The herald., 1896-05-05

| the opposition to U. s. Grant, jr., con-
| demned it as an outrage and said he
| would make Grants fight in the conven-
| ton. knight will undoubtedly nomi-
| nate or second the nomination of the
son of the great general. Knight Is
| also a candidate for delegate at large
and will probably succeed in his ambi-
ton. Judge Waymire and Louttit Of
stockton are also candidates as well as
Spreckels, and there may be a lively
tight to see which of the three will Sc
cure the prize.
ALL FOR M'KINLEY.
That California will join the Mckinley
procession seems to be a settled fact
Ihe state Republican convention meets
here tomorrow and the majority of the
delegates are wearing Mckinley badges
and are shouting for the Ohio man. The
sentiment is not unanimous, however,
One of the two contesting San Francisco
delegations, under the leadership of
John d. Spreckles, is making hard bat
tie for an uninstructed delegation and
they have not yet given up the fight.
sipreckels, who aspires to be the leader of
the Republican party in this state, is
candidate for delegate at large. He is
a pronounced Allison man and today
announced that if the convention should
insist on sending an instructed delega-
ton he will withdraw as a candidate
end the Republican party will have to
get along without his active support
The Mckinley delegation from SanFran
cisco Immediately made capital of this
declaration and are shouting that
Spreckels is attempting to coerce the
convention into position that Will be in
imical to McKinley's interests, Spreck-
els denies that he made the statement
credited to him and says that he will
abide by the decision of the convention.
Owing TO the wave of Mckinleyism
which appears to have swept over the
state it is extremely probable that sill
Yer will suffer. There seems to be a dis
position among the delegates to ignore
silver or at most to give free coinage but
a half-hearted endorsement.
The fight for the chairmanship of the
convention has narrowed down to Frank
Coombs of Napa and w. e. Arthur of
Pasadena. Both are ardent Mckinley
men, but the San Francisco Mckinley
men are for Coombs in the hope that he
will seat their delegation in preference
to the SpreckelS delegation. 1t is case
of Southern against Northern California.
The south is united and can swing 203
votes solid for Arthur. This they pro-
pose to do and also will take prominent
part in settling the squabbles among the
contesting delegations from San Fran
cisco, Alameda and Sacramento coun-
ties.
The Los Angeles delegation caucused
this afternoon. H. Y. Osborne of the
Los Angeles Express was elected chair
man. and l.. G. Brown Of Pasadena sec
retary. Arthur was endorsed for chair
man of the convention. l.. A. Sheldon for
delegate at large, Hervey Lindley for
delegate from the sixth district and Nc
Lachlan for denomination for congress
man. The Los Angeles delegation has
63 votes which will so e.. Il unit and they
expect to exercise considerable influence
ir Southern California affairs. There
xt-as that the I.OS Angeles men
would combine on u. S. Grant. jr.. who
wants to be delegate at large but 1t was
finally decided to oppose Grant. EX-
Congressman Loutitt of Stockton also
wants to be delegate at large and II Los /
Angeles finally decides TO oppose Grant |
he stands a good chance of securing the |
George A. Knight and John d. Spreck-
els are the other candidates for delegates |
at large None of the district conVen-
tions except the seventh have yet been |
held.
LOUTTIT IS CONFIDENT |
The San Joaquin county delegates !
held a secret caucus in their headquar-
ters late tonight and elected W. B. AM
brose chairman and 2. NJ. Buell. secre-
tary. The delegation voted unanimous
v to indorse X-Congressman Louttlt
IF Stockton for delegate at large. The
delegation was very enthusiastic over
LouttitS candidacy ana agreed 10 use
all their influence to help him win out.
rhe caucus then adjourned until to-
morrow morning, when Mr.. Louttit will
submit certain propositions to the dele
"a ton. He is confident that he has
good prospect of winning, and will make
, good showing among the first counties
,alled He reckons Alpine, Sierra, Gala
-eras, Sacramento, San Joaquin. Fresno
ind part of Alameda as being for him.
Late tonight, owing to Louttits for
nidable showing. Judge Waymire of
Alameda was put into the fight. Louttit
8 confident. however, that Alameda will
lot be a unit for Waymire.