The San Francisco call., 1896-05-12
Delegates Who Would Rather
Lose All Than Surrender
Principle.
GATOR FOR THE sENAToRsH1p.
Faithful Services to the Party Will
Be Recognized by the Con.
vention.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, May 11.-Dele-
gates to the Populist State Conye ntion
come pouring into the State House by all
the afternoon and evening trains, and at
night the lobbies, parlors and Office of the
hotel presented much of the hustle OBJ
servable of the night before the conven-
tion of one of the old parties, only that
the push and the pull were absent or if
present, were of different kind from the
usual staple article.
All parts of the State are well repre-
sented; the man from the shadow of
Shasta's snowy peak is here, but t. w. H.
Shanahan, Shastas tall sycamore, is miss
ing. His long shadow is not seen on the
floor under the glare of the electric lamps,
and mighty voice, which once sounded
stridently the blood-curdling war whoop
of Tammany IN the councils of the
Democracy, will not be heard even for the
first time in Populist State Convention.
Mr.. Shanahan sent word that it would
be impossible for him to attend, owing to
the pressure of important law matters con-
fded to his charge. But there are other
men from Shasta and San Diego and the
smiling valleys and green hills that lie
| between.
There will be lively fight for the chair
manship tomorrow. among the four or
five contestants. Barlow of San Luis
Obispo being in the lead.
| Notwithstanding the secret but desper-
ate efforts of Democratic bosses in San
Francisco, through friends and agents in
this convention, to defeat T. Y. Gator by
emitting from the order of business the
nomination CT United States Senator,
that gentleman will be nominated by ac-
clamatien. or, at least, by an overwhelm-
ing majority.
His services TO the party have been so
valuable in the past, his devotion to the
Omaha platform has been so intense in
season and out of season that the conven-
ton will be repaying in part the debt of
gratitude which they owe him, if a man
! can be said to be entitled to any gratitude
merely for doing his duty and remaining
true to his trust.
The secret efforts which have been made
to defeat him and which have fallen to the
ground have been instigated by Demo-
cratic influence, which, working in the
dark and devious ways of Tammany and
Iroquois tribes, have been plotting for
weeks past to bring about fusion of the
Populist and Democratic tickets, the
the more important ones would go to the
Democrats. Hence their enmity to the
champions of the no-fusion cause.
prominent Populist said of Gator tonight:
''Some people don't like MIR. Gator, per.
haps for personal, political or business
reasons, but l can say that there is no
other man in the party with fidelity SO
answering to the principles of Populism
than Gator. He has always opposed any
| scheme looking to the abandonment of the
principles of the party by even so much
as hairs breadth, and that's the kind OF
men who will make the Populist cause the
winning one.
"He is also fearless and outspoken on all
subjects, is good lawyer, good talker
and man of commanding presence.
There will be no fusion, and the Demo-
cratic iobbers will be disappointed
Taylor Rodgers and delegation of