The San Francisco call., 1898-08-20
DELEGATES
 MUST NOW
 EXPLAIN Trouble Ahead for the Programmers.
THE EXAMINER DENOUNCED
THE LOS ANGELES CONTINGENT
 AND ITS SPOIL.
Convention Aftermath That Is the Straw Indicating the Direction of Coming Political
 Freezes.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Aug. 19-The last of the dele gates to the Democratic State conven- tion have shaken the dust of Sacra- mento from their feet. Many ot them left this morning, but few renamed as late as o'clock this afternoon. | Among these were James G. Magufre, l the Democratic nominee for Governor, United States Senator Stephen M. White. William H. Afford and some who may be referred to as lesser nghls of the late galaxy of Democratic stars Almost the sole topic of conversation among the departing delegates IS the i circumstances connected with the Iu- tile attempt of the Examiner, aided by Gavin McNab and Mayor Phelan, to
 force Judge James V. Coffey on the convention as the nominee for Asso- 1 ciate Justice of the Supreme Court. III | doing so the combination attempted To defeat Judge William M. Conley or Ma | dera by methods that were so dlSrep- utabIe as to call forth the most sever" criticism. The part taken by the LOS | Angeles and San Francisco delegations | in the disreputable proceeding IS con- 1 sidered particularly worthy or co-I- | demnation. The Los Angeles men, con- posed largely of railroad politicians ana l corporation dummies, came 10 the con- yention under an agreement 10 vote ds ! a unit on all propositions. The deleSa- l tion was composed of eighty-one mem 1 bers it caucused eighty-one tlineS; | made eighty-one personal enemies ana went home this morning with spoits consisting of one Populist nominee TOT Lieutenant Governor, one SlIVet ds publican nominee for Attorney Genefdi and one Populist nominee for Ralrodu | Commissioner Considering the 1dcl that these men had already been nolillc
 mated, as long ago as the rnlouIe oI July, by the Pinto-PopuISt con VellltoIi l.C,ll
 under the fusion agreement IL SeeIlo hardly necessary to press tae IioiA deeper into the souls of the unllleu uel- egates from the southern metropoIls.
 If this was the sum of the mlsdolngS 1 of the Los Angeles delegation US Hleln-
 hers would no doubt be comparatlVeIy 1 bannv. As it Is. they are trying to find | means of explaining away a long isI
 of broken promises and obligations ols-
 regarded, to say nothing Of thelr ac-
 tion in joining forces with the simon
 pure reformerS who do the pluu1,le A
 the Examiners political bureau. TO De-
 gin with they entered into a solemn
 obligation to vote for Judge HugneS
 of San Diego for Associate Justice of
 the Supreme Court, first, last ana all
 the time. With this in mind they en- |
 McNab, Mayor Phelan and the FIX
 aminer, the understanding being that
 the delegation would vote to seat the
 McNab delegation as against the liar
 ney delegation, providing the McNap
 delegation would vote for the nomlna-
 tion of Judge Hughes. The Los An
 eeles delegation carried out their part
 of the agreement, but the San Francis
 co crowd, acting under orders from US
 bosses, declined to have anything to
 do with Judge Hughes. The railroad
 push from the south then held some
 more caucuses and decided to throw
 Hughes overheard and plump for Cof-
 few This decision was not arrived at
 until almost every member or the del-
 egation had been buttonholed by the
 Examiner bosses and some Of the
 more conscientious members inffu-
 enced by the insfnuation that the rail-
 road was trying to secure the nomina-
 tion for Judge Conley.
 It so happened, fortunately for the
 reputation of the convention, that the
 raw work of Mayor Phelan, McNab
 and the others made apparent the kind
 of job they were engaged in working and the result was that the country
 delegation combined and secured the
 nomination for Conley by an over whelming majority. One incident that Is receiving great deal of condem- ] nation to-day was the action of Mayor
 Phelan in announcing, on the last roll
 call, the vote of the San Francisco del- egation as being 153 for Coffey and for Conley. Eleven members of the delegation jumped to their feet and : announced that their votes were for Conley and not for Coffey. The incl dent Is looked upon as one of the most
 disgraceful acts of the whole disgrace full proceeding.
 Another circumstance that has created a great amount of unfavorable | I,ry $1,o CH% ,1,@%
 the part of the Examiner to deceive the public in the matter of the nominee for
 member on the State Board of Equal . ization for the Third District. The
 Third District convention met here yes : terday and nominated Richard H. Bea- l mer of Woodland by exclamation, con- trary to the wishes of the Examiner politicians. This morning the paper publishes what purports to be list of 3 the nominees of the convention, and 8 for the Third Equalization District l gives the name of George Thresher of Butte as the nominee. Thresher was = the fusion nominee for the position, but z was repudiated by the district conven- . tion The Democrats of the district are , indignant, and others from all parts . of the State, among them being many @ who allowed themselves to be made T tools of the Examiner politicians, de- 2 2 clare that such a bare-faced attempt 7 to deceive the public was uncalled for
 and unwise. On top of all this the paper
 has declared in f1aring headlines that
 all of the men who were nominated contrary to the wishes of the Examiner
 secured their nominations by reason of
 the influence of the Southern Pacific e Company. AS it is true that the same f men who nominated Mcguire for Gov !, ernor also nominated the others who l. are so obnoxious to the Examiner then {, 1t must be also true that Mcguire was l. Of vol tJrrno fy,
 fiuence.
 From what was to be seen and heard
 here to-day and during the closing " hours of the convention, there is every , good reason to believe that explanations n will be the order of the day for some u +i,,oa +o oo,,oa Tho faW delegates who