The San Francisco call., 1904-08-23
Committee
Maps Out Pro-
gramme.
Clash May Come
on Naming of
Electors.
Districts Given No
Voice in Their
Selection.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SANTA CRUZ, Aug. 22.-The COM
mittee on permanent organization and
order Of business met at 8 o'clock in
the st. George Hotel. After much pre-
liminary discussion, largely due to ig-
norance throughout the committee OF
parliamentary rules, the following
order Of business was agreed upon:
First-To recommend that the tenn
porary officers OF the convention be
made permanent.
Second-Reading Of the report OF the
committee on credentials.
Third-Report Of the committee on
platform and resolutions
Fourth-Report Of the committee ap-
pointed TO name electors.
Fifth-Nomination OF Associate Jus
tice Of the Supreme Court, to I'LL the
vacancy occasiOned by the expiration
of the term Of Justice Lorigan. ap-
pointed TO succeed, until the next gen.
eral election, the late Justice Temple.
Sixth - Ratification Of the nomina-
tions for Congress by the eight dis
tricts Of the State
Seventh-AppOintme OF a commit
tee on AUDITING
Eighth-AppOintment Of a committee
on vacancies.
1t was apparent from the discussion
in the committee on permanent or
ganization that the scheme behind the
appointment of the committee Of ten
to name electors was not generally
understood and that a fight may de-
velop in consequence. The members
of the organization committee IabOred
under the delusfon that the committee
on appointment Of electors was but
repository body named to appoint two
electors at large and then receive sug-
gestions from the eight Congressional
districts as to the choice OF these dis
tricts Of electors to represent them
in the college in the event Of Demo
cratic success in this State. But this
| is not the condition. The committee
upon the appointment 81 electors is
receiving suggestions from no one as
| to whom il shall name for presenta-
/ ton to the convention for electors
When this gets through the heads OF
all the Democrats here things are
| liable to happen and the much
vaunted and pamDered condition OF
/ harmony may be shattered at a blow.
And one more question came before
I the committee on organization that
caused some uneasiness and much ris-
/ ing TO questions of information. A resO-
luton was presented for adoption and
/ incorporation in the report OF the COM
mittee authorizing the chairman of the
State Central Committee to appoint
subsidiary committees TO aid in the
/ Presidential campaign. Many pro-
fessed 10 see in this an effort to legal
: ize the enlargement Of the central COM
mittee itself. but when the political in
nocence of the resolution was ex-
planned the alarmists subsided and il
was adopted. The committee then ad-
/ journed.
| The committee on credentials met
| shortly after o'clock this evening and
rushed its business through in a twink
/ ling. Not a single hitch or fight marred
! the proceedings and after a brief ses-
sion Chairman Ed E. Leake Of YOlO
announced the result. stating that the
/ report had been unanimously adopted.
/ The roll call of the convention was
1 adopted as prepared by the secretary OF
/ the Democratic Central Committee. All
proxies were at once verified and en-
tered upon the roll call, after which
| the committee adjourned.