The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-21
DEMOCRATS
HOLD THEIR
PRIMARIES
Will Probably Fuse
With Populists.
CONVENTIONS SAME DAY
AN INDEPENDENT TICKET MAY
BE BORN.
Unfortunate Candidates Are Busy
Telling Each Other How They
Failed of Nominal
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,


Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
9OS Broadway, Sept. 20.
Next Saturday the Democrats will hold
their county convention. There is not
a rush of candidates for the offices, but
still there are some who are willing to
take their chances. This evening the
primaries were held all over the county,
and the convention will be composed of
15S delegates.
The Populists primaries were also held
this evening, and their convention will
take place in Grand Army Hall next Sat
urday. An attempt is now being made
to appoint committees from each of the
conventions to agree upon a basis by
which the nominations can be divided
and a complete fusion ticket nominated.
The Populists are split right in two, the
middle-of-the-road men having already
held their convention and nominated a
county ticket.
Now that the Republican convention is
over there is much talk of putting up a
complete independent ticket. Already
enough candidates have signified their
intention of making independent cam
paigns to form the nucleus of such a
ticket.
James Taylor is already running inde-
pendently for Coroner, Louis Schaffer for
Sheriff, A. K. Grim for Recorder, and it
is now said that Justice Cliff could be
persuaded to run for District Attorney;
John Cronin for Township Justice. and
E. l.. Lawrence for Justice of the Peace
Of Brooklyn Township Others are also
mentioned who would be willing to make
up a complete independent ticket, but
no such ticket would cut any figure in
this party year.
Justice Lawrence is the most surprised
man in the county to-day. He went to
the convention yesterday in a brand new
suit Of clothes, In one pocket of which
Somehow or other, by one Of those Quirks
so common in untrammeled conventions,
Professor l. V. Inskeep received the
nomination, and Justice Lawrence is still
Constable Cronin thinks he was not
rightly treated by the district conven-
ton of Oakland Township. He also had
cinch until the evening before the ,S con
Quinn came out on top. Cronin said that
Colonel Dan Burns turned him down, at
which everybody laughed, for this is the
first intimation that Colonel Burns took
though it is not impossible that he had an
interest in the legislative ticket.
The new Republican County Central
Committee elected yesterday is as fol-
end Ward, A. II; Breed: Third Ward,
G. Potts; Fifth Ward, Clarence croweii:
Sixth Ward, Frank Barnett: Seventh
E Ma5a w B b dFpse A H. w. Re b
Murray, ]. o. McKown; Washington. S.
e. ARCHIBALD; Eden. H; d; Drummer; Oak
land Township j. A. B. Hutton.
The complete list of Justices and Con-
stables is as follows:
City Justices-J. w. Stetson, Mortimer
Smith.
Oakland Township = Justice, J. G.
Quinn; Constables, Ed Weidler and ].
Williamson.
Alameda City-Justice, H P Morris:
Constables, George E. Clark and George
Gray.
Brooklyn Township-Justice L. V. ms
keep; Constables, Harry Cramer and
Paul Weuthe.
Eden Observation-Disclosures. William Dale
and John Black; Constables, w. j. Ram
age and D. d. Gates.
Murray Township-Justice, J. H Tay-
Tor; Constable, Larkin Lock
Washington Township = Justices, S.
Sandholdt and ]. B. Thompson; Consta-
bles, 5: Vandervoort and J. Murphy
The Republican Reliance, the finest uni
formed club in the State, has sent out the
following:
Members of the Republican Alliance are re-
quested to assemble at headquarters Elite
Hall, corner of Twelfth and Webster streets
Wednesday evening at o'clock sharp to ar.
range for active political work in the present
State and Congressional campaign and for the
transaction OF any other business that NAV
come before the meeting
GEORGE w. MORROW, President