The herald., 1898-09-15
EVENING SESSION
Rives for District Attorney-AssessoI
Not Yet Chosen

| taken up as the first order Of THE evening
! session. AS a class, the nominating
speeches were Of a rather unusual charac-
| ter.
s. P. Milford presented the name Of H.
A. Barclay.
| George p. Adams nominated James c.
Rives Of Downey. whom he exploited as a
| great getter Of Democratic votes" Mr..
! Adams' statement that he feared R!ves as
an opponent in court more than any other
man Of his age In The county was received
| with that peculiar sound caused by
min CLING Of handclaps and Kisses, with the
latter predominating The name OF Mr..
Rives, however, was greeted with great
applause.
Dan D. Deeds, the delegate with the d.
vine afflatus from The Fourth ward. was
evidently lahorng under some delus!on, for
| he closed a somewhat grandloquent ora
ton with the words, IAN the man whom
wish 70 place before you for assessor is he
present one-Theodore Summerland" Mr..
Deeds brought down the house very effec
| lively by his well-meant II somewhat
premature and summary efforts in behalf
| Of his candidate.
| Judge Works then took the platform and
in an eloquent speech nominated Byron l..
Oliver, whose name received warm recep-
lion.
At one time r. A. Ling made his way to
The platform, with the evident intention Of
withdrawing his name from consideration,
20 dispense with the tedious process OF iVm-
nation. The chair. however, would no. al
low him 10 speak, reasser:ing the rule that
no one could be considered a candidate
whose name was no: actually before the
convention as SUCH
The Bull in the Ring
The ballot was about 10 be closed when
the ponderous form Of Bull Williams ap-
peared, and Williams, who is not dele gate,
stated his desire to make nomination.
The speaker had no; proceeded far before
1t became evident that he was laboring I'M
der great emotion or some other untoward
influence.
You have been proceeding in your work
today in way to merit criticism" said
he. you have ignored the country and
turned down the bes: man from the coun-
try-Judge Barnes.
II do not know whe;her or not any slate
has been prepared. hope not. can only
make the usual presumption that there Is
none"
so Informed by the chairman, but :in-
ued when the convention cried, go on"
He finally announced his candidate as C. c.
McComas, to whom he referred as the best
man on the coast for the place he sought
Mr.. Williams precarious condition asserted
Itself when he inadvertently addressed the
convention as gentlemen Of the jury" to
the great glee Of the pseudo Jurors. An
- IA h,,h {~ Fnr L
convention as "this congregation"
Then the delegates began to call time"
again.
"There, that's all right. boys; don't be
in hurry. You may think you have got
it dead, but I've seen dead things crawl"
said the orator, at once plungng into a
eulogy Of Mr.. McComas' war record.
"He lay all night on the field Of Chick
cka-Chickamaugway. bleeding from
wounds received In defense Of his country"
Mr.. Williams attack on the word Chicka-
manga was the signal for fresh roar OF
laughter, at which the assistant district
attorney Of the great and glorious county
OF Los Angeles lost his temper.
"lf that laugh means that an old soldier
who has fought and bled for his country is
entitled 10 no recognition you ought to be
swept from the party!" The convention
merely laughed some more, and when MIR.
Williams tried Chlckamauga again with
unsatisfactory results. it laughed yet more
and more vociferously.
Henry Henderson obtained recognition
from the chair and moved that the time
limit rule be enforced. Mr.. Williams called
out to Mr.. Henderson: "Oh, yes, I know
lyou; you have been living of the public
treasury for the last ten years!"
The chair sharply called Mr.. Williams to
order and stated to Mr.. Henderson that
he had called 'time' on Williams, but that
as the convention had broken Its own rule
1t must hear him out. This raised hub
bub in which Williams, the chairman and
half the convention seemed to take part
1.-THE chair finally called Williams to order
because of the language he had used in
limiting that the convention was composed
Of liars and other undesirable elements. and
ordered him to name his candidate and he
done.
With parting reference to Mr. McComas
las a savior of his country, Mr.. Williams
was done-and so was McComas-done to n
turn through the kindly offices of his chan.
pion.
When the delegates were paraded tho
chairman gave a particularly nice intro
duction for Mr.. McComas, doubtless ont NJ
the generosity of his heart and his desire
to mitigate the hoodoo laid on by Williams
His efforts. however. were not at all an
preciated by the other candidates. some NJ
whom expressed their opinions afterwards
on the propriety of the chairman making n
nomination speech.
The ballot was then taken, resulting In