The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-26
Men Who Object to the Appointment Of
Delegates.
New Club Members Say They Will
Hold Primaries Whether
or No.

County Committee in deciding to ap-
point the delegates to the State and
Congressional Conventions.
From the first speaker down to the
last each wed with the other in the use
of bitter, vindictive illusions to the
County Committee
The meeting was organized by the Sc
lection of c. F. Gardner as .Chaicman
and L. H. Sullivan Secretary.
MR.. GARDNER TALKS.
On taking the chair Mr.. Gardner said
| the text for the evenings services
should be, Men, not parties The
Republicans of Sacramento County de-
sired chance to express their opinions
as to who should or who should not
represent them at a convention called
| to select delegates to the st. Louis
| Convention. The meeting was one of
Republicans only, and if any or ali of
! the men of the party available for the
Presidency were present they would all
| declare for men and not parties"
1t was stated that the matter of the
election of a Chief Executive was a IA
tional and not a local affair, but in the
choice of a man who held the lives OF
all of our citizens in the hollow of his
hand it could not be other than local.
The question to-day should be one Of
men and of principle, and not of party.
The same spirit, continued Mr.. Card
ner, which in the past carried all our
warriors and statesmen to victory ac-
tuates those gathered in this hall.
WANTS A CHANCE.
The Chairman then introduced as one
of the orators of the evening j. II. Lig-
4
the cardinal principle of the Republican
party was and had always been a free
vote and a fair count. The question of
voting at the Presidential election was
not so important an event as that of
voting for delegates to nominate candi-
dates for the Presidency.
The speaker scored the County Com
mittee for assuming the responsibility
Of appointing delegates to the State
Convention. He stood for free and
open primaries, and believed that Re
publicans should have the chance of
selecting their own delegates. This
was naturally a Republican year. and
every Republican should do his hest to
make the convention at st. Louis one
Of representative men, who should
nominate a man able to bury the Dem
ocratic party out of sight, where it
would remain in oblivion forever.
DR. C. E. FOWLER
| Was next introduced, and as an object
lesson told the old fable Of the lion and
the mouse. The Republican party was
like the lion-tied hand and foot, and
something, no matter how small, was
needed to break the chains. He was
present at the meeting of the County
Committee when it was asserted that
the two new clubs amounted to nothing,
while at the same time he had In his
pocket a paper signed by 2,1O0 honor
| able citizens showing that those same
clubs amounted to great deal. 1t was
| there stated that an honest primary
could not be held. He thought it could,
and suggested that fifteen men with
bayonets should be placed before each
precinct and treat obstructionists as
any other felons were treated. They
should be arrested and court martialed.
The Republicans represented by the
County Central Committee did not con-
troll the Republican vote, by any means,
as was shown by the election of Gov
ernor Budd and the recent election in
this city of Mayor Hubbard. There
were men in the party who refused to be
led by any committee.
LIKENED UNTO DOGS.
j. o. Prewett was the next speaker
The action of the County Committee, he
said, was a despicable one, and he be-
lieved that God had wasted mud
when he made such men, when he might
have taken the same material and made
good dogs" He hoped to see the day,
and believed he would, when Republic
ans would be given free vote and a
fair count-when bossism would be a
thing Of the past.
DR. G. NJ DIXON
Said he was present because he was a
Republican, and as such he should like
to have something to say in the selection
of delegates to the National Convention.
So long as the Republican party allowed
itself to be choked off by County Cen
trail Committee it would never be rep
resented by delegates of it's own choos-
ing. He believed that ex-senator Draw.
when he said before the County Central
Committee that there could be no hon.
est primaries held, was mistaken and
II such were the case, the matter was to
be very easily traced direct to the action
OF the committee. He was a Repub-
lican, and free silver man, and he be-
heved the Mckinley Club recently
formed in this city was merely a dis
guise of the gold bugs who expected to
profit by their action. The President of
the Mckinley Club was banker, and
his heart beat in sympathy with the
gold kings of Wall street This meeting
had been called for the transaction of
business, and not for talk, and he saw
no way of getting out of the present
difficulty except to hold primaries of
their own and send a contesting delega-
ton to the State Convention.
If primaries were held and delee ates
selected it would be irregular, and the
delegates would probably not be rec
ognized, but it would be a protest and
one that would count
HENLEY PROTESTS.
William Henley protested against the
action OF the committee The principles
Of the Republican party, as he under
stood them, were freedom, justice, rep
resentation and equality, and he pro-
tested against the recent action OF the
misrepresentation of the party in Sac
ramento County at the present time.
The men present were protest against
the action of the
Here Mr.. Henley asked to be excused
from calling the County Central Com
mittee as he thought it should be
called-he preferred to do SO in private
He concluded his remarks by moving
the adoption of the following resolu-
tons:
Whereas, The Republican County
Central Committee of Sacramento