The San Francisco call., 1896-09-12
They Will Play a Seventy.Three
Cent Local Rate Before
Election.
MEN FOR RAINEY CONVENTION
The Junta Campaign Committee Selects
About Two Hundred Delegates
and Substitutes.

Last nlgntS session or the buckley con-
vention at B'nai Birth Hall was late
and brief one, with the usual crowd and
with the usual glide OF the programme.
The convention nominated by acclama.
ton T. Carl Spelling for Attorney and
Counselor, D. A. Mcdonald for Superin-
tendent of Streets and Armand de Cour-
tieux for Sheriff.
The platform as adopted st the second
session pledged the ticket 10 90-cent tax
limit, but since then the 20 per cent raise
OF the San Francisco assessment roll by
the State Board of Equalization has oc-
Cured and it was decided to make another
play by dropping the rate to 73 cents to
meet the raise, so that DO more money
would be raised than by the 90-cent rate
and the original assessment.
The convention opened with apparent
disagreement in the committee on judi
ciary. Chairman Harrison of the COM
mittee read majority report, stating that
the committee had met during the day,
and after deliberation had adjourned until
the 10Th inst. The convention was asked
to defer action on judicial nominations
until a session TO be held after that date.
This idea did not strike the convention
at all favorably. Its disposition was to go
right ahead and get through, and that was
the programme.
W. f. Humphrey of the committee
spoke vigorously against the report and
offered an amendment requiring the COM
mittee to report nominations to the con-
vention tonight.
Failing to do so the convention should
proceed with the nominations.
Mr.. Humphrey mentioned the rival or
ganization and stated that the legal COM
Is 4E.E ~. L
charge OF the legal contest "a to which
faction shall use the party heading on the
ballot, wanted TO proceed with the case
next week and it was important to do so.
Then he said that if action were post
poned it would be said that they were
waiting for the Junta TO act.
Humphrey was much applauded, and
Joseph Rothschild explained that the
ticket should be ready to present to the
Registrar on the 18th inst to secure q basis
for legal action.
Ben Napthaly had hard work standing
gibes while he talked for haste and the
amendment was overwhelmingly adopted.
Four candidates for Superior Judge, four
candidates for Police Judge and five can.
didates for Justice of the Peace will be
named by the committee to-day.
Judges Hunt and HebbarI are reported
to be seeking nominations along with
Robert Ferral and some others.
The nominees for the Legislature were
formally certified to the convention by
d. M. Gavigan. and then A. NJ. Arm
strong nominated 7. Carl Spelling for
Attorney ami Counselor. He was named
by acclamation.
+. M. Morgan nominated D. a. Nc
Donald for superintendent of Streets. Mr..
Mcdonald was mot ashamed 10 be seen
with you even in working upon the
streets"
D. 4.
of 'joshers," and made quite a good
speech. in which he nominated Thomas
Ford for the office, and when Ford was
named the cheering was loud and pro-
longed.
1t was announced that Ford was not a
candidate, and his name was withdrawn,
and Mcdonald received the unanimous
vote.
Joseph Rothschild nominated for Sheriff
Armand de Courtieux, the wholesale
butcher, who, he said, was not well known
among the politicians. The nomination
was quickly declared unanimous
James H. O'Brien offered the following
resolution amending the platform:
WHEREAS, Since the adoption of our plat
form fixing ninety (90) cent rate on the
800 OF the total asse esed property as a fixed
rate of taxation for City and County purposes
and pledging our nominees not to exceed thai
rate, the State Board of Equalization by
6QGlHGleSS anu QlScrl1DluGllHR action, mas nl-
justly raised the assessed value of the prop.
erty OF San Francisco County about twenty
(20) per cent, increasing same TO over 1922.
ooo, 900 for State purposes, and thus imposed
an additional burden on our taxpayers OF over
$500, 600 in coin, which can only be met by
economy and reform at home; now, therefore,
be it
ResoI-ed That our committee on platform
and resolutions be ana hereby is instructed to
prepare and report back TO this convention for
action al its next meeting an amended or sub
70 hrso aial1l
nominees for Supervisors not to exceed So
cents on the 800 of the total assessed value OF
1897 ,5S6, l26, returned by the Assessor, and
pledge all nominees TO a faithful performance
OF such pledges, and thus cut $17S, ,793 under
the existing pledge in our platform of 90 cents,
ana save our taxpayers that much OF the
$500, 900 imposed by the ''stand-and-deIiver''
policy Of the State Board of Equalization.
Fleet F. Sirother, the candidate for Au-
ditor, came to the platform and argued for
still lower rate, being fortified with fig
ures he had pre- pared
He showed that the total of the assess
ment roll before the increase was $751;
5S6, 126. Subtracting solvent credits and
money left 1922, 407, ,392 on which to make
an assessment under the pledge
The infamous State Board OF Eoualiza-
ton had increased the assessment roll by
20 per cent OF $322, ,407, 1872 or $64. 4S1. AIS.
making the total roll 1922 067, ,604, exclu-
sive of railroad assessments. A 90-cent
assessment on 1857 ,5S6, 126 would yield $3,-
1925 10, the amount for which the con-
vention pledged its nominees to run the
City government.
An assessment of 1888 on each $10O of
valuation would produce So, 118, 235 A6 or
within $40 Of amount to be raised under the
original pledae. The difference in the
amounts raised by a 90-cent tax in the
valuations before and after the raise was
ST. Gil, S76. He thus argued that the rate
FsRHn Il taaT raaw Au \ 10
The resolution was so amended and re-
ferred to the committee on resolutions
Chairman Nealon called for suggestions
of names as candidates for Supervisor, to
be acted upon later, and the following
were submitted, there being, however,
many in reserve:
First ward-Henry Eckert, Fred Callundan,
S. Sanguinetti.
Second ward-w. H. Thornley,. Emil Kehr-