The San Francisco call., 1898-07-14

hand in hand with themselves, the Silver Republicans
 Judge Phillips proceeded at once to place himself on a friendly footing with his hearers and get them into good humor. He succeeded admirably, and before he had spoken five minutes he had fusionists and middle-of 1.-the roadsters cheering him wildly. Then he proceeded to recount the misdeeds of the Republican party which caused him and his followers to break away, and pictured the common purpose or the three so-called reform parties. Skillfully he led his hearers on, care fully avoiding all reference to any one candidate, but always holding up the certainty of defeat unless union of the three forces was effected.
 It was a clever effort and 1t won. Judge Phillips was rendered unanim- ous vote of thanks and left the conven- tion with the fusion faction again in fighting trim But even then they were far from being united on plan of pro- cedure, and had the anti-fusionists numbered one man who was competent to take up the leadership on the floor 1 their defeat might have been aVerted. But Gator, who had been the recipient of a savage though covert onslaught at 1 the hands of Judge Phillips, seemed to l lose his grip and let matters go by the | board. To be sure, he rallied during recess and called the Los Angeleno i down in vigorous fashion, but during ! the afternoon he took no part in the
 alignment of his forces other than to deliver two speeches in open conven- | tion, which were by all odds quite the
 best bits of Populistic oratory heard | during the convention.
 After Phillips speech, Gillespie of | San Francisco submitted the report of | the committee on rules and permanent | organization. There was minority re- | port and a bad parliamentary tangle, | which terminated after much wasted
 energy in a vote to lay the minority on
 the table. It was lost by vote Of 70 to l "A a victory for the anti-fusionists. The
 others would not have it, however. and
 demanded a roll call, and the motion 1 was carried by a vote of 153 10 138, a
 decided gain for the middle the l roadsters over the vote for chairman yesterday.
 They seemed to rally some at this
 showing. but the Democrats were sta toned In an ante-room, where they
 were conducting the proceedings on be-
 half of the fusionists. and did not le'
 them get much further
 The appointment of committee tc
 confer with the Democrats concluded the morning session, the fusionists hay
 ing succeeded in preventing any report l by the committee Ou Oluci Ol puoillcSS
 beyond effecting a permanent organiZa-
 ton by the retention of the temporary
 officers, even the resolution providing
 fer the nomination of Governor being
 held up for the time being.
 During recess caucuses and confer.
 ences were held on all sides The flu
 sionists met in the Senate chamber, th'
 middle-of the roadsters in the Supreme
 Court chamber and the joint committee
 of Democrats and Populists in the AS
 sembly chamber The only ones to ac complish anything were the joint com
 mitee They prepared a report. whicf they discreetly held back until they
 could make an attempt to force yot on Governor, secret orders going ou , from them for such move. The flu sionists, with their safe majority, coult not agree upon plan- For tim'
 they canvassed the situation with opel
 doors, some favoring the straight noni nation of Maguire, while others con tended for the old plan of leaving tn head of the ticket open. Wardall pro . tested against this on the ground tha
 if the convention adjourned withou , making any nomination the vacanc. , could not be filled afterward. He sai' : 1t would be far preferable to put up
 dummy ticket and let the nominees re sign later and then their places coul, 7 be filled by the State Committee. } The discussion was still in progres ' when a tip was received from the con ? ferees and the caucus went into execu 5 tive session. This lasted only fes