The herald., 1896-05-06
REPUBLICAN POLITICS
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will tomorrow be lined up voting as one
man for the committees report.
II u. 8. Grant, jr., is beaten for dele
rate at large it will be because the A. +.
A. has weighed him in the balance and
has found the young son OF MS great
father to be wanting. why TINS is thus-
ly is as yet past finding out. But the
story that Grant is not registered
voter of the state of California or OF
San Diego county will not down. The
San Diego delegation is denying the
alleged facts with heat, but letter is
said to be here signed by the clerk oi
the San Diego superior court, afi1rmlns
officially the truth of the charges made
Eli S. Murray telegraphs up from the
Coronado hotel that the yarn is a lie
pure and simple. Hervey Lindley, when
approached upon the matter. insists
that Los Angeles will stick by Grant
through thick and thin. Should Grant
be turned down, Cleaves of Shasta will
20 to st. Louis at large, along with Lilo
mel A. Sheldon. George S. Knight and
John d. Spreckels If the latter's re-
beilion against Mckinley instructions
should prove sincere. Judge Waymire of
Oakland, who disputes with the Times
the honor of being the original McXin-
ley man in California, will be substitut-
cd in his stead. Otis is for Waymire,
but that, of course. does not improve
tne latter s cnanceS.
Spreckels is hedging considerably
since his insurrectionary remarks ap-
peared in cold type this morning. He
Informed Robert A. Ling of Los Angeles
today that he Is perfectly willing to
wear a Mckinley collar at st. Louis, his
only objection being a resolution in ia
vor of the Ohio man first, last and all
the time.
If the convention as a whole turns him
diSfr int in 10 will
express him on to ST. Louis just the
same.
The convention will tomorrow nomin-
ate a candidate for lieutenant governor
the committee on order of business hav-
ing tonight made provision for such
nomination in its report. The report
will recommend:
F1rSt-That temporary organization
be made permanent; second. receipt of
the credentials committees report:
third reception of the platform; fourth
election of delegates at large to the st.
Louis convention; fifth, election of al
ternates: sixth, election of two presi-
Dental electors at large; seventh. NOM
ination of a candidate for lieutenant
governor; eighth. election of members
OF the new state central committee;
ninth, the appointment of an executive
campaign committee of twenty-one
members. to be appointed by the chair
man of the convention within ten days
after the adjournment of the conven-
ton.
George A. Knight of San Francisco
will be the chairman of the delegation
to the national convention. He is in the
state convention on proxy of Knight
Of Butte.
Judge Hatch was to have made the
speech placing in nomination w. E. Ar
thur as temporary chairman of the con-
vention. He threw up the job at the
last moment and ]. S. Pitman was
thrown into the breach.
Pltman OF course covered himself with
glory and Otis fought Arthur because
the latter at recent Republican club
banquet held at LosAngeles did not treat
the big editor with that consideration
the latter thinks he at all times deserves.
BESIDES Pitman upon the resolutions
Committee, Los Angeles was also re-
lnembered in the makeup of the COM
nifttee on order of business OF the
seven members of that committee, eX-
f.ollce commissioner John A. Pirtle was
one
The new sixth district congressional
committee was organized today with
Luther c. Brown of Pasadena as chair
man and A. w. Kinney of Los Angeles
as secretary The members of the COM
n1ittee,, besides the foregoing are: Sew
enty-hrst assembly district, Guy Wood
ward; seventy-second district. j. c.
Rives; seventy-third district, j Ohm King
Icy; seventy fourth district John Kei-
fer; seYenty-fi district. L. V. Young
worth pf Ventura. j. p Willoughby of
Monterey. Nv. ]. Hill of Santa Cruz, G.
CART OF San Luis Obispo and Benjamin