The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
An Official Apportionment Will
Be Declared for One
Thing.
THE FAKE CONTEST sICKENs.
Kelly and Mahoney Will Not Noisily
Go on the Temporary Con-
vention Roll.

The executive committee of the Repub-
lican State Central Committee will meet
in its rooms on California street tomorrow
afternoon.
This meeting will be an important one,
and its being called is due to John D.
Spreckels and his friends in the committee
who constitute majority. There are va
rious matters of importance which have
for some time demanded meeting of the
executive committee, but Chairman Corn
wall has until now refused to issue a call
for a meeting, although last Saturday he
called meeting of the entire State Cen
tral Committee at Sacramento for the
evening of May 4, the day before the con-
vention.
Last week John D. Spreckels made three
calls on Chairman Cornwall with requests
and reasons for meeting of the executive
committee, but Cornwall was afraid that
a secretary might be elected in place of
the absent one, Dan Burns, and that an
assistant secretary might be elected in
place of Jake Steppacher of the Kelly
Mahoney outfit. There are no indications
that such a plan is in view, but the chair
man refused the request for a meeting.
As Mr.. Spreckels is vice chairman of the
executive committee, meeting called by
him, with the approval of a majority of
the committee, would be a regular and
proper one. Mr.. Spreckels and his friends
were determined that the meeting should
be held, and the vice-chairman let the
chairman understand that call would be
issued on Monday by himself if the chair
man still refused to act. Chairman Corn
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was business of Importance which the
executive committee should attend to, but
Chairman Cornwall is one of the relics of
the Burns regime who is inclined to favor
the Kelly-Mahoney Fourth District fake.
He has shown some signs of disposition
to give these freebooters an opportunity to
gain the political advantage OF getting
their delegation on the temporary roll and
putting the regular representatives of the
party in the Fourth District in the absurd
position of contestants.
This was why Chairman Cornwall with
held the call; but yesterday, seeing that a
meeting would inevitably be held, he
issued the call for Wednesday afternoon
and admitted that business which must
be attended 10 before the meeting of the
convention made the meeting necessary.
One OF the many things which the State
Central Committee left undone at its hur-
ried meeting on February % was the Off
cial apportionment of delegates to the
convention. 1t was ordered that the con-
vention should consist of one delegate
from each Assembly district and one in
addition for each 200 votes cast for M. NJ.
Estee, or a majority fraction thereof. The
local party authorities have everywhere
figured out for themselves the number of
delegates to elect, but the important Off
cial apportionment of delegates has never
been made. This will be one of the things
to be done tomorrow.
Whether or not any important action
relating to the interests of the party in the
Fourth District will be taken cannot be
foretold, but it is anticipated that there
will be.
1t became apparent yesterday to those
who did not know it before that Kelly and
Mahoney have about as much prospect of
getting their fake delegation pumped onto
the temporary roll by friendly commit
tee officer as they have of becoming Presi-
dent.
This is the one great play which they
have proclaimed they would be able to
make. There was never any prospect that
the convention, composed of decent Re-
publicans who would not, most of them,
touch Martin Kelly with forty-foot pole.
would shut out the representatives of the
entire party in favor of set of tools be-
longing to Kelly and Mahoney, but these
political gamblers thought they saw a
chance at long shot. If they could get
friendly clerk to put their delegation on
the temporary roll they would take a
chance, like playing their pile on the ace
while beating tom-toms to bring good
luck.
On this fimsy platform they hoisted
their hollow fake and sought to inspire
confidence that they really had fighting
chance TO get a red bladder recognized by
the convention as the Republican party of
the Fourth Congressional District of Cali
fornia.
But the himsy platform has tumbled
and the blown-up fake is collapsing. Mar
tin Kelly and Jerry Mahoney do not con-
troll the governing body of the Republican