The herald., 1896-08-19

had a scrap. He beat me and he after
ward got my earnest support. He Will
get it again if he 10 the nominee of con-
ventiOn. 49,
Gentlemen, what wish to call at
tention to is the statement contained III
an article wired to San Francisco
paper from this city which is made upon
the supposed authority of one of George
S. Patton's warm supporters. 1t is now,
gentlemen, time for us to come together
and find out what we are doing. Let US
meet as men and drop all chickering's.
Let us name the man who will stand gal
iantly by the Boy from Nebraska when
he is elected president of the Cnitel
States, as he surely will be in November
next. Cloud and continued applause)
Il think that there is no one in this nall
who will dispute the fact that Chairman
Merritt has been absolutely fair and I'M
partial in his rulings both here and at
Ventura. The following is the article 10
which refer and which will read:
THE ARTICLE IN QUESTION.
"'The exposure of the proxy rotten
ness made by the Examiner regarding
the manipulatfons of the Southern "a
cf,c managers at Ventura has resulted
in the revocation of a number which
had been intrusted to Merritt and his
friends, and the sending of new ones 10
Senator White. The result will be a
SURPRISE 10 the TdlIIOdu ldChCSo oii AsAci-
day. The Huntington men have been
claiming the entire vote of Monterey,
except Irvine and Thompson, whom they
dcnounce as cranks. The anti -monopo-
lists deny its claim and assert that by
Monday Patton will hold revocations or
most of the proxies that were given
from that county.
"In view of the frauds recently dis
covered it is not now believed byl Pat
toms friends that the proxies of Green,
Gordon and Zabala of Monterey were by
them authorized to be cast for Rose by
their instructions. but were used as that
of Irvine. Major Harry Patton, the
state committeeman from this city,
made the statement to friends today that
the case of Merritt's duplicity would be
taken before the state committee, with
view to removing his name as a Demo-
cratic state elector from the ticket. This
is not solely contemplated on account of
his being Objectionable to the Patton
faction, but because it is not believed
in view of this exposure that he can get
his party vote because of the intense
feeling against him, and that his contin-
uing as a candidate might imperil the
success as whole of the Bryan electors
in this state. The feeling on this point
is most intense The Patton men do not
use the conditional mood as expressing
that Merritt should be taken from the
ticket but resort to the imperative re-
move him.
FAIR IN HIS RULINGS.
Gentlemen, If it were not for the last
clause of this article / would not have
presented the matter I ask you, Has
Iir. Merritt in anyway or in the slightest
particular forfeited the confidence of the
people? He has not. If Mr.. Patton is
nominated we will alf vote for him as
true and honorable Democrats The
friends of Mr.. Rose will do this if NJ.
Patton wins, and if, on the other hand.
Mr.. Rose is nominated I take it that
Mr.. Patton's friends will do the same.
Il wish to say that If Mr.. Merritt were
or had made himself unworthy by act
or deed l would favor and would ask
his removal from the electoral ticket;
But all of his acts. both as chairman and
delegate, have been honorable. He may
have made some mistakes in his rulings.
We are all liable to make mistakes. To
err is but human. But the errors of Mr.
Merritt have been of the head and not
of the heart.
I'VE wish to nominate in this conyen-
tion man who will retire the straddle-
bug from Pasadena to the walks of pri-
vate life. Now, let us get together and
name the man without throwing mud
and doing injustice to our own people
We are going to elect William j. Bryan.
and we want Democratic congressman
from the Sixth congressional district Of
California.
AS Col. Messmore took his seat he
was applauded.
The secretary then read a telegram
from Santa Cruz, signed by Geo. Hart
man, reading as follows:
My acknowledged proxy to Thomas
McCaffery is authentic and it is and al
ways has been my wish that my vote
be cast for Rose as long as he is can
didate"
BALLOTING COMMENCED.
The roll of counties was then called
There was no change in the vote, the
result being 36 votes for Patton and SO
for Rose as follows:
Monterey county-Rose ), Patton 3.
Santa Cruz county-RoSe ], Patton g.
San Luis Obispo county-Rose g. Pat
ton 8.
Santa Barbara county-Rose 8, Pat
ton a.
Ventura county-Rose 8, Patton 8.
Los Angeles county-Rose 81, Pat
ton II.
Six ballots in all were taken without
a change. MIR. Brooks then moved to
adjourn and the motion prevailed.
The announcemnt was made that the
Rose men would hold a caucus in the
hall Immediately after adjournment
but the caucus was afterWard given up.
II was not yet noon a the time the con-
venton broke up but it was plainly evil
remaining in session.
EIGHTY BALLOTS TAKEN