The morning call., 1894-09-18
THE CONVENTION.
A Full County Ticket Is
Named.
SNOW Is SHOWED UNDER.
Schaffer Nominated for Sheriff
by ACcIamation.
CRANE BEATEN BY JORDAN.
The Work Rushed Through With a
GalIop as Though Cut and
Dried.
CRANE BEATEN BY JORDAN.

OAKIAND.-The Programmes had every
thing their own way at the Republican con-
vention at Haywards yesterday. and the
Native Sons Hall, in which the CONVEX
tion was held. instead of being the theater
of a battle royal between the opponents
OF ward bossism and the bosses, witnessed
the entire su0ordinaticn Of the former to
the latter. 4 convention which promised
to last till past midnight transacted all its
business before 6 o'clock, so efficiently had
the managers made the slate and perfected
their combin ations.
Professional politicians and candidates
were early active. and long before 10
o'clock all the warehouses; were lined up 10
the various resorts in the pretty little
town OF Haywards. On Sunday night the
ward Leaders had been unable to agree,
and hence it was that there was considera-
bic uncertainty during the early morning
hours. AS to just where the lightning
would strike there seemed to be but one
man who did not worry, and that was
bithe biz Louis Schaffer, who felt just
as good as though he already held the
shrievalty in his inside pocket. and the
events of the day proved that his conf
dence in himself was OF misplaced.
Up to midnight. on Sunday il was
for County Clerk were just as good as
Schatfer's for Sheriff, on account of their
com binatiOn. Then TumOT leaked out
that Crane had been traded in consider
alton of whole LOT of things. That Crane
had been turned down for somebody else
was also demonstrated before the close of
the day.
City Auditor Roland W. Snow, who
wanted to be Assessor, bad also been a
member of the Schaffer-CTane-Snow COM
bine, and despite his strong church folio W.
ing, was completely showed under by
Leckie.
Fielder was a strong candidate for Put
lie Administrator, but the Fifth Ward
wanted w. II. Knight, and Fielder was
promised the county treasurership if he
would withdraw in knights favor.
He did so, but later on he found that he
was not on the sate and he again entered
the lists for Administrator but 1t was too
late.
There may be some trouble over the
nomination of w. Ii. Church as Supervi-
sor of the Third District. This district
comprises the Fourth aud Sixth wards in
Oakland and part of Alameda. Church
was nominated by the delegates from the
Oakland wards while the eleven delegates
that Alameda is entitled to were in al
tendance upon the convention of the
Twenty-eighth Senatorial District. The
Alameda men raised quite fuss over it,
declaring that the Oakland men had DELHI
erately taken advantage of them, and they
may demand that the convention be re-
called.
Ii was most remarkable how unanimous
the delegates were In most cases. Ii was,
perhaps, due TO this fact that the cOnven-
zion consumed so little time. The bust
ness was rushed through and the late con-
yentiOn perhaps consumed less time than
any OF those Industrious ones which have
gone before.
The convention was not called to order
until II 80 o'clock, just one hour and half
after The time originally set for the open
ing Of the convention. But every minute
represented In The delay witnessed some
Of the most artistic and effective wire
pulling that there has been in this, in
many respects, unique campaign. In some
cases the attempt To form hopeless CONT BIZ
nations were as desperate as they were
futile.
From the downtown resorts where whole
delegations were caucused TumOrS flew up
to the convention hall necessarily. Ali
possible com blnatiOns were reported, and
first one candidate and then his opponent
was certain, according to The Gracles, TO be
turned down. One thing, however, is
certain, and that is that those candidates
who had every reason 10 fear that their
names were not on the slate fought deS-
perately, and used every artifice to ward off
tue gathering OF the delegates in order to
secure lime in which to shatIer tue slate.
The delegation from the Serond Ward
we're the last TO take their seats, and as
soon as they had done 50 Charles Spear,
chairman of the County Central Commit
tee, peremptorlly called the municipal
convention to order. The reading
of the call was dispensed with, and Welles
Whitmore, delegate from the Third Ward,