Oklahoma, who never went to Cuba, to
the contrary Notwithstanding.
The matter rests with Colonel Alex.
O. Brodie, of Arizona, according to an
agreement made months ago, and he
was directed by the troops to select a
place in New Mexico.
Colonel Brodie has telegraphed to Cal
vim Whiting, secretary of the fair as
ISOLATION at Albuquerque, as follows:
Reunion rough riders must take
place June "a as decided at society or
ganization. First meeting will be in
New Mexico
The Albuquerque city council and the
Commercial Club will ask to have the
reunion held at Albuquerque.
After a great hurrah for a couple of
weeks and a belief that Ell Paso would
have the reunion because Captain Bruce
claimed to have a string to pull that
would land it, the citizens have wicked
up to the fact that he was talking
through his sombrero. He had all
things coming his way down there, and
nothing was too good for the captain.
The city council invited the regiment to
meet there July 4.
But at the last meeting of the hurrah
committee Captain Bruce wanted $500
for an expense fund that he might go to
Arizona and tie up Colonel Brodie for
Ell Paso.
The gentlemen who had been invited
| to meet Captain Bruce thought that the
| reunion would not amount to much I'M
| less it was attended by Governor
Roosevelt.
Captain Bruce stated that Governor
Roosevelt did not have any voice in the
selection of the place and time for hold
ing the reunion; hat the association
had left that matter entirely with the
executive committee, and as a member
of that committee he intended to ignore
the wishes of Governor Roosevelt.
1t was finally agreed to send Governor
Roosevelt a telegram asking him if he
would attend a reunion of his regiment
in FL Paso on July A.. The governors
secretary replied that Governor Roose-
welt would have important business to
attend to in Albany, N. Y, on the 4th
of July.
Captain Bruce was indignant because
the committee of Eel Pasoans expressed
the opinion that a rough riders reunion
without Colonel Roosevelt would not
amount to much. Captain Bruce said
that if Ell Paso wanted the colonel and
not the rough riders then they could
invite Colonel Roosevelt, and leave the
men Of his regiment out of the invita-
ton.
The foxy Ell Paso Times thinks Ell
Paso did not want he reunion sour
grapes, anyway, and it offers the fol-
lowing insult to them: Z
"As a matter of fact, the majority of
the business men of the city did not
want the reunion. One of them said
yesterday:
81 am about as patriotic IS the aver
age American, and I appreciate the fact
that the rough riders fought ~gallantly
in Cuba. But 7 don't know what we
would do with them in Ell Paso. While
in New York they raised cain, and
would do the same thing in this city.
Besides. about half of them would come
here riding brake beams, and for weeks
after the reunion Ell Paso would be
crowded with stragglers, who would
not have money with which to pay their
way home, and the citizens here would
have to take care of Them"
Ell Paso people were eager to secure
the attendance of gamblers and prize
fighters when Fitzsimmons was there,
and the business men had no scruples
about inviting them and subscribing
81, 500 to secure the attraction. 1t m
with very poor grace for the disappoint-
ed crowd and their newspaper to cast
upon troops of which New Mexico
furnished the bulk.
The Chicago papers announce that
the rough riders who went from Chica-
go have invited Governor Roosevelt and
the regiment to attend the festivities of
the Chicago festival in October, and the
has accepted the invitation.
The regiment, it is stated, will mobilize
in New York October 5, before going to
Chicago. The Chicago committee is
headed by Lieutenant Fl. w. Weakley,
formerly of Albuquerque.
The men who We're in the war and
who live in the west are the proper par
to choose a place for the reunion,
and the gentlemen who are seeking to /
farm out the affair could not induce the
rough riders to go beyond New Mexico
the first meeting. AS to the October
meeting in Chicago, that is another
story, and will not cut any ice in the
of the annual reunion.
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