The San Francisco call., 1904-06-28
WILL APPOINT
THE DELEGATES
Congressional Committee
Decides Upon Its Plan
for the Third District
KNOWLAND SUCCESSFUL
Lukens Makes No Appeal
to Party Representatives
or to the Supervisors
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
lOl6 Broadway, June q.

1O16 Broadway, June q.
The Republican Committee Of the
Third Congressional District, compris-
ing the counties of Alameda, Contra
Costa and Solano, to-day settled the
question Of the manner Of the selection
Of delegates to the Congressional con-
vention. and in doing so settled the
question Of who should be the next Re
publican nominee for Congress. The
committee decided to appoint the dele
gates from the districts outside of the
cities Of Oakland. Alameda, Berkeley
and Vallejo, and as nearly every mem
Der Of the committee favors State Sen
ator Joseph R. Knowland it is GER
tainty that he viii be nominated.
No protest or petition was received
from State Senator @. r. Lukens or
his friends and the action Of the COM
nittee went without a challenge. There
was conference of a number Of Sena-
tor Lukens' friends just prior to the
committee meeting. The conference
was purely informal and none of those
present at the little gathering appeared
at the meeting Of the committee. There
was IlALE a EdAAlEAAAlS DA AAADSN pm
nent in State affairs. They were look
ing for points. as the meeting will have
an important bearing upon the affairs
of the entire State. Contra Costa Coun-
~ sent down quite a delegation, in
cluding State Senator c. NJ. Belshaw
and Superior Judge w. S. Wells. Sen
ator ". c. Ralston Of Calaveras was
also present, with a large number from
Oakland. Alameda and Berkeley.
There were five absentees when
Chairman " G. Henshaw called the
committee 10 order, one Of whom was
not represented by proxy. w. H. Chick
ering has been i'll for some time and
was not present and sent no proxy. w.
/. Crooks Of SolanO and c. L. Crellin
Of Pleasanton are both in the East.
Mr.. Crooks sent his proxy to DR.. c. L.
Tisdale Of Alameda and w. G. Hen
shaw held that Of c. L. Crellin. John
Birmingham Jr. OF Contra Costa Coun-
" gave his proxy TO @. z. Mines.
chairman Of the Republican County
Central Committee of that county.
Those present were: Forty seventh
District-Dr. &. L. Tisdale and z. F.
Johnson; Forty-eighth District-ROd
W Church and Frank Barnett: Forty
ninth District-MOrris Flynn: Fiftieth
District Everett J. Brown: Fifty first
District-Willism q. Henshaw; Fifty
second District-George D. Metcalf;
Contra Costa CCunty-James NJ. Stow;
Solano County-H. F. Stahl.
The usual preliminaries having been
disposed Of there was a very short eX-
ecutive session. and then the work OF
the meeting was rushed through in
short order. The necessary legal mo-
tions were made TO apply for places
upon the primary and regular tickets,
the primary election to be held on Aug
ust g. The date Of the convention was
fixed for August IS at Vallejo
Then came the al1-important motion
that delegates outside Of the four
cities where the primary law is manda-
tory be appointed by the committee.
This motion was made by DR.. c. L.
Tisdale Of Alameda and was seconded
by H. T. StahI Of SOlano. There was
very little talking over the motion
Chairman Henshaw announced that no
petition or request had been filed with
the committee for any other course. DR..
Tisdsle said that this procedure was
usual for outside districts and the mo-
Loh was carried with out one vote
against ii, that Of Everett J. Brown.
Chairman Henshaw announced that
the committeeman from each district
would bring the names of his delegates
TO meeting Of the committee TO be
held on Friday next at the same time
and place. The basis Of apportionment
was fixed at one delegate for each 200
votes cast for George c. Pardee for
Governcr The matter viii be ci.sed
Up al this meeting.
The Alameda County Board of Su-
perVisors was in session this morning.
but no petition was presented to them
asking that primaries be called in the
country districts.