The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 12, 1896, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1896. FIFTEEN NIGHTS TOTAL DARKNESS, What Citizens Say as to the City’s Humiliating Position. SOME POOR. POLITICS. To Please a Few the Supervisors Invite the Contempt of AlL WERE REPEATEDLY WARNED. Citizens Might Light Candles in the Doorways and Remember Auld Lang Syne. The great City of San Francisco is about to be subjected to a most humiliating ex- perience. It is to be left in total darkness for fifteen nights of this month, except in so far as the moon and the stars shall re- lieve her or the lights of her shop-windows may show her belated citizens the way home. The fact that this is not a wholly new experience makes it all the more humiliating. Instances pile thick upon one another illustrating the incompetency, or worse, of the men who have the direction of the affairs of this City; but they donotasa rule stand out where every man can see | them. The pity of this matter of the street - lighting will be that not only every citizen, voter and taxpayer will be subjected to inconvenience, danger ana@ loss, so that he must be personally impressed and- oppressed | with the thought, but every stranger in the City, every visitor during those two | weeks will witness our humiliation, will | have it told to him in answer to his ques- tion: “The City has not money enough in its treasury to pay for lighting herstreets.” And, more than that, the thing will doubt- less be considered sufficiently *remarkable to warrant its being telegraphed away as a piece of news that will be printed in the newspapers of every city in the land that for lack of money to pay its gas bills the lights have been turned out and San Fran- co is in darkness. This, to be sure, is not literally true. It is true in its effect, in its impression upon strangers within and without the City’s gate, true in so far as the inconvenience, danger and loss to its citizens is con- cerned. It is not true that San Francisco really lacks money to meet its obligations. Cer- tain safeguards are established by iaw de- signed to so regulate the expenditure of public money that the peonle may at least keep some track of it. One of these safegnards is the provision in the appropriation that the money in the several funds shall be divided into twelve parts and the expenditures of each month shall not exceed the one-twelfth portion. Another is that the money in one fund shall not be drawn upon to pay the deficiencies of another. | The first of these provisions has been | flagrantly disregarded by the Supervisors tnemselves and by other departments of the City Government. They have passed | bills with the full knowledge that the on twelith limit was being exceeded. This has resulted in several of the separated funds in the general fund being now over- drawn. One of these is the street-lighting fund. It is by this disregard of the law by themselves made that the Supervisors are finally compelled to plunge the City in darkness for fifteen nights. It isa ques- tion 1f any other city in the country would tolerate such outrageous mismanagement, disregard of the law, open plundering and political huckstering as is represented in this financial exigency, repeated at each recurrence of the close of the fiscal year. In the beginning of the year a liberal estimate is made of the amount of money required for street lighting. This estimate is made up after a conference with the agents of gas and electric lizht companies and repeated conferences between the members of the board and altogether based upon past experiences and a knowledge of growing needs. It would seem strange then that with plans so framed and the money set apart for the business divided up so that it became un- lawful to spend more than a certain portion of it each month, that the City should at last be compelled to go in darkness for two weeks. And this despite the fact that both the gas and electric_lignt companies have been shutting off the lights for several nights during each month more than is provided in their contract. The contracts provide that the lights shall not be turned on during four nights of each month when the moonis at its best. Since March the electric-light com- pany has turned its lights off during six nights each month, and the gas company has done the same for eight nights each month, or twice the number stipulated in the contract. This saving, however, has not been enough. The business of any large vrivate cor- poration conducted in this flagrantly derelict if not, corrupt fashion would in- vite the immediate dismissal of the men in any way responsible. In the matter of a public trust of this character it should do the same. Chairman Hirsch of the Committee on Street Lights of the Board of Supervisors being asked for an e: unatiun,’i:\id it to the demand for new lights on the part of residents of the outside districts. The explanation is as trifling and humiliating to Mr, Hirsch