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Show Toopeee nae Saeco eee = 1912 | General * ee ae ee m ee et ee | ee tee a or : oe ray ee ae ee ee ~2 eed EP et ee hw Ce ents ts rs¢ a ee ee ee ‘+ re Py Civil War he served on the staff of General McKinstry , with the rank of captain of volunteers. In 1862, he aided in raising the 24th Michigan Infantry, in which regiment he held a commission as second lieutenant ; participated in all the battles fought by the Army of the Potomac and was captured at Gettysburg. Was confined in Libby prison eight months; was exchanged and returned to his command, then in front of Petersburg; served until the close of the war ee 085 The candidacy of Mr. Spiess was warmly opposed by a leading newspaper at Alburquerque; he was charged with being the representative of ‘‘special interests,’’ but this opposition availed little in the republican caucus as he received more than two-thirds of the votes of the republican members. The republican majority, directed by the leaders of the party, however, determined to keep control of the situation and by resolution provided for a committee of twentyone members which had for its chairman, Solomon Luna. This committee was charged with the duty of selecting all committees of the convention, a duty ordinarily incumbent upon the president of a deliberative body of this dignity and character. It may be said that this committee had for its members *° the men who, more than any others, performed the work of the convention, dictated the policies at which time ‘he was serving on the staff of Major ana Cie re. r 1880 TO ———— S. W. Crawford. For meritorious service at the battle of Petersburg he was promoted to a captainey and after the battle of Five Forks was brevetted major. He was wound- ed at Fredericksburg. After the war, Major Whiting came to New Mexico as of the staff of the New York Herald, spending a year in writing letters about New Mexico. In 1868, he was appointed clerk of the United States court at Alburquerque, a position which he held for ten years. He held the offices of probate clerk, assessor, and county school superintendent of Bernalillo county, a member respectively. He has been a United States commissioner twenty-seven ge Hoe ees | Gallegos, of Union, and Solomon Luna, in the county of which ey ee aes Eufracio re Torrance; eee SP OE ee 3 anata ae ae*se ae ee ee of Valencia, Every member was a political leader and power Was represented by him in the convention. e-*« Gallegos, eG 984 9 lg rs a ae ee er AT Cee ee eae : This ‘‘Committee on Committees’’ was composed of the following: Francis E. Wood, of Bernalillo county; Charles Springer, of Colfax; Frank W. Parker, of Dofia Ana; W. D. Murray, of Grant; Tranquilino Labadie, of Guadalupe ; John H, Canning, of Lincoln; Gregory Page, of McKinley; Fred S. Brown, of Mora; Albert B. Fall, of Otero; Reed Holloman, of Quay; Perfecto Esquibel, of Rio Arriba; W. E. Lindsay, of Roosevelt; E. A. Miera, of Sandoval; Eugenio ‘Omero, of San Miguel; Thomas B. Catron, of Santa Fé ; Frank H. Winston, of Sierra; Holm O. Bursum, of Socorro; Malaquias Martinez, of Taos; Acasio nly the defeat of some of the party’s candidates. heen “* ee Peres Journal, a powerful factor in the business and political life of New Mexico. This journal, itself owned by individuals in sympathy with every interest with which, in its utterances editorially, it charged Mr. Spiess with too close conhection, for several years the leading newspaper of New Mexico, declined to Support the republican ticket in 1911, and to its condemnation of the head of the republican ticket, its espousal of the cause of the dominant faction, numerically, of the republican party in Bernalillo county, may be chiefly attributed ws years, *95 This committee was a sort of ‘‘steering’’ affair. The newspaper ‘which voiced its opposition to Mr. Spiess ’s candidacy was the Alburquer que Morning |