The San Francisco call., 1898-09-30

 ITS DUTIES
Close of the Legislative, Judicial and Educational
 Convention.

| With cheers for the standard bearers of l their party the delegates to the Republi- | can legislative, judicial and educational l convention concluded their laborS at an 1 early hour last evening and adjourned. l The convention completed its work by | nominating twelve School Directors and l by filling the legislative ticket The hour set for the opening of the convention was 2 o'clock, but 1t was three-quarters of an hour later before the delegates were in | their places and chairman E. l. Wolfe called them to order.
 The chairman announced that the com- | mittee of five to whom was referred the selection of twelve candidates for School Directors was made up of the following delegates: Richard D. Faulkner, chair
 man; E. w. Williams, T. P. O'Neil. Charles Mayors and Bernard Lennon. The platform upon which the nominees of the convention will base their claims upon the suffrages of the people at the forthcoming election was then read by R. D. Faulkner. The reading was punctuat- ed by applause as the strong blanks in the instrument were set forth Upon mo- Hon tk Delegate Gtlilfoyie it was received aaa alopted as the platform of the con vention. Delegate Morgenstern proposed a vote of thanks to the committee for it's able efforts in framing the platform.
 MT. Faulkner again took the center of the stage. this time to read the report of the special committee which selected twelve School Directors from 167 names submitted. He prefaced the report with some remarks, saying, among other things, that If the schools of the county are lacking in any qualities 1t is the fault of the people-they should pay more at- tention to that branch of the government The report follows:
 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 2s, 1898. To the Officers and Members of the Repub- onventiorlMGentiemen: In accordance With motion duly passed by your honorable body at
 ng septembeT ss tSe m appointed committee of five to report and recommend to your honorable body the names Director, to be submitted for your considera- tion out of the names suggested and handed in to the secretary by the delegates of this con- vention Your committee would respectfully re- port that after. their appointment by the chairman of this convention they duly considered the names and qualifications of all candidates for the office of School Director 1s7 in number-and after such consideration they beg to report that out of the multitude of gentlemen eminently qualified to fill the po- | expedient to suggest to the conyentien the names of the following twelve to be selected | the tn of office of School Director: J. 5. Cole Cole, Ed Ed l.; Head, William Kemp John Conlon. I. M. pr. Josef l. Manson. G. E. Armstrong pr. | E. H. Gedge, F. A. Bergerot and William 0. | Stafford.
 The attention or the delegates was then | called to the fact that on the previous esnddste nf for the % term Police Judge. A. B Treadwell was placed in nomination and was elected unani- mouSly.
 Delegate Faulkner said the same lapse had occurred in the matter of School Di- rector, the delegates having overlooked the naming of person to fill the unex- pired term of the late Director Halstead. J. B. Cole was nominated and there be- ing OnnOSittOn elected |
 The various delegations were then heard from in the matter of nominations for announced on the previous evening. When the Twenty-eighth District representatives were called upon to name their Assembly, that they had been unable to agree upon a candidate The fact of an office going begging amused those present. The laugh or Becsy hastily made his way to the place where the Twenty eighth District delegates were seated. His advice was ap- parently not desired as he was greeted coldly and made his way to his seat in a crestfallen manner.
 The list of Senators and Assemblymen A. Hoey in the Eighteenth Senatorial and by adding E. A; Devote in the Thirtieth Assembly; F. F. Sullivan in the Thirty second; Robert Mccullough in the Thfr- ty-third;. j. G. Boobar in the Thirty-sev- enth and Leon B. Jones In the Thirty ninth. The nominees for these offices then
 
 permitted, the men being restricted to the plain statement that they indorsed the platform
 Fred Lees introduced a resolution to the effect that the present Republican County Committee of this city and county be em- powered to i'll all vacancies that may oc- by withdrawal, death or otherwise.
 Gaston Straus presented resolution that Harry N. Gray, P. H. Prendergas st A. Ruef. M. l.. Asher and C. A. Went worth be appointed the auditing commit tee of the convention and of all the Legis- lative, Assembly and Senatorial districts thereof, with all the powers and duties vested in such committee under the pro visions of the purity of elections law.
 Chairman B. I. Wolfe, Vice. Chairman Burdette, Secretary Casey and his assist ants were voted the thanks of the dele gates for their work. whereupon the con vention adjourned sine die