Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-03-05
COLPAXREPUBLICANS
Resolutions With Regard toPresident
Mckinley, Governor 0tero and
Delegate Perea.
DELEGATES FOR SOCORRO
Earnest Praise For the First Native Son of
New Mexico Appointed By the Presi-
dent As Executive of the
Territory.

Pursuant to the call for convention
of Republican voters Of Colfax county.
the convention was called to order
at Ration at o'clock p. m. Saturday by
]. Leahy, chairman of the central COM
mittee. After stating the purposes of
the convention and congratulating the
Republicans of the county on the large
and enthusiastic representation of near
ly every precinct, Mr.. Leahy announced
that motion to nominate chairman
would be in order, whereupon DR.. T. B.
Hart, of Ration, was unanimously elect
ed chairman.
DR.. Hart, upon assuming the duties Of
chairman and thanking the delegates
for the honor so heartily conferred,
stirred the audience with a patriotic
speech Of well-chosen words. and then
announced that the selection of a secre
tary and interpreter would be in order,
whereupon Judge F. d. Morse was
elected secretary and M. Larragoite in
terpreter.
On motion of F. Brueggeman a COM
mittee on credentials, consisting of
Hugh Smith of Blossburg, j. X. Hunt
of Cimarron, A. g. Dawson Of Maxwell
City, C. A. Whited of Ration and E. ].
Littrell of Cimilario, was selected.
On motion Of A. G. Dawson commit
tee on resolutions, consisting of j. Lea
by, A. L. Hobbs and c. M. Bayne, was
selected.
On motion of A. c. voorhees,, of Ra-
ton, seconded by Fl. B. Steward, of
Springer, the committee on resolutions
was instructed to draft a resolution in
dorsing the present territorial and ma
tional administrations, and indorsing
cure statehood for New Mexico
After a brief recess the committee on
credentials reported all precincts rep
resented, except precincts and 9, and
unanimously adopted.
The committee on resolutions then re-
ported as follows:
Resolved, That we. the Republican
voters Of Colfax county, in convention
assembled, heartily indorse the wise,
Just and patriotic administration Of
that great American citizen, William
Mckinley.
Resolved, That we indorse every off,
cial act Of that typical citizen and true
son Of New Mexico, Miguel A. Otero
our present governor, and cherish with
pride his every effort on behalf Of the
people Of this territory, and heartily CO.
operate with him and our present dele
gate to congress in their efforts to Sc
cure statehood for our beloved terri
tory.
That we point with satisfaction to the
efforts of the Hon. Pedro Perea, New
Mexicos representative in congress, to
secure pensions for all citizens Of our
territory, who are justly entitled to the
same.
Resolved, That the delegates selected
in this convention to represent Colfax
county in the Republican convention to
be held at Socorro, March II, be in
structed to make every effort to secure
the unanimous Endorsement Of the
present national and territorial admin
istrations.
The report of the committee on res
olutions was adopted unanimously.
The chair then announced that nomi-
nations for delegates would be in order,
and on motion Of DR.. l.. L. Cahill a
committee of five, consisting of w. c.
Barnes D.. ]. Leahy, D. Buenabenta, A.
L. Hobbs and Marion Littrell, was ap-
pointed to present the names of candi-
1ates.
The committee reported the names of
T. B. Hart, Of precinct 6; A. G. Dawson,
Of precinct 1s; Hugh Smith, Of precinct
l6; Melton Narvaiz. Of precinct 20, and
c. A. Whited, of precinct 6, as dele
gates to the Socorro convention. The
report Of the committee was unani-
mously adopted, and the convention ad-
iourned with much applause and gen.
eral good feeling and promises for the
success of the party at the coming elec-
tions.