The San Francisco call., 1898-08-25

to cheer the mention of its leaders name.
 Judge Davis of Los Angeles, who nominated Gage. was a different mold. Small, self-contained, he Is more an elocutionist than an orator, and except as the representative of the great event of the crucial day would attract little attention in convention. But he knew what he wanted to say, and his grammar and gestures were fault less When he had finished Los An geles went as wild as Alameda had been a few moments before. Then seconds began to pour in.
 A fat man from the south projected into the situation an element of comedy which had been lacking. He had writ ten a speech and proposed to read it. AS nobody could hear he did not re- ceive attention. There were cries of louder" The fat man lost his place, but never his temper. He would go back hunting for the lost place, and, having. found 1t, begin over again. At last his friends pulled him down and drowned him in a sea of mirth. He looked mild ly astonished and settled in his chair as a scuttled ship settles into the ocean. There were suggestions that the secretary read the speech, but it went astray among a clamor of other suggestions that the secretary re- frain, and I fear the world can never know what the fat. man intended to say.
 People desirous of learning of all the speeches will be obliged to turn to an other column. Fisher of Alameda made 70 at first to regard him as joke, and he struck Los Angeles on the funny bone Later he corrected the primal impression and turned the laugh on the south so neatly that the Gage delega- tion had to join in the chorus. Powers of San Francisco hurled himself into an opening which few but himself had been able to discern. He talked for a while and seemed displeased at cordial invitations to quit. going so far as to denounce some of his associates as hoodlums. He seemed to be correct in this, for not long after this two of them engaged In fight. Unfortunately neither was hurt, and for some reason both were allowed to remain in the assemblage.
 After Powers came the incident which was to be the climax of the day and of the convention. The assurance was by this time complete that Gage was to be the nominee, and Pardee ad- vanced to the platform. He could have but one purpose to tear down the ban ner his followers had so valiantly up- held, to bury his own honorable am- bitions and to throw his strength to his opponent. I could not help but ad- mire him, realizing that which he was giving up, and I think his manly and gracious act will be remembered to his good at some later day.
 Then Alameda cheered for its over thrown but still erect champion. and 1t was the voice of Alameda which first proposed that the Gage nomination be made unanimous. There were cheers for Pardee, and cheers for Gage. Up rose the multitude and gave utterance to its feelings. There was more enthu- siasm in the few ensuing moments than there had been in the whole Dem ocratic convention of the week before It was the sort of enthusiasm which we had expected to see, and yet to see 1t come from all the delegates regard less of whom they had supported in the beginning was surprise and a to- ken. The Alameda rooters, headed and shouldered by lengthy Billy Friend, marched around the hall sing ing an improvised Gage song and they were applauded until people were hoarse. There were three cheers pro- posed for Billy Friend. and Friend, not noticing the words, but realizing