Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-02-19
POLITICAL
POINTERS

able among Republicans and Demo-
Gratis alike. The matter of interest at
present is the selection of delegates to
the Republican and Democratic ma
tional conventions this summer. Can
didates are plentiful and much inter
est is being shown by aspirants and
politicians generally.
The Republicans of Taos County
were the first to hold their county
convention and to select eight dele
gates to the territorial convention.
There was considerable of a conten-
ton over the selection of delegates;
there being two ambitious factions in
that county. One headed by Maia-
quias Martinez and DR.. T. P. Martin
and the other by Pedro Sanchez and
Juan Santistevan. However, COM
promise was affected and everything
looks harmonious now The delegates
can safely be put down as supporting
the terratorial and national admins
trations, and resolutions endorsing the
territorial and national administra-
tions and calling for statehood within
it's present boundaries were adopted.
The delegations consist of we'll known
Republican citizens.
The sentiment in Socorro County in
favor of placing H. O. Bursum OF that
county before the territorial conven-
tion as candidate for delegate to Chi
cago from New Mexico is gaining
ground rapidly throughout the Fifth
Judicial District, and the chances are
strongly in favor that this will be done
A better or more deserving Republi-
can for the position could not be found
in New Mexico There is, however, a
faction in Socorro County opposed to
Mr.. Bursum. Whether this faction will
make fight or not, remains to be
seen, although this paper understands
that some interested parties have con-
tributed the amount of 5000 to undo"
Mr. Bursum in his home county. This
| is conclusive evidence that Mr.. Bur
sum is in the way and greatly so, of
some ambitious politicians. His career,
however, has shown so far that while
he does not say much he gets there
with both feet.
The Las Vegas Democrats and
Pops wanted the coming Democratic
territorial convention to be held in
their own town, but w. B. Walton OF
Silver City, who represented Grant
County in Wednesdays meeting OF the
Democratic central committee, got
away with them Mr. Walton is a
good political worker and slayer
when he undertakes anything for his
party, his county or his town. AL
though the ratio of one delegate for
each one hundred Democratic votes
cast for H. B. Ferguson in 1892 was
fixed upon, still it looks as if the con-
vention would not be very strongly at
| tended, as the rank and file of the New
Mexico Democracy seems to take very
little interest as far as the matter OF
delegates to st. Louis is concerned.
The Democratic territorial central
committee which met in this city Wed
nesday had it in it's grasp to make a
''ten strike" by endorsing the candi
dacy of Congressman w. R. Hearst OF
New York. However, the members oi
the committee could not rise to the
occasion. 1t seems the Bryan and
other free silver Democrats in the
committee did not dare to speak and
the "gold bugs" had it their own way
Hearst is the logical candidate OF the
Democracy of the great west and the
New Mexico Democracy as a matter
of good policy should have placed It
self in the van of the Hearst move
hent The chance is gone. Their &C
tion will react in an unpleasant and
Improbable manner upon the Demo
cratic party of the Territory.
In Mora County so-called indie
pendent Republican movement has
been organized. What it will really
amount to, is problematical at this
time, although it's organizers and pro.
moters claim that it will cut much ice
in this years campaign. Still Mora
County can safely be set down in the
Republican column this fall.
In Santa Fe County, political mat
ters are livening up and there is a
spirited contest for the selection OF the
eleven delegates from this county to
the Las Vegas convention. The indi'
cations are that the friends of the ad-
ministration will be successful There
is considerable work, quiet wire pull
ing and also some fixing on In var
ious precincts by the ambitious ones
but the result as far as administration
success is concerned, does not at this
time look doubtful. The primaries in
this county will be held next Thursday
and the convention on Saturday the
9th instant.
Among the several candidates fol
delegateships to the national Republi
can convention from the Fourth Judi
cial District are John Van Houton o1
Ration. D. J. Leahy of the same place
and Eugenio Romero Of Las Vegas
There are others who would like to 60
but their names are not much in evi
dence or up for consideration. Las