individually as are the two weeks of darkness to the City itself, It is a complete confession of incompetency on nis part for the duties of the office with which he had been honored. He knew the mouney he had to spend. He knew how much light it would buy. And yet he went on buying more light than he had money for. In order to grant the wishes of a few in- dividuals, give lights to » few individuals, he has brought darkness upon the whole City. A l5-year-old boy wno would not know better should be turned up and soundly spanked. Thoere is another explanation than mere stupidity. The street lamps, it is said, have been used as a means of ‘‘doing poli- tics’” in these outside discricts, but that explanation is also very closely associated with stupidity. A man, or any number of men. who would win a few votes in the suburbs at the sacrifice of the respect of the community at large must be very stupid. J. B. Crockett, president of the San Francisco Gaslight Company, speaking of the matter yesterday, said: “This com- pany has suffered the loss of nearly $100,- 000 through furnishing gas in the past after the appropriation has run out. This time we will certainly shut off the gas on the 16th, when the limit of the present fund will be reached. The Supreme Court has declared that the man or corporation furnishing supplies to the City must keep himself posted as to the state of the finan- ces, and if he furnishes goods after the money bas run out it is to his own loss. We shall shut off the gas, as the City has advised us to do.”’ J. £. Green, secretary and manager of the Electric Light Company, said yester- day: “We shall not turn on the lights on the 16th of the month. The reason for the | shortage of fonds is the great increase in the number of lights during the past year. ‘We have been putting them in very rapid! by order of the City. We knew the appre priation could not cover it, and remor- strated, but still the order came, and at last we declined to put ‘any more up. ce March we have shut off two extra lights each month, but still the funas were not sufficient to meet the rapid in- crease in the number of the lights. “It would be 1 nuisance of course to turn out the streetlights,’” said P. J. Healy, the Powell street book-dealer, “but this talk about its offering a premium to crime is all moonshine. The lghts have been turned out before in San Francisco under similar circumstances, and while it was inconvenient and disgraceful and reflected severely upon our City Fathers, it aid not cause eny unusual increase of crime.”” *I think,” said the Rey. Dr. Flawith, pastor of the Fourth Congregational Church, *‘that the understandings of men who can deliberately advocate the putting out of al! our street lights for two weeks must be dark indeed. It should never be permitted to be done, for we have little light enough now in San Francisco, and to extinguish the gas and electric lights would be to plunge the City into total darkness.” 5 “To turn out the street lights,” said Deputy School Superintendent C. B. Stone, “‘wouid be an outrage upon the public and a premium to highway rob- bery. Rather than put out the lights the Supervisors had better cut down the sal- aries of some of the sleek and ‘well-paid City Hall chiefs and deputies. Why, we need gas and electricity on our public streets even upon moonlight nights and to do without it altogether for two weeks is as preposterous as it is absurd.” “I cannot understand,” said Jeremiah Deasy, the Sixth-street shoe merchant and president of the Knights of St. Patrick, “why the people of this City should be de- prived of light even for one night. Surely there must be bad management some- where when the large tax rate of last year is not sufficient to run all the departments of our City Government. Butit we must economize I think it should be in . some other direction than street lighting.” S. H. Tacy, manager of the Manufact- urers’ ana Producers’ Association, in dis- cussing the proposition of shutting off the street lights for half a month thinks that such proceedings as these lead many to beheve that San Francisco is a ‘‘jay” town. He said: Nowhere in_the East would this condition of affairs be tolerated for a minute. In New York City the street lamps are lighted by sun- down and they remain until sunrise, summer and winter, moon or no moon. In San Fran- cisco the darkest nights: are irequently when the moon is full, but totally obscured by the fog. Well, the money is gone and we will be without street lights for a while. There is one thing that the Supervisors can do to remedy the evil. They can pattern aiter the old New York City law. Before gas me into use for street lighting the city officials passed a law or ordinance compelling every property-holder and tenant to suspend a lighted lantern froma pole in front of the street door. These burned until the tallow candle was consumed, and_by that time nearly everybody was in bed. the San Francisco Supervisors could pass a similar