The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06
Chairman Gould's Friends Seek
to Prevent His Being
Turned Down.
DAGGETTs WORKERS ON HAND
Lively Contest for Control of the
Convention at Stockton
To-Day.

STOCKTON, CAL, June 5.-The Dem
ocratic County Convention tomorrow
promises to be lively one. While mat
ters political in the Democratic ranks have
been running smoothly on the surface
there has been strife underneath and to-
morrow the friends of Chairman Gould
will make strong effort to prevent his be-
ing turned down in the convention.
When the Government mint delegation
arrived in Stockton from San Francisco
last Saturday it was corralled by promi-
nent Democratic worker who asked each
mem ber what he was here for. The dele
gates were headed by Andrew Cuneo. The
mint employees replied that they merely
came up for the purpose of fexercising their
right to vote at the primaries, but they
have been here ever since. They were told
that il they had any job that they were
trying to work that they might as well go
back 10 their work as matters had been so
fixed here that theirs would be hopeless
task
The same politician who called them to
account for their pres sence in Stockton at
once telephoned to Mint Superintendent
Daggett asked him if he had sent the
mint delegation to this city for any pur-
pose, but Daggett denied very emphat-
ically that he had. He said that the men
asked permission to go and that he did
not like to deny any man the privilege of
voting.
Local Democrats took this for what it
was worth and watched Cuneo and his
crowd while they were wirepulling. They
were told at the start that it was of no use
to attempt to prevent a silver delegation
from going to Sacramento, but they have
been working diligently since their ar
rival!
"Jack" Dennigan and another San Fran
cisco contingent were also rounded up on
their arrival, but they declared that they
did not have knife out for Gould or any
one else, but that they were here solely in
the interests of silver and intended to help
the local men send none but a free-silver
delegation to the State Convention on the
18th.
Everything has been quiet until to-day
out the way leading Democrats have been
buttonholing delegates to to-morrow's s
convention indicates that there is trouble
in the air AS matters stand this evening,
the following will be delegates to the State
Convention: Frank D. Nicol, Marion de
Vries, W. R. Jacobs, Frank H. Gould, H.
r. MeNoble, Colonel J. J. Nunan, w. NJ.
Gibson, Michael Brisco, John D. Gall.
Supervisor Shepherd will be one of the
delegates from the country.
There was some fear on the part of his
staunchest friends this afternoon that
Gould would be turned down and not sent
to the convention. If such a job is on
foot, it is liable to make matters lively in
the convention tomorrow. His friends
sBy that Gould is willing to 60 to Saera-
mento under instructions to vote only for
silver men for National delegates, no mat
ter what his individual inclinations may
be in that regard.
The others have said all along that no
one who had the interests of the silver
cause at heart should go the State ConVen-
ton, and so the situation is tonight
Marion de Vries, Assistant District At
torney for this county, and probable nomi-
nee for Congress from this district, will,
without doubt, be the chairman of the
convention tomorrow. All sides like him
and there will probably be no opposition
to him. There are nineteen delegates to be
selected from San Joaquin County.