The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 7, 1896, Page 1

Gl v » v s 1) ; i’ @he Thi to be 8 Paper not | taken from the Library.+s++ VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 159. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1896. PRICE FIVE CENTS. JOHN D. SPRECKELS Delegates-at-Large—John D. Spreck- | €ls of San Francisco, Ulysses S. Grant | of San Diego, George A. Knight of San Fravcisco, General Lionel A. Sheldon of Los Angeles. Alternates-at-Large—J. M. Gleaves of Shasta, D. L. Knight of Yuba, George Stow of San Francisco, James A. Lout- tit of San Joaquin. Electors-at-Large—Charles F. Orocker of San Francisco, Irving M. Scott of San Francisco. Lieutenant-Governor—John C. Lynch | of San Bernardino. SACRAMENTO, Car., May 6.—Bossism | in San Francisco was downed to-day. The | dirty finger prints of Keilvism will be no longer permitted to sully the fair throat of Republicanism; the clammy, unclean Democratic paw of Raineyism was brushed from the shoulder of Republi- | canism in the metropolis, and thuggery, ballot-box stuffery and the thousand and | one named and unnamed political in- iquities which have disgraced not only the Bay City but the entire State, have heen swept away. 1t was a hard battle to fight in the face of the combined power of all that is low, unscrupulous and seifish in human ) nature; but decency, the cause of good order, of clean government won the battle. There was one man who had the pluck, the indomitable courage, the strength of character, the will power, to lead the hosts of decency against the myrmidons of cor- | ruption, That man, John D. Spreckels, triumphed against all the combinations and all the odds that had been arrayed against him, and he did it with the help of the honest, the respectable and the loyal Republicans of San Francisco, backed by the decent Republicans of the entire State. The calumnies which had been heaped upon him and shot at him from ambush in dark corners fell broken and useless for harm against the armor of the justice of the cause of which he was the champion The Republican party of California to-day is dominated by no boss. It does not need one. It has wise and able leaders, and among them John D. Spreckels is far from bein least wise or the least able. ns of the State were not e man who had done so much for the party, for Mr. Spreckels was this evening elected National Republican Committeeman from California to succeed M. H. de Young. As an evidence of the.completeness of Mr. Spreckels’ victory the fact is empha- sized that out of a total vote of 635 in the convention to-day he received 565, lack- ing only seventy votes of being elected unanimously, Mr. Spreckels, in an inter- view given in another part of this issue, that he was thoroughly and com- pletely satisfied with the result of the convention, and that he woulds faithfully carry out the wishes of the Republicans of the State of California. The victory means much that is good for the State. In the clearer atmosphere after the shower, the bluer sky after the clouds have melted into rain, may be seen the peaceful augury of Republican success in the great battle that must be fought when the leaves have turned into the sere and yellow of the fall. In the convention proceedings to-day there was a pleasing variety of features. George A. Knight and Senator Spencer furnished the tragedy, with the Minneapo- lis convention as the stage setting, and an imaginary rusty knife blade as the deadly weapon. Colonel Kowalsky, A. Ruef and Tom O'Brien supplied the opera bouffe partof the entertainment and hoarsely sang their disappointment over the dis- agreeable and unexpected turn of the po- litical tide. Mr. Taylor of Alameda gave & clever imitation of walking for the cake, when he, at the suggestion of the chair- man, arose from his seat in the Alameda delegation, followed by Ruef and the re- mainder of his colleagues, and marched with a bold front out of the convention. Joseph Spear of San Francisco made a good second, but Mr. O’Brien took the cake. He was too mad to eat it, however. Mr. Spear’s political acting is of the florid or old Bowery style. The gergeous- ness of his McKinley banner yesterday and the silence of the hurrahs he expected to receive were of about the same degree of intensity. The convention was willing enough to cheer for McKinley, but it did not see why it should cheer for Mr. Spear. His acting to-day was not quite so florid. It was rather of the subdued or inteuse French school, where the actor does not strike any attitudes, but walks along un- ostentatiously, as though going tosee a man between the acts. He walked out dfter Mr. Taylor and Mr. O'Brien by the left lower entrance and did not return, the act being necessarily very brief. The last desperate attack of Kellyism was after the reading of the report of the committee on credentials by Ruef and others, but it fell short and died in the jast