The record-union., 1896-06-17

at, and declared the motion out of or
der. Gibson protested, but the protest
amounted to nothing, and not even the
Buckley faction tried to press matters,
and he at length subsided and vigor-
ously famed himself, looking not very
pleasantly upon his fellow delegates.
Then the nominations went merrily
on, the Buckley men kissing the name
of Gould whenever the opportunity pre-
sented itself.
RYAN WITHDRAWS.
Ryan of Los Angeles was placed in
nomination. and after few moments
had passed took the stand and with
drew his name in favor of Bart Burke
of Santa Cruz, who had been boosted
into favor as a Buckley sympathizer.
1t was very evident that the Buckley
ties had made good use of their time
| and effected a coalition with the men
from the citrus belt
OF course the BuckleyiteS knew what
was coming, and were prepared with
an ovation for the speaker, but it was
still plain that the majority of the del
egates were with the Junta delegation,
and intended seating Gould and ex-
Guiding Buckley and his forces, at the
same time relegating Bart Burke to
| back seat.
| Then after a Buckleyite had seconded
| the nomination of Fart Burke, Gibson
| of Stockton got the floor and after
| seconding the nomination of Gould, once
! more offered his motion to exclude all
| contesting delegations from the pre-
| liminary organization of the conven-
| ton, and was once more ruled out Of
| order
| Gibson appealed from the ruling of
| the hair. and was not at first recog-
| nized, WhereupOn pandemonium broke
out among the Buckleyi.eS with all the
vigor imaginable. In the end the
| Chairman did recognize the appeal
from the chair, and ordered a roll-call
| to dispose Of the matter
| But this did not settle things by any
| means, and "de push" interjected
motion that in the rcll-call all contest
| ing delegations be not allowed to vote.
The motion was simply ignored, and
after deal of squabbling and hooting
on the part of the Buckley delegation.
| w. w. Foote got the floor and cast the
| thirty-five votes of Alameda County to
sustain the decision of the Chair.
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| The roll-call continued with more or
less obstruction from the Buckley men,
and as it went on, it was seen that San
Francisco was carefully excluded. The
vote ran merrily along, and at the con-
clusion it was found that the vote stood
336 to sustain the ruling of the Chair,
| to ia in favor of reversin. it.
San Francisco had not been asked to
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its victory without going to San Fran
cisco for its majority. The Buckley
men sat stolidly in Their seats, and made
no objection when a roll-call was or
dered on the election Of a Chairman.
| GOULD ELECTED.
| The excitement for the moment was
over. There was practically no oppo-
sition to Gould and The election of
| Gould meant death to the hopes of the
Buckleyites, if they ever had any.
The roll-call continued until Santa
| Cruz was called, when Bart Burke
| arose, withdrew his name, cast the
| seven votes of Santa Cruz for Gould,
and moved that Gould's election be
| made unanimous. Buckley's forces
were defeated, but they were going
down with flying colors, and shunted
forward their best orator, Andy Clunie.
who held Solano County proxy, and
he in a few terse words seconded the
motion to make the election of Frank
H. Gould unanimous
That did settle it, and the spectators
leaned back in their seats and breathed
as easy as the density of the atnos-
phere would admit.
Then Los Angeles delegate got upon
his feet and made plea for water The
convention, he said, had been prom
ised all the comforts Of horne and here
it was actually perishing from the want
| of water, Democrats though they were.
But the plea fell upon deaf ears