Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-28
Republican Party Code Is Vio-
lated by Refusal to Accept
Proxies at County Conyen-
ton.
STATE COMMITTEES
PRECEDENT IGNORED
Special Committee Fixes APP
portiOnment So Rural Dele
gates Have Overwhelming
Majority,


mittee yesterday afternoon at the
court house--to be exact the Romero
Baca element--eleNated ltsef rhoNe
republican party customs I'm tact, so
there would be no doubt es TO the
committees lofty exemption, !, per
formed the record Of twice shatterlng
the unwritten code Of the oreaniZa-
ton, in force practically t'nce the
birth of the party. and ruled arbi-
trarily with the evident pul pose oi
making sure a tremendous majority
for rural delegates supposed TO favor
Elfego Bacas candidacy in the coun-
~ convention.
The first jclt came When. by vote
Of "A to 4. the committee refused 10
accept a proxy offered by Capt. W. II.
Gillenwater. This was followed later
by refusal to admit proxies Mt the
county convention, to be held August
IA at the court house. A novel plan
involving alternates was spoken of but
the committee did not go on record
as to this scheme.
Inconsistency Il shown.
The final blow was put over when
the committee based the apportion-
ment of delegates upon only the cleo
tion of 1912, violating the standard
set by the state central committee re-
Gently at Santa Fe in taking the av-
erage of the vote at the last three gem
eral elections for the assignment Of
delegates from Bernalllo county to
the state convention. An amusing
feature is that committeeman who
took an active part yesterday insisted
upon this ratio at the state commit
tee meeting.
The apportionment for the county
convention was engineered by a com
mittee appointed by Sheriff Jesus Ro-
nero chairman. The report explicit
~ states that the representation Is
based upon the combined standpat
and progressive vote cast for two pres
idential electors in the fall of 1912, the
ratio being one delegate for every
twenty-five votes or fraction thereof
Country Given ~ Majority.
The total number of delegates Is
108 Each of the city precincts is
allowed twenty-one. making a pitifu
total of forty-two against the sixty
the precincts outside the city,
which the pre- Baca element processes
to control, will have in the convention.
If the plan of apportioning dele
gates adopted by the state committee
had been adhered to the rural dele
gates would, outnumber the urban
delegates fourteen in the county con-
Vention. which appears to be fairly
comfortable majority at that.
The steam roller was not operated
without spirited opposition on the part
of the minority, whose spokesmen
urged the observance Of republican
rights and expressed fear that these
methods would be disastrous to the
party. A. A. Sedillo. attorney, tried
to check the wholesale dsbarment Of
"a
resolution, which at the same time
safeguarded their use According to
his resolution one man would be al
lowed to hold only one proxy The
Sedllo proposal was tabled indefi-
ntely by the vote of 2S to 20, two
committeeman not voting.
Captain Gilicnwater Speaks.
The first evidence of the crusher
was at the opening Of the meeting,
When Charles Chadwick, secretary,
calling the roll, pronounced the name
Of A. Matteucci, Captain Gillenwater
announced that he mad Mr.. Matteuc-
cts proxy.
mo proxies are allowed here" said
the sheriff. AT Captain Giilenwater,s
insistence he allowed him to state his
position, but added reiteratlon that
no proxies were allowed
Il wish to state" said Captain Gill
lenwater that the usage has been
uniform to receive proxies from COM
mtteemen That Is true of the ma
tonal committee | know that per-
sonally, On two occasions the late
Solomon Luna gave proxies TO natlon- :
al committee meetings when ne could
not attend. There never has been any
question raised as to proxies IN ma
tional or state committee meetings