The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-14
SAN FRANCISCO FEELS SORE.
THE LOSS OF THE CONVENTION A
BITTER PILL.

The Ugly Wounds Caused by the
City's Defeat Not TO BE Healed rs
Easily as the Republican Bosses of
the Last Convention Imagine-OId
Scores TO he Settled as Far rs Pos
sibIe when the Convention Meets.
Washington, Dec. 13.-Representative
Bowers of California says the recent ac-
ton of the national republican committee
left some very ugly wounds behind it.
which will not heal as rapidly as the
republican bosses of the east predict.
Representative Bowers was one of the
most enthusiastic boomers" for San
Francisco, and he is not afraid to ex-
press his sentiments in any gathering as
to what he believes to have been the
methods employed TO defeat the claims
of CALIFORNIA; metropolis.
He was discussing the subject with some
of his far western friends. in a voice loud
enough to be heard throughout the room,
and he was particularly severe in his de-
nunciations of the practices of the repub
lican leaders in the east. lie says it is
the same old story, year after year. The
republicans from the Pacific coast cross
the Rockies to attend the national con-
Vention only to be turned down by a COM
bination of professional bosses, who die
tate the place for holding the convention,
select the candidate, and then ask their
Pacific coast republicans to come to the
rescue and elect the ticket
Mr.. Bowers says it is getting monoto-
nous, this same old gag played by Tom
Platt, Matt Quay, Joe Manly and a few
other so-called bosses. They get together
long before the convention is held, pick
out the man they desire to nominate,
and then they invite their Pacific
coast friends to come east and de-
liberate with them. When the con-
vention assemblies the bosses, with the
delegates from the south, put their heads
together and do just about what
they please, without so much as giving
the fellow who disagree with them a
chance to be heard. He says the people
west of the Mississippi river are growing
very weary of the dictation of the repub-
lican bosses in the east, and the time
is coming when the feeling of resentment
Will become so strong that party ties will
not hold them in line.
The views of Representative Bowers
were even more forcibly repeated by Ma
tional Committeeman Lannon of Titan,
who does not hesitate to say that the
at heart at the treatment they are con-
stantly receiving from their eastern
brothers. Loyalty to the party appears
TO cut no figure with the bosses, unless
their wishes are to be carried out, and
they make up their minds as TO what they
want and then proceed to ignore all who
may dlffer with them. lie says the work
of the national committee last Tuesday
will not soon be forgotten by the friends
of San Francisco, and when they come
east to the convention they will have
some old scores to settle.
Chicago, Dec. 13.-James Root, eX-mem-
Der of the republican national committee,
is authority for the statement that the
fight between the city and county fac
lions of Chicago was responsible for the
city's losing the national convention for
next year. Mr.. Roots story is that the
whole matter was in the hands of Cor
nelius n. Bliss of New York, who bore
the burden of a $4,000 debt for the ma
tional committee. 1t was the plan to shift
the debt to the shoulders of Samuel Al
lerton of Chicago and thus secure the
convention. The county end of the crowd
it is claimed, did not care for the con-
vention, and persuaded Mr.. Allerton not
to accept the financial Indebtedness.