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lagher and the fight was on. O'Donnell
tookathe floor to explain his amendment.
He made the following statement:

lagher, and the fight was on. O'Donnell
took4the floor to explain his amendment.
He made the following statement:
For the information of this convention.
which seems to think that I should not have
offered this amendment 1 desire to say that
your committee has accepted two men rec
commended by the minority of this convention
and have omitted the third recommended by
the minority. l desire to state that oyertures
have been made looking to the harmonization
of results in this convention. and as a part
of this convention has, after careful deiiber-
alton, selected these three names and offered
them as their proportional representation to
which they feel themselves entitled-three out
of eighteen on that board: and 1 therefore
demand, In Justice to this minority, that no
shutting be done with the names recommend
ed by
Osgood Putnam, who represented the
majority and as chairman of the COM
mittee, was next heard. He was heartily
applauded by the majority at the conclu-
sion of his speech. He spoke as follows:
If you will permit me few words as chair
man of this committee, we have considered
every name presented by majority or minor
ity of any kind and character that included
many outside. We have had numerous meet
ings, and our total endeavor has been to
present to this convention names that will be
agreeable to the members and satisfactory u
the voters at large. The labor has been great
and we have endeavored to meet the wishes Of
every single member on the floor of this house
There is not single name there that has not
been considered with that in view. and with a
this body, and the labor has been complete
1t is handed to you as a whole; it represents
a harmonization of the forces and / think
the gentleman who has moved that amend
ment will not upon second thought find it
necessary to make even change in that
report
TELLS PLAIN TRUTHS.
George E. Gallagher told some plain
truths to the delegates. He did not mince
| nrdo nd +J,o
convention hall in protest. He was inter
rupted time and again by the friends of
the County Committee but he spoke with
out fear. He said:
1 can tell you, Mr. Chairman, that seconded
that amendment in good faith. I have tried to
cret, always acting in good faith for the well
fare of the party and for the good of Democrats
at large if they would let me act as such; but
| it seems all the time. from the first evening
this convention convened until the present hour
/ was told to-day by an officer Of this conven-
tion that IL this ticket was put up let those
them shoulder the responsibility and I answered
them back that perfectly willing at any
stage of the game to shoulder the part that be-
longs to me. But not to the minority belongs
all the blame. because there five members
of the majority the committee that must
shoulder their share. and demand that they
do 1t. The time came when the majority said
| they had proposals to make to us. and we met
| them, not once. but twice. Their nominee for
Mayor wrote letter to this convention in which
he said he would not take the nomination un-
less he led united party; at no time would
he stand for divided party. He made an
other assertion in that letter that he would not
run unless he had committee on Supervisors
| to propose men tried and true, well known in
the community and willing to follow him on
his mission OF reform. That was good We
were willing for that. That suited the Ininori-
! ty because we have in that minority few re-
spectacle men. We don't claim they are all re-
| spectacle because that might hurt the ideas of
| the majority. We have been forced into this
| position, and I, in seconding that amendment
want to stand where the members of the mi
nority will know where l stand. I am no
| friend of Wesley Reed I know the gentleman
very slightly. But this VIII say in conclu-
sion: We selected three names tonight in good
| faith. after due canvass with the minority.
proposed name. simply cast my vote in
/ the minority for three names we thought were
good enough to sit on the board, who are
among the best in this community. So, In Sc
| lecting the names we thought we would live up
| to the standard that you would give. Now 1
will go back / going to say that we ap-
pointed a committee to wait upon the gentle
| man who is going to take the nomination prob
| ably for Mayor, and he Informed the committee
I that he did not know an Individual proposed so
/ far for Supervisor; he was willing to leave IL
! TO that committee of seven. among whom we
were not fit to have representative. Is
that Democratic politics7 Is that politics of
| the great American people, for the people and
! hv the people? ! say no! I say 1t is exclu-