The San Francisco call., 1896-09-25

cate of nomination as the Peoples party
candidate from the First Congressional
District with the Secretary of State.
The placing of Mr.. Monteith's name on
the ticket as the candidate of the Peoples
party, speaking through the Congressional
District Convention, will oblige the Secre-
tary of State to place Mr.. Cutters name
on the ticket as Democrat only, instead
of as a Democrat and Populist, as the
managers of the fusion job intended, be-
cause the election law provides that two
candidates cannot be nominated by the
same political party for the same office.
Mr.. Monteith did not secure his certifi-
cate without considerable trouble, the
Democratic and Populist iobbers having
resorted to almost every expedient to keep
it from him.
Wednesday was the last day allowed by
law for the filing of certificates of candi-
dates whose nominations by party con-
ventions have to be certified to the Secre-
tary of State.
Chairman Afford of the Democratic
State Central Committee personally at
tended to the filing of the certifi-
Gates of his party. He also filed the
resignation of Candidate Maddux, the
nominee of the Democracy for Congress
from the CeFeQLQ MT. maQQu
had been very determined not to be re-
moved by the fusion managers and posed
for time as man standing on principle,
bat he was evidently eaioled or whipped
into line, for he came off his tall horse and
obediently swallowed the party pro-
gramme.
This leaves Messrs. Monteith, Nc
Glashan and Kelly alone standing out.
Mr.. Kelly had his certificate on file some
time ago and McGlashan's came in late
last week, but Monteith's had not ap-
peared and Chairman Afford smiled q
knowing smile as his attention was called
to the absence of Monteith's document.
Monteitb had been apprised of the at
! tempt to keep his name off the ticket, and
he quietly slipped away from town last
Monday night and dropped in on the
enemy at Redding early on Tuesday
morning. 1t was necessary that his cer-
| tihcate OF nomination should be signed by
Joseph Bell, chairman, and John G. MUIR
ply, secretary, of the First Congressional
District Convention, and both those gen.
tlemen reside in Shasta County.
When Monteith boarded the train last
Monday night he found Chairman Afford
among his fellow-passengers Afford was
easily thrown off the track and Monteith
was enabled to reach Redding without
attracting the attention of the enemy.
He found Mr.. Bell home sick in bed
and Mr.. Bell executed the instrument.
There was no Notary Public in the neigh
borhood and the nearest Justice of the
Peace was CT opping wood seven or eight
miles away in the direction of Mount
| Shasta. Monteith tramped through the
chaparral and manzanita brush, stepped
accidentally upon a rattlesnake and
crushed the life out of it, relieved The per-
spring Judge of his ak and brought him
to Judge Bells house, where the certif-
cate was duly acknowledged. Murphy
was found in Redding, and he could find
no way out of it except to sign the docu-
ment, which he did.
In speaking of his candidacy Mr.. Mon
teith said:
NV position is not one of obstinacy self-will,
| nor personal ambition, but is simply because
believe that it is duty to the Populist party,
under the peculiar circumstances existing in
! this case to remain. union of forces fairly
| entered into would have met with my appro.
baton, even though / had been obliged to sac
ritice my own candidacy, but the present u
sion scheme is not only unfair and unjust, but
it is simply part OF prearranged programme
| engineered by the railroad company in combi-
nation with an arrangement made between
Thomas V. Gator and Stephen NJ. White to
sacrifice every material interest of the rank
! and file OF the two parties for the selfish pur-