Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-21
DELEGATES RETURN
FROM CONVENTION
Divergent VIEWS ON WHAT
RESULT WAS
Gavin McNab, However, Has His Own
Ideas of the Delegation from
the City of
Angels

Mayor Harper, County Chairman
Schwamm, Nathan Cole and the 9TH
ers who were at Fresno attending the
Democratic state convention have re-
turned to the city of Angels. They
came in isolated sections yesterday
morning. They were careful some of
them, not to rub elbows when passing
through the Pullman cars in which
they rode and in the smoking COM
partments adverse elements discussed
each other with all the freedom of
speech promised by the platform adopt
ed Tuesday.
To say that the delegation returned
tremendously is hardly stating the
fact There were sixty-tive delegates
and there are just sixty-five widely
different expressions as TO how it hap
pened and what it was.
Mayor Harper says it is victory.
Nathan Cole says I'VE got all we
wanted"
Joe Simons says the convention
failed in it's most important duty
defeating Cole
Tony Schwamm, with that amiabil-
ity that has made him famous from
San Diego to Siskiyou and back, and
from Watts to Whittier, declares AL
is for the best"
Incidentally with the return of the
delegates comes the intimation that
Eddie" Morris, who made a sensa-
tional eleventh hour stand for Bell. Is
candidate for place on the state
executive committee This report does
Mr. Morris injustice, as the committee
| has already been named by Chairman
Sanford and a close scrutiny, even a
microscopical examination, fails to re-
veal his name. Besides, there are
some who forget that the action of
| the convention Tuesday eliminates
Eddie" from further interest in DEM
ocratic councils.
McNab's Opinion
While the delegates are explaining
| it TO their Los Angeles constituencies,
up at San Francisco there sits in the
| shadow Of his offices in the Call
building a man who disagrees with all
| of them. That man is Gavin McNab,
suave, interesting, educated, a student
| of progressive politics and man who
denies that he has in his years of
bossing performed any duty other than
| that of a citizen wanting to see his
| party at it's best. But Mr.. McNab,
| like many other learned, studious men,
has found something new. Speaking
of the Los Angeles delegation and the
southern Democracy in general, Mr..
McNab says:
"Of all the uncertain and quarrel
some delegations that were ever sent
| to O state convention this delegation
from the south is the worst. Nothing
| has been satisfactory TO the southern
| delegates and there has been trouble
from start to finish. First it was this
thing and then that, and the result
was that it was absolutely impossible
to get southern delegates together
on any opposition. Every delegation
was out for some purpose of it's own
| and there has been a constant round
| of chickering's and refusals to agree
upon anything ever since the delegates
arrived.
when l gave my support to Mayor
| Harper in this race it was because
| believed he represented the best inter-
ests of the party and because the north
| had the last convention craftsmanship
and l thought it wes only fair to &C
cord the honor to the south this time
How They Agreed
1.-THE Los Angeles delegates agreed
Ia agree and then proceeded to dis
agree about everything. When Mayor
Harper found today that there was nc
hope of a peaceful settlement of differ
ences he threw the whole thing up In
disgust and withdrew his candidacy
He did not care to make a losing fight
| in the convention and he did not want
to go upon the floor facing the uncer-
tainty as to whether he would get the
100 delegates pledged to him from his
own section, or only forty or fifty OF