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be allowed except the person to whom
the proxy was given resided in the ware
he represented in the convention, ant
was q delegate. The secretary theI
read the roll of delegates as reported BY
the committee.
At the conclusion Of the reading o
the roll, several corrections were made
The report was then adopted.
THE PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
The next order Of business was the
report of the committee on rules and or
der Of business. The committee reported
in substance as follows:
We recommend that the Temporary
organization be made permanent by the
election Of Hon. A. M. Stephens chair.
man, I. B. Brown vice chairman, w. P.
Jeffries secretary, and E. E. Shaffer as
| sietant secretary, and the appointment
of J. Blaney, Henry A. Stephens, Mel
vile Hanstano, Sam Haskins, and A. j.
Springer as sergeant-at-arms.
THE ORDER OF BUSINESS.
We recommend the following order OF
| business:
First-The collection of 30 cents from
each delegate and proxy.
Second--Nomination of mayor.
Third-Nomination Of assessor.
Fourth-Nomination OF auditor.
Fifth-Nomination of superintendent
Of streets.
Sixth-Nominatio of city attorney.
Observation-Disclosures OF treasurer.
Eighth-Nomination of city clerk.
Ninth-NomiDation of engineer.
Tenth Nomination of tax collector.
Observation-Disclosures of councilmen
and board of education by wards, and
selection of a city central committee,
the chairman and secretary to be select
ed by thst committee, and the ratifica-
ton of said nominations by the conven-
ktion.
We further recommend that each can
didate placed in nomination be assessed
IS.
That nominations be made by viva
voce vote, the chairman of each delega-
tion announcing the vote of his delega-
tion..
We recommend that nominating
speeches be limited to five minutes, and
seconding speeches to two minutes.
SYMPATHY FOR THE PRESIDENT.
The report of the committee on reso-
lutions was next submitted. Major
Burke fret read preliminary resolu-
tion of coincidence, as follows:
Whereas, BY the inscrutable DEGREES
of an allwiae Providence, the Angel of
Death has knocked at the home of our
chief magistrate, and called from his
eide his beloved wife and companion;
the refore, be it
Resolved, That the Democratic party
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bled, extend to President Harrison it's
deepest sense of coincidence in this his
hour of trial and sorrow.
The resolution was unanimously
adopted by rising vote, and the secre-
telegraph it to Washington.
THE CITY PLATFORM.
The regular platform Of the party was
then read, as follows:
We, the Democratic party of Los An
geles, in convention assembled, reaffirm
our faith in Democratic principles, and
pledge the Democratic party, If intrust-
ed with the government OF this city, to
administer its affairs honestly and eco
nomically, and we declare that the city
of Los Angeles owns the waters of the
Los Angeles river, and we favor the
ownership by the city of all means for
the distribution of water to the people
and the furnishing of the same at the
lowest possible rates; and we pledge
each and all of our nominees to use ev-
cry honorable means within their power
to accomplish this result at the earliest
practicable moment.
We favor city ownership of all gas and
electric light plants, and until such
plants are acquired we demand that
some official method be adopted to de-
termine the amount of light furnished,
to the end that the city shall not be over
charged.
We condemn the wholesale con6sca-
ton Of property by grading unused
streets in advance of any demand for
the same, and denounce the plundering
methods by which the opening and wid-
ening of streets ia used as means to
furnish soft jobs to especial favorites.
We are also opposed to the present
methods of permitting private corpora
tions to tear up newly paved and graded
streets, for laying pipes, instead OF being
compelled to do such work before the
streets are improved.
We believe that the parks belonging
to the city should be controlled by the
city, and we denounce the action of the
Republican party in taking from the
cty's Jurisdiction our parks and placing
the government thereof in the hands Of
commissioners, appointed by the gov
ernor, when at the same time the state
does not contribute one cent to their
maintenance or improvement, but all
money spent upon them is furnished by
the city.
We denounce that blot upon our city
government, that local oligarchy that
permeates our city hall from cellar to at
tic, known as the Union League; we de-
nounce the GENERALIZATION of the powers
of the city government in the hands OF
members of that organization, whole sole
aim and object is to thrive upon the peo-
Pile, and whose methods of conducting
the business affairs OF Los Angeles have
been an expensive luxury to our people |;
indeed, their methods are go gross and
sslfish in their grasp for power that not
even reputable members OF their own
party can obtain preferment at their
hands.
The Democratic party, ever mindful OF
the interests Of the wage earners of this
country, and conscious of the fact that
the Democratic party has. from the time
of Jefferson to the present day, been
pre-eminently the party of the laboring
people; therefore, be it
Resolved, That we denounce the en-
ployment Of Pinkertons by the protected
manufacturers Of Pennsylvania and of
the country, believing that the American
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