Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-11-02

| cannot take place until March or June
next. Mr.. Rodey will, doubtless, be
succeeded in March by the next dele
gate-either Mr.. Money or Mr.. An
drews, and it would seem only fair that
the new delegate should have a chance
to make this cadet appointment on the
patriotic and unselfish plan adopted by
Mr.. Joseph, rather than to be forestall.
ed by the premature and suspicious ac'
ton of Mr.. Catron and Mr.. Rodey.
In the Catron convention held on the
litical miscegenators failed to support
any one candidate for delegate-the
wayward Democrats being sufficiently
loyal to their old party traditions, to
express a preference for our honest and
able young candidate, George p.
Money, and the Catron-seduced Repub-
licans being sufficiently loyal to their
master conspirator to express pref
erence for his subservient friend, Mr..
Rodey.
For many years prior to the appoint
ment of Hon. w. T. Thornton as gov
ernor of this Territory under the last
Cleveland administration, political Of
fees and political business in this coun-
ty were under the control of T. B. Cat
nifty know too well what terrible COM
plications resulted. We want no more
of them, and therefore we must keep
political power out of Catron's hands.
To all that bear in mind the "Borrego
Case, and the scandals which attend.
ed it, it is painful to see that the Cat
ron influence is now operative to bend
to his will some of the very men who bit
terly denounced him at that time. In
those days the present Territorial leader
of the Democratic party caused Catron
to be arraigned for unprofessional con-
duct as lawyer before Democratic
supreme court. 1t was only owing to
the extraordinary indulgence of that
court that he escaped disbarment. Is
it now possible that Mr.. Catron Is fool
ish enough to believe that he can at
the approaching election make cats
paw of Hon. J.>H. Crist, who then so
bitterly accused him, and Hon. N. B.
Laughlin who, in his dissenting opin-
ion in the disbarment case so severely
censured him? For the prosecution of
that case, the court, of it's own motion,
commanded w. B. Childers, A. A.
Jones, B. S. Rodey, S. B. Newcomb, and
the Solicitor General (myselO to act as
counsel for the Territory, Mr.. Justice
Hamilton saying, in his opinion, cat
the first session Of this court in August,
1895, Jacob H. Crist, the district attor.
ney for the First district, who conduct
ed the prosecution in the criminal trial
above referred to (Borrego Case), ap-
peared in this court, and filed num-
Der of affidavits, charging the defend
ants with unprofessional conduct, and
accompanying them with petition,
calling the attention of the court to the
same, and asking the court to take
such action in the premises as it should
deem best. This court, upon an inves-
tigation of the affidavits, deemed the
charges of sufficient gravity to call for
full Investigation. The court there
fore entered an order appointing a
committee consisting of four of the
leading members of the bar of the Ter
ritOry, who, in conjunction with the
solicitor general, were directed to take
charge of the matter, and prepare and
file in this court such charges therein
as, in their judgment might deem prop
er, and to take charge of such investi-
cation, and offer such testimony in sup
port thereof as. in their judgment, the
public interest might require. Under
this order the committee prepared and
filed charges and specifications against
each of the said respondents, to which
each of them answered, denying all of
the charges, and demanding an immedi-
ate hearing thereon. The committee to
whom had been intrusted the unpleas-
ant duty of filing these charges and
conducting this investigation have dis
charged that duty with zeal and ability
which commends itself to the favorable
commendation of both the court and
the bar" See, In re Catron, 8 N. NJ,
255.
Judge Laughlin, in his dissenting
opinion, at page S26, of the same vol
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unprofessional conduct with which the
respondent had been charged. uses the
following trenchant language: eff such
acts are to be passed over unnoticed
by the courts, then the profession will
be reduced from that high and honor
able place to which It belongs. to the
level of the trickster and charlatan
and while the lawyer who engages IN
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