Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-09-03
POLITICAL POINTERS
Colonel Twitchell Not a Candidate
for Republican Nomination for
Delegate---Not He.
CAPTAIN FALLS POSITION
Grant County ention-Republicans in
That County Should 0rganize-Newsy
Political Items from Different Sec
tions of New Mexico.

The Hammer and Tongs Republican
Club at Las Vegas held a rousng meet
ing last Friday night. The principal
speakers were Col. r. E. Twitchell and
Margarito Romero. The meeting was
largely attended and enthusiastic. The
club is steadily growing in membership
and influence.
According to all reports, Socorro
county VIII give good Republican ma
jority this fall no matter who the
Democratic nominee. The Republicans
in that county are united and propose
to place solid and strong county tick
ct in the neld. They will make a thor
ough canvass, and are pretty sure of
coming out ahead.
From Las Vegas comes the informa-
ton that o. A. Larrazola will not give
In, and will make strong fight for the
nomination as delegate on the Demo-
cratic ticket. To the New Mexican,
however, 1t looks as if the nomination
will go either to ex-Delegate Antonio
Joseph or to Capt. A. B. Fall. The for
mer is making no active canvass, but
Will accept the nomination if rendered
him.
The Republicans of Grant county will
hold county convention on September
n next in Silver City for the purpose of
nominating four delegates to the Re-
publican territorial convention to be
held October in Santa Fe, and also to
nominate full county ticket. 1t Is said
that either w. H. Newcomb or D. C.
Hobart, Of Silver City, will receive the
nomination for member of the house of
the thirty-fOurth legislative assembly.
Democrats iG cd
pretty strong organization, and it be-
hooves the Republicans to place in the
field a very good ticket and act with
unity and sagacity. considering the
Well-known political complexion of
Grant county, which in some years is
Democratic and disgustingly so.
Capt A. B. Fall, of Las Cruces, is in
the city to-day, and paid the New Mex
lean call. Although he is Demo-
crat born and bred, he recognizes in
the New Mexican a power for great
good in all directions. He stated con-
cerning the political situation that for
the past five months he had been very
busy with his private law practice, and
had not paid much attention to poll
tics; that he was in receipt Of letters
from many of his friends, especially in
southern New Mexico, urging him to-
make the race on the Democratic tick
ct for delegate to congress; that he was
not making fight for the nomination,
has asked no one to support him, but
that he might under certain circum-
stances accept the nomination if ten
dered him by the Democratic conven-
ton.
The name of Col. r. E. Twitchell, of
Las Vegas, having been mentioned in
the press and by some of his friends as
a probable candidate for the Republic
an nomination for delegate to congress,
he informs the editor of the New Mex
lean that he is not a candidate, has not
been, and will not be such. He Is rer-
fectly we'll satisfied with the important
position he now occupies with the San
ia Fe railway in it's legal department
and with his lucrative private practice.
He knows too much of public life to
give up this certainty and honorable
place for the glittering, If seductive,
uncertainty of a congressional cam
paign in New Mexico. No, thank you,
none Of that for Mr.. Twtchell this sea-
son. However he will do all he can as
a loyal. hard-working Republican for
Republican success, and that he is do
ing SO already one has but to look at
Las Vegas, where the Hammer and
Tongs club organized by him is doing
great work for the Republican party.