The San Francisco call., 1898-06-02
Corporation Influences Made Manifest in a Manner Not Satisfactory to the South
 ern Republicans
Dr. Pardee of Alameda Promotes His Boom for Governor New Officers and National Delegates Elected
 Colonel George Stone, President


 The second and last days session of the League Club" convention brought forth some. surprises and was produc- tive of some results that will: no doubt + be turned to account by candidates and their friends who are, or hope to be, r interested in the outcome of the coming campaign. :-.. -. .- It was day for the programmers, and the things they did not get were the things they did not want. The cor poration Influence, the strength and purpose of which was outlined in these columns yesterday, was brought to the front. and with the aid it received from an unexpected source, together with the assistance of the oscillations of a weak and incompetent chairman, sue = *ceeded. in carrying everything before it. It was a victory of an organized :: minority over an unorganized major tty. :. Incidentally, pr. Pardee demonstrat- ed the fact that he holds control of the. delegation from the Second Con- . to form a junction with the program mers and thereby affect a combination that he hopes will prove of benefit to him when his name Is presented to the State convention as a nominee for Gov ernor.
 To give credit where credit is due it must be said for the programmers that their scheme of conquest was put through with scarcely protest, though at one time they were forced to resort to rush tactics with the inexperienced chairman in order to stop a rising mur- mur. of discOntent among the lambs that were being shorn. It is not to the discredit of the plan of their cam . paign to say that they had planned to .depose this same chairman early in the game, in order that he might not prove a stumbling block to the success of the programme. They did depose him, but it was not until after 1t became necessary in order to procure the adoption of a preliminary measure and shut off the awakening majority, to re- sort to bulldozing tactics.
 The first. business that came before ; the convention at the morning session was the signal for the playing of the first card in the corporation hand. The committee on order of business reported and recommended, among other things, that the concluding work of the con yention should be the election of of f1cers to serve until the holding of the succeeding State convention. This be- ing the course usually pursued by de- Lucrative bodies; this item of the re- port did not attract attention until A. L. Gevinslxy of Stockton, one of the corporation boomers, asked that the election. of officers be proceeded with as soon as the reports of committees were disposed of. Before the significance of the move. was seen Levinsky's motion had been put and carried: President Kinney is from Los Angeles. and as it was the aim of the programmers to defeat the wishes of the southern del- .egateS it was necessary to get rid of a presiding officer who might stand in the. way of those who wished to crip- pie the candidacy of the southern can -didate for United States Senator. This was done a few hours later by the election of new president who at once took charge of the chafrman's gayel and began to discharge the duties of his office. = =
 The greatest stroke of the corpora tfon men was the selection of the com mittee on resolutions. The chairman announced that the committed would be composed of two members from each of the district delegations, each dele- gation to select the members 1t wished to have serve on the committed This resulted in the selection of the follow ing named delegates, beginning with the. First Congressional District and ending with the Seventh:
 r. L. Crothers and D. E. Mckinley. Grove L. Johnson and George F. Me Noble, w. s. ~O'Brien and Thomas Feb by, A. L. Hart and F. Koegel, H."V. Morehouse and I. J. Truman C.. L.. Lloyd and s. M. Haskell, J. A. Whit morus and A. J. Pillsbury
 Grove l.. Johnson was selected as chairman of the. committee, and as a