The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-02

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that point, but his remarks were made in
behalf of the committee to relieve them
from the pulling: and dragging which had
been made upon them. It:was far from
his thoughts to impugn the committee in
any. way. !: :: -,
Mr.. Sulliv an.then offered the following I:
Resojpsd, That all Police Judges shall pledge
themselves TO examine sareties on bonds aud
shall carry into effect the provisions of the plat
form in regard to stenographers: any Police
Judge nominated who shall refuse within
twentv-toqr hours after notification of his NOM
=; 1natlon to send a written pledge TO the secre-
tary OF the convention shall be dropped from
:. The ticket and a new candidate nominated for
said ONCE.
u The resolution was adopted unani-
mously. -: %
: BaIloting for candidate for Auditor was
then declared the next order Of business.
The candidates were j: r. Buckstell, F.V.
Worth. William Broderick and }. Hoesch.
In all fifty-four votes were cast. 1t was
plainly to be seen when the votes were be-
- ing counted that Broderlck had the nomi-
=, nation *hauds down." The result was
that Broderick received At votes. Hoesch
. ., Worth 4 and Ruckstell l.
Delegate Lipman Sachs moved that the
nomination of MIR. Broderck be made
unanimous. Carried.
The nomination of Treasurer was de-
clared next IN order. There were three
o candidates, J. III. Widber, the Republican
T. incum bent; Christian Refs, a Dem oeratic
eX-Treasurer, and Joseph A. Davis. the
candidate OF the Populist party for the
Office. Fifty-three votes were cast. The
result was as follows: Widber u, Refs 23
:: Davis g. The necessary tw0-thirds not
having been received, the chair declared
anO Their ballet necessary. At this point j.
G. LIE Breton arose and said before pro-
ceeding the delegates should consider the
merits of the candidates a little closer In
order TO avoid the: necessity OF taking
mum Der of ballots Mr.. WIdber was the
incumbent, and the rule adopted by the
convention had been TO continue Ia office
those MEN who had made good officers.
Delegate ID. j. Mahoney pointed out that
Mr.. Refs had made a good City Treasurer
ard be thought Ire ought TO succeed Mr..
. Widber.
Balloting then commenced, the vote re-
su!iing in the selection of Mr. Widber with
III votes, Mr. Res y.
The nomina ton Of Mr.. Widber was made
unanimous.
perlltendent of Streets being declared
in order the secretary read the
following list:*:C. Z. Grunsky, |.
ID. Thompson, William Haskell. Siias
Wilcox and ThOma Ash worth. The COM
mittee recommended Mr.. Grunsky. One
of. the delegates wished to know if votes
cast for candidates who were not civil en-
gineers would be counted. Some one sug-
gested thatit would be well enough 10 let
that matter be decided when the votes
were cast. There was some discussion,
but no definite conclusion arrived at,
when Delegate III. Truman arose to ad-
dress the convention in furtherance of the
claims of Mr.. Grunsky for the nomination.
He told of the public bodies that had in
dorsed him and asked the convention to
=. nominate him.
Delegate Donovan. arose and made a
strong plea for the nomina alton of Thomas
.Ashworth. He derided the decision of tt g
convention that it needed a civil engineer
to make good streets and TO keep rubbish
off them. He said they might as We'll liz
siston the Mayor being an architect or
the Auditor plumber If the convention
desired to stand By The plank in the plat
form that it would return TO office men
who had served the. city faithfully it
would nominate Mr.. Ashworth. He had
n0:hawked petitions round The streets,
but if he had could have petition reacl-
ing from the ferries to the City Hall, too
long t. read.
Delegates Wallace, Bradford, c. G.
Hooker and L.: Altschul made short aG-
dresses on the candidates, mostly against
Mr.. Ash worth's: conduct of his Office.
Altschul was particularly bitter against
.Ashw0rth's Candidacy, admitting more
than one personal grievance.
5. Delegate Frank Sullivan said be was a
member of the committee which drafted
=
the Office of Superintendent OF Streets. He
sat in the convention not to reward his
friends or punish his enemies, but as a
reformer. and be hoped everybody would
vote with that end in view.
-: George Cumming said it was all bosh TO
have civil engineer in Office.
Delegate LIE Breton in order TO test the
-. question whether or not Mr.. Ashworth
had the qualifications for a nominee, said
..,that.he would move that "Mr. Ashworth
Anaa mt thar ftaS tn haa
didate for Superintendent Streets under
the platform of this Convention" He said
=. it would end the discussion. His motion
was not put, however, as Chairman Men
Zles ruled that the quickest and best way
was to proceed to balloting.
- The result of the bailoting showed that
Mr.. AshWOrth had been badly damaged in
the war of words if he had previously
had any chance of. winning. There were
30 50 Votes cast OF these Grunsky received
80 votes and Ashworth Is. Mr.. Grunsky's
nominal ien was made unanimous.
For Public Administrator, nominations
for which were then declared in order,
there were seven aspiraDts: q. F. Wiley.
II. w: Outflow. George T. Bromley. A. C.
Freeze, Robert Haight, Eugene j. Ensign
ard Charles B. Holbrook.
Eugene j. Ensign was recommended by
the nomination committee as a good can
didate for the office.
a. T. Brand spoke in eulegy of CAPTAIN
-. rfooS6, az u Shlu lie, Ol all OIlers, deserved
the nomination.
Delegate Truman of the committee said
that that body had recommended Ensign
because Captain Freese had held the office
-. for two terms and had already vast
estate on his hands to care for. II was.
therefore. thopgbtthat il would be better
to give another man a chance, hence the
Recommendation
Delegate lie Breton said that the fact
: that man had served two terms 10 office
= did not initiate against him. In his four
years Captain Freese had been faithful
and rusty servant of the people. lt.was
In keeping with the platform of the party
that he be retained in Office.
.Ballotlng was called for, and when the
votes vera announced it was evident Tn
no. candidate had received sufficient IN
constitute choice.
= The result was as follows: Votes cast
IS, .Ffeese %. Bromley z, Haight 2. Ensign
-, Holland L.:
- Chairman MenZies said that "a no can
didate had received enough for a choice
mother ballot would be necessary. -
1t was at this point that Delegate Con.
rad took hand in the proceedings in
favorof Bromley and by his remarks re-
s1ecting somewhat on Captain Freese
caused a stir that lasted an hour and made
three more ballots necessary.
His remarks brought out considers HE
bitter feeling, as the friends of Captain
Freese considered that they were wbnllv
uncalled for. He began by saving that
20 whila certain delapatps had hald NJ