The record-union., 1898-08-23
TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION.

l
mittee. Temporary organization was
effected by the election of D. Mckay
temporary Chairman, A. Dittmar Sec
retary, and DR.. w. H. Henderson AS
| sistant Secretary.
COMMITTEES APPOINTED.
| On motion of DR.. Henderson, COM
mittee of five on credentials was ap-
pointed as follows: w. H. Burtless,
First District; G. P. Dean, Second Dis
trict; H. Clements, Third District; A
Crawford, Fourth District, and Peter
Schulp, Fifth District.
The following committee was ap-
pointed on Permanent Organization and
Order of Business: First District, DR..
w. H. Henderson, William Boyne, G'
III. Jost, John Aston and James Brad
ford.
A committee Of five on Platform and
Resolutions was appointed as follows:
w. E. Bowles, w. J. Thompson, S. HI
Phillips, J. G. Shaw and Eugene Brad
ford
It was unanimously agreed, in ac-
cordance with established principles OF
the party, to allow no proxies.
At II o'clock recess was taken
until ] O'Clock to allow the committees
time to report.
At 1:30 o'clock the convention reas-
sembled, and the Committee on Creden-
tials reported recommending seating
the list of delegates as above. The re-
port was adopted.
ORDER OF BUSINESS.
The Committee on Permanent Organ
ization and Order Of Business reported,
recommending that the temporary Off
GERS be made the permanent officers of
the convention, and that the order OF
business be as follows:
Appointment of Sergeant-a farms by
the Chairman; nomination for candi-
dates for County Clerk; nomination for
County Assessor; nomination for As
semblyman for the Twenty-sec Dis
trict; nomination for Supervisor for the
First District; election of members for
the County Central Committee.
DEAN AGAINST FUSION.
George B. Dean moved that the re-
port Of the committee be considered
by sections, and the motion prevailed.
Thereupon the temporary officers
were elected permanent officers of the
convention, and Chairman Mckay ap-
pointed Delegate Clements as Sergeant
| alarms.
Then George B. Dean got the floor
and moved an amendment to the re-
port Of the committee by inserting the
following words:
1--WE recommend that this conven-
ton do not fuse with the Demo-
Gratis"
Delegate Bowles moved as a sub
stitute that the report of the COM
mittee be adopted as read. The mo-
ton was carried, Delegate Dean voting
mo-
THE PLATFORM.
The Committee on Platform and Res
olutions handed in the following re-
port:
Resolved, That we indorse the plat
form of the Peoples party as adopted
at Sacramento on July -, 1893, by the
Peoples party in State Convention as
sembIed.
| Resolved, That this committee rec
ommend the Endorsement by this con-
vention Of the action taken by the spe-
cial committee appointed by the Coun-
| ty Central Committee of the Peoples
| party in this convention in regard to
| fusion.
Resolved, That this convention in
dorse the present State textbook sys-
tenn; and believing that it should be
perpetuated in order to augment more
perfect system of free public school
tuition in the State Of California; and
be It further
| Resolved, That the Peoples party.
in County Convention assembled, is in
favor Of maintaining the State Printing
| Office as a necessity to the economic
administration of State affairs
Resolved, That we nominate the can
didates of Democratic and Silver
Republican parties, according to the
agreement Of the committees Of the re-
spective parties"
DEAN ON THE WARPATH.
Then George B. Dean made a per-
sonal attack on James NJ Morrison and
Erskine Greer, Democratic nominees
for Sheriff and Treasurer. respectively.
He denounced them as corrupt to the
bottom, and he protested against fu-
sion.
D. ]. Moynahan said that while fu-
sion was bitter pill, it would be un-
manly to break faith with the Demo
cratic and Silver Republican parties.
He contended that to stand shoulder
to shoulder with their allies meant vic
that the Democrats at that time threw
the Populists down, in the future the
latter party would flock by itself. He
thought he saw a grand chance for a
victory with James G. Mcguire at the
head of the ticket.
The name of Mcguire was cheered
to the echo.
H. w. Woods followed in a talk for
fusion, in the course Of which he as
serted that the Peoples party had ever
been a party Of fusion.
William Boyne took exception to the
assertion, and fatty declared that in
the past the party had not stood on
| fusion lines.
Woods said the party itself was a
fusion of the dissatisfied elements of
the old parties He said the Democrats
had acted fairly throughout, and that
fusion with them meant victory in No
vember.
S. H Phillips Of Florin advocated
fusing with the Democratic party,
which he said had always been a noble
organization.
William Boyne took the floor and said
he was sorry to hear his friend Dean
attack Erskine Greer. He had known
Greer for twenty years, and he had
ever been an honest man. Thieves in
office, he said, usually become rich,
but Greer is a poor man.
The platform was then adopted by
unanimous vote
UNION LABOR.
Delegate Godgast offered a resolution
recommending that all candidates have
/ their Drintinr done hy union labor