The San Francisco call., 1896-10-01

you as follows:
That we met this day at the hour of 10
o'clock, all of the State Central Committee
members OF this subcommittee being present
with the exception OF Hon. Allen B. Lennon.
In accordance with your request OF Yesterday
q number OF business men of San francisco
were also present.
James Alva Watt was present on behalf OF
one OF the contesting factions and A. Ruef
represented the other faction. Both gentle
men addressed your committee and the COM
mittee of business men.
The following resolution was moved, sec
onded and carried:
The contestants having appeared before
your committee, and having been unable TO
agree upon basis of compromise, your COM
mittee therefore reports that it has talleo 10
reach any determination with reference 10
any proposition to harmonic. Res pectful1y
submitted, IRVING B. DUDLEY,
Chairman of the Sub Committee
ReSolued That the State Central Committee
desires to call the attention of the people OF
California, and especially of the people OF San
Francisco, 10 a combination on the part OF IN
fluential powers in the State of California with
the Populists and the Democrats to defeat the
Republican legislative ticket and to elect
fusion ticket, so-ealled, for the purpose OF
eleeting Populist to the Senate of the United
States in 1897 and Democrat in 1899. That
this combination OF influences are and have
been to work is too apparent to this commit
tee to go unheeded, aud the people OF the State
OF California and es pecially of San Francisco,
are called upon in such a way as they may
determine to thwart the designs of those cor
porate influences and combinations. That the
committee deems this matter of vital i'm
portance for the reason that the po-
litical complexion of the United States
Senate may depend upon the result
IN California, and a Republican Senate of the
United States is necessary at this period of our
history to secure the enactment of the protec-
tive tariff measure upon which this coun-
try depends for its future welfare.
This committee calls the attention of all the
voters to the Presidential ticket, and asks
them in the conflict which may be waged be-
tween local factions to allow their patriotism
to rise above party concerns in the effort to
secure the election of Mckinley and Hobart
for President and Vice-President of the United
States.
That the following resolutions are recon-
mended for adoption by the State Central
Committee:
PesoIved, That the disinterested, unbiased
and able services of Major Frank Mclaughlin
chairman of this committee, in the endeavor
to harmonize the conflicting local differences
in San Francisco are hereby indorsed, and
that this committee commends his untiring
and faithful efforts in that behalf, recognizing
that he has never exceeded the line of disin-
terested duty, but that he has in all particu
lars fulfilled and discharged his whole duty
to the committee and the party and to the
satisfaction of the contestants themselves.
Then James W. Rea of San Jose submit
ted the following:
RESOLVED, That it is the sense of the
Republican State Central Committee of
the State of California that the Repub
Iican County Committee of the City and
County of San Francisco, of which
Charles Mauwaring Esq. is chairman,
and John Jackson Esq. is secretary,
is the regular and only accredited Re-
publican County Committee of the City
and County of San Francisco, and that
the municipal, judicial and Legislative
Republican convention which met in
the Auditorium, and of which the Hon
Thomas Riordan was chairman and w.
H. Rickard was secretary, was the reg
ular Republican convention OF the City
and County of San Francisco.
Mr.. Rea, who is a prominent member of
the State Central Committee and of the
executive committee thereof. made an
earnest and powerful speech in support OF
his resolution. He began by some re-
marks in favor of party organization, and
declared that it was essentia to party per-
petuity and party success. He counselsd
Mr.. Ruef and those for whom he assumed
TO speak, to acquiesce in the decision of
Registrar Hinton and cease from further
attacks upon what had bsen, by that i'm
partial officer, declared to be the regular
Republican ticket, and what he had put
upon the official ballot as such.
The speaker deprecated any and ali
efforts TO carry party matters outside OF
and beyond the party councils, and he de-
clared that any appeal to the courts from
the decision of an impartial committee
made up of impartial Republicans drawn
from every county in the State was un-
Republican, and instead of bringing about
harmony was calculated only to prolong
and exaggerate the difficulties which the
committee was organized and empowered
to settle.
He urged both the contending parties.
no matter what might be the decision of
the committee, to cheerfully acquiesce.
Then he proceeded to inquire into the
legality of the committee which Mr.. Watt
represented, and said:
'This committee is the one which has
been recognized in San Francisco by the
Repa 5iicans and in the State convention.
1t is common knowledge to every Republi-
can that this committee, of which Mr..
Manwairing is chairman, is the committee
that has had charge of the affairs of the
Republican party in San Francisco for the
last two years-the committee that has
kept the party organized which called
primaries and which sent delegates to the
last State convention, which delegates
were recognized and seated in that con-
vention as having been legally elected.
II say everybody knows that this COM
nittee, which in the usual and regular
manner called into existence the conYen-
tion which lately met in the Auditorium
in this City and put before the people q
full Republican ticket-the ticket that was
filed with Registrar Hinton, gentleman
who enjoys a reputation for honesty and
impartiality-ever rybody knows that this
is the legal committee and the legal con-
vention, and that it has been recognized
as the legal Republican ticket of this City
"I therefore have introduced this resolu-
tion, / know that it is right and l am
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