The herald., 1896-06-18


the last moment. without his knowledge
, or consent, which straw indicated how
easily Burke could have been beaten
Thomas Darmody of Los Angeles and
+. w. Ewing were elected alternates
! and T. e. Merritt of Monterey and l.. c
Tilgham were chosen, the first district
elector ard the latter his alternate
Tilgham halls from the Antelope valley
and began campaigning as soon as the
convention adjourned by paying the
street car fares of all the Los Angeles
people in sight from the convention hall
to the center of the city.
There was a lively contest over the
! two members of the state central COM
mittee at large, to which the district is
entitled.
Martin C. Marsh J. c. Harrington of
Santa Barbara and Charles Cassin of
Monterey were in the field. Los An
geles had quietly but determinedly
gathered in all of the persimmons, and
a big kick went up as a consequences
from the country delegation. EX-Mayor
w. H. Workman thought it would be
bad policy not to give the countrymen
something and he sought to swing the
two honors still left in the direction of
the grangers.
The vote resulted, as a consequence,
in the selection of Harrington and Cas-
sin. Workman voted the proxy of Sem
ator White for these two men, amid the
| mutterings of the rest of the Los An
geles delegation. He changed, how
ever, before the result was announced,
swinging the senator into line for the
| New High street contractor This lett
| Los Angeles, the main county in the
district, without man upon the commit
| tee at large. and something had to be
| done. The convention, therefore, by mo-
| ton. decided to recommend to the chair
man. Frank Gould, the appointment OF
Marsh ..ne of the twenty members OF
| the committee whom Gould was later to
name Marsh was, however, by his
friends elected as an assembly member
of the state committee, and should
Gould comply with the request of the
district convention Marsh is to retire
from the other place in favor of Thomas
McCaffery.
Harry W. Patton was named as
member of the committee on resolutions
and platform and succeeded in having
the COIlllililltt etlOpl iliC NSt'A
mending the course of Senator White
and Congressman James j. Mcguire in
defeating in the late congress c. T. Hun
tington's attempted steal for the bene-
fit of Santa Monica. The plank upon
the subject adopted by the convention
tonight is word for word Identical with
the resolution adopted at Turner hall
last Saturday, which was written by
George S. Patton.
Patton was one of the five members
of the sub committee which drafted the
silver plank of the state platform.
The resolutions committee listened
through the best part of two hours 10
the arguments made by Susan B. An
thony, Rev. Anna Shaw and their col
leagues upon behalf of the resolution
favoring woman suffrage The commit
tee, however. refused to be beguiled and
laid the resolution upon the table.
W. W. Foote lost his fight after all,
in favor of w. ]. Laymance. who as
pires to go as one of the two district
delegates to the national convention
from the Third district Prison Direc-
tor Robert Fitzgerald carried off the
prize. his colleague being Ed. Leake, the
editor of the Woodland Mall.
1t was another case of the granger
counties wrestling victory for the weaker
man who had the backing of his main
county, where politics are usually done,
as it is south of Market street, San
Francisco, or in the Eighth ward, Los
Angeles.
Ex-Mayor Z. B. Pond of San Fran
cisco had an opportunity go as dele
gate-at-large to the national conven-
ton, but he refused to accept the COM
pliment because of the financial plank
in the state platform.
James B. Coleman, who has been gen.
orally accepted as being sound-money
man, this afternoon announced himself
as free silverite. It was another case
of getting into the band-wagon or else
not being permitted to ride.
The speech of Andrew Clunie, who is
brother of the congressman, and who
sat in the convention upon a proxy from
Solano county, favoring, in the interest
of harmony, the seating of each of the
two contesting San Francisco delega-
tions upon a system of half vote for all
of the parties concerned, was the best
bit of oratory of the session. Clunie talk
ed for over forty minutes, dsclaiming at
the end of his speech that any Democrat
in San Francisco intended to bolt the
party should his motion not prevail. 1t
began to look at one time during his
remarks as if he might succeed in having
his idea carried out, but the grim spec
tire of Bucllleyism drove the convention
into a solid phalanX against his propos-
ed compromise.
1t was after II o'clock when the chair
man called the convention to order to-
day, although the adjournment had
been taken to begin proceedings at 8.
The cause of the delay was a successful
effort to reopen the county contests
which had been disposed of last night
in favor of Laymance. The Fitzgerald
people had between night and morning
succeeded in securing afiidaVits alleging
that it was w. w. Foote and the follow
ing which he represents which had al
the Oakland primary supported import
ed suffers from San Francisco and not
the other fellows. The credentials COM
mittee accepted the new evidence sub
mtted, and after analysis concluded to
stick by their first determination
Foote'S friends We're therefore seated
upon the committee report. The rules
were suspended Immediately after the
report of the credentials committee had