The San Francisco call., 1898-08-25

: CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO. Aug 24 - The Republican delegates and onlookers were fla :; vored. with another fearful day. As
 they came together in the pavilion they paid compliments to the climate , of. Sacramento for the agreeable tenn :. nerature. but nevertheless hustled up to :. the secretary's desk to get their return tickets signed to enable them to leave town immediately after the adjournment. $ At 9:+5 Chairman Neff directed the con- :vention to come to order. A report was at once called for from the committee on :Gredentials. A member of the committee :announced that the report was not quite ready, but would be in shape for sub :. l1lission within a few minutes The chair declared a recess of ten minutes. .~ On the platform, occupying the velvet .. cGshions in the rear of the chairman, were : Major Frank Mclaughlin. General W. H. L: Barnes, George A. Knight, Timothy .GiUy' Phelps, Paris kilburn, Frank Pow
 CTS: Colonel John P. Jackson, Collector of. the Port of San Francisco, and M. R. Higgins. The array of metropolitan tal- ;: ent challenged the admiration of specta- =: When the chair again commanded or :: der. Mir. Hooking, chairman of the com
 Tn1ttee on credentials, presented a re- SACRAMENTO. Aug. 24 1898 '~ To the Chairman and Members of the Re .. publican State ConTention-GenteTnen: Your
 69umittee on credentials begs leave to report as
 Loilows:. Three contests were presented for :. our consideration, viz; First-Involving seat as delegate at large from Nevada County. Sec ->'o!ii.Involving the seats of thirty-one of the thirrs-three sitting delegates from santa Clara
 1.auIlty. Third-InvolvinG a seat in the Fresno :. qeiegation.
 tF;ase cases. after full hear nE. are Gs follows:
 . Tn the Nevada County case. that no delegate
 ;;o1;;1,.,3 tbat nejtiie- of inc ciairnsnts he
 raE 1tT hat ba r1 1 ri fFf :. gates regularly elected be permitted to vote
 $ha full appoTtionnent Of eleven votes to which It thA county Is entitled
 -; Th the santa Clara case We find the sitting :. .Nelegation entitled 10 seats in this convention :. Fn the Fresno case we find Joseph Le Blanc : entitled to a seat as the alternate of ". R.
 Williams. vice the proxy named on the tenn .poiaSy roll and so recommend it.
 We further recommend that this convention
 take steps to provide for rules and regulations
 to govern the conduct of our primary elections
 thrQuEhoUt the State.
 credited delegates. from the various counties T. c. ROCKING. Chairman MAX GOLDBERG. Secretary.
 . The report was readily adopted on
 .fhotien of H. P. Sonntag of San Fran cisco.
 = Grove L. Johnson. from the committee . on permanent organization and order of . business, read the report of that com :mttee. The report was published in The
 adoption of the report. Carried
 = Reuben H. Lloyd of San Francisco chairman of the platform committee, sent
 word that twenty minutes more time
 would be required to complete the work on the resolutions. Chairman Nef de- :;cided that another recess would not be
 advisable. He judged that the conven- ton would be glad to hear from the elo- 1duent orators of the party who were then
 lined up on the stage. The suggestion f;,eIicited instant applause, and thereupon
 the chair named General Barnes as the : first. speaker to fill in the waiting time, and asked that three cheers be given to the orator
 As General Barnes stepped forward to
 address the convention, the delegates gave him the compliment of three rousIng , rouucs of spoken applause The senti-