The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
0ld-Lnle Democrats Declare Their Intention of
Supporting the Republican Candidate

sary for a choice. Congressman Will
liam Sulzer received for Governor 124
votes and John A. Dix of Washington
received the complimentary vote of IT
delegates. making $50 in all.
The nomination of Mr.. Hearst was
made in the face of the bitterest op-
position ever waged IN a Democratic
convention in this State. The minority
which cast its ballots for Mr.. Sulzer,
mas known for several days that it was
beaten. This fact was made sure in
the last session, when a test vote on
the majority report of the committee
on contested seats showed Hearst's sup
porters to be in absolute control Under
the guise of advocating the candidacy
or Mr. Sulzer. a number of Mr.. Hearst's
party opponents took the stage and
amid storms of cheering and kissing.
denounced and arraigned the man they
Knew was the party'ss candidate in the
most remarkable series of speeches
ever hurled at man to be named for
the highest office at the gift of the
convention.
The advocates of Mr.. Hearst answer
ed these attacks. The most effective of
the utterances being made in his be-
half by Congressman Rourke Cochran
of New Fork, who declared that Mr.
Hearst was. not his personal choice,
the demand that he be nominated !sav-
ing come from every section of the
State and was not to be denied.
The convention hall was packed to
overfowing tonight at 1855. when
the twice postponed second session of
the convention was called to. order.
The enthusiasm which was lacking
yesterday was rampant tonight.
The committee on contested seats
found itself divided, 26 to 21, regard
ing the twenty-one contests, involving
sixty seats in the convention. The
majority report was regarded as a
Hearst victory.
The minority report was presented
by John B. Stanchfield. who said he was
opposed to Hearst. but declared that if
Hearst had come to the convention un-
trammeled by any ties, such as the In
dependence League, he would have been
the nominee of the Democrats without
dissenting voice.
Never" yelled delegate.
Mr.. Stanchfield advocated the nomi-
nation Of Representative William Sui
zef for Governor. and the mention of
the name provoked a considerable vol
ume of applause.
Senator Thomas F.. Grady presented
the majority report, indulging in a
general defense of Tammany. He closed
with an appeal for the nomination of
w lltidili II. L1CdiSt tiCiC w oo q I ca I
cheering.
On the question of substituting the
minority report for that of the major
ity a roll call was demanded by Mr..
Stanchfield. This vote was regarded as
test of the Hearst strength. Kings
County cast sixty-nine votes for the
substitution of the minority report.
This showed Senator McCarren opposed
to Hearst.
Leader Murphy of Tammany Hall
cast ninety-three votes no" The mo-
tion was lost by vote of 244 to 142.
This forecasted the nomination of
Hearst and there was a storm of
cheers. The majority vote was then
adopted viva voce.
William Nixon was elected unani-
mously as permanent chairmsn and he
at once called upon Congressman w.
Bourke Cochran to submit the report
of the committee on resolutions and
platform.
Following is an abstract of the re-
port:
At this time, when the authority of
Democracy is invoked to defend the
plunder of the masses by a few rich
and on the other to justify many ex-
travagant and revolutionary proposals.
which, II adopted, must inevitably pro-
sduce worse disasters than the abuses
they seek to cure, we deem it eminentiy
hitting to declare that the whole Demo-
cratic principle is embraced in the
Injunction laid on the first man-that
by the sweat of their brows he and
all his posterity must eat their bread.
We affirm 1T to be as much the su-
preme duty of Government to prevent
any man from taking by violence,
fraudulent device or legislative favor,
one dollar or its equivalent produced
by the labor of another man, as it is to
protect every man in the enjoyment of
all DTODerty. however extensive
duced by his own labor. =
We therefore denounce Republican
TO piunder the whole body of their
fellow-citizens by charging extortion-
ate prices for the necessaries of life
and the essentials of industry.
We deplore as the most sinister con-
sequence of the corruption and graft
which degrade our political and indus
trial life the widespread distrust and
discredit- of republican rule which they
have produced and which have led
many men of undoubted probity and
ardent patriotism to listen patiently,
tinctly socialistic. which, # adopted,
must inevitably break the foundation
of republican government and rend
the fabric of Christian civilization.
We hold that the cure for these
abuses is not in Socialism, which by
enormously extending the power Of
Government, must aggravate them. but
in Democracy. which, by excluding
whatever with private Industry, must
cure them.
Every proposal that a municipality
assume operation of all public utilities
and reduce rates to persons using
them, regardless of what the service
may actually cost, is an attempt to
force some men to bear the expense
of others, because where the OUTLAY
for operation exceeds earnings the
deficit must be made up by taxation.
and this would be Socialistic and
therefore hostile to justice and sub
verse of democratic government.
1t is the duty of Government, there
fore, to ascertain the actual cost of
operation of all public service corpora
tions and to fix from time to time rea-
sonable rates for the service they per-
form.
The recent investigation of insurance
companies affords but faint idea of
the gross corruption which has gov
erned their administration for a long
period 1t is scandal of UNPARALLELED
dimensions that these shocking ex-
posures have resulted merely in the dis
charge of few officers whose fnefi-
cheney for plunder was established by
the fact that they had allowed the
enormities to be discovered. while the
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