The record-union., 1892-05-04
LIVELY TIMES.
A Stirring Session of the Committee on
Credentials.

~ SI1rI1ug SSSSlOn CnG committee
Credentials.
STOCKTON, May 3.-During recess the
various committees and districts repaired
to adjoining rooms or into corners of the
main hall for their respective meetings.
the districts to choose their delegates to
the National Convention and the COM
mittees to prepare reports. The Com
mittee on Permanent Organization and
the one on Platform and Resolutions dis
posed of their business quietly, but the
Committee, on Credentials, as had been
predicted in the RECORD UNION, had q
warm time of it.
The room where the committee met
was crowded with representatives of the
Burns Wilson faction and the Kelly
CrimminS outfit, and they brought their
voices with them.
This San Francisco squabble COM
pletely overshadowed the contests from
other counties. The latter were quickly
disposed of, and
THEN THE WAR BEGAN.
When the San Francisco matter was
reached, j. n. E. Wilson filed protests
against about half of the districts in
cluded in the metropolis, and Attorney
Dorm, who represents Kelly and Grim
minis, coppered the remainder Of the dis
tricts, thus making it appear that there
was a contest in every district, The
committeeman began to look troubled as
they realized the prospects of an unend-
ing siege.
Dorm made the first speech, saying it
was not in the interest of the Republican
party TO have the iniquity and rotten
ness Of the recent primaries in San Fran
cisco shown to the world. He pleaded
for harmony, that would be effected by
ignoring all protests. The County Cen
tral Committee Of San Francisco tried to
do the right thing and referred the cleo
ton returns. to returning board, with
power to act. The Burns Wilson people,
he said, had agreed to accept the tally
sheets without counting the votes. and
had now gone back on that agreement.
JOHN t. DARE
Declared that Dorn's proposition was
ridiculous. He and the other protestants
were not there, he said, for seats in the
convention, but in the interest of the Re-
publican party. They were sent their by
the decent element of the party, which
demanded that recent outrages and steals
at the polls be resented. Mr.. Dare said
he was from the Thirty-fourth District,
and was ready to prove the outrages COM
mitted in that district by the Kelly Grim
minis people.
Attorney Shell of the Thirty-fth Dis
trict made similar statement regarding
that district.
NOTHING TO BOAST OF.
County Committeeman Meyers said
neither faction could afford to boast of the
methods at the recent primary, and while
he dlsclaimed any relationship to the
Kelly-CrimminS faction, hey advised that
all protests be ignored.
Mr.! Wilson said he was for harmony
and the interests of the party, but insisted
on having his rights He admitted that
a q artT- 20 L.,
recent happenings an airing, but said his
side had been deliberately robbed in the
Thirty-siNth District. Personally, he
would drop all contest excepJs in this dis
trict, but Messrs. Dare and Shell, repre-
senting the Thirty-foGrth and Thirty
nth Districts, respectively, would insist
that their protests be heard, too.
Daniel Cole, Of the committee, moved
that all protests except the Thirty-fourth
and Thirty sixth be dropped, and an
amendment was offered that the Thirty
fifth be included. This occasioned a
GREAT ROAR
From Dorm and the Kelly-Crimmins
men. Dorm protested that it was not fair
to shut out all his sides protests and hear
the other sides. He was willing though,
to drop all but the Thirty-sixth, which
was Wilson'S proposition, too.
1t looked as if compromise had been
reached, but Dare would not agree to
have the Thirty fourth dropped. Then
all began talking at once, and confusion
prevailed for some time.
Dorm said If he was not given what he
demanded he would carry the matter into
the convention and make trouble for the
convention generally.
AN AGREEMENT REACHED.
Finally a motion was carried that only
the Thirty fourth and Thirty-sixth would
be considered. Then they began the
taking of evidence. This was prolific
with oral and written testimony of
fiagrant frauds on both sides, including
ballot-boN stuffing. voting repeaters and
dead men, stealing tally-sheets, changing
the certificates and the like.
= BURNS-wILsoN VICTORY.
After hearing all the testimony the
committee decided to throw out the
Kelly-Crimmins delegates in the Thirty
sixth District and seat the Wilson Burns
men. In the Thirty-fourth, however,
the committee decided not to interfere.
The change in the Thirty-sixth is a vic
tory for the Wilson Burns faction. giving
them nfty-siX votes in the delegation.
against fifty-four for the other side
EVENING SESSION