Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-11-12
The Attempt to Defeat the Repub-
lican County Ticket Proved
a Complete Failure.
FOOLED BY The DEMOCRATS.
Disgruntled Republicans We're Taken In
By a Neat Trick "A Contest Will Prob
ably Result In Seating the Republi-
can Legislative Candidates.
Special Correspondence New Mexican.

EET.IdltOr nf the New Mexican. NOW
| that the smoke OF battle over the late
election has cleared away, perhaps a
few words from this, the only Republi-
can county along the southern border
of the territory, touching the result and
it's factors, may be of interest to your
readers.
In the first place, I will premise by
saying that the election passed off
peacefully. 1t is true that there were
one or two black eyes given during the
campaign; but the episodes had only a
remote connection with the political
contest. The campaign was an earnest
energetic and spirited contest, but il
was good-natured and conducted solely
in the arena of debate. This was large
! ly due to the fact that the Republican
| territorial and county administrations
were beyond criticism; nothing could
, be found in the record of acts that JUS
titled criticism or could afford the basis
even for Misrepresentation; while the
nominees on the tickets were of such
good standing and so we'll qualified fol-
| the positions for which they were can
| didates that the opposition was silenc-
ed. The slogan of the enemy was boss
| ism This cry was directed exclu-
| sively at Martin Lohman, the wealthy
| Republican merchant here. An effort
was made to make the voters believe
that Mr. Lohman was the Richard Gro
ker Of Dona Ana county. OF course,
this cry was pure piece of hypocrisy,
and the Republicans (so-called) who
joined in it were actuated more by per-
sonal jealousy or ill-will towards Mr..
Lohman or the office-itch than they
We're by patriotic motives.
In truth, Mr.. Lohman caught it both
ways, like the coon in the darkies' coon
trap, both a-coming and a-gwying. One
class of aspiring politicians charged
some of his party associates criticized
him for not bossing enough, that is, for
not looking more carefully after the de-
tails of the nominating convention and
kof aspirants for office and thus avoid
ing some blunders that were clearly
made.
The answer to both of these criti-
cisms is easy; Mr.. Lohman did not seek
the leadership of the party; he rather
allowed the sovereign voter to fix up a
ticket to- suit himself with the natural
result that the job was not as we'll done
as it might have been and the leader
ship was thrust upon him. 1t may
be safely said, that as result of the
election, Mr.. Lohman has come out of
the campaign with his supremacy as
the Republican leader of the county
we'll established, and the experience he
has now had will in the future prevent
the blunders which jeopardized the tic
ket. Mr.. Lohman was untiring in his
efforts for the success Of the party,
once the nominations We're made and
all his party associates doff their hats
to him as an organizer and strategist
The election has had other good ef-
fects; it has shown that entire wisdom
has not been shown in the matter of the
men advanced to prominence during
the past four years in the party coun-
cils One of these new men who had
been honored far beyond his deserts,
smarting under disappointment went
over to the enemy, while others, how
ever loyal, proved of little worth.
On the Democratic side, Judge Fall
comes out with fresh laurels as a polit-
ical leader. 1t was his fertile mind that
engineered the combination which made
such a good but unsuccessful showing.
Perhaps. it would be well to state the
situation as it existed before the NOM
first place, it should be said that up to
that time the idea was we'll established
that the Republicans would have a
walk-over this year. This idea gave
birth to two results. In the first place,
it induced an unusual scramble for
places on the Republican ticket with
the consequent disappointments to a
large number of candidates before the
| convention; in the second place, the
Democracy conceded that in straight
fight there was nothing in it for them
and that the only hope of success on
their part lay in fomenting discord
among the Republican leaders and cam
didates and to fuse with the disaffected
1yo 4, ,<leS
| which all their efforts were directed
and their success-a very meager one,
it is true-is due to the skill with which
| these elements were severally played
However this combination could not be
formed without sacrifice; the kicking
Republicans, or some of them, had an
aversion to voting any ticket labelled
Democratic; 50 the time-honored DEM
ocratic banner was shelved and the
several cognomens abandoned, and the
comedy was played under the title of a
citizens party and the emblem of the
two clasped hands, to signify, I pre-
sumo, the great love and affection
which SO suddenly sprang into being
between the Bourbons and the kickers
On the subject Of the adoption Of this
emblem further should be said. 1t is
stated that at the convention wherein
| this so-called Citizens ticket was call
ed into life, the Democratic managers
moved that the Democratic congress
sional a..d legislative ticket should be
endorsed and adopted. This motion
was, however, so 1t is stated objected
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