The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
It Will Soon Be Called and Will
Be Free From Corrupt Boss
Domination.
WHAT THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE
The Headquarters of John D. SpreckelS
Increase in Life as the Con-
vention NearS.

Local Republican affairs are awaiting
the call for the primary election for the
selection of delegates to the State Conven-
ton to be held at Sacramento May B.
Within very few days this call will be
issued by the County Committee, and the
party enthusiasm being shown in this Re-
publican year promises that the voters of
the party will turn out in great mum bers
on election day to deposit ballots whose
force will be felt in the National Conven-
ton.
No contests of importance are yet in
sight, but as John d. Spreckels and those
committeeman and others who are work
ing with him in the interest of fairness,
clean politics and popular rule, have won
victories for open primaries in the Fourth
and Fifth districts there will be an equal
chance for all tickets at the polls, and the
voters of the districts will say who shall
represent them at Sacramento in naming
delegates to the National Convention.
Meantime the activity increases daily at
the headquarters of John d. Spreckels, at
$50 Market street, where Republicans
actively interested in party affairs stream
in and out toward the close of each after
noon and until late in the evening. Mr..
Spreckels is constantly receiving congratu-
lations of leading Republicans and dele
cations from district clubs on his complete
victory over tricksters, who began an effort
10 manipulate the party to their own ends.
and on his bringing the dawn of
an era in San Francisco politics when the
Republican party is freed from the domi-
nation of corrupt bosses. The party has
become united under Mr.. Spreckels' lead
ership, and the strength and decency of
the party has fairly started together on
the campaign that bears such certain
promises of success. Among the club
delegations that called at Republican
headquarters yesterday were representa-
tive ones from the Thirty-fifth, Thirty
sixth and Forty-third districts.
As is now generally understood the
County Committee will consist of
two bodies for the official con-
duct of the coming primary. The
eleven county committeeman, repre-
senting the Assembly districts in the
Fourth Congressional District, will issue
the call and supervise the primary in the
Fourth District, and the seven members
representing the San Francisco districts
of the Fifth will act similarly for those
seven districts.
The Congressional Com mmittee of the
Fourth District has issued its certificate
and instructions to the county committee
men of that district, and the communica-
ton displays the spirit and method that
will govern this Republican primary. The
official authorization to the County Com
mittee is as follows:
SAN FRANCISCO, March 13, 1896.
To Messrs. Albert Houston John L. BroDning,
: Charles BerIiRer, Charles GdteIy, r. ". Heilmdn,
james Gdtely, A. A. Louderbdck, J. N. Chretien,
P. j. Walsh, G. Bacigattlpi Thomas W. Chandler,
Republican County Committeeman of the City and
County Of San Francisco, 1cithin the Fourth Con-
cressional NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.: You and each
of you are hereby officially notified that at
meeting OF the Republican Congressional COM
mittee of seven of the Fourth Congressional
District, duly and regularly held on the 18th
day of March, 1886, resolution, of which the
annexed is a copy, was duly and regularly
passed by said committee; that in accordance
with said resolution you have been constituted
q committee with the powers and duties
enumerated therein; that as such committee
you have been given power to call and conduct
a primary election, under the auspices and
control OF this Congressional committee, in
those Assembly districts in the City and
County of San Francisco embraced within the
Fourth Congressional District.
You are further requested that as soon as
such primary election has been held in your
district and the vote cast thereat has been as
certained by you, you will at 6nce certify
the vote cast at said election and the result
thereof to this Congressional committee of
seven, which will act as a returning board
thereon and will certify the resul. thereof to
the State and district conventions. You are
hereby referred to the annexed resolution for
a more specific designation of your powers ana
duties as such committee. Yours respectfully
CHARLES C. BEMIs, Chairman.
LOUIS PoCKwITz, Secretary.
The resolutions are as follows:
WHEREAS, AT a meeting of the Republican
State Central Committee from the Fourth Con-
gressional District of the State of California,
duly and regularly called and held on the 4th
day of March, 1896, in the City OF San Fran
CISCO at which SAID meeting majority of the
said members from the said district were pres
ent, a resolution was duly and regularly
adopted providing that the following
named seven persons, electors and resi-
sional District, should be and were
thereby appointed as the committee of seven
persons from the residents of each district
who should act AS Congressional committee
thereof, TO wit: Nicholas Ohlandt, Louis
Pockwitz, C. z. Rode, C. C. Bemis r. Rasmus-
sen, F. Arata and Henry Lehman; and
and regularly met and organized as such com
mittee OF seven aforesaid; and whereas it
is sound and safe principle of
Republican politics that local self-goyern-
ment should be maintained and accorded to
the electors of each political subdivision of the
State and district within which elections are
to be held, and that the management and con-
troll of such elections should be placed in the
hands of the regularly constituted committees
OF the Republican party within such districts,
subject, however TO the supervision. of this
committee and in accordance with the resolu-
tions and calls of the Repub blican National
Committee and the State Central Committee of
the State of California, duly passed at the
recent respective meetings thereof; therefore
it is hereby
Resolued, First, that the interests and sue
cess of the Republican party of the State of
California in the coming State and National
campaign require that every effort should be
put forth and every means adopted by the
regularly organized agencies and committees
of the Republican party TO secure honest
election of delegates to the State and District
Republican conventions of the State OF Cali
Iornia and TO the RepC blican National Con-
vention. Second, that 10 that end it shall
be and is hereby ordered that a pri-
mary election shall be called and held
for the Fourth Congressional District OF
the State of California 10 be held III
the various election precincts of said Fourth
Congressional District, for the election of dele
gates from said district TO the Fourth Congress