The San Francisco call., 1896-03-07
No Reliance to Be Placed in the
Alameda County Com
mittee.
STRENGTH IS ABOUT EQUAL.
Great Interest in To.Day's Meeting
of the Third Congressional
District Committee.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL
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OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALI
908 Broadway, March 5.
Senator Eli Denison, who has been so
successful in his former political fights
that eds known all over the State as ''Get
there Eli" is not to have walkover in
the struggle for National delegate to the
Republican Convention. Ex-Mayor George
c. Pardee has announced himself as a can
didate for the honor, and no two candi-
dates could be found who are more thor
oughly representative of the two great
factions that divide politics IN this county.
Senator Denlson is a stanch adherent of
the old Republican guard; DR.. Pardee is
the head of the reform and anti-railroad
forces, and each man can depend upon the
solid backing of his faction.
The matter will probably be decided at
the polls, as both men are in favor of open
primaries. The question whether or not
primaries will be held or delegates named
by State Central Committeeman from this
county will be decided tomorrow at the
meeting of the Third District Congress.
sional Committee that meets at Senator
Earl's Office in San Francisco.
Senator Denison's friends refer to the
| fact that he has already been sent from
| this district to three National Republican
| conventions, and argue that he should go
| again on account of his experience. DR..
| Pardee's friends say that the Senator has
! had more than his share of the honor at
| taching 70 the mission, and use this as the
| basis OF an argument for their candidate.
! The Third District has only two dele
gates to choose, and but one of them is
| likely to come from Alameda County, so
| it is not possible that both Senator Deni-
son and DR.. Pardee will go to the st. Louis
i convention. The Alameda County men,
| hers OF the State Central Committee could
/ decide if they should assume the respon-
sibility of naming delegates to the State
| Convention, or at least they could relegate
| the power to the County Committee.
| Should the matter be left to the County
| Committee, it is foregone conclusion that
| DR.. Pardee would be named. The Deni-
son faction in the County Committee has
| the chairman and possibly five others out
of thirteen. The only reason that Chair
man Mautalen has not been deposed is
! because his friends have succeeded in pre-
venting the assembling OF a quorum.
Should the same tactics be pursued in the
/ future it would be useless to leave the
matter to the County Committee. as no
meeting would ever be held unless it were
| known that the result would be favorable
| to the minority. Consequently it is prob
| able that primaries will be ordered, es-
pecially as Committeeman Morrow has
already announced that he is favorable to
| that plan.
In any event it will be an interesting po-
| litical struggle. DR.. Pardee is young,
vigorous and aggressive. Senator Denison
| is experienced, sbrewd and fighter from
| the start. DR.. Pardee has not once lost q
POLITICAL battle in which he has entered
with energy and Senator Denson has ''got
there" on practically every occasion. Each
| has his strongbolds. DR.. Pardee has the
! Ior nd
fair following in the Second and Fifth.
| Senator Denison owns the Fourth, First
and Sixth politically, and the balance of
/ power between the two candidates is very
! evenly distributed. If primary is ordered
| nearly two months will be given in which
to pare for it, and the preliminary work
of both sides will be very thorough.
Life in Danger.
! OAKLAND, CAL, March 6-Jack Hem
shaw, the 12-year-old son of Edward Hen
shaw, is lying at home in very precari-
| Gus condition as q result OF the injuries re-
! ceiyed last night. He and number of
other boys were playing on the high school
athletic grounds while the athletes were at
| work. Just as Adolph Cheek threw the
shot young Henshaw ran out to watch it.
/ He misjudged its course and it fell strik-
| ing him in the head. He was knocked
senseless and it is feared is fatally injured.
| He was taken home, where he has laid in
an unconscious condition ever since.
The Cady ChiId's Support.
OAKLAND, Call, March 6-The suit of
| John Rohan against his stepfather, Will
liam J. Cady, to compel him to pay for the
! support of his child, Mamie E. Cady, the
plaintiffs stepsister, is on trial on the Su-
perior Court. The sum involved is $454
| Rohan claims that when his mother died
| Cady brought the child to him and agreed
| 10 nav $40 a month for two wears and also
| two years past not one cent has been p aid.
/ The court intimated strongly that the
| father should support his child.
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