Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-10
CONTENDING DEMOCRACY.
Indignant Democrats Put Opposition
Opposition Tickets in the Field.

SAiSuo a. tac oPiinS eiectlOn ana pteased
an immense audience, composed largely
of Democrats. The Democracy have now
gone into the circus business, and have
menagarie of vast proportions attached;
they perform in two distinct rings, have
wide spread of canvas and have
clowns without number. The Republicans
| are well pleased with the show, and are
saying that the Democracy can always be
| depended upon to do the wrong thing at
| the right time"
The trouble with the Democracy in
this city" remarked an old Democratic
war horse yesterday, " is that we have too
many would-be BOSSES"
The absurd actions at the caucuses Tues
day night were the talk of the town yester-
day. The general impression seemed to be
that if the acts of the bosses on one side at
Considine's saloon were wrong, those of the
| other following at the Courthouse were
equally Objectionable.
LAST NIGHT CAUCUsEs.
The disaffected Democrats in the First
Supervisor District met at the Courthouse
at o'clock last evening. w. r. Daley acted
as Chairman and f. A. McManus as Secre-
tary. About nifty persons were present,
several of whom were Republicans.
As soon as the meeting was called to
order Frank Thompson, hackman. who
voted at the Republican primaries at the
| state House some weeks ago arose, aud
addressing the chair, offered the following
resolutions, which were read and adopted
amidst applause:
WHEREAS, A majority of the members of the
democratic County Committee representing the
| First supervisor District in the city of Sacra-
| mento were urged by prominent Democrats re-
| siding in the district to call caucus for Tues
| day evening May s, 1888, for the selection of
| names for delegates to the County Convention
10th.
| WHEREAS, They positively declined to do SO.
| giving as reason that they had agreed to
| make the call for Wednesday evening" MAY g.
| lSsS, and that it was generally understood
| throughout the district, and any change would
/ be taking an undue advantage.
WHEREAS, After making positive agreement
| to call the caucus for Wednesday. and after the
! Democrats were generally notified of said agree
| ment, many of whom left the city to attend a
picnic, the committeeman secretly agreed among
| themselves and their personal friends to issue
call for Tuesday evening, which was not made
| public until the last edition of the Sacramento
| Bee OF May s. 1883, too late to give the Demo-
Gratis of the district due notice
| WHEREAS, The notice was so worded as not
| TO convey the hour the caucus was to be held
which bears deception and fraud upon its face
! and, whereas, owing to the limited notice gwen
and the deception practiced by the members of
| the County Committee representing the First
| Supervisor District were not represented at the
| star chamber" caucus held Tuesday evening,
| May s, 1888, therefore, be it
| Resolved, That we, as Democrats of the First
| Supervisor District, in convention denounce the
| action taken by the members of the committee
| OF this district as an outrage and undemocratic
| and which has a tendency to create dissension
| and factions in our party.
Resotued, That this caucus proceed to select
| names for delegates to the County Convention.
to De voted for Thursday, May 10, 1SSS.
NJ: j. Sullivan said the committee that
| had been selected to name a ticket to be
voted at the primaries was ready to report,
and handed in the following list, which
was adopted, after which the meeting ad-
| journed
First Precinct-J. NJ. Sullivan, E. S.
| Wachhorst, Steve Maroney, NJ. J. Sullivan.
John Kelly, R. WambJe, Henry Kohn, Jr.;
NJ. Roland.
Second Precinct-M. McManus, w. R.
Daley, G. N. Hobbs, R. Dillon, c. Schoe-
maker, F. Grosner, F. A. McMannus, Ed
ward Mccain, Brown Mauldin, ]. Patter-
son, H. f. Burns.
| SECOND SUPERVISOR DISTRICT
The displeased Democracy of the Second
Supervisor District met to the number of
about sixty at s o'clock last evening at
Armory Hail. The acts of the Democracy
the night before at Considine's saloon were
denounced as unjust, unfair, and the work
4
The meeting was presided over by VIM.
Coyne, and James G. Kelly acted as Secre-
| tdry.
William Mclaughlin, ]. E. Mooney. 81.
j. kllgaritf, J. B. Harris and NJ. Cronan
were elected as committee of five to retire
and select delegates to be voted for at the
| primaries to-day
| After short recess they reported the fol-
lowing, which was unanimously adopted:
| nnf u
Mclaughlin, s. B. Lusk A. A. Dassonville,
J. A. Lewis, B. Ferart, J. Mooney, James
Garlick, A. Mazzini, J. G. Kelly, John
Young, William Strader.
Second Precinct-H. J. Kilgariff, J. Nc
Morey, James Hogan, John Parsons,
Dennis Brophy, J. B. Harris, ]. G. Van
Tine, E. P. Figg, Henry Shulmeyer, Den
mis- Sheehan, D. Flynn, ]. c. Ledlie, ].
Leiva. ]. McKenna
Third Precinct-Thomas Dwyer, E. A.
Bower, JOS Wilson, Kent Blessing H. NJ.
Bernard, James Mcclure, J. G. Davis, D.
Enright, A. H. Estill, John Dolan, NJ.
| Bannon, Owen Hannah, John Wohlck, |.
Alexander R. Hughes.
Fourth Precinct-Hugo Hornlein, NJ.
| Hanrahan, NJ. Steinmitz, Chris Weisel, J.
NJ. Johnson, William Gutenberger, w. H.
Devine, E. P. Byrne w. Real, P. Nash,
William Craig, w. J. O'Brien, Henry NY
| JODl CullNdL, L. y. hQduer.
The meeting adjourned, after making
arrangements for the printing of tickets
and appointing committees to demand
representation on the different election
boards.
| POLITICAL NOTES.
Postmaster Stephens was met bya RECORD
| UNION reporter yesterday and joshed as to
a Federal officer being charged with run
ming the Second District caucus, when he
replied: =" l had nothing whatever to do
| with the caucus; did not even so much
as suggest name for delegate to either
| the County or State Convention, or men,
Der of the County Committee. l did not
attend the caucus, and had no more to do
with the proceedings there last evening
than you did. 1t was an accident that /
| was there at all, and occurred in this way
While on my way to the Office at 7:30 l
met J. M. Sullivan, who asked me to do
him the favor to go to Third and
K streets aud tell Mr.. Singleton
that he wanted to see him imme-
diately at the Court house. 1 replied
that l would do the errand for him. did
so, and when I delivered the message Sim
gleton was writing, and said he would be
through and go in a few minutes NV
conversation with Mr.. Singleton was con-
lined ito my errand, and after remaining
| moment or two went away.
AS to the statement that took a crowd
| up to the First District caucus, there is not
word of truth in it. neither took
/ crowd there, sent one, nor went with one.
Concerning my relations with partisan
| movements, l will say that since have
| been in Office, persons holding positions
under me have asked if had any obiec.
| ton to their serving as delegates to politi-
cal conventions. Ny answers to such uues-
| tons have always been that while did not
assume the right to dictate what they
| should do regarding such matters, I
| thought it would be in better keeping with
| the position they held before the public
not to do so. As result there has been
but one occasion where person connected
with the Office has acted as delegate. In
this case should have requested him to
decline to act had it not been for the fact
/ that he was for one candidate while IA
! vored the other, and for me under such cir
cumstances to have asked him not to at
tend, would have been construed as direct
partisanship.
$50 far as my individual actions are con-
| cerned, will say that, while l claim and
exercise the right of free American citi-
| zen in political matters, / have never in any
way or in any sense used my official posi-
| ton to influence any one. | have endeay-