ditch, Three of the planks placed in the plat- gt E of the convention that George A. Knight, a proxy from Butte, was to create a sensa- tion by leading a fight for an instructed delegation, and that Taylor and Ruef (proxy) of Alameds, were to ‘make speeches of protest against the report of the committee on credentials, and that a lively session would be the result. The first mix-up occurred when the re- port of the committee on credentials was read; butit did not last long—just long the Ruef-Taylor delegation to retire from their seats to make way for the set of | delegates elected at the Alameda prim- aries. The report of the committee was to the following effect: In favor of seating the delegates elected at the Alameda County primaries. Against the contestants in Sacramento County and in favor of the delegates reg- ularly appointed by the County Central Committee. This is regarded as a defeat of the A. P. A. primary ticket. In favor of the delegation in the Fourth Congressional District elected at the | primaries held in that district April 15, known as the County Committee delega- tion. Against the contestants in the Forty- first Assembly District of the Fifth Con- gressional District and in favor of the reg- ular primaries delegation. Aczainst the contestants in the Thirty- seventh of the Fifth and in favor of the regular primary delegates. In the Thirty-third of the Fourth the committee deciaed that the protest alleg- ing acts of fraud by the contestants was clearly proved, and recommending that delegates to all conventions should be elected at primaries or caucuses regularly called by the Central Committee or County Committee, and that none but such should be seated at any of the conventions here- after. Taylor of Alameda was on his feetin a moment, and excitedly demanded that the report should be taken up seriatim. The chair put the question and the noes had it, but Ruef and Taylor demanded a rollcall. ‘When Chairman Arthur announced that he wopld grant the request for the call of the roll Taylor clapped nis hands and shouted “Good boy !” with so much sten- torian earnestness that the convention was convulsed with merriment. The vote stood 97 ayes to 477 noes, and a motion was made to adopt the report as a whole. Taylor took the platform and made a vigorous plea in behalf of the appointed. Heexplained that these appointed dele- gates had been recognized by the State Central Committee and the Third Con- gressional District Convention. In fact, they bad assembled and elected district delegates to the National Convention. They had chosen two delegates pledged to Wiliiam McKinley, “and now,” said Mr. Taylor, **yon do not want the seats of these McKinley delegates at St. Louis contested.” Taylor waxed eloguent and animated. He declared that the committee on cre- dentials had seated the appointed dele- gates from Sacramento, and then, by an form this morning haa been and are aa- vocated very strongly by THE CALny, namely the anti-funding resolution. the plank on the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 and that on woman’s suf- frage. It is the consensus of opinion here to-day that THE CaLL has achieved a great victory. DONE IN CONVENTION. Regularly ¥lected Delegates Seated aud a Platform Declaring for Protection Adopted. SACRAMENTO, Car., May 6.—Owing to the fact that the committees sat up after midnight last night, and that the committee on credentials did not con- clude its labors until after4 o’clock this Lmorning, the delegates were slow in arriving at the pavilion, and Chairman Arthur’s gavel did not rap for order until half-past 10. It was being buzzed about on the floor enough to enable the chairman to request | Republican National Committee. Personal Popularity of the Man Who Led the Fight for Pure Politics Manifested by Spontaneous and Unprecedented Support From All Portions of California. JOHN D. 'SPRECKELS, The Man Who Led the Fight for Honest Politics in California. | Chosen by a Rousing Vote as Delegate at Large to the Republican National Convention and Named as California’s Representative on the unheard of process of reasoning, had ousted the appointed delegation of Ala- meda. He cried out: ‘“Oh! consistency, where is thy jewelry?'’ |Laughter.] When the announcement was made a dozen delegates shouted at once for the chair’s recognition. H. I. Kowalsky, holding & Mendocino proxy, came to the front with an ill-timed speech, which aroused some resentment. He began by saying: “If this is a gag convention belonging to one man I want to say something. I have attended every Republican State Conven- tion in California since I became 21 years of age. This time I came here as the guest of Mendocino County. [Laughter.] I do not want carpet-baggers to come here and usurp the rights of others. men on the Forty-third District roll of delegates which the report proposes to seat that were never heard of before. And such a committee of credentials never before existed. Talk of lead pipe cinches and the Dutch Justice of the Peace who refused to hear but one side of a case, and you canuot get a marker to the committee on credentials.” Kowalsky’s attack on the committee was resented by delegates in many parts of the bouse. “Time’* was shouted and points of order raised. The chair ruled that Kowalsky could | not speak further without the consent of | the delegates, as there was no question be- fore the house. Kowalsky was then suppressed. An appointed delegate from Alameda tried to speak, but Chairman Arthur ruled that the primary delegates had been seated, and, tberefore, he could not be heard. Meanwhile, the declared bona fide pri- mary delegates, who were standing in a group hard by, were invited to come and get their seats. Reluctantly the displaced appointed delegates arose =nd filed outin the aisle, Taylor leading the column. At the cen- tral gateway leading from the convention circle down the broad passageway to the main pavilion entrance the outgoing dele- gates were hailed and greeted by the turned-down machine gang of the Fourth Congressional District of San Francisco. A grezt uproar arose, which lasted for sev- eral minutes. Tom O’Brien, the clerk of Campbell's court, with a far-away, desp- down and all-nizht-up voice, harled epi- thets at the committee on credentials and the convention. He shouted that the delegates in their seats were the Mafia and the banditti of California, who had formed an A. P. A. council. His parting roar was something like “To hades with the A. P. A. and hurrah for McKinley!"” O’Brien wasat length compelled to move on with the rest of the machine. Order was then restored and the business of the | convention proceeded. The reading of the report of the commit- tee on platform and resolutions by Frank L. Coombs was atientively listened to and greeted , with applause. All the planks were cheered, but the one on the free coin- age of silver evoked tne greatest enthu- siasm. Tha following is the platformin full: The Republican party of the State of Cali- The Closing Scene in the Republican State Convention at Sacramentc. There are | IS DOUBLY HONORED. fornia, in convention assembled, at Sacra- mento, on the 5th day of May, 1896, hereby adopt the following platform: Resolved, That this convention favors the proposed amendment to the constitution ot the State of California whereby it is sought to extend the elective franchise to all citizens of the United States, both men and women. That we indorse the course of Hon. George C. Perkins in the United Statés Senate in be- half of the people of the State of California and their varied interests. We indorse the work of the National League and the efforts of the young men of our party to make it a potent factor in prosecuting a vigorous and successful campaign in this State, We favor the iree and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and the making of silver aswell as gold a legal tender in pay- ment of ail debts, both public and private. Realizing that good roads are a necessary element in advancing the prosperity of any community, and recognizing the practically universal demand for the same, not only in our State, but throughout the United States, the Republican party of California pledges it~ self to the enactment of legislation looking toward improved and scientifieally cone structed highways, on the most economical basis. We demand such National legislation on the subject of foreign immigration us will effectu- ally keep outof the country all contract labor- ers, criminals, paupers, diseased persons, and the classes whose professions and teachings are calculated to disturb social peace and order, or are inimical to the best interests of this country, and such changes in the natural- ization laws and their enforcement as will pre- vent unfit foreign-born persons from becom- ing citizens of the Republic. Our prisons and asylums contaln many people not citizens of the United States. We believe that every nation should provide and care for its own demented and criminal classes, and that &ll future treaties and con- ventions with other nations should provide for such a reciprocal deportation of said | classes as would in time make each nation care and provide for its own, and at its own expense of deportation. While we recognize the right to establish | schools through private enterprise, we de. mand that none but non-sectarian free public | schools shall receive public aid. We heartily indorse the proposition that the farmer of the nation, by whose labor the staple agricultural products of the country are brought to market, should receive a just measure of protection for himself, his labor and his products, inasmuch as the price of these products is regulated by the amount paid for them in the world’s market centers, less the cost of trans- portation from the place of production to such centers, and as owing to