The San Francisco call., 1910-05-24
BOURBON Meeting
GOES TO STOCKTON
Democratic State Convention in
September VIII Be Held in
Flour City
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his fight on Cole Gibbon said that he
did not intend to bring the matter be-
fore the state central committee until
other measures had been found inef-
fective
The matter will not come before the
committee today" said Gibbon after
Theodore A. Bell had declared that he
knew nothing about a movement
against the national committeeman.
1T Will not come before the committee
now SaidN Gibbon, because I do not
believe in washing the party's dirty
linen in public. l believe a few of us
viii get together and arrange to have
one of Coles friends advise him to
resign. If he does not accept that ad-
vice then some drastic action will prob
ably be taken"
John E. Raker. retiring chairman;
John B. Sanford, vice chairman; w. B.
Shearer of Yreka, partner of the in
nized party leaders declined to take
the fight on Cole seriously.
There is nothing to it and nothing
will come of it." declared Raker. Cole
says he is guilty of nothing but being
poor. He won his fight on the way to
Denver. He was made national COM
mitteeman The men who want to
lOlt6 lllu olL NAlc AdllOiidl tOLilAlllNCC
have had two years in which to pre-
pare and file charges. They have not
presented charges"
The morning session was devoted
generally to discussion of methods
for the circulation of nominating petit
tions, the afternoon session to congrat-
ufatory oratory. At the morning ses-
sion it developed that seven candidates
had ayailed themselves of the state
central committees offer TO circulate
their petitions for $500 and that Sec
retary John F. Murray objected to TAX
ing charge Of petitions for district
candidates.
The candidates who have availed
themselves of the state central COM
mittee's offer to circulate their petit
tions are Theodore A. Bell for govern
or; Timothy Spellacy Of Los Angeles
for lieutenant governor; B. T. Bledsoe
of San Bernardino and William p. Law
Ter of San Francisco for associate JUS
tices of the supreme court; H. A. Blan-
chard of Santa Clara county for clerk
of the supreme court; S. s. Bayley of
Alameda county for secretary of state;
Thomas H Kirk of Pasadena for super
intendent of public instruction.
s. S Bayley told the committee that
Gilbert Ross of Stockton might decide
to try for the democratic nomination
for surveyor general. John Vaughan
and James Gilmartin of San Francisco
were mentioned as the probable candi
dates for state printer. The plan of
presenting a democrat for controller
and writing in the name of A. b. Nye
on the democratic ballot was briefly
discussed.
In spite of Secretary Murray's OBJ
jections, it was held by Chairman
Raker that the committee would be
bound to circulate the petitions of dis
trict candidates who complied with the
provisions for the payment of $500.
Judge Raker subsequently announced
that he purposed to turn over to the
committee $500 and the job of circu-
Iating his congressional petition. The
time for the presentation of applica-
tions for the preparation of petitions
was extended until Saturday.
l. w Zumwalt of Colusa, who was
announced as the democratic candidate
for congress in the second district, par
ticipated in the deliberations of the
committee The committee was in
formed that there was a field of five
candidates for nomination to the ap-
peliate bench in the first district. The
aspirants for democratic nomination to
Justice Cooper's berth are Cooper him
self Judge Lucas f. Smith of Santa
Cruz, Judge George Church of Fresno,
Judge B. f. Sargent of Monterey and
Judge James V. Coffey of San Fran
cisco. The committee was also in
formed that D. Browning of Chico was
prepared to run for railroad commits
sioner and that Fred r. Hammers of
Vacavi1le was also out for the nomi
nation in that district.
letter from II. Z. Miller of San
Jose was presented TO the committee
by Secretary Murray. Miller wrote
that he had been advised that Murray
had usurped the functiops of conven-
tions and the direct primary system
which had replaced the convention and
selected a ticket for the support of the
democrats Of California. Miller OBJ
iected His objections were referred
10 Murray with instructions to answer
as he might see fit.
During the afternoon session short
speeches were made by Theodore a.
Bell, Walter Macarthur. Tim Spellacy,
S. S. Bayley and 7. z. Gibbon. Bell
said that a waning interest in the re-
publican contest augured democratic
success and declared that he did not
expect opposition for the nomination.
Here is the apportionment of dele