The morning call., 1894-09-25

some majority. He took the lead early in
the race and was never headed.
Then the psople looked for the much
talked of bolt. but it had been driven in so
hard that it could not be seen. The Dem
ocrats are nothing if not loyal. 1t may be
Sam Rainey or Buckley or any other kind
of unpalatable pill that they may be called
upon to swallow, but they take their med
icine like men. The dose was little more
bitter last night than usual, but they
gulped it down with Spartan fortitude
and prepared to take another at an inter-
val of ten minutes without water.
1t had been announced that Mr.. Raiuev
desired w. NJ. Hinton nominated for
Auditor instead of Broderick, who up to
last night had had 10 opponent ana said
he did not fear any. They may have a
slate in this convention" said Mr.. Brod-
erck, as he stood behind the scenes wal
ing to be nominated, "but you will OBJ
serve that they are not so certain of their
strength. They put up a man in con-
test which they think they can win, but in
my case they know it would be useless.
You see. have no opponent"
"WLy is that?"
"Well, because / have the nomination
now. They can't beat me unless tthey
should put up Colin NJ. Boyd. which they
can't do because Mr.. Boyd would not ac-
cept. 1t would cost him $1,000 a year to
give up his business and take the Office
So I'm just waiting now for them to go
through the form. l want to get away. l
have been down here every night, aud it is
becoming monotonous"
A few moments after Mr.. Broderick had
ceased speaking nominations for Auditor
were announced as being in order Some
what 10 the establishment of the Auditor
". M. Hinton's name was placed before
the convention, and the surprise increased
as the calling of the roll developed the fact
that Mr.. Hinton was receiving more votes
than the man who didn't fear any slate.
As the call progressed it seemed that
Hinton would inevitably be nominated,
but great many delegates had left their
seat. and at the end, though The Rainey
man had received the greater number of
votes, he hal not the 3O4 necessary to a
choice. Chairman Deuprey announced
that there had been no nOmin alton and
that another ballot was in order when
some delegate moved TO adjourn to this
evening at o'clock.
OOHo VI lHo Wcn WHO wanted TO get
through protested against adjournment
but the question was put and the conyen-
ton seemed evenly divided. The chair
man decided that the ayes had il and the
delegates began TO make for the door.
They left Mr. broderick in a dazed stata
of mind, al liberty to go home and ru,ni.
nate on some of the strange and often I'M
expected phases of Office holding in boss
ridden city.
The Hinton trap is readily understood
The boss does not care much who is
Audi or. That office has nothing to do
with the letting of contracts. except as a
member of the new City Hall Commission.
and the bosses cannot use him. But a
Supervisor is often troublesome, and Mr..
Hinton is not wanted in the board. Heis
looked upon as deserving some office, and
Mir. Rainey in the kindness of his heart
decided to do away with him as a Super
visor and put him where he would not
have to be handled.
The slate arrangements are manifold.
1t is now the intention of Boss Rainey 10
take Mr.. Brown out Of the fight for Re-
corder and make him County Clerk. This
means that Mr.. Haley is not on the slate,
and that unless Mr. Rainey should change
his mind Haley won't be in the race for his
present position at the coming election,
Shattuck has been withdrawn. Il is said
that Raiuey demanded of him the patron
age of The office il elected, and that he re-
fused to accept nomination under those
conditions. That is the sine qua non