The morning call., 1890-10-08

Glands" to pasture there even for night.
He was afraid the carpets would be ruined
by tobacco juice and the fixtures shattered.
So the delegates had to fall back on their
favorite haunt, and the 70 ms of the County
Committee were brought into requiSition as
a convention hail.
1t was s 20 o'clock when Secretary j. II.
Long of the County Committee called the
convention to order. J. w. Sweeney was
chosen Secretary and called the roll. Long
had been "priming himself all day to
make speech and be made il with consider
able elOquence.
LONG IN GOOD HEALTH.
Without blush he began by saying that
it was pleasant duty to call together so
many representative Democrats. "You
have been called together" he said, to
perform an important duty-tO nominate
Superior Judges, Police Judges, Justices of
the Peace, a Superintendent of Public
Schools and Board of Education. I ask
you to be very careful in pr esenting ticket
to the public; to form ticket thatthe
city and county will be bound to support.
[HOots. baw's and yells in the rear of the
hail.. If you nominate such ticket there
is nothing to prevent the Democratic party
from rolling up big Democratic majority"
Long then said the first order of business
would be the selection Of a temporary Chair
man.
Joseph RothschIld called attention to the
fact that, in his opinion, the duty of the as
semblage was as important as that expected
of any other convention III the State. As
good a ticket should be put before the pub
lie as that formed at the San Jose State Con-
yenti0n. He placed in nomination as tenn
porary Chairman Philip Prior. A. COmte
Jr. and S. 5. hamburger seconded the nomi-
nation. Mr. Prior nominated Joseph e.
O'Donnell, who declined in favor of Prior.
ELECTED CHAIRMAN.
Nv, Drtn oil tal ,,l,
escorted to the chair by Rothschild and Crit
tenden Thornton. Upon taking the chair,
Prior said he was thankful for the honor,
and promised to faithfully discharge his
duties.
}. w. Sweeney, B. F. Lamar and Frank
j. Fallon were selected as temporary Secre-
tarleS.
On motion of Delegate Thornton the
Chairman was authorized to appoint COM
mittees Of ten on Credentials and Order of
Business and Permanent Organization. A
recess of ten minutes was taken iu order to
give the Chairman time to appoint the COM
mittees.
When the convention was again called to
order the Chairman announced the ap-
pointmcnt of the following committees:
Credentials-W. TGrner, L. j. Hartley, Fl.
Barbee, Emil Pahl, Jonn B. Weller, Frank j.
Kierce. Frank Vernon, A. Comte Jr., James
Chambers and QuIndn.
Order of Business ana Permanent Organiza-
man, w. A. fouierLon, j. B. Gordon, James F.
Leary, Crittendeu Thornton, s. kaufman, John
1. Creamy and NJ. speiIman.
Delegate j. E. Kennedy presented the fol-
lowing resolution Without comment, anu it
was adopted unanimously:
CAsT-IRoN CHEEK.
WHEREAS, The Democratic party have always,
ana Win uuiailiug interest, fustered the public
school system, aud whereas. during the past Two
years our public schools have been managed aud
centralized Dy "A Board of Education cOmpOsPd of
eight Democrats aud four Republicans who have
acted together III Ierfect and complete, har-
mony, Irrespective OF their ndlyduaf political
principles, and with the sole purpose OF advan-
cling our public school system 10 higher stand
ard OF efficiency, aud whereas, ii has been made
manifest that the interests OF our public schools
can be best subseryed by the election, as School
Directors, OF gentlemen of worth and ability,
without regard 10 their Official faith or afiia-
liOns,-therefore be II
ResokUed, That the Board OF Education be
made a noa- partisan board. and TO that end be it
Resolved, That committee OF ten be appointed
from the members of this convention to walt on
the Republican Educational Convention, now
convened, and propose to II the appointment OF
4 like committee OF ten of its members which
TWO committees shall act jointly in the selection
OF twelve candidates TO constitute u Board OF
Education for the next two years, six OF whom
shall be Republicans and six Democrats, and
tDat the twelve SO selected shall therefore be in
dorsed by both conventions as their candidates
for School Directors; and further
ReSOtred, That such joint committee be en-
powered TO agree upon nominee for Superin-
tendent OF Public Schools, 10 he Endorsed by
both conventions.
Chairman Prior at once appointed the fol-
lowing to compose the committee: Thomas
Harrison. P. 5. Ward, j. j. Sufferin, Joseph
RoIhschild, John b. O'Connor, A. ii.
Loushborongh, j. }. Maginnis, Joseph E.
O'Donnel, Frank Meyers, j. E. Kennedy.
On motion of Delegate Rothschild the
convention adjourned 10 meet tonight in
Metropolitan Temple.