Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-10-07
CATRON|STS
BEATEN-B0LTED
Regularity and Honesty in Politics Trumphed
Vote Stood 81 for Abbott and 80
for Catron Striker.
THE DELEGATION TO RATION
No Contested Delegation Voted for Abbott but Sixteen
Spurious Delegates Whose Claims Were Contested
Cast Ballots on The Doodle SIde-Catronlsts
Hold Rump Convention.

The Republican convention of Santa
Fe county to elect ten delegates to the
Republican territorial convention at Ra
ton, pursuant to the call Of the county
central committee, was calledto order il
the county court house at2 o'clock yester
day afternoon by I. B. Catron, chairman
of the county central committee. He
made a speech of ten minutes duration
in which he pleaded for harmony, fol
statehood, for the denomination of b. S.
Rodey and for the settling of party con.
tests within party lines.
j. D. Sena, secretary of the county
central committee, then read the call
for the convention in the English and
Spanish languages.
Delegate D. M. White of precinct No.
nominated e. G. Abbott for temporary
chairman and the Catron faction nomi-
mated r. l.. Baca, who was not dele
gate and who was a member of q
spurious delegation from precinct No.
IS, as it's candidate for chairman. The
chairman then presented roll of dele
gates which he said had been prepared
by the county central committee, there
upon Delegate D. M. White made O.
motion that none whose seats were
contested should be allowed to partici-
pate in the temporary organization.
This was ruled out of order by the
chairman, who made a long and tedious
argument in support of his position.
A motion by j. D. Hughes of precinct
II, that each contesting delegate should
be given half vote was ruled out of or
der. Delegate Marcelno Ortiz of pre-
cinct II thereupon read several af1ida-
Wits from citizens of precinct 1s, show
ing that the delegation presumably rec
ognized by the central committee as en-
titled to vote in the temporary organ
ization, was held Illegally, dishonesty
and without shadow of regularity, for
no other purpose than to create strife
and trouble among Republicans of the
county to make majority, no matter
how, for the Catron faction.
Delegate q. G. Abbott, of precinct No
4, then appealed from decision of chair,
which Chairman Catron ruled out of or
der for no other reason than because he
was in the chair. The vote was then
taken upon temporary chairman and
this resulted as follows: E. C. Abbott,
80; R. L. Baca, 30.
L. B. Catron declined to announce the
vote of the convention and protested
holding on to the Craftsmanship for ten
minutes. There was considerable noise
and disorder. Baca, head of the spuri-
GUS delegation from precinct No. IS, at
to take the chair, but was not
allowed to do so by the legally elected
delegates. The Catronites, to the num-
ber Of about 20, then got together in one
corner and organized a rump convention
in which they had everything their own
way regardless of decency, legality,
or honesty. Victoriano Ca
sados was elected temporary secretary
of the regular convention and the fol-
lowing committees we're appointed:
Credentials-J. D. Hughes, Ricardo
Alarid, Juan M. Sandova. Librado
Herrera, Santos Ortiz.
Permanent Organization = Marcelino
Ortiz, j. W. Harrison, Seferlno Baca,
Agapito Griego and Alberto Garcia.
The committee on credentials report
ed the following as the regularly and
lawfully elected delegates to the conven-
tion:
No. Ramon Garcia y Mestas, Anto-
MO Jose Romero, Nicolas Quintana.
No. 2-Alfonso Dockweiler, Agapito
Griego.
No. 3-Telesforo Rivera, Jose D. Sena,
Patricio Gallegos, Nicolas Sena, w. H.
Wherry, Felipe Archuleta and George
W. Armijo.
No. 4-David M. White, E. G. Abbott,
Charles Dominguez, Ricardo Alarid, Sc.
ferino Baca, Felipe Ortiz and H. L. Or
tiz.
No. 5-Martin Baca, EmeterIo Rome
70.
No. 6-Jesus M. Romero, Martin Baca.
No. Thomas Jones, Matias Mon
toya.
No. s-Bentnra Baros, Juan M. San
doval, Anastacio Sandoval, proxy for
Ambrosio Pine.
No. 9-Alejandro Gonzales, Victoria
no Casados and Francisco Lujan.
No. ION. L. English.
No. 11-Pablo Amanda. Tomas Rob-
erts.
No. 12-Jose Tudesqui, Patricio Cha
yes, Patricio Garcia.
No. 13-J. w. Harrison.
No. 14-Santos Ortiz, Reduclndo Tra-
jillo.
No. 15-Ursulo Borrego, Gregorio He
rrera, jose Y. Madrid, Alcario Lopez.
No. le-Librado Herrera, Rafael
Garcia.
No. III. D. Hughes, John v. Con-
way, W.. Mcpherson, Marcelino Ortiz
and Alberto Garcia. @
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