The record-union., 1892-05-03
READY FOR BUSINESS.
Republican Delegates Assembling in
the Slough City.
San Francisco's Soiled Linen to be
Aired-The Chairmanshfp Fight
The Outlook.
Especial Correspondence REcoRD-Us1oS.l

Especial Correspondence RECoRD-UNIoN.
STOCKTON, May 2.-The Republican
State Convention which is TO send dele
gates TO the National Convention at Min
neapolis meets here tomorrow morning.
A majority of the delegates arrived
during the day, and the city has taken on
quite an animated appearance. Naturally
enough, there is scramble for lodgings,
but, to the credit Of the Citizens Com
mittee on Arrangements, little trouble
has been experienced by the delegates
and other visitors. Particularly is this
the case with reference to accommoda-
tions for visiting newspaper correspond
ents. special subcommittee, under
the direction of J. l.. Phelps, the genial
editor of the Independent, made all ar
rangements in advance for the newspaper
men, quartering them altogether in one
hotel and providing headquarters for
them. This is something that other cities
where conventions have been held have
overlooked, and is more than appreciated
by the scribes.
A FAMOUS MEETING-PLACE.
The convention will be held in Masonic
Hall, which, while not over roomy, will
probably seat all of the delegates comfort
ably by a judicious arrangement of the
chairs. The hall has been handsomely
decorated with flags and bunting, the
stage being particularly well draped. The
committee has made some handsome
vari-colored banners, each bearing the
name of county, which will be used to
distinguish the various delegations. The
banners are quite an attractive improve
ment over the usual somber-Iooling
pasteboard signs.
Masonic Hall is none other than the one
in which the now famous Stockton
convention" OF the Democrats was held.
APPRECIATIvE sToCKToNIANS.
Credit is due the Stockton people for
the energy they are showing and have
shown so far with reference to securing
the convention and taking care of it after
they got it. The delegation appointed to
secure the convention for this city con-
sisted of A. w. Simpson, G. a. McKen-
zie, c. NJ. Keniston, j. l.. Phelps, f. P.
Madden, A. l.. Levinsky and a. Thorn
ton. These gentlemen were picked ont
because they We're known to be rust
lerS" OF the first order. And the fact was
appreciated that the services of such men
were needed, as Sacramento had her eve
on the convention, and with her usual
enterprise would have snapped it up had
1t gone begging.
When the convention was secured the
citizens went right to work. In twenty
Jour hours enough money was sub
scribed TO defray all of the expenses. A
Reception Committee was appointed TO
look after the comforts OF the delegates.
and 1t is doing excellent service. ". K.
Clark is the Chairman, and the balance of
his co-workers are: l.. q. Shippee,
Frank E. Lane, n. O. Southworth,
George Lissenden, S. Johnson. George f.
McNoble, DR.. +. z. Clark, Dr. Ruggles,
j.. l.. WiIhoit, Wesley Minta, h s. Sar-
gent, James y. Iouttit, j. NJ. Long, J. NJ
Welsh, John KOhlmoos, S. NJ. Newell,
Frederick w. Rothenbush, NJ. II. Orr.
II: z: Holman, +: R. Thomas, Al Waters,
William Inglis, W. NJ. Denig, George y.
Atherton, q. Gianelli, James NJ Little
hale, Charles McGhan, II. w. Newell,
George w. Goodell, J. b. Douglass, J. NJ.
White, c. V. Thompson, Fred NJ. West,
5. d. Woods, Thomas +. Walsh, Samuel
henery, Albert Eckstron, Joseph w.
Cavis, w. d. Buckley, Arthur u. Ash
ley. I. II. Clark, Francis Cutting. Karl
&. Brueck, Charles Eckstrom, OTIS Per-
rim, George A Mckenzie, George l..
Wilhoit, W. L. Dudley, Jr.. a. E. Au-
Johnson, DR.. n. Sposati, M. S. Thresher,
Alexander Chalmers, a. L. Levinsky,
George Gray, j. E. RUggles, George
Inglis, n. G. Hanscom, r. W. Russell, G.
Ma Remission, Robert y. Reid, Colonel L.
Lehe, II. IL. Hewlett, T. f. Dunlap, Vic
ii,
~. W. Sharp, Thomas Cunningham, J.
NJ Goodell, /. S. Haines w. Fl. Post, j.
NJ. Ladd, Orrin S. Henderson, Charles
Belding, l.. K. Parker, George A. Earl,
L. M. Campbell and George Turner.
USUAL PRELIMINARIEs.
AT the present writing "button-holing''
is the order of the day. In the corridors
of the hotels, on the street corners, in the
saloons-every place, in fact-can be seen
groups of politicians and delegates dis
cusSlng the various propositions that are
to form part of the convention or the
side issues that will emauate from it.
Candidates for all sorts of offices are get
ting in their preliminary tugs at the
wires, and where they are not their
friends are.
There is some talk of arranging to give
Leland Stanford a complimentary vote
for President of the United States. There
Is large faction among the delegates
who are anxious that the delegates shall
be pledged for Harrison, but it is thought
that there is an equally large contingent
who will oppose thiS-who want the
delegation to go entirely unpledged.
Among the premonitory rumblings is
also heard the statement-on the quiet
that Governor Markhams friends are
going to make pull TO have him put for
ward as a candidate for the Nice-PreSi-
dency. While this story has not been
=. traced TO any authoritative source, still a
BISdL DClleNe III anu IKE Ln6 1UGa.
THE CHAIRMANSHIP.
Around the fight for the Craftsmanship
OF the convention centerS most of the
interest, and it looks as if the principal
duty of the convention viii be to wash
the dirty linen of San Francisco politics
The factions are headed by Il. NJ
Burns, J. \. +. Wilson and their friends
on the one side, against the Crimmins-
Kelly crowd on the other.
Nen of Placer County, and the latter
James 4. Rea of San Jose.
= There are two reasons why the fight
for Chairman is bitter one. In the first
place the Chairman will appoint the Com
mittee on Credentials, and before that
committee will come the great fight be-
tween the warning San Francisco fac
tons as TO the admission OF delegates
from the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-sixth
Districts, where the Burns people claim
TO have been robbed of the fruits of their
labors. They will appear before the
committee armed with a stack of aifi-
daYits and supported by able orators,
who viii endeavor to show that they
SHOULD HAVE THE DELEGATES
From those districts, but if the Com
mittee on Credentials is put ND against
them orators and aifidavits will not do
them any good
Then it Is understood that if Mr.. Rea is
selected as Chairman it will be equivalent
10 an Endorsement OF NJ. II. De Young
for United States Senator. while if Netf
wins IN this night IL is victory for the
friends of Charles n. FELTON,. So it is a
pretty tight, and it is being waged with
all the skill of skrewd politicians.
At present 1t looks as if Neff is
slightly in the lead, but the Rea men are
diligently at work on the country dele
gates and, it is said, have made a good
many a0nVerfS Sjncp r1oIpjpr