ordinance. Iam sure that the effect would be very unique even if this sysiem of street light- ing'is & little antique. J. Richard Freud, secretary of the Mer- chants’ Association, thinks it is by just such disagreeable occurrences showing the faults of the present City government that the provisions of the proposed new charter will be more impressed upon those who are not already ardently in favor of its adoption. “The new charter,” he said yesterday, “provides for twenty-four distinct funds, which must be expended for specific pur- poses. There can be no deficiencies such as this present lack of funds for street lighting, because the appropriations for a specific purpose can never exceed the amount of the fund provided for it. “Article 2, chapter 3, section 7, of the new charter, say: No contract for light- ing streets, public buildings or offices shall be made for a longer period than one year, nor shall any contract for gas, electric licht or any illuminating material at a higher rate than the minimum price charged to any other consumer be valid.’ San Francisco is paying an average of $1000 a night to light its streets. Does any one doubt that the same amount of lighting could be obtained more cheaply by private persons?’”’ The Supreme Court So Decides in the Case of Charles Smith. His Wife’s Appeal for an Increase of Alimony Refused by That Tribunal. The appeal of Josephine Smith, wife of Charles H. Smith, the Southern Pacific Railroad cashier, from the decision of the Superior Court, which denied her an in- crease of alimony, was yesterday denied by the Supreme Court. Mrs. Smith entered a suit against her husband for permanent maintenance of herself and child. The defendant admitted having deserted his wife, but charged her with misconduct of various sorts. The Superior Court granted her alimony of $150 per month to support herself and child. Later the plaintiff entered court and ob- tainea an order of court relieving her of the child, she claiming that she couid not control it. The youngster was placed in a school, subject to the order of the court, and Mrs. Smith’s allowance was reduced to $80 per month. On April 19, 1895, she again appeared in court, this time asking that her allowance be increased to $100 per month, and stated that her husband had paid her practically nothing for almost two years. Shecom- plained that she had been forced to go into debl to support herself and to look after the wants of the child. The court denied her motion. From this decision she appealed to the Supreme Court, which court sustained the Superior Court’s judgment. It was held that the amount of her allowance could only be fixed by the original court and that if she did not receive what was al- lotted her the only recourse would be in an action against her husband for con- temptof court in refusing to obey its order. GARCIA ASKS A PARDON. A San Quentin Convict Claims to Be Invocent of the Crime for Which He Was Convicted. Charles Garcia, with a twenty-years sen- tence before him in San Quentin, has peti- tioned the Governor for an absolute pardon on the ground that he is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. The circumstances attending his convic- tion are as follows: On the night of November 4, 1893, a Chinese servant in a Grant-avenue saloon was held up by two men on Stockton street, near California, and robbed of $25 in cash and other valuables. Despite the fact that it was dark and the attack upon him quite sudden Leoung Tom swore that he could identify the men on sight, which he did in the persons of Isidor Baidivia and Garcia. Both were tried betore Judge Wallace and convicted, notwithstanding the fact that Garcia’s mother swore that her son was in bed at the time the robberv took place. In addition to this Baldivia makes a statement in prison that he had not been in company with his fellow-con- vict on the night in question, and in fact did not see him for two weeks prior thereto, and that he alone committed the robbery. On this statement Governor Budd will be asked to set Garcia free. He belongs to an old Spanish-Californian family, and prior to his arrest had never been in trouble with the police. | consenting WANTED A MAN T0 BEAT GOULD WITH, Anti-Daggett Forces Cogi- tating About the Chair- manship. A MAN WILL BE SPRUNG The Machine Seems Safe From the Candidacy of Foote or White, FOOTE'S SEAT IS CONTESTED. The Daggett Machine Would Throw Him Out of the Convention. The War Outlook. The Daggett-Gould-McNab combination, grimly determined that the machine must win at Sacramento, has given W. W. Foote a blow which is relied upon to effectually knock the wind out of Foote’s boom for the convention chairmanship. They have filed a contest to Foote's seat in the convention, and now 1f any- thing more 1s said about forcing the chairmanship on Foote they will say, ““What! elect a chairman whose seat is contested and who would have the dis- position of hisown contest?”’ By this coup d’etat Daggett and his friends and Foote’s enemies have made another slash for Foote's scalp-lock, and they think that one assault on the works of their man Gould has been brilliantly repulsed. Senator White is the only other prominent candiiate whom the anti- Gould, anti-machine forces have tried to form so far. Nobody may talk witii authority or certainty about the possibilities of White reluctantly to be whooped into the convention chair until after he gets home to-night, talks with John T. Gaffey in a back room and gets a good survey of things. White would get the chairmanship by an immense majority in spite of Daggett's machine if the represeutatives of the Democracy of the State were given a chance to choose between him and Gould, but there is a general feeling that White would not consent to run. Those who cry out for salvation from Daggett and Gould talk much about its being White’s duty to sacrifice himself {a little, if necessary, to harmonize tne party and to save it from being given into the hands of a machine faction, and about the probabilities of his seeing it to be his duty to become a savior. But thereisa general impression that White will refuse the honor. The ready story about Gouid’s voting for White for Senator comes rebukingly irom the lips of McNab and those fellows when the possibilities ot White’s chair- manship are mentioned. They are posi- tive that this bars White from placing a straw in Gould’s way. White wants to be elected to the Senate again by the next Legislature. What course will White steer in his own inter- est is the question. He will take a deep interest in the convention in behalf of his ambition, his friends and his party. It is certain, for one thing, that White will not band people :nto Daggett’s band- wagon. They are old enemies. White's closest friends are not Daggett’s friends, and their common enemies are few. White knows that if John Daggett dominates the party machine after next Tuesday there are only two biz Democrats, Foote and Maguire, into whom Daggett will run his knife with more unutierable joy. White was chairman of the Stockton convention of 1884, which in its platiorm denounced “Lieutenant-Governor Join Daggett, whose casting vote was ever thrown into the scales to _turn the balance against the people,” and declared, ‘“‘that it is the| duty of a pariy, if itis true to itself and to the people, to expel from its ranks and de- nounce, as unworthy of public trust and lost to all sense of honor, traitors and pledge-breakers.” ‘White’s portion of the responsibility for Daggett's being thus kicked outof the party naturallv. made Daggett his bitter enemy. When the convention of 1886,in Odd Fellows’ Hall, San Francisco, arrived, Daggett was there with one purpose, and that was to beat White, who was a candi- date for the chairmanship again. He bad his knife out for “Bill” English and others, upon whose carcasses he would feed. He tried to beat White with N. Green Curtis,; but didn’t. If White should now frot out to win the gavel again, ten years later, what a blessed transport ot bliss would bubble in John Daggett’s heart if he could beat hira at last with Frank Gould. It was at that convention, by the way, that Daggett broke with Chris Buckley because Buckley backed White. Daggett pleaded in vain with BucFley to stand in against White. I suppose you're going to be for that —— hog English, too, for chairman of the State Central Committee,” said Daggett, as the story goes. “Lam,” said Chris, and Daggett, turn- ing on bis heel, had spoken to Buckley for the last time. The anti-Gould forces were at sea yester- day and were still looking about for mag- netic Eany giants to take up. Jeter's boom has apparently lost its vitality. La Rue has been mentioned. Foote’s friends, opponents of Daggett generally, ana the Buckleyites were yet pinning their hopes on Foote or White and waiting to see what the possibilities regarding them are. They haven’t got a candidate; they can’t find one,” the partisans of Daggett and McNab shouted in jubilation. “Just wait,” said the otlers. That a candidate will be sprung against Gould is a moral certainty. He will prob- ably be rushed out with a whoop sbout next Saturaay night or Sunday when the politicians begin to gather at Sacramento. Gould’s friends talk about his election by acclamation, which would mean that Dax- gett has secured such a complete mastery of the party that even the opposition to him is crushed. And this when the State machine, the control of San Francisco politics and for- tunes, the ambitions of many leeders, a governorship, a Legislature, a senator- ship and so on are more or less involved! It 1s universally recognized by Demo- crats—except by McNab and Daggett when they talk for publication—that Gould’s election means Daggett’s triumph. “‘Daggett is going 10 get all he wants” is the common expression among the Junta people as they talk of the certainty of Gould’s election. The anticipations of the Junta people are that Gould, as temporary chairman, will