The San Francisco call., 1899-10-14
Horace Davis to ak
to the People.
FINANCE COMMITTEE FORMED
FILLING OF VACANCIES ON THE
SUPERVISORIAL TICKET.
Mayoralty Nomination of the Peo-
ple's Party-Dictator McNab's
County Committee As
Sembles.

Citizens will assemble at Metropolitan
Hall this evening to ratify the ticket
placed in the field by the Republican
Municipal Convention. Hon. Horace
Davis, the able and distinguished nominee
for Mayor, will address the meeting.
Other speakers of ability will also enter
tain and instruct the audience.
The Republicans enter the local contest
with a firm determination to achieve sue
cess by appealing to the intelligence and
civic patriotism of the great city Of San
Francesca. Prominent men who have
hitherto paid but little attention 10 cleo
ton contests other than those OF national
character are coming forward at the pres
ent time pledging their energies to pro-
mote the success Of the Republican mu-
nicipal ticket as the means of securing
gooa government for the residents Of San
Francisco.
Old timers and young men alike will
join in giving Horace Davis cheering rec
Ogmuon- He has rendered the working
men, the merchants, the bankers, the ed
ILcaJoTs' The boys and the ,girls OF this
Town so many honorable and helpful ser
vices during the past forty years that all
Will be glad to give him the hand of
friendship and wish him success. Horace
DAVIS Is d man of the plain people, whose
lot In lie was cast among the tOilers;
hence II is not singular that he is q man
or human sympathies. He is not what
the rich and smart set would term a bril-
liant man, but he is sincere, honest and
truthful, possessing a fund of sound COM
mon sense useful to the city, and more
to be priced in a public servant than
flashes of oratorical genius.
The Horace Davis Central Republican
Cup headquartersl History building, 723
Market street, is daily gaining large ac-
ceSsions OF members. Republicans ap-
preciate the fact that they haSSe a hard
fight ahead Of them. but confidence in
their ability to win is hourly increasing
The merchants are particularly active IN
the cause OF good government. Yester
Gay the finance committee Of the cam
palSn was organized Fourteen leading
men of the city We're invited to meet at
the Office of Henry T. Scott on Market
street, and not man whose services on
the committee were sought failed to re-
spond. Money necessary for the legiti-
mate conduct of the campaign will doubt
less be contributed by the enterprising
taxpayers OF the community. At the
meeting We're: Irving NJ. Scott, George
A. Newhau, John +. Merrill, ". II.
CroCker, p. n. Lilienthal, Colonel William
Macdonald, Mr.. Sloss of Miller, Sloss d
Scott, and others. The committee elected
W. h CrOcker treasurer.
The committee appointed by the Repub-
hcan convention to I'LL vacancies on the
ticket viii meet to-day. Only two vacan-
Cies are to be filed Mr.. Roster, whose
name was placed on the ticket for Super
visor without his consent, declined to aC-
cept for the reason that business affairs
would not justify his acceptance. l. J.
Truman, treasurer, will be placed on the
ticket, to fill the first vacancy. Joseph
Britton accepted q nomination but de
cided after reflection to withdraw When
he accepted he had not fully weighed the
proposition, but had simply "hefted" it,
The story goes that Phelan persuaded
him TO retire and wrote a letter which
has since placed one or both in a bad
plight. Emmet Barrett, a sterling man
of worth and character, will be placed on
the ticket to I'LL this vacancy The com
mittee had a list Of fifty acceptable men
for each place. Mr. Roster, whose dec
ltnation was regretted, is in full sympathy
with the Republican movement for reform
in municipal affairs and will give Horace
Davis earnest support.
The new Republican County Com
mittee will meet at 723 Market street at
7:30 o'clock this evening and proceed to
the election Of q chairman and secre-
tary. The session will be brief, as the
members will desire to attend the rati-
hcation meeting at Metropolitan Hall.
Delegates Meakin, Kline and Walsh.
comprising q committee from the Peoples
party convention, waited upon Senator r.
Porter Ashe yesterday and urged him not
70 decline the party's nomination for
Mayor. The POpulists are confident of
polling very large vote. 1t is claimed
that thousands of Democrats of the
Bryan following will not recognize the
McNab convention, but on the contrary
will acknowledge the Peoples party as
the regular Democratic organization