The herald., 1896-09-04
TREY DECLINE 70 RESIGN
Fusion Possibilities Thereby Get
q Setback
THE REASONS FOR REFUSAL
Run the Gamut Of Personal and Poll.
tical Peculiarly
-Four Candidates Found Who Refuse to Get
Down Will the Committee Now
Turn Them DOWN.

The possibilitiea of peaceful fusion
on congressional candidates had q bad
t-back before the conference commit
tee yesterday, says the San Francisco
Examiner of Wednesday. Where there
mad been a hope of a peaceful solution
Of the difficulties the day before, yester-
days session left little or nothing before
the committee, except absolute failure
or some severe disciplining all along the
line.
In four districts were found candi-
dates who refused to send In their resig-
nations. Two of these were Populists
and two Democrats. In one other dis
trict there is still a doubt whether the
candidates will submit their chances to
the conference committee. So when the
committee adjourned last night to meet
again at IL o'clock today the chances for
general fusion all up and down the line
seemed further and further away.
The schemes proposed and the reasons
assigned ran the gamut of popularity.
There was small comfort in butting the
mead or reason against the stone wall of
some OF the excuses and evasions, but
the committee kept its temper and even
retained hope that out of the tangle
might come general strengthening of
complications and union of silver and
nti-monopoly forces against the pro-
tagOnists of gold.
In the First district George w. Mon
tieth, the Populist nominee, was far less
tractable than he had been on the day
before. He has become abnormally sus-
picious and Is in danger of drifting into
that class which believes all the world
dishonest but itself, careless as to what
would happen should the world return
the compliment. He presented scheme
for deciding whether or not he should
withdraw scheme about as compli-
Gated as the binomial theorem. It in
VOWED submission of his entire cause
the disclosure of the secrets of his soul
to Joseph Leggett and j. w. Keegan.
Ihey were to report whether or not un-
der the circumstances he should with
draw. Next was submission by a sort
OF Max Pepper postal primary of the
question of withdrawal to the members
of the Populist congressional convention
and after all the matter was to come
back to Monteith.
The trouble with Monteith is he thinks
the state committees of the Democrats
and silverites are packed against him.
His idea Is that the former committee
is controlled by John Daggett and the
latter by the railroad. So he declines
to submit his candidacy to them, even
through the recommendation Of the con-
ference committee.
Beyond all this, however, Montieth
thinks he can be elected in any event.
He says he expects that there will be
another Sutro wave. with himself pos
Ing as Sutro on the crest, gazing down
at Cutter and Barhann in the sag
and trough Of the sea. He expects the
support of the labor organization and
some secret influence which will boost
him into place and power. OF course
there is no getting a resignation from a
man so enthusiastic in his own behalf
So the committee might as we'll decide
to go on without Mr.. Montieth.
Then the second district was taken up,
Marion de Vries of Stockton. the Demo-
cratic nominee, being the first candidate
to be called. He had sent in his resig-
nation and was ready to tell just why
he should be selected as the fusion can
didate in place of McGlashan in order
that Grove l.. johnson might be de-
feated.
After De Vries came McGlashan, who
had not sent in his resignation. He de-
veloped the unique argument Of the
day. He told the committee that ever
since his nomination he had made an
out and out A. P. A. canvass and pro-
posed to continue doing so. Then he
said the A. A. s who would support him
could not be fused to support any one
else. Beyond this he told of how he
had headed the movement to run the
Chinese out of Truckee; how the rail-
road had been to him every year to
ask whether the conditions were not
such that they could put the Chinese
at work on the line again; of how he
had in every case refused; and of how
he had been a striker during the great
strike. This was to show his anti-rail-
road record. Then he said that with
three candidates in the field Johnson
would be the third, the question being
whether he (McGlashan) could or could
not defeat De Vries.
The committee evidently felt that Nc
Glashan could not be moved from his
purpose to make a distinctive A. p. A.
fight, for he was asked but two ques-
tions, and those merely formal ones.
A number of Los Angelenos desired to
advocate the rival claims of Patton and
Barlow to the nomination in the sixth
district, but it was finally decided not to
hear outside oratory in any instance;
so the Los Angelenos smilingly with,
drew. A. Ramish, however, managed
to smuggle in a dispatch from the labor
organizations of Los Angeles to the eff
feet that they would support Patton in
case he was selected as the fusion candi-
date.
Next came the much disputed Fifth
district, where the unusual Joseph +.
Kelly is the Democratic nominee, ray
lor Rogers being his Populist nominee
Rogers, who had sent in his resignation,
told the committee frankly that he was
ready to abide by their action. Asked
re egarding his connection with the A. r.
A., he said when he Joined the organiza-
tion in 1893 he had no idea that It was
to be prescaptive. When, in 1880, ne
found that it was prescriptive ne re-
signed.
When Kelly was SUMMONED he said.
without mincing words, that he didn't
want fusion that he felt that the can
didacy of Mr.. Rogers helped his own
chances, and that such candidacy would
keep the solid A. F. A. vote from going
to Loud, the Republican nominee.
There was little hope of getting
around a statement Of that kind, SO
Kelly was dismissed without any ques-
tions concerning the bribery of super
visors or other small and early trans
actions which have been so mucn COM
mented upon.
After a recess until evening. the Sew
enth district was taken up. There an
other and somewhat unexpected snag
was struck. Though DR.. Castle. the
Populist nominee, had sent in his resig-
nation and was willing to fuse, Maddux,
the Democratic candidate, was not.
Maddux said Castle had been on the
Populist committee on the fusion of
electors and had there opposed such
fusion. So he didn't want him to say
that fusion was good in one instance
and not in another.
With matters in this condition, an ad-
jcurnment was taken until this morning
at II o'clock. The Third district was not
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