Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-07-18

uhEy ehiTuisu Wulcu really Willy
announced the advent of the great
and decisive battle, Immediately
became very conciliatory and good
humored. Not anticipating the de.
cisive reverse they were shortly to
encounter, they declared their will.
ingness to accept heartily any ac-
ton of the Convention. AS con.
sequence, Glenn was nominated;
and, as soon thereafter as possible,
his name appeared at the head of
this journal.
A Convention emphatically
Democratic in every fiber assem-
bled after this nomination. Mr..
Cutter, of Yuba, arose in his
place and revived the resoiu.
tion of Mr.. Pearce in modi-
fed form. DIR. Glenn had then
been nominated, and the question
was altogether as to how far the
Democracy should carry the pre-
cedent. In vulgar parlance, many
Democrats desired to know whether
"the tail was to be thrown in with
the hide" and the whole "H. B."
ticket swallowed bodily. Mr.. Cut
ter's amended resolution pledged
the Convention to nominate there
after no candidate who was publicly
affiliated with any party other than
the Democracy.
In supporting his resolution Mr..
Cutter stated, what was the fact,
that a conference bad been held be-
tween the San Francisco delega-
ton, and other members of the
Convention, and Charles de Young,
of the San Francisco Chronicle, and
other representatives of the "H.B."
organization, looking to an alliance,
the conditions of which were under
stood to be that the "H. B." ticket
was to be substantially endorsed as
a whole, the Chronicle in return
agreeing to support the Democratic
municipal ticket of San Francisco.
The unquestioned and unques-
tionable facts were that Mr..
Charles de Young was hanging os-
tentatiously on the skirts of the
| Convention, that conference was
held and that every man privy to
it was ready to carry out what Mr..
de Young VIGOROUSLY desired.
Many a thorough Democrat could
hardly restrain his Indignation at
the spectacle of this traditional
journalistic slanderer of his party
being, by so-called Democrats,
elevated, for the moment, to the
dignity of being supposed capable
of influencing the proceedings of a
Democratic Convention. Resent
ment throbbed hotly and potently,
and Mr.. Cutters resolution was
adopted by decisive majority, the
effect of its adoption being polite
intimation to Mr.. de Young that
his presence had not been invited
and that his room was preferable to
his company. There was no con-
cession to the De Youngs in the
nomination of DR.. Glenn, because
Mr.. Webster, and not the Colusa
farmer, had been the Chronicles
preference for the "H. B." guber-
material nomination. 1t is no exag.
geration TO say that the Chron-
icLe, since 1t lost its common sense,
and fell back upon its unmeasured
conceit, has not gained single
point in the political game. It's
impotence Will be emphasized as
the campaign progresses. Its party
is a skeleton and it is itself a po-
litical sham!
Such spectacle as that which
followed the defeat of the pro-
gramme OF the tergiversating
Chronicle was probably never wit
messed in O Democratic Convention
in California before. The San Fran
cisco delegation was beside itself
with rage and actual violence, for
o while, was imminent. Two of
the delegation of the Golden Gate
accused the country delegations of
selling out to the railway. We
marked both individuals; and,
when we got down to San Francis
CO, we inquired into their antece-
dents. We were not surprised to
find that one was an advertising
agent of the Central Pacific, South
ern Pacific and California Pacific
Railways, having an office, with
his partner, in the Occidental
Block. The other man was an en-
gineer on Mr.. Perkins's steamer
the California.
Fortunate indeed was it for the
good name of the Democracy OF
California that the country dele
gates detected, exposed and defeat
ed a conspiracy which would have
left the party locally forever dis.
graced. From first to last, with a
single exception, the Los Angeles
delegation planted itself infexibly
against fusion. 1t voted for the
resolution which would have made
the candidacy of Glenn impossible.
1t submitted to his nomination,