Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-05
DEFUNCT DEMOCRACY.
THE GRAND OLD PARTY GIVES UP
THE GHOST.
1t is a Cadaver-Nobody Has Hard.
ihoGd Enough to Accept a NCm-
matchmaking on the Bier.

Il 10 fOICt oo
ihocd Enough to Accept q Ncm-
matchmaking on the Bier.
That the Democratic party was dead in
this county, was the expression on every
hand of those who witnessed the closing
death scene of the unterriied in Turner
Hall on Wednesday of last week. All
then seemed to be complete, every ar
rangement seemed to have been made, and
the Secretaries, by their diabolical fraud on
the last act of the day, that of r~oll-call on
Police Judge, screwed down the lid of the
coffin, the corpse was turned over TO the
Republicans for interment, and they will
lower it into q grave so deep on the 2i of
November that it is doubtful if Gabriel's
trumpet will resurrect it.
The Central Committee. thinking that
there was a possibility of patching up some
be ON a par with the Prohibitionists and
Greenbackers, who have whole tickets
from top to bottom, called g meeting at the
Golden Eagle Hotel last night to put q
head upon the ticket, take that off the tail
of it that was placed there by fraud, II
put some 'stuffin'" in the blanks in the
body of it. In order to insure success, the
Chairman of the committee wrote forty
one letters-there's luck in odd numbers
to the prominent Democrats of the State,
including the members of the State Cen
trail Committee, the candidates for office
-, Az CTnFa tirl-at onA TObn Dnpncu of
Brighton. He thought by securing the at
tendance of these prominent opponents Of
Democracy there might be some kind of a
miracle performed that would reyivify the
cadaver, whom it is said succumbed to an
overdose OF " Little Six"
ORGANIZATION OF THE COMMITTEE.
The committee was called to order by
the Chairman, Jerry Payne. jeremiah
Carroll, Jr. was elected Secretary, and Capt
E. d. Shirland, Treasurer of the new COM
mittee.
Committees were appointed as follows:
Printing!. n. Payne, Captain Shirland,
Isadore Townsend.
Finance Committee = P. Flaherty, E.
Greer, W. s.. Manlove, James Touhey,
Mark Foster.
There was no opposition to these APP
pointments. all of which were made by the
Chair. The Chair called for Mr.. Hinkson
at this ~iuncture, and after q few whispered
words, said: The next thing in order
will be the naming of an Executive Com
mittee."
Peter Flaherly moved that a committee
of three be appointed, and the motion was
seconded.
Just as the Chair was about TO put the
motion, jeremiah Carroll, Jr., the newly
elected Secretary, arose and moved to
amend by making the executive officers the
Executive Committee. This was a very
shrewd dodge on the part of the Secretary,
he being one of those officers. his motion
received no second. The Chair, however,
was evidently pleased with the keen
sightedness of the Secretary, and, without
further ado, announced that, unless there
were objections, the Executive Committee
would consist Of Jerry Payne, the Chair
man of the Central Committee jeremiah
Carroll, Jr., its Secretary, and Captain Shir-
land, the stakeholder. Nobody objected,
and it was so ordered. Just what dis
position the Secretary made in his min
utes of Flaherty's motion has not been
ascertained.
A VOICE FROM FRISCO.
This was a little TOO much for W. A.
Selkirk, a member of the State Central
Committee from San Francisco. He was
well acquainted with ali the Buckley and
Higgins and Chute methods in vogue al
the Bay, but the "mode of procedure" of
the Sacramento Democracy was beyond his
comprehension. He arose and, addressing
the Chair in the most deferential manner
possible, said he thought the usual practice
of appointing seven members upon that
committee had better be followed in this case
He suggested that four names be added to
the three already selected, and that they be
taken from the body of the county. He
thought the country should have a little
show. The Chair thought the suggestion a
good one, and thereupon added the names
of DR.. w. S. Manlove, John Miller, DR..
Durant and l. NJ Smith, all delegates from
the country.
The Chair announced that this completed
the organization of the Central Committee,
which was now ready for business. He said
he would like to hear from Mr.. Selkirk, a
member of the State Central Committee.
He said: Il suppose be has heard of our
troubles, and if he has got any medicine
suited to the case we should like to have
him administer IT,"
lie Is NOT WANTED HERE.
Mr.. Selkirk said he had come in response
" al JbNitdllVA GShN W lhS SAitt nan
who asked that some one of the State
Central Committee visit Sacramento and
confer this evening as to the best methods
to adopt to harmonic the discordant ell
ements or opposing factions. The Chair
man OF the State Central Committee could
not come. He is overrun with work the
man does not get to bed now till the wee
small hours of morning. Mr.. Smith had
been harmoniZing down at San Jose
others were in different localities applying
lint and arnica, and it had fell to his
lot to do the Good Samaritan act TO the
bruised Democracy of the Capital City.
When the subiect-matter was brought be-
fore the State Committee they thought they
could do nothing, but as it was important
something should be done he was given the
mission. Before he started from the Bay
he was not informed that the former Buck
leyites from the Bay that bad come on a
mission of Cancellation had been looked
upon as interlopers or intruders, and since
his arrival at the seat of war he had been
apprised of the fact that he was regarded as
such by both sides. He thought he had
really struck a pretty kettle of fish, but he
was not intimidated. He was not easily
frightened, and he was not to be driven
away, but should remain AMI
PREACH HARMONY AND UNITED DEMOCRACY.
He pointed to the recent acts OF the f
Dorado County Convention, where the
warning elements in the grand old party
had met in convention, liz to IA. The III
were magnanimous, and gave the little Id
the nominations for Sheriff, County Clerk.
District Attorney and Treasurer, and all
was serene. The lion laid down with the
lamb, and The Democracy of that county
presented a solid front. He intimated that
the Little Six" had not been magnar-
imous. They had not dealt in olive
branches, and the result now apparently
would be painfully evident on election
dav. Democrats, he said, as a general
thing were well inclined, and in this case
they should come together and dwell once
more in harmony. The pleasantestti time be-
tween husband and wife is Immediately
after a spat. Mr.. Selkirk is a married man.,
and ought to know whereof he speaks. He
was very much afraid that the Central
Committee was o " muehly composed
of = Little Skies" to ever become very
popular with the big Ten" This was
evidently the opinion of a number OF the
Z" Big Ten" who were present, as it was
noticed they bowed assent, especially did
John Rooney. He advised them to re-
organize the committee and give the other
side a show. Asto candidates he could not
give any advice. Give the nominations to
the strongest men that would take them he
thought the best plan. Even denominations
had been made that were bad they should be
unmaie and the strongest men possible
nut upon the ticket. He said a good Demo-
crat would get of lie ticket any time he