The San Francisco call., 1895-11-14
FOR THE CONVENTION,
The Committee on Promotion
Will Gather Here
To-Day.
GOOD SPEECHES BILLED.
Representatives Will Be Present
From All Over the
State.
COLLECTORS READY FOR WORK.
Every Citizen Who Has the Future of
California at Heart Will Add
to the Fund.

The machinery built up by the people to
furnish the horse-sense power 10 bring the
next Republican Convention to the City OF
San Francisco is now in motion, and we
will soon be able to bring sufficient pres
sure to bear on the National committee
men to secure the prize.
The finance committee, the executive
committee and the recently appointed
collectors have begun to work, and to-day
in the Chamber of Commerce the COM
mittee on promotion will organize and
begin operations. This committee is made
up of people from all parts of the State,
and was formed for the purpose of bring
ing the representatives of all the cities and
towns together, so that the best possible
variety of opinions could be heard.
The coming of the convention to this
City means something to every town and
hamlet on the coast, and it is well that the
whole State should be represented in the
committee of promotion. 1t is likely that
other cities in this State have something
interesting to offer the delegates, and at
the meeting to-day these points will in all
probability be brought out.
1t is expected that some very telling
speeches will be made and that the great
number of suggestions that will of neces-
sity be brought forth will have good ef-
feet on the committee already formed.
Chairman Easton of the executive com nit
tee and Chairman Pond of the finance
committee are eager to learn the feeling of
the entire State, and no better opportun-
ity will present itself than that offered to-
day.
All day yesterday the members of the
committee on promotion were arriving in
the City, and as there are 100 of them 1t is
probable that some will come in to-day.
From the appearance of things now it
looks as though there would be at least 80
per cent of the appointed on hand to give
their views and talk for their respective
localities.
This is very encouraging to the gentle
men who selected the delegates, and it
looks very much as though the PROPOSE
ton of holding the Republican Conven-
ton in this City has spread a very salts
factory feeling of unity on that point all
over the State and coast.
AT least seventy of the members of the
promotion committee are from the interior
towns and they will have something sound
TO offer for the proposition. Such con-
certed action was never before witnessed
in the State of California, and it is beyond
a doubt the foundation of a future from
which Californians will profit.
The action of the people on this particu-
lar case shows what can be done by all
pulling together and working for the COM
mon good of the whole State. The at
tendant benefits are apparent to the
inhabitants of California, and like one
Ill j
are pulling together.
Yesterday Secretary Litchfield delivered
the collectors their credentials, and the
money will soon come rolling in. The
greater part of to-day, aside from the time
occupied by the meeting at the Chamber
of Commerce, will be spent in preliminary
work leading up to laying out the territory
allotted the collectors. They will become
identified with the occupation of gathering
the money for the fund, and all sorts of
contributions, both large and small, will
be acceptable.
Ever since the proposition of holding
the convention here was suggested by THE
CALL the people of this City have shown
marked desire to do their share of the
work, and it is to be hoped that they will
not hesitate now to do all in their power
to finish the good work so far carried on
without discomfort or inconvenience, and
that when the collector appears the re-
sponse will be liberal and Immediate
Ii the promises of a great many of San
tranclsco's public-spirited men goes for
anything the fund will be increased to the
extent OF several thousand dollars by to-
night. Citizens, professional men and cor
poratlons OF ali kinds have agreed to name
an amount when the collectors appointed
by the finance committee come to them for
an answer.
All occupations will be benefited by the
convention being held in this City, and no
sensible man will require urging to make
him see it. We have vast and productive
territory in the great West to exhibit to
the stranger, and the more we can get here
the better it will be for California and the
West generally.
To-day there is nearly 100000 already
guaranteed, counting that subscribed by
other cities and people outside of San Fran
cisco, all of which is capable of collection
and which is, by the way, most satisfactory
amount for the finance committee to begin
with. No other aspirant in the fight has
touched the figures named by San Fran
cisco, and we have more to come yet.
Pittsburg, the only city that we had
any cause to fear in this matter, has about
decided that it is impossible to accommo-
date the crowd there, and Boston has
given up the contest entirely. Chicago
has suffered the distress of local dissension
over the relative political standing of her
supporters, and New York will not be
considered by even one OF the prominent
National committeeman. The opposition
% San Francisco and her geographical
CituatIon has been removed, and since it
has been found that it will be possible to
telegraph all the news necessary over the
wires running out of this City we have
trampled on every barrier that has been
Dullt up against US.
National committeeman who were rather
reticent regarding their choice are now
openly proclaiming that San Francisco is
the most available and logical place for
nololng the next Republican National
Convention.
Inc question of railroad fares is as good
as settled, and while the Western Passen-