The herald., 1896-05-11
Populist State Gathering Opens
at Sacramento Tomorrow
SIDELIGHTS OF LAST WEEK
The Democratic Convention Conveues
June 10th
and California viii Have Contests at
st. Louls-Othcr Politics

Hc ItCcIll INcpuDllCdl Sldte COHNcu-
ton has brought to the surface fairly
and squarely for the first time 81 new
power. and one which is causing the big
Republican leaders in the northern part
of the state no end of worry. The Amer
lean Protective association has in the
past always had it's light under a bushel.
IL appeared, however, last week at Sac
iamento in the open, and its officers as
sumed control without any concealment.
The association was absolute master OF
the situation from the preliminary spar
ring one week ago today up. to the time
the convention adjourned sine die late
on Wednesday afternoon. Not a move
was made either at the Golden Eagle
hotel in secret prOgrammlnE or IN the
convention hail where the programming
was placed into effect, that the officers of
the association did not only sanction, but
they were also ordered by President
Nuddleson and his fellow members of
the state advisory board. The eXcep-
ton was the introduction by Frank
Short OF Fresno of his anti-refundlng
resolutions, which were adopted with but
q slight protest because no one could az
ford to publicly oppose the matter. The
Los Angeles delegation of sixty-three
members was A. L. A. with the exception
cf five men who need not here be partic-
ularized, and that was the nucleus or the
strength which at an early stage OF the
proceedings took the bit between its
teeth and controlled affairs.
The associa ton also had majority OF
every one of the delegations from the
sixth and seventh congressional dis
tricts Its slate was Lionel A. Sheldon,
John D. Spreckels, Irving l.. Scott and
State Senator Gleaves Of Shasta for dele
gates at large, George A. Knight being
opposed because of his well-known inde-
cendence of character, and Ulysses :.
Grant. because his wife Was supposed TO
have been born of Catholic parents.
G~l.< <hra tatn hn farfarad
with, to make fight against President
Fuddleson and his advisory board upon
the floor of the convention. and the sem
timental oratory of General w. ii. Il.
Barnes saved the day for young Grant.
AS IL was, nine members of the Los An
teles county delegation absolutely re-
fused to disregard instructions and
threw Grant in the balloting for Senator
Gleaves.
The election of w l.. Arthur to the
craftsmanship of the convention was the
first A. P. A. victory. 1t gave the asso-
citation control of the committee on res
olutions, order of business and creden-
tials. The fight was in the latter, and
its appointment enabled the aSsocia-
ton to compel John d. Spreckles to
hunt the advisory board with an offer
for a treaty of peace. Spreckles was
most desirable acquisition. He is
wealthy and was just the one person
needed to displace M. II. de Young upon
the Republican national committee,
Mrs. de Young being communicate in
the Catholic faith. The power of the
association also compelled the railroad
early in the proceedings to hunt its Of
ficers, and that, in a nutshell was the
trinity which manipulated affairs at
Sacramento-the A. p. A.. John d.
Spreckles and the Southern Pacific,
with the forces of the first named play
4
dancing, although writhing under the
lash.
So far as the delegation from Los An
geles is concerned, it was the genius of
Walter F. Parker which led the
southerners on to victory. 1t was Parker
who discovered William f. Arthur and
who pledged 40 votes to the man fro N
Pasadena for the conventions chair
manship before the northbound train
had last Sunday afternoon reached
MOjave. He went to each man individ-
ually and got them tied up one at time.
Then Parker tied up the delegates in the
Seventh Congressional district for Shell
don in return for support for u. S. Grant.
who. 1t was at the time explained could
not under any circumstances be elected
The resolution for the support of "all
harbors In the district" which as James
McLachlan's s platform for reelection.
lection of H. q. Osborne as chairman of
the Los Angeles delegation, and the de-
tails which secured for Heryey Iindlev
the unanimous nomination as a district
delegate to the st. Louis convention 1t
was Parker who later made I.indlev
chairman or the delegation. after Lionel
a. Sheldon had by the advisory board of
the A. +. A. been slated for the position.
There is new Republican prophet in
this vicinity and his name is Walter r.
Parker
w. p. Arthur, the chairman of the late
republican state convention has ar
rived at his home at Pasadena. He
promises to announce the names of the
tWenty-one men who are to constitute
the Republican executive CAMPAIGN
committee by Thursday of this week.
One OF the first acts Of the executive
committee will be to appoint member
or the state committee in the place of
j. +. Mitchell, whose name was handed
in by the unseated delegation of the
Thirty-third district and indorsed by
the state convention during the hurry
to conclude its business last Wednes-
day afternoon.
The congressional district contests
had before the state convention at Sac
ramento are not at an end yet. Those
Of the Third and Fourth districts viii
be carried to st. Louis. The regulars
in the Third are confident that they will
seat their delegates, Eli Dennison and
A. Hockheimer in the national con-
vention. One Of the main grounds for
their claim is that under the call of the
state central committee the state con-
vention had no jurisdiction over the
congressional conventions, who were
the sole Judges of the credentials of
their members. While 1t is admitted that
the state convention had full control of
its own membership, 1t is held that it
could not pass upon the credentials of
any portion Of a delegation, but must
accept or reject a delegation as whole.
In the Third district the state conven-
tion unseated the appointed delegation
and seated the primary delegation of
exceeded their authority, as the sole
power to pass upon the credentials Of
individual members of the district con-
ventions Is In the district bodies them
selves, the state body being obliged un-
der the call to seat or reject the district
body as a whole. The Third congress
sional district convention met and by
a majority vote elected Dennison and
Hockheimer delegates to the national
convention. 1t is claimed that the state
convention had no authority to unseat
certain members and give the minority
majority of the district convention.
AS to the Fourth district. 1t Is claimed
that there are several irregularities
which will enable Spear and Kowalsky,
the delegates elected by the regular con-
vention, to go to the national conven-