The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-18
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1ouuo 10 @;ll causes nroa,,oa that
success on the, one side and failure on the
other just as long as men are strugglinp
for political office.
Pr; Pardee, his principal opponent-a
splendid citizen, man for whom | have
always mad most sincere admiration and
friendship, and whose conduct in that con-
vention lifted him almost to the stature
OF coolest that nomination. Why?
Because ne had been engaged in a fignt
with Mr.. Davis in Alameda County and
had not taken occasion to look outside the
county. He and Mr.. Davis were pulling
hair SO much inside of the limits of Ala.
media County that they did not know
1 what was going on outside; They went
behind them-a splendid lot-but when
they got up there they found that the
h henn 1ney dexpie t to pillow with had
VINO came up together, and the game was
made by the time they got there and that
is the explanation of the whole business.
old Jake Neff, mirror of honesty q man
OF the most ultimate independence in
thought and action, into whose face no
and his character there lying as clear and
sweet and bright as the pebbles under
meath nia the Pellucid water Of the brook
made anything half as good. You NAV
go down through that ticket, and the
result of it was, as is always the case,
conventlon-a convention Of 700 or 800 men men
with $50 or 200 valiant friends beside
him, who would make, any reasonable
able to combine here and there and there
and here. and the thing naturally took its
course. 1t was not the result Of the de-
l pates on the floor of the convention.
were-were perfunctory, but everybody
knew what the result was going. to be, be-
1t was the fairest convention, the least
interfered with by corporate power and
control, that was ever held In the State
of California
Did the railroad write the platform?
Why. fellow-citizens. that unfortunate
committee on platform was appointed in
the afternoon and went out and went to
see in some conventions, where the com
mittee on platform and resolutions goes
out and comes in in half an hour with
written out and crystallized which ex-
presses the plans and purposes of the
party, But those men went to work about
worked steadily until II o'clock the next
railroad? Had Mr. Herrin Sent io up 't te
5esm erPn e en PFhsRars fSise T9n
read it. Now. the Democratic party
adopted a resolution condemning the leg,
islation Of the last Gongress in respect to
debt. 1t was unanimously adopted BIZ
Senate and by House/as a rider to a bill.
where a single objection would have pre-
vented its going through 1t was consid
cred, upon review of all the circum
stances, fair and just. 1t was without
limit as to time. but the amendment of
Mr.. Barham (Republican) of California
limited the time within which that might
be accepted to a single year. 1t went
through with unanimous consent. That
don't make any difference to the Demo
cratic party of California. They treat
that just as they do the silver question
as living issue: just the same as If they
were in favor of slavery to-day They
would issue a resolution that the adolf
ton of negro slavery was a crime and q
wrong upon the South, and try to make
1t an issue in the campaign. So they have
the silver question, and now they keep
up that cry Of mad dog about the rail-
/ say 1t with all reverence-Mr. Mcguire