The San Francisco call., 1896-03-18
The Fifth Congressional Com
mittee Acts in Hearty
Accord.
CLARKsON AND PARTY LEAVE.
The Allison Boom Has Found Fruitful
Soil in California and the
Pacific Coast.

The Republican affairs of the Fifth Dis
trict relating to the State Convention were
harmoniously and definitely settled at
meeting of the Congressional committee OF
that district yesterday forenoon.
The committee unanimously referred to
the county committees of the district the
selection of delegates to the State conven-
ton, deciding with practical unanlmlty
that this was the wisest and fairest course
and the one most in harmony with the
spirit and methods of the party.
This action was another decided victory
for John D. Spreckels and the policy he is
endeavoring to carry out in the interest of
clean politics and party harmony.
The representatives of Santa Clara and
San Mateo counties in this committee and
the State Central committeeman repre-
senting those counties were inclined at
first to constitute faction by themselves,
and there was last week some danger
that a lack of harmony in the committee
would result. Yesterday, however, they
ioined with the friends of John D. Spreck
els in all that was done.
The committee met at IL A. NJ. in the law
office of John E. Richards in the Crocker
building, and the meeting lasted a little
were present, as follows: Chairman J. w.
Rea of Santa Clara. Secretary John E.
Richards, Robert l.. Toplitz, a. l.. Stetson
and C. S. Laumeister of San Francisco; w.
B. Lawrence of San Mateo. William Moir
of Santa Clara was represented by Louis
Montgomery, proxy.
The minutes were approved and then
the resolution referring the matter of the
selection OF delegates to the county COM
mittees, which was informally discussed at
the first meeting, last Saturday, was pre-.
sented by John E. Richards.
c. S. Laumeister offered an amendment
to the second section of the resolution. the
amendment providing that selection of
delegates be under the exclusive manage
ment of the individual county committee
men from the respective Assembly dis
tricts. Discussion showed that the amend
ment would take all power and supervision
from the county committees. The repre-
sentative of each Assembly district in this
City, for instance, would have exclusive
control of the selection of delegates. The
amendment was defeated by six votes,
Laumeister's being the only affirmative
one.
The original resolution was then put and
carried by six votes. The resolution is
as follows:
WHEREAS, At the meeting of the members of
the Republican State Central Committee from
California, duly and regularly called and held
on the 18th day of March, 1896, at Redwood
City in the county OF San Mateo, State OF Cali
fornia, at which said meeting all of the said
members from said district were present,
resolution duly and regularly adopted
providing that the following named seven
persons, electors ana residents of said Fifth
Congressional District, should be and were
thereby appointed as the committee of seven
persons from the residents of such district who
should act as Cong ressional committee thereof
L. TODllfZ JOhn f.. Richards. A
L. Stetson, G. S. Laumeister, w. B. Lawrence,
James w. Rea and William Moir; and whereas,
at the said meeting resolution also duly
and regularly adopted providing that it is the
sense of this committee that the manner and
supervision of the selection of delegates to the
State convention should be left in the hards of
the county committees OF the several coun-
ties''; and whereas, it is the sense of said COM
mittee that local self-government should be
maintained and accorded to the electors OF
each political subdivision OF this State and
district within which elections are to be held,
and that the management and control of such
elections should be placed in the hands of the
regularly constituted committees of the Re-
publican party within such district, subject
only to the supervision OF this committee and
in accordance with this resolution and call of
the Republican National Committee and of
the State Central Committee duly and regu-
larly passed at the recent respective meetings
thereof, now, therefore. it is hereby
ResOlUed, First-That 1t is in harmony with
the principles of the Republican party of the
State of California, and 1t is essential to its
success in the coming State and National cam
paign, that every effort should be put forth
and every means adopted by the regularly or
ganiZed agencies and committees OF the Re
publican party to secure an honest selection of
delegates to the State and District Republican
conventions OF the State of California, and 10
the Republican National Convention.
Second-That TO that end It shall be and is
hereby ordered that the Republican County
committees in the several counties, and por-
t1ons thereof. constituting the Fifth Congress
sional District of the State of California, shall
be and are hereby given the power and discre-
ton to determine within their respective coun-
ties the manner and supervision of the selec-
tion OF delegates to the said State and district
conventions, and to provide for the selection
thereof by appointment or by primary cleo
uons within their respective counties as in
their said discretion shall seem best, in order
to carry out the foregoing purposes.
Third-That the test Tor voters at such pri-
mary election as may be held shall be: 81 be-
ieve in Republican principles and indorse the
Reps blican policy, and intend to support the
nominees OF the Republican party"
Fourth-That a Congressional district con-
vention of the delegates 10 be selected as above
set forth shall be and is hereby called to meet
at the City of Sacramento. State of California
on Tuesday, May 1885, for the purpose of
selecting two delegates TO the Republican Ma
tional Convention to be held at the city of St
Louis, in the State of Missouri, on Tuesday
June 10, 1896, and to represent the said Fifth
Congressional District OF the State OF Califor-
MIA in such convention, and for the selection
OF Two alternate delegates to act In case of the
absence OF the delegates first chosen, and to do
and perform such other business as may come
before said district conven tion
Fifth-That the details of holding and con-
ducting such above named primary elections
as may be held IN the various election pre-
cincts of the said Fifth Congressional District,
and of appointing and eauipping the election
officers required under the law to conduct
said election within said district and of pro-
viding all necessary assistance TO such election
officers, and the ballot-boXes. ballots registers
and other material and paraphernaia for the
proper conduct of such primary election shall
be and is hereby delegated and intrusted to
the members OF the present Republican County
Central Committee OF the the counties of
Santa Clara and San Mateo respectively and
to those members of the Republican County
Central Committee OF the City of San Francisco
from the several Assembly districts within said
Fifth Congressional District, said Republican
County Central committees, or portion thereof,
respectively, to conduct said primary election
within their and each OF their respective coun-
ties under the general supervision and control
of this committee, aud that the said members of
the county committee, respectively, shall be
and are hereby authorized and empowered to
provide for the time and place of holding and
to conduct said primary election within their
respective portions of said district and to GER
tify the vote cast ct their primary election
from The various election precincts within
their respective counties in said district and
the names of the delegates selected in their re-.
spective counties and portions thereof to this
committee, which will act as returning