The San Francisco call., 1908-09-05
Bourbon Convention Declares
Action in Los Angeles Ended
Railroad Domination
Presidential Electors Are Named
and Platform Adopted With
out Any Contest
Theodore Bell Repudiates Title
of BOSS" and Urges Har=
mony Among Leaders
Adoption of Platform Proves a
Mere FOrmality After Read
ing by Judge McGuire
By George Van Smith
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALI

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL
STOCKTON, Sept. 4.-Sevcn
of his townsmen and fellow
democratic stalwarts joined Co.
ings of Los Angeles, who was
read out of the democratic party
by Silver Dick" Warner and
Theodore Bell at the Fresno
convention in May. The Off
cially expelled democratic roster
now shows a total membership
OF eight in the gone but not forgot
ten club Tom Fox is still a mem
Der of militant democracy and ex-
poets to hold over for at least two
years.
The democratic state convention
concluded the labors of its morning
session by formal ratification Of the
action OF the Los Angeles county con
vention in reading seven stalwarts out
OF the party BY the unanimous adop-
tion OF a resolution presented by S
Bachrach OF Oakland. and seconded by
the san Bernardino delegation, the
state convention placed the seal of it's
approval upon the Los Angeles county
conventions expulsion of Eddie Nor
ris, Tom Savage. the official dog catch
er; "Scotty" Allen, the poolroom man;
y. A Weiss, Pete Froelich, Tom Nacher
and J. J. Clayton. The resolution pro-
vided merely for the ratification of
the action Of the Los Angeles county
convention, by which the party has
been finally freed from the domination
Of the Southern Pacific company"
A considerable number of the dele
gates appeared not TO know what the
brief resolution referred TO was. In
any event. the promised fight for the
stalwarts did not materialize. There
was no debate and the resolution was
adopted amid a storm OF ayes" and
hand clspping. The Los Angeles seven
were officially down and out
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS NAMED
These are the men chosen by the
democratic state convention for the
unequal struggle for presidential cleo
tors.
At large-James d. Phelan. San
Francisco; Eugene German, Los An
geles.
First congressional district-w. B.
Shearer, Siskiyou-
Second congressional district-D. w.
Carmichael Sacramento.
Third congressional district-A- w
Maltby, Contra Costa
Fourth congressional district -
Charles Edelman, San Francisco.
Fifth congressional district-Harry
z. Flannery. San Francisco.
Sixth congressional district-E. E.
Bush, Hanford.
Seventh cOnVreccfQna1 7
Gibbon, Los Angeles.
Eighth congressional district-John
". Martin, Tulare.
The electors were chosen this morn
ing by a convention representing less
than half Of the delegate strength
without a contest The reports of the
congressional district caucuses were
punched and ratified by the convention
by a single viva voce vote. Not a
protesting voice was raised to any of
the district nominations. nor was there
e single dissenting vote on the propo-
sition 10 nominate the district selec-
tiOns as a slate.
BELL AVOIDS M'NAB's TRAP
Some Of the delegates, a conider-
able number Of them, merely crafty
ing a vigorous sense of humor. at
tempted to urge Frank Sullivan to
carry his defeat by Harry Flannery for
electOr in the fifth district caucus into
the convention. Some Of the propo-
sents Of that scrap may have acted in
good faith. The majority Judgment
d. was. however, that the McNab people
wanted Bell to walk into a trap. If
Bell had given his sanction to a fight
on Flannery after district caucus had
dominated him by a decisive majority,
he would-the McNab people believed
have been placed in an attitude of
opposition to the liquor interests.
Bell and his friends put the screws
on the Los Angeles insurrectos and
with the silence of Isadore Dockwei-
ler. who would have liked a row, and
of Major Burke, the danger of a fight
was averted and the Bell people
breathed easier, while the McNabittes.
with the exception of Flannery, pulled
. long faces. On the plea of home rule.
they would have saved Flannery and
put Bell IN q hole, but Flannery was
willing to take his honors without
blare OF trumpets.
HALF DELEGATES PRESENT
Nearly half of the qualified delegates
were IN their seats when Chairman
George w. Cartwright attempted TO
get the convention under way again at
il o'clock this morning. The platform
committee had whitfield all its planks
nd was engrossed in the labor of as
sembling them into the one formidable
whole which was promised to the con-
vention ''in a few minutes.
The report of the committee on or
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