Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-19
At san JOSE.
The City Crowded with Democratic
Delegates and Visitors.
THE GUBERNATORIAL FIGHT.
Interest Centering on the PROPOSE
ton to Indorse Senatorial
Candidate.
At SAN JOSE.
THE GUBERNAToRIAL FIGHT.
[FRon OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

SAN JOSE, August 1Sth.-San Jose is in a
blaze of glory tonight. The beautiful
little garden city has on her brightest holt
day attire, the whole central portion being
gaily decorated with flags, banners and
many colored streamers.
The clans of the Democracy are gathered
from all parts of the State, and the hospita-
BILE people of the city are doing their best
to take care of them Each train arriving
to-day has been crowded, and where all
the people are going to sleep tonight is d
serious question. The hotels are crowded
and the citizens have taken many delegates
to their houses. As rule there is not any
extortion. The Citizens Committee have
arranged for about 800 rooms at reasonable
prices. There are some few greedy people,
however, who are charging So per night for
room with straw mating on the floor and
two beds in it.
: The committee have not provided &C.
commodations for the reporters, as was
done in Sacramento last week. but G. NJ.
Shortrldge, of the Mercury, has come to the
rescue, and provided them with good
room and ali facilities, and for the hand
ling of reports by wire the Western Union
Telegraph Company has made ample pro-
vision. Operators will be located on the
stage in Horticultural Hall, where the Con-
vention will be held, and the reports will
be sent on six wires by the fastest operators
on the coast.
The Democratic headquarters are at the
rooms of the Iroquois Club, on First street,
which are handsomely decorated. One of
the noticeable features is large trans
parency representing Markham lying on
the ground. while over him stands big
Injun hourishing a scalping knife, with
the motto, Keep off the reservation or
join the tribe"
Horticultural Hall is very handsomely
decorated. 1t is an old barn of building,
but it has ample seating capacity, and is
arranged so as to accommodate the dele.
gates very well, except that there are no
rooms for committee meetings.
AS there are no regular saloons in the
immediate vicinity, temporary ones have
been erected all around the building, so
that the genuine Democratic inspiration
will not be lacking.
AS to the prospects of candidates, the
remains the same, as far as any
body can judge. The friends of Pond,
English and Coleman all claim to be con-
fident that their man will win, while
many of the shrewdest politicians think
the chances of A. c. Paulsell as good as
any.
Most of the lookers-on, however, think
that Pond will be nominated. He is max
ing less noise than the rest, but there
seems to be earnest work going on in his
department.
Little is said about the other offices.
Russ D. Stephens and Judge Armstrong
both stand good chances.
At 3 o'clock this afternoon a non par
tisan committee of citizens and members
of the Board of Trade, headed by Mayor
Rucker. J. II. Flickinger, c. NJ. Shortridge
and s. s. Nesmith, proceeded to the depot
with band of musicians and met Con-
gresham T. j. Clunie and conducted him
to the California Theater, where large
crowd was assembled.
The meeting was in recognition of
Clunie's services to San Jose and Santa
Clara county in Congress, and was very
enthusiastic. Clunie, with characteristic
modestv, told how hard he had worked for
San Jose and how much he had accomp-
lished.
Early in the evening the w. D. English
Club, of Oakland, appeared upon the streets
in carriages headed by band of music.
Later the San Jose Iroquois Club turned
out with band to meet at the depot the
Manhattan Club, of San Francisco, and the
Tammany Club, of San Francisco 1t was
q singular sight The different professions
went through the streets without receiving
a cheer or sound of welcome from the
crowds on the sidewalks. There was abso-
lutely no enthusiasm whatever. Work,
quiet work, seems the order of the hour,
and there is no hurrah or excitement.
The proposition to indorse Stephen NJ.
White for United States Senator bids fair
to split the Conyen ton wide upon. His
friends demand his in dorsement, but such
old warehouses as Congressman Biggs says
that the party shall not be tied up for six
months in any such way. There will be
war in the Convention if resolution in
dorsing White is introduced.
Late this evening new plan has been
to get around the difficulty. The
now is to have resolution in
the platform favoring the election of United
States Senator by the people. Then the
Committee on Order of Business will pro.
vide for the nomination OF candidate for
United States Senator, and he will be put
upon the ticket. This plan will meet with as
much opposition as the Endorsement of
White.
Dennis Spencer will place English in
and Stephen White will
second. 1t has not yet developed who will
place the others in nomination.
EVE OF THE BATTLE.
Large Political Clubs Marching the