Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-13
DIVORCED DEMOCRACY.
The Leaders of the Unterrified Agree to


| supposed, when the latter IeCO6hlAeu Tie
" little six " and Endorsed their delegates.
The "big ten" came home from the Con-
vention, acknowledged they were beaten,
and apparently accepted their defeat with
good grace. As time passed, however the
" big ten, F." who so long had dictated the
policy of the party in this county, became
dissatisfied They longed for an oppor-
tunitv to be able to " fix things" denied
| the right of the little six
to call a Convention and denied the right
| of such Convention to elect County Cen
| trail Committee, ignoring them. Such pro-
ceedings, they claimed, were unprece-
dented; the ability" and political status
of the new Central Committee, they
claimed, was not what it should be, and
hence "they kick" The action OF the
Convention that sent delegates to the State
Convention and elected County Central
Committee, they claim, is null and void and
that the old committee, represented by the
'big ten, " is still in power. Acting upon this
assumption, Dr. w. S. Manlove, Chairman
of the old committee. called the " big ten
together at the Capital Hotel-their rem
dezvous-on Saturday afternoon. The
big ten met, and after discussing the
best methods to employ to " knock out "
the " little SIX" they decided to call pri-
mary election for September 18th to elect
delegates to a County Convention to be
held on the 25th, three days later. Their
call for the same appears in the advertising
columns of this issue of the RECORD
UNION.
DR.. Manlove, in issuing his call, adj
dressed notices to the little six" but none
son for their non-attendance is clearly set
forth in the following, which was the re-
ply of Jerry n. Payne:
SACRAMENTO, September IL. 1856
". s. MdHl0Ue, ESq.-DEAR SIR: l hereby ac-
knowledge the receipt of your communication
of instant, inviting, or notifying me to at
tend meeting of the Democratic County Central
Committee, of which you represent yourself as
being the Chairman, and inreply have to say that
do not recognize the existence of any Demo
cratic County Central Committee of which you
claim to be the Chairman, for the following,
among other reasons viz:
On August Dist the Democratic County Cen
trail Committee met in this city, at which meet
ing ten members of said committee-who con-
stituted a majority thereOf-saw proper, without
ever having given any notice of their iuten-
TONS to assume the responsibility of electing
fourteen delegates to represent the Democracy
of this county in the Democratic State Conven-
ton which met on August Slst. This action of
the majority of said committee was earnestly
protested against by the minority of said COM
mittee, as being unauthorized and undemo
cratic, but without avail, and in obedience to
the Democratic State platform and of the reso-
luton introduced by you, and unanimously
passed by the County Convention that elected
the old Central Committee, and pursuant to the
well-known wishes of the Democracy of this
County, the minority of said committee pro
ceeded to, and did call primary elections to be
held on August 24th, to elect delegates
to a County Convention which was
called to meet on August 25th. Said
primary election was held and delegates were
elected to said County Convention, which
call and
Convention, upon its organization, proceeded
to execute the duties for which it was called, to
wit: To elect fourteen delegates to represent
the Democracy of Sacramento county in the
State Convention; TO elect a County Central
Committee, and adjourned over to meet on the
2lst instant to nominate legislative and county
ticket, and also candidates for Supervisors.
The Democracy of this State, represented by
the Democratic State Convention. Endorsed the
action of the minority OF the late Democratic
County Central Committee by vote
of $40 to 146, and declared that the action
of the minority was in accordance
with the laws of the Democracy as enacted by
the party through its County Convention held
on August 50. 1884 and i'll accordance with the
Democratic State platform adopted at the Stock
ton Convention.
