The San Francisco call., 1904-08-17
KNOWLAND THE NOMINEE FOR CONGRESS;
FLINT is IN THE LEAD IN THE SOUTH
Senator Gets No
Encouragement
in South.
Convention Gives
Little Hope to
Bard.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

Special Dispatch to The Call.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16.-The Re-
publican county convention was held
day and the result is not particu
larly favorable to the aspirations of
Senator Bard for reelection. This is
not another way of saying that the
forces behind the candidacy of Frank
P. Flint have won the day, because
the result of the Southern California
vote, or even the vote of Los Angeles
County, cannot be definitely deter
mined.
That the Flint forces were in COM
mand of the convention there is no
doubt, but whether the nominees of
the various Assembly and Senatorial
districts VIII consider themselves
bound by the instructions which were
given them, not by their respective
districts but by the convention as a
whole, which had nothing to do with
the various districts, is a question.
Upon that question depends the
complexion of the Southern California
delegation in the next Legislature.
Frank p. Flint will have a large ma
jority of the vote of this county, more
than the Bard people had thought
d
sufficient number will depend upon
the construction which the various
nominees put upon the Instructions
given them. In only two Assembly
districts were positive instructions
given the nominees for Assemblymen
TO vote for anybody. In the Sixty
eighth District Assemblyman w. A.
Johnstone was directed to vote for
Bard regardless of other candidates;
i'll the Seventy-third J. p. Transue was
instructed to vote for Flint.
The other nominees are not bound
by any other instructions than those
given them by the convention as
whole, and when the time comes they
proba bly, will vote as they see fit. Ger
tain it is that Bard has not more than
four certain votes from Los Angeles
County and he may have only two; of
the latter number he is assured. The
Los Angeles delegation in the next
Legislature will be as follows, the
preference for United States Senator
being also given:
ASSEMBLYMEN
Sixty seventh District-John A Goodrich
claimed by both sides, probably for Bard.
Sixty eighth District-W y. JOhnstone, for
Bard.
sixty ninth District-N. w. Thompson Of AL
hambfl. claimed by both sides, probably tied
w to Flint
Seventieth District-William wlckersham OF
Seventy first District-P. A. stanton. for
Flint.
seventy-srcond District-H. S. C. Mozart
ney. for Flint
Seventy third District-J. P. Transue. for
Flint.
seventy fourth District-Fred Houser. for
isst se.enty fifth District. H. Krimminger. for
STATE SENATORS.
ThIrty-hfth Distrct-H. A. Broughton, for
Bard.
Thirty seventh District-H. F. Carter for
Flint.
An analysis of the foregoing ticket
shows that Bard will receive the GER
tain support of the Assemblyman in
the iXty-eighth District and the SEN
ator in the Thirty-fifth District. He is
reasonably certain of the vote of Good
rich in the SiXty-seventh Assembly
District, and may get the support of
Thompson in the Sixty-ninth Assembly
District, but that is all he can hope to
get from Los Angeles County. His
managers have stated throughout the
campaign that if Bard can carry three
votes from Los Angeles he will win,
but they have refused to give any other
figures. He is certain of two votes and
may get third, but that is not by any
means certain. Even if he gets it the
vote of Los Angeles County will stand
counting the hold-over Senators),
Flint IL, Bard 3.
Thompson of Alhambra has been
pledged in the Sixty-ninth District to
both sides, but how he stands person.
ally is known only to himself, and he
will not talk.
Relying on their strength in the
whole body and without dividing it
among the Assembly and Senatorial
districts, the county convention as a
whole passed a resolution instructing
for Flint, and in order to forestall any
resolution in the various smaller con-
ventions in favor of any other candi-
date a resolution was adopted to- the
effect that all resolutions presented be
referred without reading to the COM
mittee on resolutions Of the general
convention. This was, OF course, a po-
litical trick, because the county con-
vention as such had nothing whatever
to do with the various district conven-
tions, but the trick worked and the re-
suit was that only in the Johnstone
district was resolution opposing Flint
adopted.
1t is claimed by the Flint supporters
that to-day's convention settles the
Senatorial fight, but the Bard workers
do not admit that that is true. The
fact that no specific instructions were
given the various candidates except as
before indicated leaves the matter open.
The present indications are that when
the Southern California legislative del
egation meets to caucus on the Sena-
/ torial question the uninstructed dele
CATION of three from San Diego County
will hold the balance of power, and
upon that condition may hinge the
| Congressional fight between Ward and
Smith In the Eighth Congressional Dis
| trict.
Missouri's Judicial Ticket.