The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23
PRIMARY RETURNS
ARE CANVASSED,
Republican Fourth District
Delegates Officially
Approved.
NO CONTEST RECEIVED.
The Regular Congressional Com.
mittee Approves the Elec-
tion Returns.
FIFTH DISTRICT TO FOLLOW.
Delegates Chosen by the People to Be
Certified TO the State Central
Committee.
FIFTH DISTRICT TO FOLLOW.

The Republican Congressional Commit
tee of the Fourth District met yesterday,
and after canvassing the primary election
returns submitted by the County Commit
teemen from that Congressional District
approved the report on the regular pri-
mary election for delegates to the State
Convention, and ordered that the election
of all the delegates so reported be certified
to the Republican State Central Commit
tee.
Tomorrow at IL A. NJ. the Congressional
Committee of the Fifth District will meet
in the law office of its secretary, John E.
Richards, in the Crocker building to can
vass the similar returns from that portion
of San Francisco lying within the Fifth
Congressional District and from San
Mateo and Santa Clara counties. The call
for this meeting was sent out yesterday by
Mr.. Richards. This committee will SIM
ilarly certify to the State Central Commit
tee the delegates chosen by direction of
the County Committeeman, to whom it
delegated this power.
The Congressional committees of the
Fourth and Fifth districts stand some
what apart from the other Congressional
committees of the State, in that they
have not received the kicks of the
masses of the party for taking to
themselves the power of appointing
delegates to the State Convention.
Both of these committees adopted at the
start the policy of leaving to the regularly
constituted local party authorities the
duty OF supervising the election of dele
gates. Both committees delegated this
power to the County Com mitteemen of their
districts, and in San Francisco the selection
of delegates was further referred to the
people themselves at a primary election
which was made the cleanest and fairest
known In the history of the local party
and at which larger percentage of the
best classes of Republicans cast their bal
lots than ever before.
AT the second meeting of the Republican
Congressional Com mittee held on March
13 the resolutions adopted included the
following:
ResoLped, First. that the interests and success
of the Republican party of the State of Califor-
MIA in the coming State and National campaign
require that every effort should be put forth
and every means adopted by the regularly or
ganized agencies and committees of the Re-
publican party to secure an honest election of
delegates to the State and District conventions
National Convention; second, that to that end
1t should be and hereby is ordered that pri-
mary election shall be called and held for the
Fourth Congressional District of the State of
California.
The conduct of this primary was in
trusted to the Republican County Com
mltteemen representing the Fourth Con-
gressional Committee, the Congressional
Committee to act as a returning board
thereon.
In pursuance of this instruction the pri-
mary election was held in the Fourth Dis
trict on April 10, the same day on which
the primary was held in that portion of
the City belonging to the Fifth District,
and at that election full and fair vote
was cast for delegates named solely by the
people of the various districts in accord
ance with the policy of home rule insisted
upon by John d. Spreckels and heartily
supported by the members of the County
Committee and other party leaders.
The result of this primary election was
certified to the Fourth Congressional
committee on last Monday, the 2Oth inst,
and it was the report then filed which the
committee OF the Fourth District met to
consider yesterday.
The meeting yesterday afternoon was
held at 327 Market street. There were
present six of the seven members of the
committee, as follows: C. c. Bemis. chair
man; ]. Pockwitz, secretary; N. Ohlandt,
G. B. Rode, r. Rasmussen and Henry
Lehman.
The report of the County Committeeman
was signed by all members from the Fourth
District, viz: ]. M. Chretien, chairman;
Z. j. Walsh, secretary; A. A. Louderback,
G. Bacigalupi. j. N. Browning, Charles H.
Clear, K. w. Heilman, c. A. Berliner
Thomas w. Chandler, A. Houston and
James Gately. 1t sets forth the instruc-
tlons issued to the County Committeeman,
the holding of the primary election in &C.
cordance Herewith and the election of the
delegates named, with the number of votes
received by each.
After considering the returns the com.
mittee approved them in long resolution,
which recited the instructions issued to
the County Committee and the issuance of
the primary election call by the County
Committee men, and then proceeded:
AND, WHEREAS. The time and places of hold
ing said primary were duly advertised in the
following newspapers of general circulation,
the Examiner, the Evening Bulletin and the
Daily Report; and, whereas, pursuant to our
said resolutions and the said call of the
County Committeeman, Republican primary
election was held in each and all of the AS
sembly districts in the City and County of
San Francisco embraced within said Fourth
Congressional District on the 18th day of
April, 1896; and, whereas, the said County
Committeeman have duly and regularly re-
ported and certified to us in writing the result
OF said primary election held as aforesaid;
and, whereas, this committee at a meeting
duly and regularly held this 22d day of April
1896, has examined and canyassed the re-
turns of said primary election, reported and
certified to US as aforesaid; now, therefore,
be it
Rcsotued, That said Republican primary elec-
tion was regularly called and held in each and
all of the Assembly districts embraced within
said Fourth Congressional District, pursuant
to and in strict accordance with this commit
tees said resolution, hereinabove set forth.
Resolued, That at said Republican primary.
so-called and held in the several Assembly
districts within said Fourth Congressional
District, the following named persons were