force through, as far as a chairman can, the programme of letting the Junta vote on the temporary organization. The Junta will cast 161 votes, and 147 more, in- ciuding many proxies, will make up a majority. ould is expected to name a committee on order of business, which will provide for the appointment by the chairman of ten or twenty members at large of the State Central Committee, who will become an executive committee. He is expected to name a committee on credentials that will report in favor of seating the Junta delegation, throwing out W. W. Foote and seating the Daggett- Fitzgerald contestants from Alameda County. There may be contests from Los Angeles to be disposed of. X € is expected to_appoint a_committee on platform that will report an indorse- ment of Cleveland, an indorsement of Budd and a money plank framed accord- ing to the wishes of the machine, or rather according to their }udgment of what they may be able to get through. Eighteen members of the State Central Committee are involved in the San Fran- cisco contest. The recognition of the Junta will give Daggett a large majority of them. f more importance is the Executive Committee. Itisthe main part of the State machine. I will run this campaign, and it can shape things to desired ends for the State campaign two years from now. 1t is a power that Daggett has been assiduously playing for. 1t can influence the composition of the Legislature on which s0 many political ambitions depend. Itis a force that can be played in all directions. The man of large influence in the State Committee can command much and many. They will be all palms and roses that fall in Daggett’s way at Sacramento—some Democrats don’t think. Gould and McNab are to be Daggett’s chief lieutenants in directing the cam- paign according to the partnership and be big men themselyes, and Gould, with am- bition burning in his soul, would be Speaker of the next Assembly and a Gov- ernor later. i So Daggett is the chief convention issue. Other big issues are adjuncts of it. As Daggett goes so will go Gould, so will go the boss-ship of the party, so.will go the dominant forces that will give character, direction and control to the reorganization of the local party that will follow the State Convention. The game -that depends on the cham- pionship is a big one. It is worth digging up a good man on a Sunday night to win it with. It may be really worth the thun- der and the wreck and carnage and battle smoke that will come with the conven- tion’s beginning. ‘The local contest is one of those doupl- ful political convention issues concerning which hindsight is worth more than fore- sight. Both of the factions are confident of victory and with the Buckleyites a half vote would be a fairly satisfactory victory. The main fight will probably be fought at the very opening of the convention when the attempt is made to let the Junta delegation put in their 161 votes on tem- porary organization. There will at once be made a motion that San Francisco be excluded from the rollcall, anda_Gould, who, as chairman of the State Central Committee, will, of course, stand by the committee, is ex- pected to make a ruling that will be ap- pealed from to the convention. It is expected that the row at this start- ing point will be worth going miles and miles to see. The Buckleyites will have strong champions from the interior on the floor and at the front, and they will be there themselves to back up their own spokesmen. It will be urged that according to all right and vrecedent both factions should withdraw until it is decided who the legal representatives of San Francisco are. It will be shown that this is quite different from the ordinary contest in which one set of delegates has credentials from the one party power which issues them and the other comes asserting its claim to cre- dentials. a In this case the rival delegations each present credentials, which on their face are of equal value, and they come from in- dependent party organizations. One dele- gation has the advantage of having been recognized without any hearing of evi- dence by the State Central Committee, but it will be urged that the committee had no right or power and no occasion to bestow this recognition at the request of one fac- tion and that they come from the organi- zation composed of bolters and represent- m% but a very small element of the party. The question is, Which is the legitimate and regular party organ tion in San Francisco? The Buckleyites will ask only that they be given a fair hearing on the merits of their case and that their rivals be also made to wait for the judgment of the convention. On this issue the first and probably the decisive battle will be fought, and fought with desperation. They will point for a precedent to the two State Central Committees in the party in the fifties, eacl of which sent delegations to the National Convention, which kept both off the roll until the contest was decided. But the batties at Sacramento