The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-09-29

were. and Mr.. Smith did not limit his
antipathy to actual offenders, Dut extended
it to all who had any afflliatiOn with
them.
Simmons friends went to the hall hor-
ing to prove that the damaging charges
were unfounded. They believed that there
was no reason for supposng that their
candidate had ever entered the order or
that he had any sympathy with ii. But
they could not convince Smith nor the
large number of delegates that the rumor
was untrue. and so they finally decided not
10 press the nomination. When the Office
of Superintendent of Schools was reached
in the regular order of business he had fur
Their modified his position as to Mr.. SIM
mons. lie moved that the nomination of
a Superintendent OF Schools be postponed
until next Tuesday night IN order, he said,
t. give one of the gentlemen concerned an
opportunity to make statement 10 vindi-
cation of himself. The motion was car
RED. and thus tamely was the anticipated
war averted for the time. Simmons
drawn.
Members of the Democratic Central
Committee exceedingly regret this episode.
Mir. Simmons is a good speaker and has
heretofore been at the service of the COM
mlttee in its campaign work. 1t is thought
that the A. p. A. controversy will seriously
impair his usefulness.
The proceedings of the convention were
OF the humdrum order. There was the
usual amount of noise and confusion, and
Chairman Deuprey had great difficulty in
Keeping the delegates and spectators
sufficiently quiet to enable the secretaries
TO hear the rollcall.
Five justices of the Peace we nominated.
Most of them had been presented to the
convention on Thursday night, but by
some oversight the most popular candi-
date. John j. Kennedy. had been omitted.
He was the sole hope of the south of
Market street for representation on the
ticket. The back of the Democratic
vote lies on that side of town and the con-
vention has thus Tar chosen all its candi-
didates from the northern districts. This
had occasioned a good deal of dissatisfac-
ton, for the souther1ers insist upon their
own and they particularly insisted in this
case upon having chance to vote for Ken
nedy.
Chairman Deuprey was at loss to
know how to bring this about. He had
clv thot linz
be reconsdered. The motion which came
from the body Of the convention to de-
clare the nominations open was very
much the same thing as a reconsideration,
and there came the rub. But with Mr..
Deuprey there ara many ways of doing
things when it comes to parlia-
mentary tactics, and he announced
that if the records showed that
The nominations had been declared
closed at the previous session there was
no way out of the difficulty. The secre-
tary gave him slip of paper and the
chairman read tberefrom. Sure enough,
by some oversight of the convention or
the recording secretary, there was no
mention of a vote declaring the nomiua-
tions closed, and so further nominations
gould be made.
Kennedy's name was then presented,
and in the voting which followed he was
leader from start to finish.
The successful candidates were John ].
Kennedy, John A. Carroll. Kenneth VIII
liams, L. L. O'Ccnnor and Alfred ].
Fritz.
The delegates were not prepared to
nominate Judge for the short term. and
the convention found itself down to
Supervisors and School Directors. Sam