The San Francisco call., 1898-08-19

lected, and consented to act upon that o'clock last night and remained in session until 2:45 this morning. We had be- fore us quite large number of speakers to represent the committee Of one nun dred and we had one there who spoke on his own responsibility, Frank J. Heney;
 These things are preilmlnary 10 the of the Wright resolution. MT. Wright will substantiate my remarks In that re- gard. I knew nothing about it. l am not of it, and I am not the supporter of it. 1 was informed on the way from this con- vention yesterday afternoon that the en- would be cast in favor of primaries in San Francisco for the municipal conven- ton. I was informed that MT; Afford, one of Judge Mcguire throughout this cam paign, was in favor of that proposition, and so were his friends, asked MT Al l. ford on the platform this morning If 1t was true that he was going to support that proposition on the floor of this con vention, and he said it was true. "ur: Afford is here, or will be here soon, and If necessary and called upon he will sub stantiate that statement. This was yes terday afternoon.
 committee met last night, and when the arguments were made in behalf of allow ing the committee to continue to do in regard an to the method of of ealing tions. As the deliberations went on light broke upon me that had not been present tih that e if @ 1 r Supported the proposition, though 1t was In conformity with the po- sition t$at took yesterday here in favor method of representation. that would be totally misapprehended and perhaps mis- represented by some people who are not as much interested in my welfare as am. Therefore at the conclusion of the meeting at quarter of this morning in the presence of MT Max Pepper and MT MT spokesmen of the convention last night, and in the presence of MT. Seth Mann, the chairman of the committee on reso- lutions, of MT. Joseph Leggett, member of the committee on resolutions, and or Mir Ben Maddox, the chairman of the committee on San Francisco organiza tion personal champions of Judge Maguire-I made the deliberate statement in these words: "Gentlemen of this committee, resolution Is not my proposition. It is not a proposition of my friends. It Is a prop osition of those who were engaged in the delegation one-half of the vote I want all of you now to understand and I want the gentlemen from the committee of 100 to tell their friends and go to them and say that personally will not support the proposition of reopening any question of San Francisco organization unless Judge Mcguire affirmatively accepts that prop
 If Judge Mcguire will come out in favor of San Francisco primaries, that is one upon my action but if Judge Mcguire per- sonally and aff1rmatively will not come out and make the fight in the open in favor of San Francisco primaries, I will be entirely opposed to reopening any question settled by this convention, and I personally will be opposed to primaries in San Francisco. If he remains silent | will take the same position. I wanted to clear my skirts; did not want the re- sponsibility of being charged, if anything went wrong In November. with having and continued fights that are supposed to have been settled here yesterday am satisfied personally with the decision of this convention upon that question for this campaign just as much and to exact ly the same extent as I will be satisfied