the great de- velopment of stanle agricultural products in many of the cheapest labor countries of the world the prices realized by our farmers have of late been unremunerative, it is our duty to endeavor to change this state of affairs. Hence we approve of this plan that the Goverument of the United States should reduce the cost of transporting these staple agricultural products from American seaports to foreign seaports to the end that the prices of these prod- ucts should be advanced; and for that purpose, inasmuch as an export can be pro- tected in no other manner, we pronounce oure selves infavor cf the use of a limited portion of the receipts of the United States customs for such purpese and pledgs our, most esrness ef- forts to have this measure engrafted upon the laws of the 19nd, to thé end that the American protective system shall benefit all classes of the people, aid the farmer against the oppres- sive = competition of the cheap labor countries of the world, and by so doing assist in maintaining that steady demand for labor in manufacturing centers, so essential to the labor of our ccuntry. The Republican party of California is | pledged to such legislation as will thoroughly protect the dairy interests end the public from imposition in the sale of dairy produets. The mines of California, with their annual output of many millions of dollars, have been our financial bulwark in times of adversity; they ‘maintained the National credit during the dark days of the rebellion, and they form the basis upon which this grandest of com- monwealths, California, has been reared. The mining industry of our State should receive such aid and protection as will insure its per. manence and prosperity, and for that pur- pose we favor such aid and protec tion as will reifeve . the miner from unnecessary burdens, enable him to obtain and develop s mining property, and will promote and enconrage the business of all kinds of mining, including that known as “hydraulic mining,” whenever and wherever the same can be carriea on without injury to the other interests in the State. We believe a revision of the tariff laws upon the basis of the American protective system to be the foremost of Nutional legislation, and have full confidence in the National Conven- tion soon to assemble to deal more fully with this question. We condemn the policy of the Democratic party for the last four years, re- sulting, as it has, in destroying every barrier to American protection, and charge such policy with the responsibility of degrading Jabor and impoverishing every interest dear to the American people. We believe that we should adopt a system calculated to give us the most protection in weakness and strength, which exalts life and promotes human happiness, and that such system rests upon the basis of the American protective tariff, as advocated by James G, Blaine and William McKinley. We commend the course of our delegates in Congress in opposing the proposed funding schemes of the Pacific railroad companies, and demand that the companies be compelled to settle their indebtedness in some reasonable and businesslike way, or that the Government shall foreclose its claims upon and take possession of the properties. Resolved, That the Republicansof California, while recognizing the eminent worth and fit- ness of each of the distinguished statesmen ot their party whose names have been mentioned as aspirants for the Presidential nomination at St. Louis, and while pledging in advance the electoral vote of the Golden State to the Republican nominee, whoever he may be, hereby declare that the emphatic sentiment of California is in favor of the nomination of that wise and able statesman, that pure and unsule lied patriot, that true and loyal American, that peerless champion of protection, William McKinley of Ohio, and the delegates from thig State are hereby directed and instructed to work and vote for the success of said William MecKinley as long as there Is a reasonable pros. pect of his nomination. After the reading of the platform Frank H, Short of ¥resno addressed the conven- tion, Mr. Short is one of the owners of the Fresno Republican and a leading man in his district. He began by saying that it 18 sometimes as great a fault to omit saying someihing that should be said as to say something that should not be said. The resolution which he was about to offer he desired not to be construed as any reflection upon the committee on plate form. He added: “The question is whether this convention shall voice the well nigh unanimous sen- timent of the Republicans and the rest of the people of this State and indorse the actior of their representatives in Cone gress or whether they will not. I pre- sent this believing that it will receive the unanimous indorsement of this convene tion.” Mr. Short then read a resolution come mending the course of our delegates in Congress in opposing the proposed funding