The herald., 1896-05-06

| Spear delegates from San Francisco
!, stole march on the Spreckles dele
ton Before o'clock they marched into
the hall in body, CARRYING a banner IN
| scribed Fourth Congressional Delega-
tlon Pledged for Mckinley. Joseph
Spear, Chairman"
They took seats assigned to the San
| Francisco delegation. and when the
| Spreckles men arrived they found no
| place for them, and were forced to wait
| the action of the credentials committee
! before they could sit under the Fourth
| Congressional district banner.
| At three minutes after 3 o'clock the
| convention was called to order and the
secretary called the roll.
Chairman Cornwall made no ad-
dress, and Immediately after calling the
| roll w. E. Arthur of Pasadena was
placed in nomination for temporary
! chairman. When the name of Mckinley
was mentioned in the speech of nomina-
| tion the convention cheered. Taylor of
Alameda seconded Arthur. There was
| an attempt to declare nominations
closed, but c. 7. Jones of Sacramento got
| the floor and after mentioning Coombs
| declared for Arthur. He was chosen by
| acclamation.
| Arthur was escorted to the chair amid
cheers. He expressed desire for har-
mony and an Endorsement of Mckinley.
The convention has it's mind made up to
send delegates to ST. Louis to vote for
Mckinley and absolutely pledged to that
end that is the business of the conven
ton. Jones of Sacramento moved the
appointment of Frank d. Ryan of Sac
ramento Ms temporary secretary. Ser
geants- and assistant secreta-
ries were also appointed Ryan
was made secretary. A motion was
made to appoint a committee of seven
on credentials. An amendment was
fn hn
twenty-one. George A. knight, holding
a proxy from Butte, spoke in favor of
the amendment. He contended that
seven men were not representative, and
begged for a little OF the pie that was
being served.
Kowalsky. with proxy from Mendo-
cino, also favored an amendment and
said seven men was the proposition of
the woud-be leader of San Francisco.
and denounced the threat made by
Spreckels to withdraw support from the
party; he wanted a square deal. Brad
ley of San Francisco favored seven men.
and denounced Knight and Kowalsky
for coming into the convention by proxy
Fullweiler of Placer wanted a larger
committee and moved as a substitute
committee of fifteen, two from each
congressional district and one at large
5. NJ. Shortridge poured oil on troubled
waters by favoring fifteen as a proper
number. The amendment of fifteen was
accepted and carried The chair was
then instructed to appoint a committee
on permanent organization and order of
business, and a committee of seven on
platform and resolutions. A recess was
taken to o'clock to enable the chairman
to appoint the committees
When the convention was called to
order again the chairman announced
the committees as follows:
Credentials-J A Cihsoo Of Gov M;
ego; r. S. Alexander of Marin Andrew
Simpson of Tehama: ]. NJ. Walling of
Nevada; P. A. Buell. of San Joaquin w.
A Phelps of Riverside; E. F. Preston of
san Mateo; G. G.. Radcliffe of Santa
Cruz; d. P. Hatch of Los Angeles; I.
L. Caruthers of Mendocino; T. o. Lar
kins of Tulare; Charles F. Reed of Pla-
Ger: H. V. Morehouse of Santa Clara.
permanent organization and business
E V. Spencer of Lassen: Frank Nc
Laughlin of Butte: F. p Weinman of
Solano; d. e. Mckinley of Sonoma: J.
A. Pirtle of Los Angeles: N. Bullock OF
Humboldt; I. j. Alexander of Orange.
Resolutions-F. l.. Coombs of Napa.
j. 5. Pitman Of Los Angeles: ]. F. Kid
DER OF Nevada: j. c. Frank of Santa
cara; j. T. Porter of Monterey; Will
lam Johnston of Sacramento: ]. c. Long
Of San Diego.
The convention then adjourned until
~ ocioch tomorrow morning,
Ionlght the a. P. AS are boastins
mat they control the convention. They
claim to have over 800 votes, and propos,
10 run things to suit themselves Ar
thur, the chairman of the convention. is
sald 10 be pronounced a. P. A. man.
and in fact the whole southern delega-
tion is said to b in sympathy with the
order. 1T is stated that State Senator.
Gleaves is slated as one of the deleca tes-
dI-largG. SnrPc1raIs hp l.,
wishes to join the Mckinley procession.
and this, 1t is believed, he will do. George
hnight wants to go to st. Louis, and BY
some it is thought that Grant of San
Diego will be sacrificed to make room for
the san francisco orator. Congressman
Louttlt or stockton seems to be out OF
1t. He had the support of San Joauuin's
delegation, but in the Second disric con-
Vention his name was not mentioned
though he expected an endorsement !,v
that body
Trouble seemed imminent this after
noon when Knight and Kowalsky of
san francisco, holding proxies from
other counties, commenced to tall:
against Spreckels. and they We're ans
Wered by Bradbury of San Francisco. Il
Spreckels man. The first indication thu
convention had, aside from the manner
or Arthur's election, that a program
had been arranged, was when a motion
was Hidue 10 unit the committee on ere
dentials to seven men, to be appointed
by the chair The motion was made and
seconded without comment, when it sud
denly occurred to the anti-Sprecke,s men
that they wanted more men on the COM
mittee. a motion was made to increcs.
the number to tWenty-one, and this The
Spreckels men opposed vigorously. 1t
was during the debate over this question
that the sharp words used by knight
kowalsky and Bradbury came in. There |
was good prospect of first-class row.
when ;. NJ. Shortridge promised a COM
promise by offering a motion to make
the number of the committee fifteen
This motion was adopted with = rush.
and the surprised Spearme realized
that they had been outeeneraled. Some
of them had no hesitation in admitting
that they We're beaten and gave up the |
fight immediately
Spreckels denies that he has made auv
deal to be allowed to seat his delegates |
He says that his victory is the spon-
taneous outburst of the delegates out
side of San Francisco, who wished tr
show their resentment at the San Fran !
cisco corrupt politics as conducted bv
Spreckels' Opposers. Spreckals and his |
associates point out as proof of their vic
tory that the chairman Of the crc6en-
tials committee is his legal Representa-
tive in San Diego. and that another /
member Of the committee from san
Diego is his business representative. |
The Southern California delegates say |
they did not take sides with Spreckels. |