Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-28
THE DEMOCRACY.
Preparing for tho Convention-The Dele
gates Elected.

THE DEMOCRACT.
Preparing for the Convention-The Deie'
gates Elected.
The committee of eight appointed by inc
subcommittee of the Democratic state
! Central Committee as a compromise meas
ure, to quiet the disagreement between the
Little Six and Big Ten factions, held an
other meeting last evening at the Office OF
the Secretary, Add. C. Hinkson. There
were present Messrs. Stephens, Carey,
Hinkson. O'Niel and Sullivan, and the
other three members were represented by
proxy. A list of the delegates elected, so
far as returns had been received. was made
out. 1t was reported that the special cleo
ton called for yesterday afternoon, at
COUGHS, to settle the tie between Daniel
Foley and E.. L. Coons, had been unneces-
sary because of a compromise, one OF these
gentlemen Withdrawing, but which the
committee had been Unable to ascertain.
The special election yesterday in the third
precinct of the First Supervisor District to
decide the tie between J. A. Martin and q.
Depuy, resulted in the former receiving all
the votes NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. being no
contest.
The main business of the evening was
relative to the contest in the fourth pre-
ciDct of the Second Supervisor District. A
| protest from D. Z. Alexander, inspector at
that precinct, against the returns of the
| Judges being accepted-on the ground that
thew had refused to count 26 legal ballots;
also that the said judges were ~prejudiced in
their action because of their being candi-
dates on one of the tickets, and if the 26
ballots had been counted they would have
been defeated, and for other reasons
enumerated-was read.
General Carey held, as did some of the
others, that the Committee of Eight had no
authority to go behind the returns. A
Board of Supervisors would not have such
authority in case of contest for an office,
but the ballot. counting and other work of
that character must be done in Court. He
held thai in this instance the committee
were In the place of the Supervisors, and
the County Convention stood for the Court.
He moved that the committee take no
action relative to the contest i'll the fourth
precinct other han to send the tally list
and returns, ballots, register, ETC., together
with Mr.. Alexander's protest, to the Con-
v%ention, certifying to that body that they
were Just as received from the officers Of
election.
Mr.. O'Neil moved as an amendment that
the protest be accepted and the &c ballots
counted for those in whose favor they were
cast. After discussion, the amendment
was voted upon and lost, by a vote of 4 to 4.
The main question, Mr.. Carey's motion,
was then discussed. The Big Ten dele
gates fought shy of certifying to anything.
They wanted all papers, ballots, ETC.,
locked up in the ballot-box and sent to the
Convention, guaranteeing that the matter
would be brought up there and have as
much attention paid to it as any one could
desire. Mr.. Carey's motion was lost on a
tie vote.
Then followed a long wrangle. PROPOSE
tons were made and rejected. AT one time
it seemed probable that the proposed certifi-
cate would be agreed to, and General Carey
wrote one out, but the words Returning
Board aroused Mr.. Sullivan's antagonism
again, he claiming that a certificate from
the committee, as such Board, would have
an influence in favor of the returns made
by the majority of the officers of election
of the precinct.
The Six representatives then agreed that,
to avoid any influencing, there should be
Endorsed on the certificate a recommends
ton thai neither delegation from the con-
tested precinct should have any voice in
the organization of the Convention. This
was not agreed to, and Mr.. Stephens, re-
marking that he had not occupied any of
the time previously during the evening,
expressed the belief that the big Ten
committeeman could not explain what
they did want, and it looked very much as
if they did not want their delegates from
the fourth precinct admitted to the Con-
v%ention. He said that anyone could see
by the drift of the remarks of the Little
Six" members of the committee present
that they were favoring the contestants. If
the latter were admitted to the Convention
it would be through the Little Six for
the "Big Ten" even if they had that del
e~gation, and twice or triple its number
added to their votes, could not carry the
Convention against the majority the Six
had.
In the course of his remarks, Mr.. Steph-
ems used the words generosity" equity"
honesty" etc, of the Six, as regarded
their probable action in the Convention.
Mr.. 0'Neil responded promptly that the Big
Ten did not want any generosity from the
Six; if their men could not get into the Con-
vention without hat they did not want to go
in. What they did want was justice, and
they were bound to have it and neither he
nor Mr.. Sullivan would have any certificate
in theirs after that, and the meeting adj
journed until IL A. NJ. to-day, while the
'Six" members were affixing their names
to the document drawn by Mr.. Carey.
The Convention will meet q Turner Hall
this afternoon at 1 o'clock. The county
delegates will have q caucus at Pioneer
Hall at 10 A. NJ. The following is a list of
the delegates elected, so far as heard from.
Officers of election in the precincts no
mentioned, or the delegates elected from
their districts are requested to notify Secre-
tary Hinkson as early as possible this
evening OF the names, SO that roll-calls can
be printed before the Convention meets.
R SUPERVISOR DISTRICT.
First Precinct-C. B. Clark, Mark Foster,
S. Looryea, T. Gleason, H. Kohne, S. Ma
rooney, f. Thompson, w. c.. Smith and
Isadore Townsend.
Second Pr~ecinct-Jacob Freese, Robert
Fisher, Joseph Rainsford, H. c. Smith, A.
Flohr, F. A. McManus, T. 0'Brien and
Robert Allen.
Third Precinct-J. W. Brummagin. J..
Kline, f. Humerich, f. G.. Shook, NJ. J..
Burke, w. s. Harris, NJ. Wise, J. A. Mar
tin, Ed. Maloney and Jacob Wagner.
SECOND SUPERVISOR DISTRICT.
First Precinct-Wm. Coyne, B. Ferant.
James C. Kelly, Adam Cole, J.. A. Leiya,
A. Comet, VIM. Strader, p. Haggerty,
James Coffee, Andrew Black.
Second Precinct-A. Mazzini. John Sulli-
van, d. ]. Considine, Peter Fitzsimmons,
Thomas Burns, Chas. Donahue, Jerry N.
Payne, P. B. Fountain, VIM. Dolan, 7. F.
Sullivan, Peter Bradley.
Third Precinct-R. H. Singleton, w. II.
Rexford, P. H. Coffee, Owen Murphy, Jas.
Bensell, D. H. Delehanty, CT. McGinniss,
Jas. Longshore, Jr.
In the Fourth precinct, the Little Six
delegates, returned by the majority of the
officers of election as having been elected,
are: NJ. Hanrahan, Hugo Hornlein, W.
H, Devine. James Touhey, NJ. Brannan, J..
Carroll, Jr., Edward Waters, T. Flaherty, T.
Costello, W. S. Real, James Perry, Edward
Byrne. The Big Ten ticket is composed of
Hugo Hornlein, Robert Hawley, VIM.
G~utenberger. Pat Nash, Chas. Jenkins, NJ.
Hanrahan, Chris Weisel, VIM. Real, Ed
mund Pait, Joe Herndon, H. ]. Van Zante,
A. A. Dassonville. Three of the candidates
were on both tickets.
THIRD DISTRICT.
First Precinct-E. D. Shirland, Ed. Shee-
han, James II. Groth, ]. I. Carey. L. B..
Berck, Joseph Hahn, S. Simmons, Louis
Nicolaus, George Hilbert, K. L. Green.
Second Precinct-Henry Dehn, Charles
r. Parsons, George w. Nichols, Add g.