The San Francisco call., 1898-09-16
.S7RA|GHT-OUT
 P0PUL|STS IN
 CONVENTION Their Alameda County
 Ticket Named. OMAHA PLATFORM ADOPTED A DIRECT BLOW AIMED AT
 SHERIFF WHITE. Under the Ruling of Secretary Brown the Party Anticipates No Diff
 fculty in Getting on the Ticket.
OMAHA PLATFORM ADOPTED
A DIRECT BLOW AIMED AT
 SHERIFF WHITE.
Oakland office San Francisco Call.
 Q0Q Rrnndua Car,t

Oakland office San Francisco Call,
 90S Broadway. Sept. 15.
 The straight Populists, the middle-of- the-road people. unadulterated with any Mcguire ingredient, held their county convention in Fraternal Hall tonight and nominated the following ticket, leaving all vacancies to be filled by the County Central Committee: County Clerk, 6. h. Read of Alameda; Sheriff. Sam Heller, Oakland; Tax Collector, J. c. Estey East Oakland; Treasurer, w. Fl. Miller. Oak land; Recorder, pr. R. Hesse, Oakland; !; Auditor, Fred T. Hale, Oakland; District Attorney, J. K. Pierson, Oakland: As sessor. J. I. Van Buskirk, Oakland; Su- perintendent of Schools, Edgar Markham of Oakland; Coroner, Dr. J. L. Keller, Oakland; Public Administrator, T. T. Frickstad, East Oakland; Surveyor, no nomination; Supervisors-Second District. A. A. Silver; Third District, E. P. Maxey; State Senator, Twenty-sixth District, B. K. Lowe: semblyman-Forty-fir Dis trict, K. H. Shaw of Warm Springs; For ty-seventh District S. G. Mitchell of Ala meda; Forty eighth District, D. R. Ford of Oakland; Forty-ninth District, George Fl. Wright of Lorin; Fiftieth, w. F. Bliss of Oakland; Fifty-first, A. T. Dewey of Oakland; Justices of the Peace-Oakland Township, Joseph E. Innes and w. J. Og- lesby; Brooklyn Township, E. A Moody Constables-Oakland Township, Joseph l.. Palinbaum; Brooklyn Township, Frank Cartier and G. L. Aurticen.
 The following new auditing committee was appointed: J. J. Menges, Charles Rogers, James Grimmings, c. U. Hitch cock, c. J. K. Jellstrom. The County Gen. tral Committee as selected heretofore was indorsed to act during the campaign
 A. A. Bretz was elected chairman and c. N. Hitchcock secretary, assisted by F T. Hale. The basis of representation was ten delegates to each of the six Assembly districts in the county, and of these sixty at least fifty were in attendance. The from other districts. The platform as re- ported by Dr.. J. U. Oberg and adopted re- afiir.ns the Omaha platform of 1892 and July IA, isss It favors the enforcement of all constitutional laws pertaining to school books and also favors the constt- tutional amendment referring to the of all county expenses. It pledges the legislative candidates, if elected, in favor of municipal ownership and control of public. utilities it condemns all those elected upon the Populist party platform who have violated their pledges to the people, especially where they lobbied against a reduction of salaries, which they had previous to election so earnestly longer representatives of the party.
 During the evening collection was taken to defray all expenses. and s6 8 was realized.
 The paragraph in the platform relating to salaries Is especially directed at Sheriff White. w. J. Oglesby, nominated for Justice of the Peace. is an Afro American attorney. F. J. Gregory, chairman of the fusion county committee, was invited to seat on the platform, but positively de- cllned. Under the ruling of Secretary not have any difficulty in getting on the ticket.