Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-09
Afternoon Session,


When Chairman Murphey called the
convention to order yesterday afternoon,
it was 2:10. and there were not 12O dele
gates in their seats. The remaining
200 delegates were absent, but they
came struggling in later.
Col. John T. Brooker offered resolu-
tion, which was adopted, empow-
ering the county central committee to
fill all the vacancies on the ticket that
might occur.
The chairman called attention to the
fact that number of country delegates
were returning to their homes and Civ
ing their proxies to city delegates. He
cautioned the rural representatives. not
to leave until the funeral services were
all over.
The chair decided that the secret bal
lot adopted by the convention did not
apply to the district conventions that
were to be held later.
ROW OVER THE SECRET BALLOT.
Mr.. Platt moved that the secret ballot
be made to apply to all the district con-
ventions.
Mr.. Spalding made the point of order
that the convention had no right to lay
down the rules for any other convention.
Each convention was law unto itself.
The chair ruled the point of order
well taken. The motion was declared
out of order.
E. A. Meserve appealed from the de-
cision of the chair, and the chair was
sustained.
HOW 1T CAME ABOUT.
This whole fight about applying the
secret ballot to the district conventions
was occasioned by the motion passed by
the Second ward delegation in it's caucus
to vote solid for R. N. Bulla, for assem-
blyman in the Seventy-fifth district.
The Seventy-fifth district includes the
Second and Third wards OF the city,
| with twenty-five delegates from the
Third ward and twenty-six from the
Second. OF course, the solid delega-
ton from the Second ward was majori-
| ty and nominated, but by the secret
ballot it was feared that some of the
Second ward delegates might bolt and
vote for Calt ter, so it was decided that
the chairman, John Burns, should cast
the solid vote of the Second ward for
Bulla, This was not a secret ballot and
certainly beat Carter, and Mr.. Carter's
friends wanted the secret ballot applied
to the district conventions. They could
not make the rifle.
THE RING CANDIDATE, BANBURY.
The next order of business was the
nomination of candidate for county
treasurer, the most lucrative position,
as now conducted, that there is in Los
Angeles county.
Judge r. H. F. Variel placed Thomas
| j. Weldon in nomination.
@. E. Day took the platform, and
| placed Jabez Banbury in nomination.
| There were numerous seconding
| speeches, and nominations were then
closed.
GOV. MARKHAM SPEAKS.
Gov. Markham was then presented to
the convention. He was received with
great applause. The governor made a
brief speech, in which he congratulated
the convention on the labors it had per-
formed, and also thanked the Republic
cans of Los Angeles county for the sup
port they had given him in the past.
The candidates for the treasurership
came forward and paid their ASSESS
ments. The ballot was then taken,
| resulting as follows:
BANBURY WINS.
Jabez Banbury. ...1sS1z
i. J. weldon. -......-.............lZf
Total vote. .sl5X
| Necessary to q choice, 1853.
The nomination of Colonel Banbury
was made unanimous. For third time
the Republicans of Los Angeles county
put up Colonel Banbury for fat Office,
| who complains that there is nothing in
the job Of a profitable financial charac-
ter.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR.
i Nominations for public administrator
were declared to be in order. Colonel
Brooker, of Artesia, took the platform
and placed in nomination Charles G,
Kellogg. Of Pomona, an old soldier.
Mr.. Whitney, of the Sixth ward, pre-
sented the name of George III. Kimball
w. T. Williams came to the platform
and, after indulging in more or lesI
4 scriptural quotations, he placed in nom
ination Frank N. kelsey.
/ Numerous spesches were made, sec