Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-05
POWERFUL
PLATFORM
ENTHUSES
Democrats Advocate Wig
OrOuS Reforms
BRYAN AND NATIONAL PRINCE
PIES ARE ENDORSED
NEEDS or STATE COVERED BY
cLEAR-cuT PLANks
Two Los Angeles Men Honored-con-
sresslonal Candidates and Electors
omInated-spIrited Debate
Feature
NEEDS OF STATE COVERED BY
cLEAR.cuT PLANKs
Special to The Herald.

s Special to The Herald.
+ N TOCKTON, Sept. 4.-Harmony, lone
N. and profound deliberation and ex-
~ ceptional satisfaction with results
were features OF the big Democratic
state convention. just closed in this
city.
The adoption of the.<state platform,
following lengthy but even-tempered
debates on several important issues
which it was proposed to incorporate
In the planks, elected a great deal of
enthusiasm. The Endorsement of Bryan
also brought out great ovation.
With the nomination late this after
noon of former Mayor John d. Phelan
of San Francisco and Eugene Germain
of Los Angeles to head the electoral
ticket, the adoption earlier in the day
of platform and the ratification of the
eight electors selected yesterday. the
convention concluded it's work and adj
journed.
Five candidates for congress also
were nominated.
The following electors from the con-
gressional districts were named:
FOR ELECTORS
First congressional district--W. ID. Sherer
second--D. w. Carmichael, Sacramento.
Thlrd--A. w. MaItby. Concord.
FouFth--Charies Edelman, San Francisco.
Fifth--Harry p. Fiannery, San Mateo.
sixth-E. E. Bush, Hanford.
seyeuth--Thomas Il. Gibbon, Los Angeles.
Eighth-John w. Martin, Turare.
FOR CONGRESS
secand congressional district--w. X. Hays
Third--P. III. Gilett. Oakland,
sfxtR--E u Fesz. ------.
Eighth-w. @. shepperd Of Ventura.
Theodore A. Bell declared he could
not accept the nomination for congress
because he had promised to go east and
take the stump in several states on be-
half of Bryan and Kern.
Several speakers in the district con-
vention strongly opposed placing Bell
In the position of having to decline the
nomination.
A. r. Campbell, former district at
torney in San Luis Obispo, was nom
mated for the state senate by the
Thirty-first senatorial district delega-
tion.
1t was after o'clock before Judge
James @. MCGUIRE began reading the
report of the committee on platform.
Bell Makes Lucid Address
Theodore A. Bell was invited to adj
dress the delegates. He spoke for an
hour and a half, discoursing lucidly
the issues OF the campaign, repudiated
the designation of BOSS of the Cali
fornia Democracy" appealed for hare
mony In the Democratic ranks and
pleaded that all past differences be
forgotten. 9
The convention without debate
adopted the platform as reported, also
a resolution approving the action of
the recent county convention in Los
Angeles in reading seven men out of
the party.
While the majority of delegates were
still in attendance the nominations for
electors at large were made.
The committee on platform and reso-
lutions, which was in session until 8
O'Clock this morning and reconvened at
10. did not complete its draft of a
platform until shortly after noon.
Debate Over Plank
Five hours were consumed in spir-
tied debate on the capital removal
plank and Senator John B. Curtin's
measure for the segregation of state
and county taxes, which goes before
the people in the coming general cleo
tion In the form OF a constitutional
amendment.
Since it had received the unanimous
Endorsement of the Republican state
convention, 1t was regarded with sus-
picion and disfavor by some of those
who spoke against 1t. al the COM
mittee, on platform and re buttons re-
fused to approve it and lrtually re-
pudiated the measure.
BY the time the motto to adjourn
was made the conventi hall was
practically deserted, the elegates all
racing for the depot tdtNtake the
o'clock train.