will nearly all be between the machine and the rest of the party. The macbine has some advantages always. Its programme is carefully prepared and it fights with sole regard to practical success. The Buckleyites have engaced a large hall nea: the Goluen Eagle Hotel for head- quarters and will advance on Sacramento in force next Monday. “We have the equities and they have nothing but the bugbear ‘Buckley’,” they say. Chairman James I. Stanton has called another meeting of the delegation at Pythian Castle to-night. Talk about district delegates to Chicago is not lively in the Junta. George T. Marye and E. B. Pond had been talked of, but their being gold men is thought to have made their selection unlikely unless Daggett wants to get in what gold men he can. James V. Coleman is spoken of in the Fourth, and Louis Metzger wants to go. James D. Phelan will probably be favored by the Junta crowd from this end of the Fifth district. Most, if not all, of the Congressional nominations will be made at this time. The Fifth District convention will be held at Sacramento, and it yesterday seemed likely that V. P. Scheller of San Jose would capture the nomination in competi- tion to A. J. Clunie and Jos. P. Kelly. ) Popper, who dug up Scheller and got in the race to beat Clunie with, th that be has accomplished his fell purpose, and he probably has. Schbeller will have the Santa Clara County delegation solid and claims three or four of the seven San Mateo County votes. The San Francisco vote depends on the outcome of the local coutest. Clunie has some friends among the Junta delegates, but a majority will support Schellar. The Iroquois club will make one of the crowds that will go to Sacramento on Mon- day. They will wear white plug hats, carry tomahawks, install the ogcers of a new Iroquois club at Sacramento and cut a pigeon-wing generally in the political uproar. i AFTER FOOTE’S SCALP. The Daggett Faction Contests His Own Election as a Lonven- tion Delegate. OARZAND OFricE SAN FrANCISCO C\LL.I_ 908 Broadway, June 11. Daggett is not through with W. W. Foote, and the bitter local fight has had new fuel added to it. The Daggett-Fitzgerald people have filed a contest to Foote's election asa dele- gate at large to the State Convention, and will throw him out if the Daggett machine can accomplish it. The move is supposed to have been occa- sioned by the taik about running Foote as a candidate for the convention chairman- ship, this move being made to make sare that he is out of Gould’s way. The contest is based on the claim that Foote’s election by the County Comumit- tee was illegal and " fraudulent as set forth in the following document filed with the County Committee to-day : To W. W. Footeand M. J. Laymance, Chairman Democratic County Committee of Alameda County: You aro hereby notified that the seat of W. W. Foote to the Democratic State Convention, to be held at Sacrrmento, June 16, 1896, will be contested on the foliowing grounds: Firsi—That Laymance, chairman of the County Committee of Alameda County, had no right o authority to call the committee together for the purpose of eiecting & delegate- at-large 1 the State Convention, and that in doing so ne usurped authority willfuily and wrongfully. Second—That upon the meeting of the com- mittee under said call, the question of elect- ing a delegate-at-large was carried by a major- ity of six votes, and that upon the aflirmative thereof, said Laymance and others voted a large number of proxies without exhibiting any authority from the absent prineipals to represent them, and without permitting the comumitteemen present to inspect, pass upon and authenticate said proxies. It is believed that any authority which may now be shown to cast many of said proxy votes has since been obtained, and should be rejected. Third—The election of W. W. Foote was se- cured in the same manner as recited in the preceding count, by casting proxies that were passed upon, if at all by the chairman, Lay- mance himself, without submission to inspec- tion and authentication, and therefore said election of said Foote lacking in every element of authority in the first instance, was ac- complished against the votes of a majority of whe committeemen present, by the use of proxies alleged to be held by Laymance and by him _wilifully withheld from inspection and verification. Fourth—After the said alleged election of said Foote as a delegate-at-large said Lay- mance, by use of the same proxies and meth- ods, ]}rocnred an order of the committee that the Third Ward of Osakland, in which said Foote is & registered voter, be deprived of one delegate to the Siate Convention and that said Foote be credited to that ward as a delegate end subtracted from its quota of delegates un- der the apportionment and call. Thiswasan il- legal disfranchisement of the Democracy of the Third Ward and resulted in imposing upon them a representative to the State Convention whom they did not desire to represent them. Fifth—That Laymance