Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-15
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Arrangements for the Re.
publican Convention.
SERIOUS POWDER EXPLOSION.
Grand Army Encampment at
Santa Rosa-Particulars OF
the Skeena Disaster.

Grand Army Encampment at
Santa ROsa-Particulars Of
the Skeena Disaster.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD. !
SAN Francisco, March 1.-THE
Republican State Central Committee
met at the headquarters here this
afternoon to determine the time, place,
representation and mode Of calling the
State convention, which will select
the delegates to the Republican ma
tiopal convention to be held at Chi
cago, and also the Presidential electors
and members of the next State Cen
tral Committee. The meeting was
called to order by Chairman A. p.
Williams. The usual committees
were appointed and a motion was
made that the convention be held at
Sacramento, and their being no OPP
position it was carried unanimously.
May LIST, at 3 p. NJ, was then selected
as the time for the meeting of the
convention.
The committee on calls for State con-
vention submitted report which was
adopted. The report sets forth that
each Congressional district will select
two delegates and two alternate dele
gates, to be chosen in the same man
ner as the nomination of members of
Congress, as made in each district for
the selection of delegates to the Ma
tional convention, and also for the Sc
lection of the State Central Commit
tee, and such other business as may
be brought before the convention.
THE BASIS OF REPRESENTATION.
Was made as follows One delegate
for each county, one Tor each 200 votes
cast for Blaine and Logan electors,
and one for each fraction Of 125 votes
or over. The committee will accord
ingly be composed of 45S delgates,
appointed as follows: Alameda, 81 !;
Alpine, 2; Amador, 6; Butte, 10; Cal
averas, 6; Colusa, 5; Contra Costa, Z;
Del Norte, 3; Eldorado, 6; Fres-
no, 6; Humboldt, TO-: Inyo, l, Kern,
3; Lake,3; Lassen,3; Los Angeles, ,23;
Marin, 4; Mariposa, 8; Mendocino,
8; Merced, A; Modoc, 3; Mono, 8;
Monterey, Napa, Z; Nevada, 10;
Placer, 8; Plumas, 4 Sacramento, 1S;
San Benito, 3; San Bernardino, Z;
San Diego, 5; San Francisco, 1903; San
joaquin, 13 San Luis Obispo, 6; San
Mateo, 5; Santa Barbara, 6; Santa
Clara, 16; Santa Cruz, 8, Shasta, 6;
Sierra, 5; Siskiyou, 5; Solano II So
noma, 13; Stanislaus, 5, Sutter, 4 Te-
hama, 5; Trinity, 3; Tulare, 6; Tuol-
umne. 4; Ventura, 4 Yolo. 7; Yuba,
6.
The delegates are to be chosen in
such a manner as the several county
committees shall direct.
WHERE PRIMARIES ARE HELD
The committee recommends in ac-
cordance with the call of the Ma
'tional Committee: "That the Re-
publican electors in the several States
and voters without regard to past po-
litical affiliations or action who be-
lieve in the American principle of
protective tariff for the defense and
protection of home industries and the
elevation of home labor; who would
reduce national taxes and prevent
an accumulation of the surplus in
the treasury in harmony with this
principle; who are opposed to the at
tempt now more openly avowed than
ever before to establish policy which
would strike down American labor to
the level of the underpaid and op-
pressed workers OF foreign lands; who
favor system of naval and coast de-
fences which will enable the United
States to conduct it's international
negotiations with self respect; who
gratefully cherish the defenders of
the country; who condemn and re-
sent the continued and unjust exclus-
ion of the rapidly growing territories,
which have an indisputable right to
admission into the sfsterhood of
States; who are in favor of free
schools and popular education, free
and honest ballot and fair count, pro-
/. lection of every citizen of the United
States in his legal rights at home and
abroad, foreign policy that shall ex-
tend our trade and commerce to every
land and cline, and shall properly
support the dignity of the nation and
the promotion OF friendly and harmo-
NOUS relations and intercourse be-
tween States, are cordially invited to
unite under call of information of the
national ticket"
SOME spEEoH-MAKING.
M. M. Estee, being called upon to
speak, said that while he could only
guess who would receive the nomina-
ton of the party for President, he did
not believe in having delegates who
would be sent to the National Con-
vention pledged to any man.
John F. Swift, who followed, said
he believed that the defeat suffered in
1884 was partly due to desire on the
part Of the people for change, as the
Republican party had long been in
power, and an unwarranted feeling of
distrust had been aroused. He
charged that the Democratic party
was in power through the suppression
of million Republican votes.
II. w. Magee, of Los Angeles, said
that he did not believe the withdrawal
of James q. Blaine would have any
effect ON the party. He felt assured
that no matter who was nominated
for President, the Republican party
would rally to his support, and fore
most among the warmest supporters
would be Blaine.
Judge G. Green, of Sacramento,
thanked the committee for selecting
the city he represented as the place
for holding the convention, and prom
ised that everything possible would be
done to entertain the delegates.
Other speeches were made by
Judge Hamilton, of Alameda, George
M Sobell, Of Stanislaus, and G. H..
Garautte, of Yolo. The meeting then
adjourned.