The San Francisco call., 1898-08-11
LIVELY CONVENTION CONTEST
DELEGATES ALMOST COME TO
 BLOWS.
Maguire's Candidacy Is Indorsed and Senator White Is Urged to Stand for a Re-
 election.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10.-Interest in matters political in this city to-day centered in the Democratic convention for the election of delegates to the State convention and the selection of a County Central Committee. Judge Albert M. Stephens was elected chair man. In his speech accepting the honor he said:
 T am glad the Democratic party has cast out of the party that tool or the monopolies. Grover Cleveland.
 The morning session was enlivened bv the contest in Cahuenga Precinct, which resulted in the throwing out or I. w. Mitchell, a man who mas been prominently identified With the Denoc- racy of this county for many years and the seating of G. w. Albright negro in his stead. During the discus sion accompanying this action the lie was freely passed and at times per sona1 encounters between Mitchell and members of the convention were parely averted.
 The committee on resolutions com mended Hon. Stephen M. White TOT the fidelity. ability, integrity and courage with which he had discharged hls du- ties as a United States Senator, placing him in the forefront of the great states men and constitutional lawyers or the nation, and extended to him the thanks of the convention and the Democratic party for the great services rendered by him to the people of the State or California.
 The resolutions tndorse the admins tratton and promise to sustain the ad- ministration in the vigorous prosecu- ton of the war against Spain until its final and triumphant close.
 The convention indorsed the candi- dacy of James G. Mcguire for Governor and instructed the delegates to vote for him as a unit, and further instructed the delegates to secure the adoption py the State convention of plan Of CO., alition with the silver Republicans and the PopuliSt parties to carry out lne plan recently outlined at Sacramento
 Considerable friction occurred during the selection of the delegates to the State Convention, particularly so in the Third and Fourth SuperVisorial Dis tricts. where the fusionists were unable to fully deliver to the k1lted McNab and his fellow self-conStituted Demo cratic bosses, Afford and Gould. the clean slate they had promised. The re- suit is that out of the eighty-one dele gates selected at least twenty are anti fusionistS.
 The appearance of Senator Stephen M. White upon the floor of the convan- ton during the evening session was made the occasion of a most hearty greeting on the part of the members. to which Senator White responded. thank- ing the convention for it's expression of confidence. Speaking upon the annexa- tion of territory by the United States he said:
 T doubt the wisdom of the acquisi- tion of an alien race or the acquisition of the Philippine Islands. Shall we bring into our grand republic an alien race which does not understand our institutions? 4 republic cannot exist unless 1t is controlled by intelligence. We less than all can afford to bring into her confines a people who are un- able to meet the requirements of citi- zenship. We ought to remember that we are to-day adopting a new policy and we ought to pause.
 T am not yet ready to say what po- sition I shall take regarding the treaty. I give to it every moment of my time, and I shall act according to my convictions, irrespective of the opinions of others"
 Senator White then announced that he would retire to private life at the end of his term in the Senate; that he was too poor to again become a can didate and must, therefore, decline reelection.
 It was the sense of the convention, however, that Senator White had nothing to say about the matter, and that 1t was his duty to again offer himself for the place. The convention adjourned at n30.