throughout sccom- plished these various false and fraudulent schemes against the rights of the party and without its indorsement was subsequently demonstrated by the defeat of the Foote-Lay- mance ticket in'the Third Ward by & mu}ori(y of 53 and in the county by a majority of 200. Therefore the Democratic State Convention Will be asked to hear proof of the foregoing counts and to right the wrong done to every principle of right representation by refusing to Mr. Foote a seat under such credentials, aud conferring upon J. J. McDonald, the law- fully elected representative of the Third Ward of Oakland, the right and authority, as the chosen representstive of the people, to cast in the convention the two votes to which said ward is entitled. All parties concerned will take notice of the foregoing, this 11th day of June, 1896. The contest is not regarded seriously by local Democrats. They belieVe that if Foote wanted to be chairman of the con- vention he could have the honor with little trouble. 7S M. J. Laymance attaches little import- ance to the contest. *‘It is just another move of Daggett’s,” he said to-night, ‘‘but it will have no effect. Daggett is presum- ing on altogether too much strength. He would of course like to see Goufii chair- man, but I think he will be disappointed. ‘8o far as Foote is concerned, he has de- clared himself, and I do not believe he will change his mind. Foote does not back and fill like some Democrats who have been read out of the party. He has said he does not want the chairmanship of the convention, and nobody who knows him believes that hedoes. He wants to go to Chicago as a National delegate, and is making his fight toward that end. There is really no foundation for this talk about the chairmanship so far as Foote is con- cerned, and it is laughable to see a protest against his being a delegate-at-large, as the County Committee meeting, at which Fitzgerala was present, elected him by ac- clamation.” W. B. English says Foote is not after the chairmanship and does not fear any contest. ‘“‘Daggett and McNab will get one of the surprises of their life when noses are counted at Sacramento,’’ he said to-nicht. ‘W. W. Foote could not be seen to-night, but several members of the county com- mitte agree with the views of Mr. Lay- mance. AT THE CITY THEATERS, “Lorraine” Is Proving a Suc- cess at the Tivoli Opera- House. Miss Don Cann’s Singing Adds to the Attractiveness of “Miss Jerry.” Nat. C. Goodwin and his company are presenting “In Mizzoura” to fairly large audiences, but the play and the perform- ance deserye full honors. of sentiment of the right sort in this latest work by Augustus Thomas, and the in- terest never flags. Goodwin's interpreta- tion of the self-denying Sheriff could scarcely be improved upon, and his sup- port is good. The play will run for the remainder of this week, and will be given on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights of next week. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, Mr. Goodwin will present ‘A Gilded Fool,” by Henry Guy Carleton. “Brother John”’ is amusing large audi- ences at the Coiumbia Theater. The one drawback to the performance is the length of the waits; but the public overlooks this in return for the good stagipg given the plav. Macklyn Arbuckle has made a de- cided hit as Hacket, the hatter, and the rest of the performers all contribute to making “Brother John’’ go with spirit. There is plenty of sensationalism in “Brother Against Brother,” the melo- drama which the Grand is producing this week. The scene where the blind giri breaks in the door and rescues the lovers from the flames is one of the most effective situations in the play and never fails to elicit delighted applause. “Lorraine’” 1s one of the best perform- ances seen at the Tivoli for some time. The opera itself has bright and catchy music, which runs to marches and waltzes. The efforts to find the nero are too long drawn out for the plot to be as brisk and bristling as one could desire; but some of the dialogue is good, and there are some humorous situations. Miss Marie Mil- lard’s singing adds greatly to the attract- iveness of “Lorraine.” The vitascope continues to arouse in- terest at the Orpheum, and added to the list of attractions, makes a strong bill for the week. Papinta’s dances used to be watched in silent enjoyment, but since she took to having pictures of prominent peo- ple thrown on her draperies, her perform- ance arouses quite a popular clamor. Hayes and Post go on adding to their vopularity. The Amy Lee season commences at the Alcazar on Saturday matinee next, with Amy Lee, Frank Doane and the new com- pany in *“The Little Detective.” “Miss Jerry,” which received its last performance in this City last night at Metropotitan Temple, is the first picture- play which San Francisco has seen, though the style of entertainment is be- ginning to become quite a fad in the East. It is a very charming and novel way of passing an evening, and well deserves