The San Francisco call., 1896-09-13
GOLD DEMOCRATS
NAME ELECTORS.
They Will Go Into the Cam
paign to Maintain an
Organization.
THEY WANT M'KINLEY
ELECTORS.
But They Look to the Control of
the Next National Con.
vention.
BRYANISM SIMPLY MEANS
ANARCHY.
They Have No Doubt That Sound
Nancy Will Win in No,
Vember.
BRYANISM SIMPLY MEANS
ANARCHY.
They Have No Doubt That Sound
Money Will Win in No.
vember.


which it was not only determined that
electors should be nominated in accord
ance with the Indianapolis platform and
nominees, but they nominated those eIec-
tors. Following are the nominees:
Clay W. Taylor, Shasta County.
William f. Detert, Amador County.
James X. O'Brien, Yuba County.
John ROsenfeId, San Francisco.
John Heenan, San Francisco.
Charles Anderson, Santa Barbara.
John Roth, TuIare County.
j. j. Valentine, Alameda County.
William j. Hunsacker, Los Angeles.
Messrs. Jere Lynch. Elliott McAllister
and John Heenan were named as a COM
mittee to notify the nominees and to at
tend to other business incident thereto.
The work of securing the signatures of
the three per cent of the total number of
the voters of the State-about 5000 in all
necessary under the law, to enable the
league to get the names on the voting
lists, will be pushed with vigor. President
Edward r. Taylor explained the necessity
of speedy action.
Addresses were made by a number of
well-known and influential Democrats, the
discussion being provoked by resolution
offered by Jere Lynch favoring the nomi-
nation of electors.
E. B. Pond led away by opposing the
resolution. He said it was a big under
taking to put the nominees in the field.
He thought it was the duty of every Dem
ocrat who was opposed to anarchy and
Organism to vote for the man who could
defeat them-and that was William Nc
Kinley. For one he said he favored that
cause rather than diverting votes into a
channel that served no real purpose. If
the league determined otherwise, however.
he would join with it in whatever in its
wisdom it undertook.
A. A. Watkins spoke in the same te nor.
81 have asked great many sound-money
Democrats what they think about il. :" he
said. land they are all opposed to inde-
pendent action. They think that thew
should place their votes where they will
do the most good. They think it square
issue and that we should meet it
squarely."
John Heenan said: ''I have been watch
ing events lately very closely. 1 have
been reading sixteen newspapers every
day and the information l gain makes me
certain of the election of Mckinley and
the defeat of Bryan whatever we NAV do
What is the purpose of this movement of
sound-money Democrats? It is to gain
control of the next National Democratic
convention. When Bryanism has been
defeated the sound-money men will stand
as the regular Democracy. I am, there
fore, In favor OF placing ticket in the
field and maintaining an organization"
Isadore Jacobs said: "It is our DUR
pose not only to maintain the integrity
OF our party, but to take votes away
from Bryan. BY giving the old-line Dem
ocrats somebody to vote for we prevent
many who would refuse, perhaps, to vote
for Mckinley, casting their votes in pure
desperation for Bryan"
Secretary McAllister said that it an.
peared from the correspondence he had
received that there was a demand on the
part of Democrats in the interior sthat we
should set up a ticket; they want some
one to vote for. The sound-monev Demo-
Gratis who have already made up their
minds to vote for Mckinley will vote for
him anyway, and a ticket should be SUD-
piled for those who have not so far made
up their minds"
Mr. Runcie said he agreed in this view.
The Democrats who have determined tn
vote for M cKinley will still vote for him.
and sound-money Democratic ticket will
afford q refuge for the others and prevent
them from being swept off their feet at
the last minute.
Clay W. Taylor, who said he felt a little
delicacy in speaking here, as he had inst
dropped in from Shasta County, made a
strong little speech along the same lines.
He said that the Democratic party In Cali
fornia is full of men who are opposed to
supporting anarchy as it is represented by
Bryan, but there were many who might
hesitate to vote a Republican ticket.
These should be provided with ticket
that would prevent their yielding to anv
temptation to vote the Bryan ticket.
Crittenden Thornton, Richard Bayne,
Marcus Rosenthal, Jere, Lynch and Others
made speeches along the same lines.
Letters were read from a number of
sound-money Democrats from all parts of
the State.
The following, offered by Jere Lynch,
was adopted:
ResolCed, That the Sound Money Democratic
League of California forthwith nominate an
electoral ticket to be voted for at the election
OF November 3, 1896, in support of the plat
form of the National Democratic party adopted
at Its convention at Indianapolis, and of the
no minees of that convention, General John NJ
Palmer and General Simon B. Buckner.
The following was also adopted:
Resolved, That the Sound Money Democratic
League of California hereby indorses and rati-
fes the platform of the National Democratic
party adopted in the convention of September
13, 1896, at Indianapolis; tnat this league
recognizes IN that platform the declarations
OF true Democracy; the declarations of men
whose highest aim is their country's good;
the declarations that reaffirm the doctrines
taught by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson
and Grover Cleveland, and that remind us
that the Democratic party should always be
one to place principle above expediency.
The meeting adjourned to meet at the
call of the chair.