The San Francisco call., 1896-06-16
Los Angeles Democrats Spring a
Candidate for the Convention
Craftsmanship.
HE WILL GIVE THE STOCKTON MAN A
HARD FIGHT FOR THE PLA CE.
Foote Goes Over to the Chairman of the State Com
mittee, Whereat the Buckeyites Curse Long
and Loud-Factions Skirmshing
for Proxies.

made it when he declared himself fol
Gould, and it became known that English
and Fitzgerald had got in with Foote or
the deal making Alameda solid for Gould.
This was a hard punch to the Ryan
| boomers and Buckleyites, and signs of
alarm disappeared from the faces of the
Daggett- -Gould-McNab hustlers. But still
everybody waited for the evening trains
and the re-entorcements and the connubi-
ating OF the night.
The whoop came at $50 O'Clock, when
the San Francisco train rolled into the
depot, where the blare of brass band and
a crowd of hundreds of people welcomed
the big crowd from the city.
The Iroquois clubs from San Francisco
Benicia and Suisun poured out and
formed in line with yip-yip-yip and much
hurrah. The Iroquois procession quickly
formed and up K street it went, with the
new Sacramento Iroquois Club and band
for escort, and with tomahawks. Roman
candles and red-fire to help out the excite
ment
Then the Buckleyites poured forth from
train, too, in their strength. They came
$50 strong, and they formed by twos be-
hind the Iroquois clubs, headed by Chair
man Joseph Rothschild, Senator Donovan,
J. c. Nealon, Henry Ach and other lead
ers. Each Buckley delegate wore badge
of ribbons and tin limitations of silver
dollars, and the delegation marched
proudly to its headquarters, near Seventh
and K streets.
The Buckleyites found that the strag-
Cling Junts delegation had not come with
any outward show of force, and that they
had no headquarters, and the Buckley
force hurled itself en- masse into the politi-
cal gathering that overran the Golden
Eagle and the Capitol Hotel, across the
street, ana gave life to the sidewalks.
They made an impression by their num-
bers and presence, and they knew it.
Their show of force itself helped to make
them something to be reckoned with.
The same train brought many members
of other delegations, and so all at once. at
about 9 o'clock, the majority of the dele
gates and of the leaders were on hand and
the real anti-convention hustling broke
into full blast.
But the anti-Gould people were at sea
and the Gould boomers had regained their
confidence.
The Alameda flop had not helped the
Ryan boom, and il was waiting for the
later night to r, gain it's force. Among the
anti-Gould people were heard curses of
Foote, who was a few hours before their
idol. Attorney w. NJ. Gibson of Stockton,
who was one of the bitter enemies of
Gould in the San Joaquin delegation for a
time, threw up his hands. Then he waited
for the Ryan boom to get going again.
"Foote says that he is satisfied that
Gould is not a Daggett man." said Gibson,
with derision ia his words.
''Foote was in and out, in and out, with
US, and now he is out" said Recorder
Glynn, and he said more with suppressed
indignation.
The Buckleyites cursed Foote sorely.
They said they regarded him as an in
CRATE. They had doomed him for months
they recalled how they had won friends
for him and had doomed him for the
craftsmanship. Now he had gone into the
camp of the enemy just at the critical mo-
ment when possibility of victory seemed
in sight.
There was much speculation as to what
transpired between w. w. Foote and
Frank Gould during the hours private
conversation which they had upstairs in the
Golden Eagle late in the afternoon, but it
was all speculation. People on both sides
assumed that deal of some sort was con-
summated whereby Foote and his friends
are to be benefited and John Daggett is
not to be helped.
1t seemed unlikely that it would any
particular relation to Foote's candidacy
for delegate ct large. for he was absolutely
certain of victory there. 1t was fought
that the result might have favorable in
tiuence on the fight of his friend Lay