The morning call., 1894-08-21

ing to get Mr.. Murphy's consent to pre-
sent his name and we have just
now gained that consent. Barney Murphy
will certainly be nominated aud l would
not be surprised to see the nomination
made by ACCLAIM alton"
At 1880 o'clock this morning Sam
: Rucker called on James Budd, with the
avowed purpose of inducing him to with
draw from the fight and give his support
to Barney Murphy.
F.. II. Gould, who Is making Budd's
fight, when apprised of Fuckers mission
declared that under no circumstance
:. would Budd withdraw.
:: Rucker remained in conference with
Budd three-quarters of an hour and then
the Two. accompanied by Ed McCabe of
: MERGED, who is a strong supporter of
= Bndd. went to the Palace and at 80
o'clock began a conference with Barney
! Murphy over the proposition to retire
<::Budd.
: R. f. Del Vale joined the conference.
: and the situation was discussed over
pommery and caviare sandwiches.
: :: At 2 o'clock this morning Sam Rucker
said. They have locked horns and both
will run"
81 shall stay in the fight to a finish"
said Budd. land I'm going to beat you
: out. am l not. Barney ?" laughingly added
.Budd
':Budd is my frend.' replied Mr.. Muir
ply, "but L do not think he stands
>. much of show. / think l shall
: beat him easily" reioined Mr.. Murphy.
who continued: Seriously, l am now in
: the race for the nomination, and | shall
make the best race which | possibly cam
=; The conference was continued to a late
:. hour this morning. but only resulted in
=: each man remaining firm in his purpose
:. to fight for the nomination.
: 1t was stated last night that John Fl
Wise, who when he was appointed Collec-
tor promised Cleveland to resign if he ran
. for Governor, telsgraphed the President
asking permission to allow his name to 20
before the convention. An answer came,
saying: You must resign before you be-
come candidate"
:: Mr.. Wise had opened headquarters al
the Baldwin. where after the receipt OF
the above reply he announced that he
would not be candidate.
They are all here now. Democrats
= from every corner of the State reached
the city yesterday and distributed them
selves among the hotels where politicians
are won't to assemble.
And they are all taking-talking Just Is
: eagerly as if the men they are about to
!. nominate were going to have walkover
at the general election. They ara dis
cussing candidates for Governor and
candidates for Lieutenant Governor and
all the candidates for all the Offices
within the gift of the State, and they are
so busy with the gossip of the State con-
vention that they seem to have forgo item
or to purposely ignore the awk ward little
interval which Is TO come in between the
preliminary business OF nominating and
the momentOus matter of electing.
Plungiug from one candidate to the other,
putting forward this mans claims and
. tearing to pieces that mans record, they
are engulfed in sea of words
The hotel Hobbies are full of them. In
the Baldwin, in the Palace, at the Grand.
Lick, Occidental and Russ nothing but
politics can be heard. and with it all there
was yesterday no definite idea Of what the
convention is going to do. A boom or two
for Governor. and few names conferred
upon for chairman OF the convention. with
here and there a Congressman picked out,
man for Lieutenant-G Governor, and now
and then one who was believed TO be ahead
of his opponents In the race for some other
Office, made up the very Indefinite outline
of what the weakened yet unerrihed De-