The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
Endorsement of Cleveland All
the Opposition Expects to
Gain.
BUCKLEY DELEGATIONS FIGHT
FOR SEATS.
Junts Leaders Declare the Blind Boss
Beaten-Wom Plead for
Justice.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, June 14.-Those
who predicted warm time at the Demo
cratic State Convention will not be disap-
pointed. The sun is getting in his work
gioriously, and the few delegates who have
arrived are evincing more heat in their
arguments than ought to be expected so
early in the game. The electric-light bugs
are coming in from the tules by thousands,
and visitors from the interior are told that
these monsters are Sacramento Valley
mosquitoes. The coolest proposition OF the
day, and, therefore, the most refreshing,
was MADE by a member of the woman S
suffrage delegation upon the instant oi
the ladies' arrival at the Golden Eagle
Hotel
Now, I have a suggestion to make, u
said Miss Mary Hay, one of the equal
suffragists. ut is simply this: II we lose
our fight for recognition in the Demo
cratic platform we are to pay double, and
If We win you are to-
Hold Oh" Iaughingly said Frank Gray,
one of the hotel proprietors. "Hold on,
please"
Then, with his best smile and most gal
liant air, he said:
position to my sentiments.
The ladies laughed and said they were
glad one of their number had the courage
of her convictions, Notwithstanding the
lot of discouraging talk that has been
going the rounds.
There is some feeling of disappointment
over the prospect that Governor Budd may
be kept away from the convention on &C.
count of an injury to his knee, received
during his trip in the Yosemite Valley,
and which may keep him at his home in
Stockton. An anti-administration Demo.
crat on hearing this, said:
That's the way with Budd; he is al
ways getting it in the knee or the neck"
1t is safe to predict that the Junta will
be solid. The delegates will not be used
against W. w. Foote, however no matter
how much John Daggett may try to swing
them that way. When Daggett started
out he proclaimed his intention of send
ing a goldbug delegation to Chicago.
The silver men grew so in number that
he will now be satisfied with mild in
dorsement of Cleveland. Will D. Greene
voiced the feeling of the gold advocates
when he said that he and his companions
are ready to eat crow.
Probably the wickedest fight in the con-
vention will be the strife for the honor of
going as delegate to the Chicago Conven-
tion from the Third Congressional Dis
trict. The contest lies between Ed E.
Leek. r. NJ. Fitzgerald and j. NJ. Lay
nance.
Ex-senator D. A. Ostrom has come out
as an active candidate for delegate at-large
from the northern part of the State.
The Congressional situation may be
summarized as follows:
First Congressional Qistrict-Ex-Con-
gressman Thomas Gearv is mentioned.
Second District-Ex-Congre A.
Caminetti 10. D. Sproul and Marion
de Vries are regarded as acceptable tim
Der, bnt none are active aspirants.
Third DESTRUCTIVE D. English will
probably be nominated.
Fourth District-Judge J. G. Mcguire
has already been nominated.
Fifth. District. Schellar, Joseph P.
Kelly and Thomas J. Clunie are in the
fight, with present chances favoring
Scholar.
Sixth District-Henry Patton of Los
Angeles has the call on the nomination,
though some opposition is expected.
Seventh District-L. J. Maddox of Mo-
desto is mentioned. Other aspirants are
expected
1t is to be fight, and fight TO the finish,
as far as the Buckley people are concerned,
and their campaign ha been laid out so as
to permit them to resist to the last ditch.
Should their pictures be turned to the wall
by the com mittee on credentials tn " have
the promise of enough proxies from inte-
rior delegates to secure a hearing by pow
erful representatives on the floor of the
convention.
Their first play will be, however, to have
the names of the Junta delegates stricken
from the temporary roll, on which they
were placed by the State Central Commit
tee during the meeting at the California
Hotel IN San Francisco, and the drawin g
up of the curtain on Tuesday at the Agri-
cultural Pavilion may be followed by one
of the Iiveiiest acts of the Democratic per-
formance.
Andy Clunie, P. F. Dunno, Thomas
Asche and Joseph Rothschild will cham
pion the cause OF the regulars, whenever
and wherever exigencies require.
Considerable disappointment was shown
by the avant.couriers of the faction who
came up tonight over the absence of IL
terror delegates, as they had evidently
hoped by their early arrival to do consid-
cradle missionary work in the interests OF
their cause by using their persuasive pow
ers on their unconversant county col
leagues.