Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-10-06
CATRON|STS
BEATEN-BOLTED
Regularity and Honesty in Politics Triumphed
Vote Stood 80 for Abbott and 20
for Catron Striker.
THE DELEGATION TO RATION
No Contested Delegation Voted for Abbott but Sixteen
Spurious Delegates Whose Claims We're Contested,
Cast Ballots on the Doodle Slde-CatronIsts
Hold Rump Convention.

The Republican convention of SAINT
Fe county to elect ten delegates to tn
Republican territorial convention at Ri
ton, pursuant to the call of the count
central committee, was called to orde
in the county court house at 3 ocloc
this afternoon by T. B. Catron. chairma
of the county central committee. II
made a speech of ten minutes duratio
Id which he pleaded for harmony, fo
statehood, for the denomination of b.
Rodey and for the settling of party con
tests within party lines.
j. d. Sena, secretary of the count
central committee, then read the cal
for the conventioe in the English an,
Spanish languages.
Delegate D. M. White of precinct No
nominated e. G. Abbott for temporar,
chairman and the Catron faction nomi
mated R. L. .Baca, who was not dele
gate and who was member OF ;
spurious delegation from precinct No
| 49, as its candidate for chairman. Tht
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 q mo
tion that none of 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 long and tedious
argument in support of his position.
motion by J. D. Hughes of precinct
II, that each contesting delegate should
be given half vote was ruled out of or.
| der. Delegate Marcelino Ortiz of pre-
cinct II thereupon read several af1ida-
vite from citizens of precinct IS, 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 a 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 E. c. 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: f. G. Abbott,
80; r. L. Baca. 2s.
I. 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. 1s, at
tempted 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 rump convention
in which they had everything their own
way regardless of decency, legality,
regularity or honesty. Victoriano Ca
sados was elected temporary secretary
of the regular convention and the fol-
lowing committees were appointed:
Credentials. D. Hughes. Ricardo
Alarid, Juan M. Sandoval. Liberato
Herrera, Santos Ortiz.
Permanent Organization Marcelino
Ortiz, j. w. Harrison, Seferino 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 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. david M. White, E. c. Abbott,
Charles Dominguez, Ricardo Alarid, Sc.
ferino Baca, Felipe Ortiz and H. L. Or
tiz.
No. 5Martin Baca, Eme,erio Rome
no.
No. 6-Jesus M. Romero, Martin Baca.
No. Thomas Jones, Matias Mon
toya.
No. S-Bentura Baros, Juan M. San
doval, Anastacio Sandoval, proxy for
Ambrosio Pine.
No. 9-Alejandro Gonzales, Victoria
no Casados and Francisco Lnjan.
No. 1O-M. 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, Reducindo Tra-
jillo.
No. Is -Ursulo Borrego,. Gregorio He
rrera, jose Y. Madrid, Alcario Lopez.
No. l6-Librado Herrera, RafaeI
Garcia.
No. III. D. Hughes, John v. Con-
way, W.J. Mcpherson, Marcelino Ortiz
and Alberto Garcia.
No. 1s-R. j.. Palen. Manuel Rito