The San Francisco call., 1896-03-15


Presidential electors and alternates nomlnat-
ing candidates for Congress, selecting Con-
gressional committees, each OF sucn conven-
tons to perform such other business as may
properly come before such State and district
conventions.
Resotved, That the delegates to the State Con-
vention be empowered to act as delegates TO
the several district conventions.
ResolUed, That the basis OF representation be
fixed at one delegate at large for each county,
and one delegate for each 200 votes or a
majority fraction thereof cast Tor james H.
Budd for Governor In 1884
The representation of the several coun-
ties upon the foregoing basis is hereby
declared TO be as follows:
Alameda 50, Alpine 1, Amador z, Butte 9,
Calaveras z, Colusa z, Contra Costa z, Del
Norte 2, El Dorado 6, Fresno 13, Glenn 4,
Hum b0ld1 s. lnyo Kern sa I.dsi Kings Lake
Mariposa 3, Mendocino 8, Merced 5, Modoc 8,
Mono 2, Monterey 8, Napa s, Nevada 8, Orange
e, Placer 8, Plumas 3, Riverside s., Sacramento to
II, San Benito 8, San Bernardino 8, San Diego
10. San Francisco 161, San Joaquin 10. San
Luis Obispo o. San Mateo 8, Santa Barbara z,
Santa Clara %, Santa Cruz z, Shasta 5, Sierra
9, Sutter 5. Tehama 5, Trinity 3, Tulare 10,
Tuolumne z, Ventura q, Yolo 8, Yuba 6;
total 614
Resolved, That members of said State con-
Vention be selected in such manner as the
various county committees shall determine TO
be expedient, the holding of primary elections
therefor being recommended wherever practic-
able, and that the test for voter at such pri-
maries be the following:
"Are you Democrat, and will you support
the nominees of the National Democratic
ticket and Congressman to be named at the
conyention?'
RESOLVED, That county conventions called for
the purpose of selecting delegates to the State
Convention are requested 10 select their eoun-
ty committees at the same time, and to
promptly forward the list of the names to the
secretary OF the State Central Committee.
ResolUed, That duplicate copies of the ere.
dentials OF all delegates selected to the said
State Convention must be certified to by the
chairman and secretary OF the various con-
ventions and committees and forwarded to
John Markley, secretary of the Democratic
State Central Committee, at Sacramento, at
least ten days prior to the meeting of the said
State Convention.
Then Sacramen to was given the conven-
ton in short, graceful and unanimous
order.
Shields of Sacramento made the Sacra-
mento motion at once, reading letters OF
greeting, invitation and assurances about
convention expenses by Mayor Hubbard
the Board of Supervisors and a committee
of citizens, and he said some nice things,
including the statement that the water
was good, which caused laugh.
Stockton and Los Angeles had sue
cumbed to Sacramento over night, and
representatives of both cities seconded in
nice words the motion which gave Sacra-
mento its first Democratic convention in
seventeen years. By this vote Sacramento
drew three of kind, as it were, having
already gained the Republican and Pop
ulist conventions of this year.
There was some debate about the date,
beginning with Raleigh Barcar's motion
that it be June 2. W. r. Burke wanted to
wait until the Repu blicans had made mis-
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NJ. J. Laymance that the date be June 16
was carried. 1t was intimated that the
convention would run four or FIVE days
and that it would get chance to hear
from st. Louis, and act accordingly.
F. r. Wehe started a little battle in
favor of Sierra County getting one more
delegate. He said that he did not re-
mem Der just what the Budd vote was, but
that he knew there were more than 500
Democrats in Sierra County. This was
very funny. 1t was decided that the ap-
portionment would depend on the reports
in the office of the Secretary of State, and
the secretary was given power to correct
the apportionment in the call if it was
erroneous.
Neither GavinMcNab nor the Buckleyites
closely concerned with the local fight had
taken any special interest in ell these pro-
ceedings which merely concerned routine
State matters. Both local sides were wait
ing for the supreme moment of war.
Gavin McNab sat in front, pale and
nervous and smiling by turns. He was
the head, front and boss of the anti-Buck-
ley movement in San Francisco and
critical moment was at hand. Whatever
damnaUory may be said about Chris Buck
ley he is a foeman worthy of the steel of
any Democrat who calls himself a poll |
tician and the pending battle was mo-
mentous and of uncertain outcome in |
spite of the distribution of proxies.
Mr.. McNab arose, announced that he
had a resolution to present and he laid on
the secretary's table folded piece of
yellow paper. 1t was not read, but the
Buckleyites knew it was something loaded
for them and that the time for conflict was
at hand.
George R. B. Hayes was already stand
ing and he made the objection that the
resolution could not be regular because
there was other business which regularly
took precedence.
Mr.. McNab swore that the resolution
was in order, and General Hayes moved
to adjourn.
The battle seemed to have opened. The
hubbub began. The spirit of fierce Demo-
cratic conflict could be sensed as pervading
the California Hotel billiard-room. Any
body familiar with Democratic meetings
knows the meaning of that. Each mo-
nybrook fair or a motion, resolution,
speech, protest or some other pause which
changes like a change by lightning the
course and spirit of events.
Well, it happened that W. w. Foote was
there. He was with the Buckleyites incl
dentally in their local fight, but he was
there for one great and chief purpose, and
that was to get through some anti-railroad
resolutions.
The way the meeting went with all the
hubbub and confusion about Buckley and
the Junta, no California Democrat but
"Billy" Foote would have been likely to
get any resolutions voted on at that meet
ing. Mr.. Foote jumped to the breach at
the first scent of danger to his opportunity
and all through the meeting, more times
than are recorded in this report, he inter-
jected himself into the Buckley row amid
the motions to adjourn and to do all sorts
of things, and with all his fierce eggres-
siveness demanded consideration for his
own. He finally won his hard battle, it
may be early mentioned.
At this first iuncture, when George r. B.
Hayes moved to adjourn, he roared that
he had some resolutions about the fund-
ing, and fiercely swore that sit would be
eowardIy to adjourn without giving an
opportunity for member to present such
resolutions"
They did not adjourn and Mr.. Foote
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