Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-08-15
A SURPRISED EMISSARY.
He Did Not Receive the Encouragement
Ha Had Looked for,

Special Correspondence New Mexican.
Silver City, N. M, Aug. II, 19O1.-An
emissary of the Santa Fe ring, that is
fighting the territorial administration,
was in the city last week and called on
many of our prominent citizens to get
them to subscribe for paper, of which
he said he was editor, God save the
profession. He was supplicating the
people to subscribe and begged them to
save the paper he represents from the
oblivion to which the people of the ter
ritory have consigned it. He went into.
the office of one of our most prominent
citizens and staunch Republicans, who
formerly held lucrative office under
Governor Otero, but who failed of re-
appointment during the last session OF
the assembly, as the office was consol-
idated with another office by act of the
legislative assembly, so that one official
serves instead of two. This vicious
mischief maker thinking that he had
struck oil, planted himself complacently
in an arm chair and said:
IT want you to go around town with
me, we must get as many subscribers as
possible to keep the paper running, ana
we must keep up this fight upon the
governor" To which the gentleman re-
piled: "You will have to EXCUSE me, I
have no fight to make upon the COVER
nor. 1 recognize him as the head OF the
territorial Republican administration,
and leader of the party in the territory
and I am not in the habit of making
fights upon the leaders Of my own par
ty to satisfy somebody's personal ami
mostly" The creatures surprise beg
CARED description when he found that
petty, personal spite did not inspire the
acts of all the Republicans of Silver
City, and that it was only the scurril-
lous tricks of small number that have
given the town a bad name in the Re
publican records of the territory. The
alleged editor, God save the profession,
then went to prominent Republican
merchant and told his tale Of woe and
begged for subscription. This business
| man said to him: "No decent mai
would read the paper that you claim tt
represent more than one issue, tina,
would disgust him, and he would not
allow it to be brought into the house
why don't you let up on your dirty
work, all Of your charges were proved
to be lies at Washington, now why
don't you quit and try to be decent?
To which the emissary replied: eff we
had a certain affidavit at Washington
we could have fixed the governor, ant
now we are going to fight his confirm
alton. The president told me he hat
been deceived" The merchant gave thu
fellow to understand very plainly tha
he did not believe he had any opportun
ity to speak to the president while a
Washington, and that he was lynn
willfully and maliciously." The alleg
ed editor was pitiable representativ
to be sent out of the capital city of tn
territory. If there is anything that wi
defeat statehood it will be this thin
posing at Washington as a prominen
citizen of New Mexico. His intrusio
upon the president at Ell Paso with hi
dirty lying tales, was a disgrace to tn
territory. No man with any instinct Q
gentleman would mar the pleasure 9
the president upon such a trip, by in
truding his personal or local grievance
upon his attention. The people of th
section were thoroughly disgusted wit
the fellow then and have not bettere
, their opinion of him by his recent visi