The morning call., 1894-08-20
FOOTE POSITIVELY DECLINES.

= Buckley will be in town to-day, and he
proposes to make his influence felt in the
Democratic convention.
=. james Budd OF Stockton may be the
nominee of the Democratic party for Gov
eFnor. HIS friends declare that he will be
ard that his nomination will be mads on
The first ballot. Appearances were greatly
in his favor last evening. What may hap
pen to-day to injurs his chances can only
II lie guessed at.
d. a. Ostrom of Ynba wants the nom-
nation. and has something of a following
from the counties of the Sacramento Val
ley.
Delegates to the State convention began
to arrive in great numbers yesterday.
Politicians from every county in the State
were On hand to buttonhOle delegates, but
as the counties had sent them here unin-
structeG it required a vast deal of indi-
YiduTl work with no very certain results
ABOUT the only combination which as
sumed definite shape was that formed TO
boom the candidacy OF James Budd, and
this grew constantly by accretlon. A del
=. egate here and delegate there would
e. pronounce for Budd, until his following
=. became so great that it looks as if it will
require a mastery combination of oppos-
ing forces TO check stampede for the man
from San Joaquin.
Delegates from the interior largely reg
istered at the Grand Hotel. There were
early in the afternoon score of little
groups of politicians assembled there, in
each one of which the topic of discussion
was speculative probabilities upon the
chances of candidates.
Ostrom of Yuba was the center of one
group. Budd of San Joaquin gathered
another following a. +. Jones of Butte
talked politics TO a third in which j. II.
Seawell of Mendocino took a prominent
part.
Judge Murphy of Del Norte. who as
pTes 10 place on the Supreme Bench and
who is ON Peppers slate. along with Judge
Wallace of this city and ex-Jnstice Jack
son Temple, was a prominent figure In the
lobby of the Baldwin.
The Sacramento double delegation, for
the most part registered at the Lick, and
each faction, the old-lin ers and the reor-
gained, will have their headquarters
there.
In the evening the rotunda of the Bald
win was the gathering place for the De-
m0cTacy. A little planning and a bit Of
f1nesSe were attempted on the upper floor,
but. apparently, it failed of its purpose.
w. ID. English, who is credited with
separate
IN as many successive days, was one who
took prominent part in engineering a
boom Tor w. w NFoOte last night. Mr..
Eoote came down from Napa yesterday.
"A suite was engaged at the Baldwin
and last evening the persuasive elo-
quence Of w. d. English, Barney Muir
:Dhy of San Jose and members of the
Federal brigade was used to have him con-
sent that his name should go 10 the con-
.vention. Mr.. FoOte listened to all they
had to say and then fatty announced thar
he would not be candidate, and that he
should favor the candidacy of James Budd
of Stockton. There was nothing left for
the Federaltbrigade to do but to annex
themselves to the Budd boom and this
they did.
It is reported that Mr.. Foote, in the
event that the Democratic party should
conlrolthe Legislature, desires TO secure
the nomination for United States Senator.
Were Jackson Temple willing TO allow
his name to go before the convention, he
would receive the nomination by acclama-
ton, but IL is believed that the constitu-
tional inhibition would hold good against
him, and in any event. it is now generally
conceded that be would not accept the
: nomination if rendered him.
James Maguire's friends admit that he
is out of the race for Governor, and that
his name will not be presented to the con-
ventiOD. One Of his friends, In expressing
Magu:re wants to go back to Congress.
. he things, and his supporters agree with
him; that he can be reelected. 1t would
be folly TO trade sure thing for a very
doubtful chance. The Democrats. at the
best, have rather poor show to carry the
State at the coming election. II Mcguire
was a candidate his name would work
against him with the A. P. A. vote, and
the book which he wrote would ALLEVIATE
many Catholic voters, SO that he would
fall between tive attacks"
Judge McKinstry's name was promi
nently mentioned for the first place on the
ticket, but it now appears as if his SUBJ
~porters have gone over to Budd
While this little scheme to kill the Budd
boom was being engineered upstairs in the
Baldwin last night the FIRST fist fight incl
dent to the coming convention took place
in the corridor.
Jim Neal and Sim Eagan after the ex-
change of a few words came to blows
There was rush and clinch. Neal
reached for his revolver, but 1t was ah.
stTacted from his pocket by the Banjo
eyed Kid" and the only bIoodshed was
from finger-nail scratches. The combatants
were separated and each went his way
vowing vengeance On the other. Martin
Fleming deputy county clerk. who was
with Egan, was the su biect of q " ordy at
tack Oh the part of Neal, who threatene ed
to do violence to both of them. Meals
grievance was that Egan had caused him
: to.be scratched as convention delegate.
There promises to be holly contested
triangular fight for the Craftsmanship OF
The convention. Thomas Clunie, r. F.
del Vale of Los Angeles and Clay w.
Taylor OF Shasta aspire for the place. The
former two have the greatest strength,
though Taylor will have a good suppori
from the northern counties. 1t may be
that. Taylor will develop sufficient strength
to divide the country delegates, AMI thus
defeat~both himself and Del Vale, thereby
" electlDg Clunie as chairman.
+. ID. Gould of Stockton, ex-Speaker OF
the Assembly. is engineering the boom for
Budd. Il am positive" said Mr.. Gould
last evening, that Budd will be nomi-
mated on the first ballot. He will have the
delegations from San Joaquin, Stanislaus
and all" the counties OF the San JOAQUIN,
He Is strong In the Sacramento Valley.
There are many of the mount tain coun lies