Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-04
WOMEN GAIN
RECOGNITION
AT STOCKTON
DEMOCRATS COMMITTEE TO
REPORT FAV0RABLY
COLE is TO HAVE FINANCIAL
ADVISERS
Convention Adjourns to Hear Reports
Today After Harmonious Opening
Session-Phelan and Ger
main Electors
SneciaI TO The Herald.


STOCKTON. Sept. 3.-The Demo~
cratic state convention which assem-
bled here today was marked by perfect
harmony, all delegates forgetting per-
sonalities and uniting for the good of
the party.
The convention elected State Senator
George w. Cartwright of Fresno, au-
thor of the Cartwright antitrust bill,
passed by the last legislature, tempor-
ary chairman, effected organization
and adjourned until 10 o'clock tomor-
row morning to await the reports of
the committees.
The Los Angeles delegation up to
within an hour of the opening threat
ened to interject into the deliberations
of the state convention it's fight against
Nathan Cole, jr, national committee
man, against whom various charges
were made by members of one faction.
Coles enemies sought to depose him as
national committeeman from Califor-
MIA because of alleged dissatisfaction
with his management.
Shortly after noon a compromise was
agreed upon, however, by which an ad-
visory committee of three is to be
| named to take charge of the financial
management of the campaign in con-
| junction with the executive committee
of the state central committee, and
when Judge John E. Raker of Modoc
county called the convention to order
at 2:35 not a single discordant note
marred the session. Two members of
| this advisory committee it is stated
will be James D. Phelan and E. e.
Bush, with the third member to be
named by them but to be from Los
Angeles.
Rev. H. B. Ingram opened the con-
vention with the invocation, and May
or George F. Hudson welcomed the
delegates to Stockton.
Cartwright was nominated by ex-
Mayor Phelan of San Francisco, who
was given a tremendous ovation as he
made his way to the platform to make
| the nominating speech. His reference
| to Bryan provoked a prolonged demon
| Stratlon.
Women Received courteously
| The woman suffragists who failed to
| get recognition from the Republican
| state convention at Oakland, where a
| demonstration was made by 300 wom-
| en-, but were utterly ignored, scored a
victory when the committee on plat
form and resolutions tonight adopted
the plank pledging the Democratic
! candidates to the legislature to favor
/ the submission to the voters of the
state of "A constitutional amendment
extending to women the right to vote.
1HeTc WAS HOL d QlSSGHIlUR NOIC UOI d
single voice raised on the floor against
the request of the women to insert
this plank in the platform.
The matter first came before the
committee of which Judge James G..
Mcguire is chairman, and includes in
its membership Theodore A. Bell.
Judge Maurice T. Dooling, ex-Con-
gresham Thomas J. Geary, James d.
Phelan and Senators A. Caminetti and
| John B. Curtin, at o'clock and upon
motion of Judge Raker was immedi-
ately favorably acted upon. At the re-
quest of Sidney Van Wyck, who said
that as a matter of courtesy a delega-
tion of women coming from San Fran
cisco on the evening train should be
given an opportunity to be heard even
though the committee was unani-
mously in favor of the resolution.
Judge Raker withdrew his motion
and the committee adopted the plank
finally at s o'clock after Mrs. Coftin,
Maude Younger of San Francisco ana
a dozen other women appeared on be-
half of the Equal Suffrage association.
The plank in no way commits the
Democratic party to woman suffrage.
but merely favors letting the people OF
the state decide by constitutional
amendment as to whether or not wom-
en- shall be given the right to vote.
A delegation of suffragists from Oak
land, Berkeley and San Francisco.
headed by Mrsc. Lillian Harris Coffin
and Mrs. Emma l.. Schertzer, augment
ed by members of the woman's clubs
in Stockton, lobbied on the floor of the
convention during the recess.
Following the election of David s.
Mathews of Stockton as secretary of
the convention and L. Frank Kuhn SER
geant- t-at-arms, the committees on Gre
dentials, permanent organization and
resolutions and order of business were
appointed.
Judge ]. a.. Mcguire was named
chairman Of the committee on platform
and resolutions, which included, among
others, James D. Phelan, Theodore A.
Bell, Judge Maurice T. Dooling and
Senators A. Caminetti and j. B. Cur
tin.
Judge Mcguire has signified his
willingness to accept the nomination
for congress in the Fourth dis
trict and run against julius Kahn.
The Seventh congressional district
delegation, at a caucus held at 1
o'clock, indorsed Eugene German for
elector-at-large.
Representing the interests of the
American Federation of Labor at the
convention is Arthur A. Hay, who has
ipst returned from Washington, ID. O.,
where he has been in conference with
Samuel Gompers on the political situa-
tion. Hays mission at the Democratic
state convention Is for the purpose or
giving the committee on platform and
resolutions the views of the American
Federation of Labor on matters affect
ing labor.
7. D. Fennessy of Los Angeles. repre-
senting the International Typographi-
cal union. is also in attendance at the
convention on matters concerning the
interests OF organized labor.
The removal of the capital from Sac
ramento and the question of whether
the state railroad commission ought
to be impeached for incompetency or
entirely abandoned as a useless ex-
penditure to the state will be consid-
cred tomorrow.
Details of Platform
The platform as adopted by the COM
mittee indorses the national and Fres-
no platforms, fayors the submission TO
the people of the state the question of
woman suffrage, declares for a revision
of the criminal laws and court pro-
cedure to make trials more speedy and
punishment of crime more certain. de-
mands legislation providing for mod
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