The morning call., 1890-08-11
THEIR FAVORITES.
Republican Delegates Gathering
at Sacramento.
Substantial Gains Claimed for Colonel
Markham.
horroU's Supporters and What They Claim.
The Men From the South-The
Sacramento Delegation.
Special Dispatches to THE MORNING CALL

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 10.-The Markham
geles. San Bernardino, San Diego and
Orange are here in force, and more conf
dent and enthusiastic crowd of men it
would be hard to find. Colonel Markham,
accompanied by his principal lieutenants,
arrived on the evening train, and their
headquarters at the Golden Eagle Hotel
was thronged all night with delegates from
various parts of the State to pay their
respects to the Los Angeles candidates.
Morrow men are coming in slowly and
doing but little work as yet. They also
will be at the Golden Eagle Hotel, but their
room has not yet been thrown open. The
supporters Of Morrow are making but little
noise, and form a striking contrast to the
followers of the man from the South. A
glance at those already here shows that
they belong to the machine, and as such are
not likely 10 boil over with enthusiasm at
any time. They will, on. the contrary,
make stubborn and quiet fight without
any great degree of noise. All that they
will do will be with
A4N e. Il IL Inc ofOiho.
This applies of course only to the Morrow
men from San Francisco, Alameda and
Sacramento, who are the only ones to ar
rive so far, and who will form the nucleus
of his strength. Conspicuous among them
are Martin Kelly, Crimmins, Ben Chambers
and men of that ilk to whom politics is more
than amusement, and whose support means
places for the heelers. They claim that
how So tl,oir OF
the head of the ticket, but say that if it
becomes evident they cannot win they will
go to Markham. The reason for this, they
say, is that Morrow and Markham have
gone into the fight in earnest and have
both shown great strength, and that they
deserve to win in preference to outsiders
who merely run up rod and quietly
wait for the lightning to strike
them. They declare also that these
two have borne the brunt of battle and
that the fruits of victory belong to one or
the other In saying this, however, they
do not admit that they are weak. They
claim on the contrary that Morrow is the
strongest man and can be nominated with
out single vote from south of San Fran
cisco. For that reason they say they have
nothing to fear and are confident that Nor
IuW Will ltdu tue IL AtoNCm-
ber.
The Markham men on the contrary claim
that his nomination is foregone conclu-
sion. His most active lieutenants say that
the fight is now in such shape that the vic
tory will be theirs by tomorrow night.
They are confident that the claims of Nor
rows strength In San Francisco are grossly
exaggerated and that Markham will surely
receive 40 of the 100 votes.
MARKHAM's ADHERENTs.
A conservative Markham man, in re-
viewing the situation tonight, says that the
Los Angeles man had at his command, at
the least calculation, sixty men who would
go down with him to defeat; that, no
matter what the result of the last ballot,
they would be found still voting for Mark
ham. This is probably true and forms
most potent factor of his strength. Morrow
has no such following, aud, in case of
break, could not control half of the dele
gates who will vote for him on the first
ballot 1t certainly does not look as If his
strength was as great or as firm as that OF
Markham, and he will probably find it hard
to win. 1t is certain that his fight is not
looking the best in the world.
SACRAMENTO DELEGATION.
The Sacramento delegation held caucus
this afternoon and decided to support Nor
row, but refused 10 oOey the unit rule. Il.
j. Gregory was knocked out for Railroad
Commissioner by William Beckman of
this city, and it is said Rhoads will work
with Crimmins for Morrow, and Shippee is
here making a quiet fight, but Chapman
will not arrive until tomorrow night.
GAINS FOR MARKHAM
The Markham men have made substantial
gains tonight. and the new strength is COM
ing from most unexpected quarter. The
northern delegations are being broken
into, and it looks rs if the drift was all to
the Los Angeles man.
Morrow's friends. at late hour, are un-
doubtedly losing confidence, and it is ru-
mored that their candidate may be with
drawn before the convention meets. This
is not generally credited. but no doubt
move of this kind is being seriously consid-
cred. 1t is announced on the most trust
worthy authority that w. w. Stow has
pulled out of the fight and will not inter-
fere in any way. As proof of this it is
shown that Sacramento, as 1t now stands,
has seven votes for Markham. The latter's
followers hope to make further inroads to-
morrow. Bets to the amount of $1,000 are
offered even on Markham with no takers.