Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-10-05

NEEDED to furnish campaign materia
for New Mexico local consumption as
well as for national use. There were q
number of little things that the voters
of the territory might want to know
something about as well as the nationa
lguestions spoken of in generalities al
Kansas City, so after considerable de-
bate the motion to reconvene at o'clock
was defeated and upon roll call of the
counties it was decided to adjourn until
10 o'clock this morning. The meeting
places of the three committees were an.
nOunced as follows: Credentials com.
mttee at the Office of Hon. n B.
Laughlin, rules and permanent organi-
zation committee at the Democratic
club rooms over Solomon Spiegelberg'
store, and the committee on order of
business at the office of A. b. Renehan.
SOME SPEECHMAKING.
An invitation was extended to Col. Il.
J. Budd, Democratic national commit
teeman from Iowa, who is in the city to
address the convention at 8 o'clock and
all the members were requested to at
tend.
A motion was then made to request
i. S. Trimble, of Albuquerque, one of
the oldest and best known veterans of
the party in New Mexico. to address
the convention. The motion was car
ried, the mention of Mr.. Trimbles name
provoking great and prolonged burst
Of applause. He spoke briefly but ably
upon the issues of the day from Demo-
cratic standpoint and was much ap-
plauded.
! At the conclusion of Mr. Trimble' s
speech the convention adjourned.
SESSION THIS MORNING.
The Democratic territorial convention
resumed it's work at the court house
this morning at $3.50 o'clock, with H. B.
Ferguson in the chair and w. A. Eaton
officiating as secretary.
| The committee on credentials report
ed the list of delegates entitled to seats
in the convention already printed in
these columns. which was adopted.
| The committee on permanent organ
ization reported as follows: Permanent
chairman, H. M. Doherty. of Socorro;
vice presidents, Julian A. Martinez of
Taos, Luis C. de Baca of Union, and L.
S. Trimble of Bernalillo; secretaries,
Enrique Abeyta of Rio Arriba and J. l..
Emerson of Eddy; interpreters, Camilo
Padilla of Santa Fe, Anastacio Torres
of Socorro and Jose Segura of Santa
Fe.
The committee on rules and order of
business recommended the adoption Of
the rules governing the Democratic ma
tional convention at Kansas City, with
the understanding that the candidate
for delegate should be nominated by
majority vote of the convention.
Both of the foregoing reports were
unanimously adopted.
A committee, consisting Of John Nor
row of Colfax and Warren Graham Of
Santa Fe, was appointed to escort the
permanent chairman elect to the chair.
Upon being presented to the conven-
ton as it's permanent chairman by Mr..
Ferguson, Mr.. Doherty most f1ttingly
| expressed his gratitude for the high
honor conferred upon him. He was al
ways proud to be a Demncra :. and was
particularly proud to be co4led upon to
preside over the deliberation of such
a large and representative convention
as the one before him. He discussed at
some length, and with much ability the
political issues of the day from Dem
ocratic standpoint, dwelling on the fa-
vorite Democratic dogma of imperial
ism and the alleged Republican crime
I,f ot,,{o t,,;r fxyt
ippines by force Of arms, and declared
that these were the paramount issues
| of the campaign. But he regarded the
| subject of trusts as very important and
| declared that the Democratic position
| thereon, as expressed in the Kansas
City platform, was strictly in the inter-
est of the masses against the classes.
He closed his vigorous address by de-
claring that all who favored a liberal
constitutional form of government, be-
lieved in a government by the consent
of the governed, that the principles rep
resented by the flag followed the consti-
tuition, and that the interests of the
many were superior to those Of the ia
vored few, should support the candi-
dates of the Democratic party in the
pending campaign. The speaker was re-
peatedly cheered.
After the installation of the minor
permanent officers, the convention took
recess for one hour, In order to give
the committee on resolutions time to
mature it's report.
THE PLATFORM.
At the expiration of the recess the
convention was promptly called to or
der by the chairman.
Prof. c. T. Jordan, of Las Cruces,
from the committee on resolutions, then
| reported the platform of principles
| agreed upon by the committee. The
document was chiefly a lengthy para
phrase of the Kansas City platform,
with the Interpolation of Democratic
views touching the various territorial
issues. The reading of the report was
greeted with cheers, and it was unani
mously adopted
The chairman announced that the
next order Of business was the nomina-
ton of candidate to represent New
Mexico as delegate to the fifty-sev-
enth congress, and ordered the calling
of the roll of counties for that purpose.
| When Bernalillo county was called,
Neill B. Field, of Albuquerque, arose
and placed Owen N. Marion, mayor Of
the Ducal City, in nomination for del
egate.
The chairmen of the other county del
egations announced that they had no
candidates until Rio Arriba county was
| reached when J. H. Crst took the plat