The herald., 1896-06-14

open order before the committee on
credentials.
In the lobbies of the convention for
nearly the whole day sat Major Horace |
Bell. Councilman NJ. p. Snyder. Council |
man George D. Pessell, eX-Coroner Jas.
Meredith Martin c. Marsh and George
Arnold, whose proxy had been turned
over to George Retzer and others more
or less we'll known. Tom McCaffrey OF
/ the Arcade depot was everywhere in
sight working might and main to win the
fight of his life and incidentally TO pull
the cllestnuts at stake out of the hre 1or
the powerful corporation whose employe
he is.
Judge w. A. Ryan was in the conven-
tion. as were also Col. j. j. Ayers,
Charles Dwight Willard, Chas. E. Mum
| day, w. D. Woolwine and Henry y Mel
venev. the latter quartette occupying
seats well along in the front end or the
| baldheaded row.
Rig Joe Simons, the sage of Pasadena,
sat during the greater part OF tne rlorn-
! ing near a window in quiet corner
tanning the torrid zone prevalent at fas
adena lust now not only from hlmsel1
| hut also from round about him for n1ty
| feet, more or less
| The calling of the roll was very ted
ious affair and lasted the pest part Oh
an hour The confusion at times was
such as to make it impossible TO near
what was going on. The confusion at
one time was so great that Judge
Stephens was compelled to announce
| the appointment of Jack Belaney' tne
| perennial, as sergeant -arms. the
crowd being admonished that If the
noise did not at once subsfde the nall
would be cleared of spectators.
General Charles F. A. Last was not
in the convention upon proxy, as ha1
been expected, and the Cahuensa deieo Eiso
cation had a peculiar vacuum. Fire
| 6Iorr, Iohn w Mitchell was not any,
where in the audience
Ex-Councilman Michael Collins was
the first to come forward with what
might have been considered an overoose
of proxies. Collins held three OF those
at times very useful slips of paper. j..
ID. Morris of the Ninth precinct also had
three proxies. H. w. Peterson, Ram
ish & Marsh's bookkeeper, was loaded
down with seven proxies In the sew
enteenth precinct of the city the name
of John Nerney was substituted for
that of W. D. Wilson who was stated by
Tom Darmondy to be no longer resi-
dent of the city.
No one answered to the name OF
Stephen M. White and the senator did
| not send to the convention his proxy.
There was likewise no answer when the
name of Andrew McNally was called
from the Nineteenth precinct of the
city, nor when the name of Sheldon Bor-
den was called from the Twenty-htth th
precinct. Both. however, appeared lat
err in the day. D. F. McKillip and M. NJ.
Levering from the Twenty eighth pre-
cinct. were each accorded half vote
having tied each other in the running
at the primaries
Tom Donahue had his own vote and
the four proxies from the Thirty-seventh
precinct, giving him in a lump five votes
to swing as he might see fit.
There were three old soldiers from the
Santa Monica home in uniform in the
convention, more than have sat in Re
publican conventions at one time in the
memory of the oldest inhabitant
After Sergeant at Arms Jack Delaney
had passed palm leaf fans around among
the delegates the opening gun OF the
day was fired.