Las Vegas daily optic., 1900-02-26
Such Was the Santa Re County
Republican Convention--the
Otero Strikers in Control.
A PARTY ORGAN DENOUNCED
That County win be Represented
at SocorrO by BOodlers, Teat-
Suckers and Gamblers.
THE PLOT AGAINST GATRaN THIsEEHs



Santa Fe, N. NJ, February 25th.-
Precisely as was forecast in these
dispatches to The Optic several
days ago. the republican county con-
vention in this city yesterday proved
to be a very tame and spiritless af-
fair The friends and supporters of
ex-Delegate Catron. having been
downed at the primaries by means
of gross and brazen frauds and intim-
idation practiced by the official gang
under the personal leadership of
Sheriff Kinsell took no part what
ever in the convention and none of
them even countenanced it by their
presence as spectators.
Immediately after calling the meet
ing to order as chairman of the re-
publican county committee, Antonio
Ortiz Salazar left the hall, and,
looking at one another with scared
rather than triumphant faces, the
Oteroites found themselves in exclu-
sive possession of the field, and were
anything but jubilant as they noted
the significant absence of many of
the most active and efficient workers
in the republican party. The pro-
ceedings were purely perfunctory.
AS previously agreed, a committee
was appointed to select nine dele
gates to represent the county in the
republican Territorial convention,
and this committee promptly reported
the list of Suitable names" furnished
by the Otero managers, which were
at once Unanimously" adopted by the
convention as follows: Pedro Roybal,
H. c. Kinsell, D. M. White, Marcos
Castillo, Marcelino Ortiz, Mariana r.
Sena, F. F. Pine, A. M. Bergere and
William Fitzpatrick.
So the capital city county will have
The high honor of being represented
ut the Socorro convention by one
| sheriff, one school land locating
agent, two notorious tin-horn gamb-
lers, one clerk in the census Office
one superintendent of county schools,
one court clerk, one member of the
late unlamented Doodle legislature,
and one, (the first named), unclassi
fed, not one of whom ranks as a rep
resentative republican in the Terri
tory, but all of whom are pledged to
support Governor Otero against Cat
ron FIRST, last and all the time Dis
| trict Attorney Gortner and Gus Sol
ignac expected to be delegates up to
the eleventh hour, but were quietly
turned down because of their past in
timacy with Catron and because Sher
iff Kinsell concluded that they could
not be trusted to support him for g
denomination. Gortner complacently
accepts his snub from the vantage
ground of his fat office and hints that
he is slated for a delegateship to Phil
adelphia, but Solignac feels that his
affections and fine feelings have beer
shamefully trifed with and the sky
no longer looks blue or the sunshine
golden to him. His friends say he
actually wept when he found how he
had been "tricked." Bartlett, Frost
and other prominent Oteroites
thought it would be best not to go as
delegates this time, but will chip in to
help pay the expenses of some of the
impecunious ones selected"
Resolutions, indorsing the national
and Territorial administrations and
denouncing as "a malicious lie and
libel" statement in the Albuquer.
que Citizen" that the primaries in
this city were carried by unfair
means, were adopted unanimously. y
The last resolution is greeted with
sneers by every one acquainted with
the facts. The Optics account OF
the way these primaries were really
carried is universally pronounced
correct. The only criticism upon It
is that it was too mild.