The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26
Party Leaders Figure on These
Things, on Delegates and
on Policies.
CONTESTS AT THE OPENING.
Kelly and Mahoney Will Add Brass
Band to Their Windy Fourth
District Contest.


vention.
There are important contests for the con-
vention to decide at the outset of the
meeting and then will come, besides the
election of delegates to the National Con-
vention, something in the nature of plat
form, though if a later convention is held
full party platform would not be adopted
until then. There will be the election OF a
new State Central Committee and many
are deeply interested in its makeup.
The time when Presidential electors and
Congressman are to be nominated will be
decided. The question of whether or not
the delegates to the National Convention
are to be instructed will be one OF the
most important before the convention and
many influential delegates are giving that
matter careful consideration. The attitude
OF the party in California on the silver
question will undoubtedly be decla red
Resolutions on this question are now
taking form in the minds and with the
pens of various men who expect to have
things to say on the floor either as regu-
larly elected delegates or by virtue OF
proxies.
The women suffrag iscs will be on hand,
too and all around the convention will
be an interesting and a notable one.
One of the features of the convention
will be the arrival of Kelly and Mahoney
delegation from the Fourth District with
a brass band. This Will be appropriate, as
the KellyMahoney outfit has built its
structure wholly on wind and crime.
Martin Kelly and J. II. Mahoney will
marshal and control the so-called
delegation, though keeping discreetly
silent while the band plays. With
10 lose Kelly and Mahoney viii
make desperate play for recognition,
using all the arts in their cunning power
TO keep out of view the sole important
motive behind the Fourth District con-
test-the play of two small and infamous
political bosses for local political power.
The members of the State Convention
will know, however, that Kelly and Ma
honey were the sole founders of the move
ment; that the organization is built on
two forged proxies used at a trick mid
night meeting called by Kelly and Ma
honey; that but two of the eleven members
OF the State Central Committee from the
Fourth District voted for the appointment
of the Kelly NJ ahoney Congressional COM
mittee; that at the farcical Kelly Mahoney
primary not 300 Republicans, including all
the "push" Kelly and Mahoney could
muster, voted for the delegation wholly
named by Kelly and Mahoney; that 1900
fraudulent votes were added to the re-
turns to give by pure initiation fictitious
show OF importance; that the entire mass
of the party repudiated and ignored the
KellyMahoney movement, and the So
called contestants represent nobody, no
element and no principle but Martin
Kelly, Jerry Mahoney and their small vii
laInies.
This is the contest, begun in crime bv
two criminals, that has been blown up
with bald pretensions and daily OUTPUT
of misstatements which is to have a cheap
brass band and go up against the represen-
tatives of the Republican party of the
Fourth district, nominated by the people
of the district, elected by the people at
the cleanest and falrest primary the CITY
has known and backed by the solid re-
spectacle mass of the party.
The outcome of this farcial pretense at a
contest is not in doubt. Kelly and Ma
honey will not be crowned with laurels at
Sacramento. Republicans are few and far
between in this City who fear that the Re-
publicans of the State of California will
at the State Convention, put the party in
San Francisco in any degree into the
hands of an oft-indicted criminal of Tar
Flat who defeated the last Republican
nominee for Governor because Dan
Burns wouldn't give him spoils enough.
or into the hands of another partner of
Sam Rainey, whose political career has
from its inception confined its course to
the cesspools and Shiny sloughs of corrupt
practical politics.
In the presence of this fake contest the
representatives of the regular party are
calmly pursuing their way. The reouIar
delegation will be unques tionablv seated,
1t Is significant that the one claim Of
successful prospects made by Kelly and
Mahoney is based upon q small trick
which they describe, and not upon anv
merit in their cause. They noisily pro-
claim that the chairman or the secretary
OF The State Central Committee will De in
duced to put their delegation on the
temporary roll and thus give them the
advantage OF voting. for the temporary
chairman, who would appoint friendly
committee on credentials.
They would thus get a tactical adyan-
tage before any argument or evidence
bearing on the contest was presented. and
would help out their advantage by trading
any and every thing with ANYBODY. All
this sounds we'll in some ears perhaps. but
as nothing of the sort will be done this
programme becomes nearly as important
as the somewhat similar thumps on their
big bass drum will be on May ).
The case throughout is and will be one
of cunning playing of wind and ward
politics by Martin Kelly and Jerry Ma
honey. This pair of freebooterS has. in
the absence of anything else to do be gun
to pop away at tolerably high mark but
as they can get twelve shots for four bits
the amusement is not very expensive to
themselves nor dangerous to the Republi-
can party.
There will be a hot contest from Ala
media County of the Third District, where
one delegation will 20 by appointment
and another by primary election, and
there are possibilities of two or three AS
sembly District contests from San Fran
cisco.
The regular delegation will go to Sacra-
mento unpledged and in favor of an unin-
structed delegation to the National Con-
vention. A large numoer of the delegates
are known to favor Mckinley, but the
great majority and it is increasing
recognize the wisdom of sending to st.
Louis delegates who, while voting in ac-
cordance with the known wishes of the
State Convention as far as changed condi-
tions would permit with good sense, would
yet be given some liberty of judgment in
the interest of both the State and the party.
The district delegations will all meet for