The herald., 1896-05-07
CONVENTION COMMENTS
The Republican Gathering
AdjOurns Sine Die
WHAT THE SOUTH FAILED TO GET
Was Not Well Worth the Car
= rying Away
u. S. GRANT IS A DELEGATE
But Not Because the A. p. A. Delegates
Wanted Him
There Is Waillng and Crashing Of Teeth
U. S. GRANT IS A DELEGATE
But Not Because the A. P. A. Delegates
Wanted Him
There Is Wal1lng and Gnashing Of Teeth
Among Newspaper Men
A Psiss Accusation Of Having Aided 1.-THE
HERALD" to Scoop this State Has AL.
ready Made the Rev. Pit
man Famous
Snacial to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
SACRAMENTO, May 6.-The Herald
beat all of the papers in the state in the
publication this morning of its complete
forecast of various planks in the Repub-
lican state platform on the morning of
the presentation of the different resolu-
tions to the Republican state conven-
ton, and today the members of the
various corps of news attaches to the
different big San Francisco dailies have
been alternately stor1ning and railing
and wondering how it happened. AS
result of the scoop, Rev. j. S. Pitmah Of
Los Angeles will tomorrow morning
awaken to find himself famous.
He was a member of the resolutions
committee, each member of which had
pledged himself not to divulge anything
which had transpired during it's session,
and he is accused of having leaked. The
various San Francisco correspondents
insist that Pitman gave the platform to
The Herald, which charge is, of course,
untrue, and the Los Angeles parson is
to be tomorrow flayed in the columns
Of every San Francisco paper which
failed to get the news.
The convention adjourned at s o'clock
this evening. after having elected John
D. Spreckels and George A. Knight of
San Francisco, Lionel Sheldon of Pasa-
dena and U. S. Grant of San Diego as
delegates at large to the st. Louis con-
vention, and ex-Congressman James
Louttit of Stockton, George Stone of
San Francisco, State Senator Gleaves
of Shasta and David E. knight of Yuba
as alternates. William Wersham of Los
Angeles, who had expected one Of the
latter cuts in the convention pie, was
murdered at the breastworks. This is
the only thing which Los Angeles coun-
ty didn't see and ask for, and did not
get.
Hervey Lindleys Los Angeles pro-
grammers from the solid south have
been called names here all day because
the push from the southern citrus belt
succeeded in carrying everything be-
fore 1t.
In the Sixth district convention Los
Angeles county carted off one of the
delegates and one alternate to the ma
t!onal convention, out of total of four
= places, and in the main convention the
Lindley- Parker program captured the
Craftsmanship, one of the four delegates
three important committees. San Fran
cisco got on the committees what the
deputy zanjero would call nit" al
though the big bay city did, through
Lindley's assistance. elect two out of
four delegates at large. The votes at
Los Angeles also elected U. S. Grant,
whom the A. p. A. would have thrown
hard had the association dared to do
so in the face of the magnificent oratori-
cal effort upon the San Diego mans be-
half made by Gen. w. H. Barnes
Barnes was not a delegate to the con-
vention. He secured the floor, how
ever, upon q proxy from one of the San
Francisco bay counties, and in speech
lasting some seven minutes set the con-
vention on fire in Grants interest. This
was the only real oratory among the
countless samples of the bogus article
which have been in wearisome evidence
here during the past two days.
The vote for Sheldon was fair indi-
cation of the complete hold which the A.