The record-union., 1896-05-07
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delegation IN the TWenty-fourth Assem-
bly, District of the Fifth Congressional
District, and against the contestants
in the Forty-f1rst Assembly District Of
the Fifth; of seating the regular pri-
mary delegation in the Thirty seventh
District of the Fifth and IN favor of
the contestants in the Thirty third Dis
trict of the Fourth.
E. K. Taylor of the Alameda
delegation moved that it be considered
seriatim. The motion was defeated and
a motion to adopt was made, when
Taylor secured the floor and proceeded
to state the case of his delegation.
On that motion, SIR said he, Il
would like briefly to state that my rea-
sons for opposing the motion are that
in Alameda County, which is included
in the report of the committee, a con-
test was filed against the regular dele
gates of this convention those coming
directly under the call of the National
and State Committees; that the District
Convention has already been held and
the delegates that are now seated here
from Alameda County were the dele
gates in that District Convention; that
Iii the State call the delegates of this
convention are the delegates of the
District Convention.
THE District Convention of the Third
Congressional District, comprising the
counties of Alameda, Colusa, Contra
Costa, Glenn, Lake, Solano and Yolo
has already passed upon this. They
have sent you their credentials, stating
that these gentlemen are entitled to
seats in that convention, and they have
been seated and acted in that conven-
ton, and l claim, sir, under the law Of
that State call, you can only take the
names of the delegates to the District
Convention as the names of the dele
gates from that district entitled to
seats in this convention.
II would state further that this Third
District Congressional Committee call
ed a convention just as the others have
done and that the contesting delegation
from Alameda never called conven-
ton. They claimed that our action as
a committee was illegal. If so, then
there is no Third District Convention
called, because you cannot split the
action of the committee. If its action
was void in one thing for lack Of power,
it was void in the other for lack Of
power.
Now then, if that is SO, the delegates
in the Third District Convention were
not entitled to seats, and the contest
ants themselves are not entitled to
seats. They claim, gentlemen, that the
only reason the delegates from the
county Of Alameda are not entitled to
seats in this convention is hat they
were appointed delegates.
81 submit, Mr.. Chairman, that that
should not appeal with any force to
the gentlemen of that committee. TWO
of the gentlemen who sat in Judgment
upon us were appointed delegates
Mr. Chairman, we represent the rep
resentative Republicans of Alameda
County and the State Committeeman
from that district unanimously passed
upon those credentials.
II submit to you-and l say 1t posi-
lively, because I was Chairman of that
ccmmittee-the County Committee OF
Alameda County stands with us. In
regard to the primaries which they
claim to have called there, they were
only called in a few districts of Ala
media County. In the township OF
Washington and in the township OF
Morey there were no primaries held.
They claimed before this convention
last nightSfalsely, sir-to have held
primaries in every precinct in the
county of Alameda except one. The
statement, sir, I say in my honor as
Republican, is absolutely false. They
held no primaries in those townships,
and in the other townships they only
held one or two primaries, one or two
polling places in township
The speaker was requested to go up
on the platform where he could be heard
more distinctly
Mr.. Taylor, on taking the platform,
continued as follows: Il do not know
how much of the few rambling remarks
have made were inaudible to this con-
vention, and l do not propose to take
the time of this convention to repeat
them. / will state, gentlemen, l have
been a member of your State Central
Committee now for the past four years.
was a member of your Executive
Committee for two years, and what /
state are absolute facts.
II am not making any objection to the
action of your committee on some Of the
facts which were brought before them;
but those facts were absolutely false,
and in the few moments which could be
given-a half an hour on each side-to
present those facts they could not get at
the facts.
Il submit these to be the facts, which
we can prove to anybody, and facts
which the Third District Con-
gressional Committee unanimously
decided and reported to this
convention as being the facts
And when I say unanimously will say
that the committee included several
cre.y floyyo i,, Of
ries. These facts are that the Third
District Committee called primaries in
certain counties of the Third District.
In Alameda County they did not call
primary because the members from
that county decided, after taking evil
dence for two weeks that the people
there did not want a primary.
"One thing more, gentlemen. Our
convention did not nominate Congress
men. We are going to hold primaries
and we are going to hold another con-
vention. We did not do anything but
nominate the two Presidential Electors
That was all that was called for These
contestants from Alameda County went
to the County Committee and they said
We want you to call primary They
said: We cannot do that The call lies
with the Congressional Committee
Then they constituted themselves a
committee for the purpose of turning
down the authority of the Republican
party, self-constituted, self appointed.
and they called this little convention
and in that convention, as / have just
now stated, gentlemen. they only rep
resented a small portion of Alameda
County.