The San Francisco call., 1896-04-03
The County Committee Divides
Into Two District Com.
mitteeS.
DIFFERENCES IN THE FIFTH.
Harmony in. the Fourth and Dispute
in the Fifth Over Committee
man Rule.

SuNh So1 SoicSudI tudt d lull NOte, al
honest count and a full and free expression
OF the will of the Republican voters of the
City will be assured.
The Republican County Committee, to
which the selection of delegates was re-
terred, made this decision at special
meeting last night in Scottish Hall on
Larkin street. opposite the City Hall.
There were really two meetings, as the
committee adjourned as a whole and re-
solved itself into two committees, COM
posed respectively of the members repre-
senting the Fourth Congressional District
and the seven Assembly districts
of San Francisco lying within the Fifth
Congressional District. The State Gen.
tral Committee having this year dele
gated the convention preparations to the
various Congressional committees, and
these committees having no jurisdiction
outside of their districts, the segregation
of the County Committee into bodies for
this particular purpose was necessary.
When the county committee was called
to order as whole by Chairman Charles
w. Manwaring the hall was filled with in
terested Republicans. who had come to
watch the proceedings, but who were
doomed to hear little of what was said and
done. The rollcall by Secretary John
Jackson showed all of the eighteen COM
mitteemen present, and then the minutes
of the last meeting were approved as read.
AT the last meeting special committee
was appointed to prepare suitable resou-
tions on the death of ]. E. Donovan, who
had represented the Thirtieth District, but
on the suggestion of John M. Chretien,
chairman of the committee, that the reso-
lutions would be more suitably adopted at
a regular meeting, the report was laid
over.
The chairman stated that inasmuch as
the members bad received credentials pro-
viding for their meeting as two bodies it
would he proper to adjourn the County
Committee and for the mem hers repre-
senting the Fourth and Fifth districts to
meet separately at convenient places in
the hall to transact their business. In
accordance with the suggestion the com.
mittee adjourned, and the spectators
heard little of what transpired thereafter.
The succeeding conferences were not
made executive, but as the committees
withdrew into partial privacy the audience
heard little further. The seven members
from the Fifth District got together at one
side of the stage, in full view of the audi
ence, but their conversation could not be
heard by the audience, though most of the
spectators remained seated for an hour,
viewing the conference on the stage, which
was plainly an animated one.
The eleven members representing the
Fourth District went into q room at one
side of the stage, and there quickly. har-
moniously and unanimously adopted an
election call.
John NJ. Chretien was elected chairman
of the committee and P. ]. Walsh secre-
tary. The other members of the commit
tee are: Albert Houston, John L. Brown
ing, Charles Berliner, Charles H. Clear, R.
w. Heilman, James Gately, A. A. Louder
back, G.. Bacigalupi and Thomas w. C.
LANDER.
The call was read by Secretary Walsh
and after brief discussion it was adopted
unanimously as read on motion of Charles
II. Clear, seconded by R. w. Heilman.
The call adopted is lengthy one. Its
opening paragraphs lecite the issuance of
the call by the State Central Committee
for State Convention to be
held in Sacramento May 5, and
for Congressional District conventions
to be held at the same time, the
spportionment adopted and the action of
the Congressional committee of the
Fourth District in delegating to the mem
bers of the County Committee in the
Fourth District power and discretion to
select delegates.
The following paragraphs taken from
the document present Its salient features
Resolped, That the Republican County Com
mittee of the City and County of San Francisco,
embraced within the Fourth Congressional
District, acting under and in pursuance of its
aforesaid authority. does hereby order and
call a primary election to be held in the City
and County of San Francisco, that portion
thereof embraced within the Fourth Congress
sional District, on the 18th day OF April, 1896,
for the purpose hereinafter specified, in ac-
cordance with the laws governing primary
elections, as prescribed by the Political and
Penal Codes OF the State OF California.
Resolved, That said primary election shall be
held on the 18th day of April, 1896 the polls
to be kept open continuously between the
hours OF o'clock in the forenoon and o'clock
in the afternoon of said day;
RESOLVED, That there shall be two polling
places in each Assembly district of the City
and County of San Francisco embraced within
the Fourth Congressional District and that for
each OF said polling places the board of cleo
ton shall consist of one inspector, two judges
and two clerks:
Resolved, That all polling places must be on
the ground floor, and the ballot-boxes be SO
placed as to be plainly seen from the sidewalk,
and that free and uninterrupted ingress must
be given at each polling place to electors en-
titled TO vote thereat, and also to such repre-
sentative alternate nf oh
set OF candidates that may be voted for at each
polling place as shall present the credentials
hereinafter provided for to the board of elec-
ton at such polling place.
RESOLVED, That printed cards of admission to
each OF the polling-places shall be given to the
representatives of each set of candidates re-
questing the same. The said request must be
In writing and signed by majority of the
candidates on each set of tickets. The cards
OF admission shall be signed by the chairman
and secretary of this committee and
shall contain the name of the party entitled
to admission and the polling-place at which
" IS intended to be used. The officers