The Democratic State Convention which CON
vened on August 3lst, and which admitted the
fourteen delegates elected by the County Con-
yention called by the minority of the late Cen
trail Committee Of this county, recognized the
fact that lawful County Convention had been
ltlQ III TINS county. ana the pldLlOIm adopted
by SAID State Convention declares that immedi-
| ately upon the assembling OF a County Conyen-
| ton the old Central Committee ceases to exist;
hence il necessarily follows that upon
the assembling of our late County Convention
the old Central Committee, of which you and
were members, ceased to exist and thatthe Cen
trail Committee elected by said County Conven-
ton to succeed the one which had passed out Of
existence, is lawful, and for all purposes the
Central Committee of this county; and |, as
every loyal Democrat should do, Will strictly
fgk Dat r,ff lna 1arn Nav -
State Convention, and will recognize no pre-
tended Central Committee, but viii uphold and
sustain the one which has been declared the
lawfully elected Central Committee by said State
Convention, the Central Committee of which
have the honor of being the Chairman Very
| respectfully yours, JERRY n. PAYNE.
THE LITTLE SIX RATIFY.
In accordance with an order issued by
the Chairman of the Democratic State
Central Committee, Jerry n. Payne, chair
man of the Democratic County Central
| Committee, called a meeting to be held in
front of the Golden Eagle Hotel Saturday
evening to ratify the nominations of the
State Convention. The meeting was called
to order by Mr.. Payne. Judge J. w.
Armstrong was elected Chairman, and the
| following list of officers was read: Vice
Presidents, Erasmus G.. Blessing, James
| Mcclure, Z. D. Shirland, Matt. T. johnson,
|
| Christian Weizel, Richard Singleton,
George w. Nichols, Erskine Greer, Daniel
J. Considine, DIR. Henry L. Nichols,
William Mclaughlin, DR.. Gerard G.
Tyrrell, Thomas O'Neil, James Touhey,
| William Torney, Edward P. Figg, Bartho-
lomew Lucy, Charles SERVER, Alfred H.
Estill Ransom S. Carey, William Guten-
berger, DR.. Thornton A. Snyder, Thomas
Fox, DR.. James Caples, William H. Frey
Anton Menke, Mark Foster, Henry J. Kill
gariff, James J. Davis, Patrick Nash, Henry
Grice, Charles Dederding; Secretaries,
James c. Kelly and Thomas Gleason.
In assuming the duties of the Chair,
Judge Armstrong made short speech, in
wi1ch he counseled harmony, and said if
| the Democracy went into the fight with a
united front, victory would perch upon its
banners in November. He was followed
by the following gentlemen, who made
| short addresses Hon. John Daggett, Hon.
R. F. Del Vale, Hon. Clay W. Taylor,
Hon. G. W. Cross, Hon. NJ. Z. c.. Munday,
Hon. J. z. Dunn, General J. T. Carey, f.
c. Clark and others.
There were loud calls for DIR. Manlove,
| who was present; but no amount of infiu-
ence could be brought to bear that would
induce him to speak from stand erected
by the little six" Mr. Payne, Chairman
OF the County Central Committee, tried TO
prevail upon him to speak, saying that this
was simply an Endorsement of the platform
and ticket of the State Convention. The
doctor was unmoved, and declared that he
would not raise his voice i'm the campaign
until this matter of local supremacy was
settled.
A brass band was in attendance, and the
fact that the hotels were filled with guests
on attendance at the State Fair, and the
pool-selling rooms adjacent were filled with
people, attracted a crowd of several hun
bred people. There was not that usual en-
thusiasm manifested at Democratic ''whoop-
ups" and the big ten and their follow
ing looked on with the cold Indifference of
died-in-the-wool Republicans. The Democ-
racy SCENE to be separated by river over
which the bridge has been burned, and no
doubt the Republicans fondly hope that a
contract will not be let for the erection of q
new structure until after the election in
November The "big ten accuse the
little six of perfdy; the " little six" ac-
cuse the big ten of all the crimes known
to the political vocabulary.
Unknown Dead.
Saturday morning the dead body of a
man was found floating in the Sacramento
river about ten miles below this city, on
the Yolo side, near the mouth of Babel
| sIough II was secured and brought to the