Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1882-06-27


How the Nomination is Received.
DEAR HERALD: Having returned from
San Jose, where | left the Democratic
State Convention still in session, with
all of the ticket yet to be nominated
with the exception of Governor, will
give you few hurried notes of what |
saw and heard there. As early as Sun
day evening delegates were on their way
to the Garden City and by Monday af-
ternoon probably fifteen hundred people
were on hand there, consisting of dele
gates and the numerous tribe who might
be denominated COOKERS Oh in Vienna.
The San Jose committee on reception
did their work admirably and no extor-
tions were permitted on the strangers
within their gates by hotel-keepers or
others. These gentlemen, with a just
local pride in having pleasant recollec-
ton linger in the minds of their visitors,
threatened to hire private houses and
provide lodgings themselves if those
duly licensed to do so failed to meet
the situation in proper spirit.
The Convention met in the San Jose
Theater-a very commodions edifice for
q provincial city.
THE NOMINATIONS AND THE SPEECHES OF
THE NOMINEES.
The different aspirants for gubernato-
rial honors were proposed, in some cases,
in speeches of unusual force and elo-
quence. Notable for these qualities was
that of DIR. j. Campbell Shorb in intro
ducing the name of Clay w. Taylor, that
or Col. Flournoy proposing Mr.. Hearst
and Stephen M. White nominating Gen.
Stoneman. The Messrs. Hearst and
Stoneman replied in speeches of great
brevity, with no oratorical pretense.
Clay w. Taylor responded with great
force and beauty that was not sustained
to the end. however. Judge Archer,
whose candidacy was purely orna-
mental one, signalized himself by a
somewhat lengthy address, which was
really model OF argument and chas-
tened rhetoric.
1t is well to remark, en- PEASANT, that
no State Convention has ever assembled
in San Francisco which con tained more
fine looking men than gathered at San
Jose Tuesday. They merited encomiums
both from an intellectual and physical
point of view. The candidates for Gov
ernor, also, when arrayed ON the stage,
proved to be men of stately and impress
sive personnel.
THE FIRST SURPRISE.
An unusual time was consumed in the
preliminaries which make the work of
all conventions so tedious, and in the
discussion on the platform. 1t was not
until Thursday that ballot was reached
on Governor The Hearst men had count
cd confidently on from So to 80 of the
San Francisco delegation, and when the
call of the roll showed only IS there
was a blank feeling amongst his sup
porters. The previous evening the
quid nuncs had put it up that Hearst
would open with about $50 votes, Stone
man 100, and Johnson 100, with the rest
scattered about amongst Taylor, Berry,
Archer and the clark horses" The
surprise was great, therefore, when the
call of the roll showed l26 for Hearst to
III fer Stoneman-a difference of only 8
votes. 1t was intensified when Johnson
proved to have had very little more
than one-half the strength with which
he had been credited. The varis tons
in the results of the balloting were of
little consequence until this morning,
when Stoneman, opening with 1872 votes,
jumped on the next ballot to l66, Berry
having been withdrawn in his favor
resulting in an increase of "a votes to
the former. The twelfth ballot was
watched with feverish interest, and the
opinion about this time became general
that nothing short of miracle could
prevent Stoneman's nomination. The
changes became numerous and were
greeted by Stoneman's friends with en-
thusiastic applause. The result proved
to be lS9 for Stoneman to ia for
Hearst-the former heading the poll and
leading his principal opponent by Is
votes. Then arose q clamorous demand
for an adjournment of an hour, upon
which the yeas and nays were called. 1t
was carried by small majority.
1t was felt that here was the decisive
moment and that the last combinations
to beat Stoneman must be made at once.
The Shaksperean phrase, eff 'twere
done when tits done, then 'twere well it
were done quickly" came into play.
But it was all in vain. The very air
was laden with subtle intimation of vic
tory for Stoneman. On the thirteenth
ballot his vote shot up to 2O4 Before
the fourteenth ballot had been finished
the required 229 had been reached, and
the building rang with the acclamations
of Stoneman's partizans; and, at later
stage, they were heartily re-echoed by
Democrats generally, irrespective of
their previous gubernatorial preferences.
The candidates, victor and vanquished
next delivered little speeches proper to