The herald., 1896-03-18
It WAS A CLUMSY FORGERY
THE BUCKLEY PROXY WITH THE SIGMA.
lure OF THOMAS SAVAGE
Savage Never Sent the Document and Says
He Does Not Know Who Initiated His
Signature-The Latest Notes In the Field
Of Local Politics

Some one of the San Francisco lambs OF
Christopher A. Buckley is guilty of a for.
gerry of the rankest kind and the victim OF
the crime is Councilman Thomas +. Saw.
age of this city.
During the meeting of the Democratic
state central committee last Saturday af
ternoon James c. Nealon, ex-assessor of
San Francisco county, sought to vote the
proxy of Savage. In authorization of his
right in the premises Nealon produced the
following letter signed by the Eighth ward
councilman:
Los ANGELFs, March 10, 1896.
To the Chairman of the Democratic State
Central Committee, San Francisco:
This is to certify that | have given the
bearer, James @. Nealon. the privilege to
vote my name by proxy at the meeting of
your honorable body. -.
Martin Marsh was at the meeting end
he had only two hours before received from
Chairman Frank L. Gould telegram adj
dressed to the latter and signed by Savage,
authorizing Marsh to represent him (Sav-
age) at the meeting, Marsh had already
voted as result for Savage upon two sep
arate roll calls. He was voting and was
known to he a Buckley sympathiZer, so
that the Buckley forgery of his name is all
the more uneXplainablc.
The adherents of the Blind White Devil
left no stone unturned in their fight before
the state committee. hence the bold forgery
of Thomas Savage's name to the proxy
sought to be utilized by James G. Nealon.
Savage said yesterday that he had never
sent the letter proxy above to San Fran
cisco and that his telegraphic proxy to
Martin Marsh was genuine. Savage does
not know how the fake proxy got to San
Francisco or who among the Buckleyites
conceived the brilliant idea OF sending it out
into an unfeeling and unapprecative
world. The scheme was certainly a boldly
barefaced fraud and so showed itself upon
it's face. Savage's signature is clumsy
forgery and so is every word in the docu.
ment from its opening to its closing sen.
tence.
Judge James c. DAILY, ex-city attorney of
Los Angeles, eX-deputy encouragement
and present code commissioner of the
state, is in the city. Judge Daily may be
one of the delegates from this district to
the Republican national convention. He
is at present farmer and resides in Ven
tura county. The judge being a New
Yorker. is for Levi p Morton for presi-
dent. He is also responsible for having
turned down the Spreckles' faction in the
recent meeting of the Republican state
central committee.
Ex-Governor Lionel A. Sheldon is now
said to be a full-fedged candidate for
United States senator to succeed Governor
George C. Perkins, whose term expires
next March.
Colonel H. G. Otis, who declined the vice.
presidency because no one had rendered
him the Job. returned home yesterday from
the east. As result the local stock of
William Mckinley has fallen below freez-
ing point during the past fifteen hours.
No steps have as yet been taken toward
calling together the Republican conven-
ton of this, the sixth congressional district.
for the selection of delegates to the coming
state convention.
Hon. Hervey Lindley. who will probably
go to St. Louis as delegate to the Repub-
lcan national convention, is for William
q. Allison for president. Both men are
lOwanS.