The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
THE BIG CONVENTION
Chicago Expects to Get It
for a Very Low Cash
Rate.
NOT THOUGHT SERIOUS.
The Fight Is Distinctly Between
This City aud Pitts
burg.
OUR CHANCES LOOK BRIGHTER
ALI Of the Committees Appointed Are
: at Work and the Collections . :.
Are Increasing.

National Committee will surely select Chi
cago as the next place of. meeting for the
Republican National Convention has
caused no particular uneasiness in San
Francisco 1t is pretty thoroughly under
stood that Mr.. Carter is merely .voicing an
individual opinion, and that he has no
more voting power than any other member
of the National Committee. :: 49, :
The antics of Chicago when. the conven-
t1on met there before have practically con-
demned it:in the minds of most of the del
egates, and they are not. disposed to- be the
principals in q similar scene. Many a
good head was belabored by a policeman's s.
club and the hall was packed with rowdies
and far-down toughs. .~ :.
Chairman Carter has. probably forgotten
some. of these incidents, but a large major
ity;of the delegates who have vote still
remember them with feeling and chagrin.
Chicago is out of the question. =: +.
|: San. Francisco, with: that dignity and
sincerity that has characterized her:entire
association with the project of bringing the
convention to this City, still continues. to
carry on the work so Systematically. laid
out by the committeem EN- appointed at the
The immense amount of work involved
in collecting the necessary funds is being
equally distributed among the champions
of.the cause, and all are doing their level
best to succeed.
Z. The Thirty seventh District Republican
Club at meeting held Thursday evening
resolved to assist in raising their portion
of. the $4,000 guaranteed by: the Republican
Executive Council recently. =.
Yesterday the executive committee met
at it's rooms in the Chronicle building to
discuss the various names which have
been presented as delegates toWashfngton
when the National Committee meets. there
on the: 10th of December:
A great many. volunteers have offered to
go, and the very best timber will be se-
lected. to attend to this most important
work. The appointments will be. made
about Tuesday next, and the gentlemen
selected will start for: Washington about
ten days before the meeting of the National
Committee.
In the meantime the interior cities will
be Che scene of. meetings held under the
supervision of the following committee,
| appointed yesterday by Chairman Castle
of the. committee ON promotion. They
will. act as an: executive committee, and
were selected in compliance with resolu-
ton offered by Judge Cooney at the meet
ing held in the Chamber of Commerce
last Thursday; M. sCooney, w. B. Har-
rington, A. s. Hallidie, w. NJ. Bunker, J.
r. Freud, A. c. Henry of Oakland, S. NJ.
Rucker of San Jose.
Chairman Easton has received sufficient
assurance from all over the Union to give
him considerable hope for success, and
says there are some offers from committee
men that 1t would not be wise to make
| public. When the time comes they will
! be found on the side of San Francisco, and
| Mr.. Easton is willing to await that time.
H. q. Osborn telegraphed from Los
! Angeles that the collecting committee at
that point had met with unbounded sue
cess in its first days work, and they: are
still on the trail of funds. 1t is thought,
however, that no heavy demands will be
madeon the interior cities, as the necessary
amount can about be collected in and
| around San Francisco.
Secretary Litchield is constantly en-
ployed with his corps of collectors, and will
be ready to make a report of the progress
| so far made to-day.
| Gradually the East is coming to an un-
| derstanding of the enormous amount of
work that has been done in San Francisco
| for the convention proposition, and even
our enemies are frank to admit that our
conduct and generosity certainly entitle
us to the big gathering, aside from the
! duty of the Republican party to the Pacific
! Coast in general.
+ One by one the leading contestants for
| the honor of holding the convention have
! fallen, and most of those who have re-
tired agree that San Francisco is really
the logical point for the next meeting OF
the Republican party.
| A. z. Sherin, secretary of the Demo
cratic National Committee, classes San
Francisco among the possible places of
holding the convention of that party and
says that there is a considerable influence
being brought to bear in favor OF this City.
| Our chances were never better than they
are now, and this is the time to stand up
and put in the very best work in every
way that will assist the movement.
We want it and we must have it, even If
| it does come high.
SOME CHyCAGO FTCTTON