The San Francisco call., 1895-11-03
The Press on the Other Side
Is Considering Us
Seriously.
NARROWED DOWN TO FOUR.
Official Greeting of the Legislature
in a Strong Joint Reso-
ton.

Within week the people of San Fran
cisco will see the fruits of the mass-meet-
ing which will be held tomorrow night
in the Chamber of Commerce.
The committees to be appointed will by
that time have gathered up all the loose
ends of the activity so far exhibited and
will have reached more definite results
than can be suggested to-day. So far the
entire work of making the collections has
been in the hands of the daily papers and
all of the subscriptions have been practi
cally voluntary.
Through the meeting tomorrow night
the plan of making a more general collec-
ton will doubtless be perfected.
Chairman Friedrich has been storing
up ideas which will be introduced and it
is evident that many OF them will carry, as
they are solely for the purpose of increas-
ing the size of the fund which, through
the generosity of the people, is to-day over
$4,000
The East is now pretty we'll assured that
San Francisco means business, and the
strength which we have received from
massachusetts, and Boston particularly
has changed good many views as to the
quantity OF attention we have been at
tracing.
One week ago Governor Greenhalge
openly stated that San Francisco was not
the proper place to hold the convention
and that she had no right to expect the
Republican party to offer it to her.
Thursday afternoon, however, in an in
terview with a CALL reporter in Boston he
retracted his statements and said that after
looking into our claims and our advant-
ages that he was thoroughly convinced
that San Francisco had better right to
the convention than any other city in the
Union. 81 realize" he said, that the
great West has done as much for the Re-
publican party as any other portion of the
country in proportion to her population,
and 1 am also familiar with the fact that
she has always sent Republican electors to
the Electoral College, yet she has received
nothing from the party. l have studied
the matter out pretty carefully and be-
ieve now that it is not only policy, but the
duty OF the Republican party to recognize
her claims"
Our supporters in the East have given US
the most decided encouragement, and if it
is possibility for San Francisco to lose
it will not be because we had no friends.
The local interest still keeps up its end 4,
and there Is every reason TO believe that
within a few days there will be sufficient
sum of money subscribed to convince the
National Committee that we have all the
money they require to lift the debt that
hangs over them.
1t is not impossible that even Quay and
Platt will agree to come TO San Francisco
if certain political combinations can be
made. As it stands to-day Chicago is out
OF the question, Boston has lost what little
standing it had with the committee New
York is as good as gone, and the fight is
between Pittsburg and San Francisco.
The relative standing of these two cities is
about equal so far as the approval of the
National Committeeman is concerned, vet
there is great deal of doubt in the minds
of the leaders regarding the advisability OF
ignoring the Pacific Coast. We have never
yet made such fight for a convention as
the one now being waged, and this alone
gives US considerably more weight than il
we we're constant applicants. Nothing is
likely to be done with undue haste, and
when the National Committee meets it
will actwith considerable caution.
In February of the present year the Leg
islature passed an Assembly joint resolu
tion relative to the National Convention
in which THE CALLS suggestion was EN-.
bodied. The Assembly resolution was in.