The herald., 1898-09-19
WILL Be TURNED DOWN
SANTA MONICA MAKES PREPAR-
ATOMS FOR DELEGATES
WHERE THEY WILL MEET
Hutton Talks About Lou Browns Ly-
ing and U. S. Grant, Jr., Tells
What He Is Going to Do

A concerted effort on the part of a small
body of alien delegates TO, the Democratic
convention TO be held at Santa Monica this
week is being made to prevent the recon-
mendations Of the fusion committee from
being ratified by the convention.
| The railroad push" that was ignomin
.ously defeated and kicked out of the Demo
cratic state convention, so far as active
work was concerned, is beyond question the
head and front of the opposition to be mani
| tested.
| AS was clearly shown in the Republican
county convention just closed. the railroad
wants certain offices in this county under
It's control and Uncle Coils local henchmen
have set their trap to catch the nominees
coming or going.
In other words, the railroad wants the
coming convent lions at Santa Monica to
nominate men whom the candidates they
have already succeeded in securing In the
Republican county covention can easily
defeat or want men nominated who will
serve the railroad If elected on the fusion
ticket.
That the delegates to the fusion conven-
tons will refuse to aid Uncle Coils in his
scheme to recapture the state is a foregone
conclusion, and it is believed that the at
tempt of the S. p. delegates, who have crept
into the comm Democratic county conven-
ton as they crept into the Democratic
state convention at Sacramento, Will be a 5
readily met as they were in the latter body,
and as easily disposed of.
More easily. in fact, for the honest dele
gates to the Democratic county convention
have documentary evidence against GER
tain delegates, and the best elements of the
party are Of one mind upon the proposition
to turn out of the county convention every
man elected a delegate who is known to
have used S. p. railroad passes in an at
tempt to bribe delegates who went to Sac
ramento.
While the leaders of the Democratic.
Popul.st and Silver Republican parties in
this county deplore the necessity of the
slightest friction in the nomination of their
ticket, they prefer a contest to the nomina-
tion of any man supported by the railroad
forces They propose to go before the peo-
pie with clean hands and clean ticket
The convention will undoubtedly adop:
the ultmatum Of Mcguire at Sacramento.
He said: Gentlemen, the railroad must go
out of the Democratic conventions II lose
every vote Huntington claims he can take
away from me-"
The contest promised in the fusion con-
ventions seems to hinge upon the nomina-
tion Of one man. He admittedly would not
be the choice of a majority of the delegates
were the members Of the three conventions
to be assembled in one body and vote upon
the selection Of the nominees but he has
backing which is skeeping him in the fight
to nominate and defeat him at the polls or
in the event Of failure to nominate him
to try and use him to disrupt the fusion
forces.
The hundreds of men who are honestly.
heart and soul, in the fusion fight, not for
pelf or political preferment, but for clean,
honest government in county and state,
remember protestations made by this can
didate picked up by the railroad push as
their leader and he will be asked to stand
by his declarations made in the past or
step down and out with the rest of Uncle
Coils men who are in the convention for
the sole purpose of creating dscord.
So far as the nominees of the coming con-
vention are concerned, it is hard just
now to make selections AS stated, the
delegates to all three conventions are de-
termined that strong, clean county ticket
shall be nominated and many men who
have positively refused to run for a NOM
nation are being persuaded to reconsider
their determination and allow their names
to go before the convention, because 1t is
believed that they can win out in the race.
That the ticket put together by the Re-
publicans last week was not, is not ,and
will not be satisfactory as a whole to the
voters of this county no one who has
talked to stalwarts or mugwumps will
deny.
The chance to send the railroad to defeat
in Henry Cages own county has deter
mined many men to make personal sacr,-
fees in order to help out the good work by
taking nominations which they have not
sought and will only accept for the party's
good.
The arrangements for the conventions at
Santa Monica are complete. A large teri
has been erected for the Democratic con-
vention and their committee rooms viii
adjoin it. The Silver Republicans will
meet In the assembly room at the Arcadia
hotel with committee quarters in various
rooms in the building. The Populists will
meet in the opera house, with committee
rooms in adjoining buildings. No time
will be wasted in useless preliminaries. The
work of the conventions has been clearly
outlined and no delegates need fear being
unnecessarily kept away from business
The Democratic tent is already in order,
the seats having been put In Saturday and
the decorations will be completed today
This being Santa Monicas first expert
ence in the convention line the citizens are
leaving noting undone that will add to the
comfort, convenience or pleasure of the