Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-03-16
PREPARING FOR
SPRING ELECTION
Repub licans Fix
Dates for City
Primaries
LIVELY CAMPAIGN PROMISED
Two Vaca ncies in Republi.
can City Central Com.
mite are Filled.

March 80 and April | have been Sc
lected as the respective dates for the
holding of the Republican city primar
les and city convention this year in
Santa Tc. The time and places were
designated at meeting Saturday ey
ening of the Republican city centra
committee which was held in the Office
Of Chairman Alfred NJ. Bergere. Th(
Republlcans are determined to put
strong ticket in the field and vii
make a strenuous campaign for the
election of their candidates. The city
election will be held on April I.
Two Changes in Central Committee
At Saturday nights meeting two
changes were made In the personnel
of the city central committee, owing tc
vacancies created by the removal OF
committeeman from one war to anoth
er. Samuel G.. Cartwright was ap
pointed as committeeman in the Sec
ond ward to replace Charles G. Clos
son while in the third ward DR.. David
NJ. Knapp was named as the successor
to Percy F. knight.
There was practically a full attend
ance at the committee meeting. Chair
man Bergere presided and H. l.. Or
tiz was at his post as secretary. The
others present were Colonel Edmund
G. Abbott, Santiago c. de Baca
Charles C. Closson. Albino Ortega and
DR.. Charles A. Wheelon, the latter
holding the proxies of Colonel Max
Frost and Major r. J. Palen.
One Delegate For Every Ten Votes
Cast.
The representation at the city con
vention will be on the basis Of one
delegate for every ten votes cast al
the last city election for I. Sparks
who was the regular Republican can
didate for mayor but was defeated on
fusion ticket by Mayor T. B. Catron
1t is figured that at this ratio there
will be about forty delegates to the
city convention, the First and Second
wards each having eleven delegates
the Third ward nine delegates and the
Fourth ward eight delegates.
At the city election two years age
Mayor Catron received 55G votes and
Mr.. Sparks 1874, the former having had
majority in all four wards. IT is es
timated that over a thousand ballots
will be poplled at the coming election
as quite number Of new voters have
made their appearance here since the
last city election. Both Republicans
and Democrats it is expected will put
up straight tickets. although the city
election will be more or less non.par
tlsan.
Mayor Catron Out For Reelection.
Who the candidates for mayor, city
clerk and city treasurer, aldermen and
members of the city board Of educa
tion on the Republican ticket is OF
course as yet problematlcal. Mayor
Catron will be a candidate for re-elec
tlon as head of the city administration
and also as member of the school
board of which he is now president
Adolph P. Hill, who is at present city
clerk, is Democrat and was elected
on the fusion ticket two years ago
He will probably be the Democratic
nominee for reelection.
The Republican city central com
mittee has adopted the rules and reg
ulations promulgamated by the Re
publican territorial central committee
to govern the county primaries, and
the same system will be applied tc
the coming city primaries of the loca
Republicans.
Where Primaries Will Be Held.
The primaries throughout the city
will be called in the respective meet
ing places at 7 p. M, on March 30th
The First ward primary will be held
at the school house there and will be
called to order by Ward Chairman Re
lpe Ortiz. The primary in the Second
ward will take place at the residence
of Nicolas Sena and Of which the ward
chairman is Luis Moya In the Third
ward the primary will be at the office
of Justice of the Peace Jose Ma. Gar
cla Amborsio Ortiz is the ward chair
man. Republicans in the fourth ward
will have their primary at the court
house and the ward chairman there is
David M. Gonzales.
The city convention will meet at the
court house at 2:30 p. M, April | anG
as already mentioned there will be
practically forty delegates. The offic
ial call for the city primaries and city
convention appears elsewhere in to
days New Mexican.