The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-27
Western Editorial Associations
Adopt an Address
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
y Invited to Lend Them Helping
Hand
San Francisco Be Chosen as Meeting
Place the Delegates Are Promised
q Hearty Welcome

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26.-The Cali
fornia Press association, the m mebm ershi .
of which is composed principally of in
terror editors, met this aftern BON in the
rooms or the Press club at San Francisco.
Officers were elected as follows:
I. President, E. B. Willis, Sacramento
Record Union.
Vice. president, S. NJ. Harkell, Pomona
Progress.
Secretary. W. y. Pennycook, Vallejo
Chronicle.
Executive committee, George Francis,
Napa Register; A. B. Lennon. Santa
Rosa Republican; George +. Weeks, Ba-
kersfield Californian; Raleigh Barcar OF
Vacaville; H. u. Osborne. Los Ang eles
Express, and ]. A. Filcher. Placer Herald.
The editors then proceeded to discuss
enthusiastically the prospects OF securing
the next Republican national convention
for San Francisco.
Five delegates to the national editorial
association were also chosen. They are j.
A. Filcher, w. A. Brown, Il. S. Pills
bury of Tulare, w. +. Prisk of Grass Val
lev and Duncan Mcpherson of Santa
Cruz.
TO the Members of the National Editorial
Association throug out the United States
Tue California Press association, the
Southern California Editorial association
and delegations rom the press of Nevada
and Arizona. seconded by the mem bers
OF the press OF Oregon. Washington and
Utah, in convention assembled in San
Francisco, hereby address the Nom bers
of the National Editorial association per-
sonally and individually, recalling the
recent date whom they were our guests;
and earnestly request and solicit each OF
you TO urge upon the mem bers OF the Re-
publican national executive com mittee
from your state to vote in favor Of hold
ing The next national Republican con-
ve1tion in the city of San Francisco.
We authorize you, in the name of the
people OF California, to pledge their
broadcast hospitality and their every en-
deavor to render the session of the con-
vention in San Francisco one OF rational
pleasure and the highest good to the peo-
pie of our common country. We ask you
to present the matter to your committee
men with such urgency and persistency
as coniports with the sincerity of our in
vitatiun and the guarantee of our hos
pitality, believing that the com mon good
e all tire rpople will be conserved by
the Assem- bling of the national conven-
tion en- the western shores of the repub-
lie. (Signsd) Il. b. WILLIS,
President California Press Association.
W. D. FENNYCOOK, Secretary.
7. G. DANIELS,
II. y. OSBORNE,
ALLEN b. LENNON,
Committee.
The League OF Republican Newspa psrs
of California met here tonight and
adopted an appeal to the party manage
ment 10 hLld the next national Repub
lican convention in san Francisco. The
appeal Iecites the fact that California has
been slighted for years by the east, which
sources and requirements. Attention is
called to the fact that transportation and
hotel accom- modations are ample; that all
the necessary arrangem ents for holding
the convention will be made by the peo-
Pile here; that the trip to the Golden
Stats could be made by delegates and
others mt small expense. 1t is guaranteed
that the trip and visit will be delightful
and the well known generosity of the
people of California will assure both
pleasure and profit to the visitors. The
appeal closes by saying:
LET the Republican party be the first
to recognize that there is Pacific coast
and the people III this great country will
recognize their obligations to that party.
In behalf OF good politics, in behalf of
higher patriotism, We urge the holding
of the next national Republican conven-
tion in San Francisco.
Teiegrams from the editors of the Port
land Oregonian, the Seattle Post-Intell-
gencer, Tacoma Ledger and San Diego
Union were read. all promising hearty
the convention. The meeting closed with
the adoption of a resolution pledeing
$5900 from the association to aid the
cause.