the applause it receives. *‘Miss Jerry”’ tells a dramatic story of a young Ilady who wished to enter journalism and of all that befell her when out on her *‘details.” The story is well read by Miss Carrie Louise R.f and is illustrated by a rapid series of life-size pictures thrown on a screen. Miss Don M. Cann, who sang between the acts of “Miss Jerry,” is a pupil of Willard J. Batchelder, who will certainly make a hit in the East, where she is shortly going to take an engagement. She has a rich, sympathetic contralto voice which she uses exceptionally well. - Preparations are nearly complete for the i summer stock season to be inaugurated at There is plenty ; T0 INCREASE THE CITY COMMITTEE, New Working Force of the Local Repub- licans. MANWARING TO APPOINT One More Member From Each of the Assembly Districts. EXECUTIVE SESSION WORK. Committeemen to Be Named at the Regular Meeting in July. A prolonged executive session of the Republican County Committee was held last evening at the headquarters, corner of Market and Stockton streets. All out- siders were excluded, and a motion to admit newspaper reporters was voted down by 10to 8. The entire committee of eight- een members responded to the roilcall. C. W. Manwaring, chairman of the com- mittee, presided at the session. The main business before the meeting Wwas a proposition to add eighteen mem- bers to the committee—one from each Assembly district. In anticipation of a spirited contest many spectators gathered in the outer rooms to await the result. There was a disposition on the part of many members to defer action, and some time elapsed before the fight opened on ihe merits of the question. J. M. Chretien made the motion to in- crease and an amendment was immedi- ately offered to postpone action for thirty days. After vigorous discussion, in which Jesse Marks, favoring delay, made the ‘‘speech of his life,” the motion to defer was lost, the vote standing 9 to 9. The committeemen voting for the amend- ment to postvone were Marks, Berliner, Gately, Thompson, Watt, Houston, Brown, Clear and Chandler. More talking followed and finally the motion to increase was carried by a vote of 12 to 6. The affirmative voters were Brown, Clear, Helman, Jacksou, Man- waring, Ayers, Louderback, Clincn, Chretien, Walsh, Bacigalupi and Chand- ler. Voting in the negative were Marks, Berliner, Gately, Thompson, Watt ana Houston. Another mdtion which evoked speeches was one authorizing the present commit- teeman of each Assembly district to name the additional member.” Chairman Man- waring ruled that this procecding was in usurpation of his powers, as the by-laws delegated to the chairman the right of ap- pointment. He ruled the motion out of order. On appeal the chair was sustaned by a vote of 13 to 3. In deference to the desires of the com- mitceemen the chairman decided to ask members to present names from their re- spective districts. Should the chairman fail to find acceptable names in the list so supplied, he will be at liberty to make an independent selec'ion. . The object oi increasing tife committee is to .afiord adeguate working strength during the campaign. Some of the Assem- bly districts are very large, extending over a vast territory, and embracing twenty precincts. The present committee is unusually small and on election day the single mem- ber from each district would not be able to visit half the voting places and could not possibly watch the count at night. At the regular meeting in July Chair- man Manwaring will announce the names of the eighteen new committeemen. Meanwhile the present members of the committee will consult the Republicans in their respective districts in regard to men to be recommended. A suggestion was made at the meeting that tue committee wire the National Convention at St. Louis asking that Messrs. Shortridge and Montague be ad- mitted as delegatgs. The suggestion was not put in the form of a motion, so no ac- tion thereon was taken. Stock Season at the California. The prospects for the season of the Dramatic Stock Company, which begins its season at the California Theater Monday night, are most flattering, if the energy and enthusiasm shown by the demand for reserved seats at the sale yesterdav morning can be taken as any indica- tion. There was a large crowa at the theater long before 9 o’clock, the hour announced for the opening of the box-office. The repertory of the company is very choice and includes all the late New York successes. /——\smart Broadway, New York, druggist has this sign hanging outside his store, it marks the new era of drug selling, Is it any wonder that he has to enlarge his quar- ters, that his clerks are busy, ?.nc:l that his store is one of the most popular along the leading I;1101'- oughfare? You can afford to trade with a druggist that has such a motto as that. the California Theater next Monday night by the dramatic stock company under the direction of L. R. Stockwell. 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