Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-02
POLITICAL FIGHT BEGINS AT
 SANTA FE
Carpet Baggefss" Sent by Government at Washington Make Factions Very Weary. Several Are Out of Office,

SANTA FEE, N. NJ, Aug. 1.-Sensa- ton has followed sensation. in this ancient capital for several days now, and frcm the best information ob- ] tainable the sensations are just mak- ing a start.
 The latest real sensation was the removal of Clerk A. Begere, of this district, his resignation having been asked for by Judge McFie Begere l Is brother-in-law of Hon. Solomon
 Luna. the most powerful epublican 1 politician in the territory, anl it Is said that Judge McFie would not have asked for the resignation Of his clerk i but for the demands made by couple of lawyers here, representing the gov i ernment as assistant attorney gen. erals. To make this move look worse
 for the late clerk, a representative of
 the treasury department and a spe- cial land agent was put in temporary charge of the office, pending the ar rival of man from the east"
 It is known in this territory that the epublican politicians have been making a great to do about the ap- pointment by Hagerman, of man from Kansas to act as superintendent of the penitentiary but now ,he- must remain quiet while the government sends in men to act in official capac- ities. This is considered the great est humiliation ever rubbed IT. on any political party in this territory It is an announcement to the world that the Republican party of New Mexico has no member combining capability and honesty to act as clerk of the district, and a man wearing silk pants will be imported
 There are six special agents of the interior department here, and severa; strangers about town are also sup posed to belong to the same lapatt- ment and acting as secret agents. This means tn einyestigation of the land deals of the Otero adnlinistra- ton.
 For more than week it has been reported that the resignation of Act ing Governor Reynolds, who is also secretary of the territory, has been asked for, and the rumors refuses to be downed. Advices received from 1 Washington this morning are to the effect that he will be busted and that i Governor Curry was called to Wash 1 ington before the selection of his sue cessor was decided upon.
 The removal of BegeTe from the office of clerk, and the temporary ap- i pointment of an agent of the depart ment, indicates a new line of investi- | gation, and it is understood here that several other removals will be asked i for. including at least one of the l judges of the supreme court.
 | It is reported on the streets that
 the assistant attorney general here fn- vestigating land frauds roundly de- nounced one of the judges in the of | flee of the secretary and acting gov ernor. and that the latter official promptly reported him to Washing i ton by wire: and the same rumor has l 1t that this was not done until sec retary and acting governor was fully aware of the fact that he was to go l out of office as soon as the depart ment could fill his position.
 | One of the members of the party
 Of special investigators is to be the
 secretary of the territory, according l to the rumor, and has been in the ter ritory for some weeks waiting for the plum to drop. He is warm friend
 of Secretary Taft. and has been in the Philippines in good positions. It is
 being demonstrated that the Republi
 cans of the territory are unfit to hold office.
 Assistant Attorney General Me Harg, here in charge of the inyestiga
 tions into the land frauds, created
 another political sensation by takins
 a hand in the Bursum suit against the
 territory for a settlement of his pent
 tentiary accounts. It is understood
 that he forced the territorial attornel
 general to intervene, and as that Of
 ficiaI prepared papers considered tt
 be of no avail by the new man, an
 other set was prepared and the ter
 ritorial official forced to place hi , signature to them.
 The politicians are in a state O continual excitement New charges have been filed in Washington agains : two of the presene officials, and ru nor says those two officials are Sec retary Reynolds and Surveyor GeneI al Morgan Llewellyn. That the frs
 official is under new charges is fail
 ly well established, but there may b
 some doubt as to the other one.