The San Francisco call., 1898-08-13

l free the Democratic party or boss rule and for pure politics" o4 Attorney W. B. White-The pr1nclple oI appointing delegates is entirely wrong. l The delegates should be elected py tIIe people. l am opposed and always VIII pe | to an appointing power Tn matteIS ol 1 ti!I. l kind Delegates sent to a State, county | or municipal convention are there 10 rep, | resent the people. If they are Selecteu | by one man or three men, or a Sodlr o roi.1s n e | ton of men, those selecting them are I SS ! suming a power that is not DeIiocI at.C, . As I understand 1t, the Democratic par y ! Is the party of the people ana any aS
 sInnti6n of appointing power is undem- l ocratic. I believe that the people shOJla i(, | at all times have the say as 70 ~no WI; l should represent them. Let there pc pr | maries held whenever possible, ana then the people will have an opportuIIty oI expressing their views concer.tlnf I
 Ubo are supopsed to represent them III conyention. Fhe appointment of dele
 gates IS against every Democratic pm
 F w Leonhardt, member Democratic
 State Central Committee-l have always
 been opposed to any appointlVe power. AS
 traI Committee l have simply thls u u
 say, that I believe in doing unto others IleI
 as YOU would have them do unto you.
 I would not be satisfied With an aPpolIle- Pppo.l.l
 ed delegation from San Francisco Coun-
 tv this county or any other county believe that the people who VIII De eA
 pected to support the Democratic liChf5e Ittt5 !
 next election day should have some nttIe
 voice in the matter of selecting the dele-
 gates who are to represent them at sac
 Tamento While I may not have sun
 cfan+ influence or power to unSeat the apnOjnted delegates from San trancisco,
 believe that these should be unseated and if the opportunity is anorded me shall vote to unseat them
 Hon Seth Man believe that the authority to appoint delegates to con vention should not be encouraged. mere
 may be occasions, however, when a,itsa the q ,ta pointment of delegates may be advisable and even necessary Generally sPeakIIlfg fi, 2, | l believe that primaries should be helo whenever practicable, o+ T. c. Stoddard, a prominent DenocLdt' ex-postmaster of Alameda-I never pe- lieved in the appointment or ue16gdttS99 tts the principle is decidedly wrong. at By I[lts method the McNab faction can perpet- ! uate themselves in poWer-then can eiecI their own chairman of the state S Sen- | tral Committee and that indlVlduai can | appoint twenty committeeman at large. l Then they can appoint another commit ] tee of one hundred and control the dele- ] gation from San Francisco every elec- [ T am frank to say" Mir. stoddard con ! tinued that I know nothing about the personnel of either delegation, but the aP- | pointment of a delegation for large poqy of Democrats is a bad principle to estap- | fish as a precedent. In my judgment such 1 a large body of Democrats as IS 10 pc | found In San Francisco should nave the 1 privilege of electing their own delegates | l do not consider l. good politics 10 ap-
 T cite a similar case winch occurred ] some years ago in the camp of the enemy, | and if I remember right, the appointed | delegates were unseated and those who
 were elected at primaries were seated. l So 1t is really an accepted principle to send delegates to a convention who were
 elected. The other method leads to an
 improper control. I favor the recognition
 of those delegates who were properly
 elected at primaries.
 F. W. Voogt, another State delegate
 from Alameda who Is numbered among
 the city's leading Democrats, and is pres
 ident of the Alameda Bimetallic Club, is
 opposed to the method employed by the l McNab faction. ''In case of needed ac-
 tion," says MT voogt, "I would favor a compromise-thati is. would favor giving
 each delegation half vote'
 T. s. CrandalI, who has always taken a
 prominent part in Democratic politics in 1 Alameda County, and who is an earnest worker in the interest of his party, was i also honored with election as a delegate ! to the Democratic State Convention. l When interviewed tonight he said: "I am heartily opposed to the appointment of | any set of delegates by that committee. I ] shall go to Sacramento as delegate | elected at the primary, and I shall most 1 assuredly oppose the seating of the dele | qation appointed by the committee. It l doesn't give the rank and file of the Democratic party a fair and square deal" |