The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 23, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1898 'PROTESTING AGAINST FRAUD BOSS REA Wil L FIGHT FOR PLACE ‘Good Government League Protests Against His Cor- rupt Practices. lts Officers Have Affidavits Showing Ballot- Box Stuffing and Repeating at the Primaries. be made. The offer was o the delegates represent- gue do not They_have SACRA- | promise should CALL te | d d be MENTO, Au th stop the © HEADQUARTERS, effort is beir County delevs some | decided to sm _in s at the | Clara County 3 not rest result til t as beer omplished. those who will make the fight sures and_pure politics in 3 anta Clara are W. H. Wright, manager Hew ghlioiliaa He San Jose Fruit Packing Company, by he | n recognized -st packing establishments ind their names | in the world G. Tompkins, Judge B. will be printed on the temporary rollcall | H. Hurlburt, C. I R. Pation, Sf ihe convention, and under the circum- | D! }\-. D. M T ge J. R. Weller Edenvale; H. G. v. Conant, Camp- College Park; ¥ unlixe! that the cre- tee will report in favor of stances’ it is dent sw Glenn: W. B. . M. s and _J. R. Johns, s D H. tes, Campbell, and Mitchell PHillips, San Jose. The Good Government League delegates met shortly after their arrival and for- tense, mulated the following statement to be \t if the fight ted to the State convention: logsjor sevens! the delegates Republican State Convention: Gentlemen—We appeal to you on behalf of the Republicans of Santa Clara -County for simple justice. The plain fact is that the | primaries recently held in Santa | Clara County were a disgraceful farce in which frauds were perpe- trated and violence used to sup- | To ntinued it will d votes to f the Rea deleg > in Santa C. s w b \gainst the local slate nor desire on t ions to in dcket. There however, to eliminate Good Government peo- would much rather see t defeated from ton to bot- = the municipal governme the officers named by Rea feieRagugeRuRaRugelaFoFgrTegeFey R oo RoReRoRoFeR BT ol ion arrived here d went direct to f 5 3 3 e iy wpenen L DIC the voice of Republicanism. A said that he was en- iioats e : fon woy Affidavits of the best citizens tion of the : of our county are in the hands of the representatives of the Repub- lican Good Government League of Santa Clara County to prove the disgraceful methods adopted by khe representatives of the Rea or “gang” ticket at that election | satis- when the its work every 3 irn to Santa Clar r the ticket named. ague peopl P committe t r to prove repeating 3 2 | only to overcome the Republican | i he Gome | Good Government League. | [hese affidavits show by legal idence what is already common fame and notoriety throughout | “alifornia, to wit: That the| epublican machinery in Santa ‘lara County is in the hands of a gang of professional politicians, ‘ho are neither Republicans nor democrats, but who politically are Bedouins of the desert, who rstood the conve tion will give be- at their dele- when he v e &CIPIO CRAIG. J.LACK ry 5 72 7 S MANN. CHARLES ¥ F.CURRY & Some of the More Prominent Delegates Who Arrived Early. THOMAS % H. SELVAGE: i SOUTHERN MEN ARRIVE Gage Boomers Come in Numbers, Solid for the Los A nge an. Show Their Good Feeling To- ward the Rival of Their (Candidate. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Aug. 22.—The first demonstration of the day occurred shortly before noon when the train from the south drew into the depot bearing eighty-five delegates from Los Angeles. They were accompa- nied by nearly as many more politiclans ates, but quite as en- : boomers as the regular repr ves of the south. The coach- es, in which the Los Angelan traveled, bore Gage banners on their sid the delegation brought a handsome silk banner, which was borne in triumph to Mr. Gage’'s headquarters. Deflant of the withering rays of the sun pouring down upon them the Los An- geles eigh five, each one badged with a glaring ow satin ribbon announcing their choice for Governor, formed in col- umns of twos and marched u Second street to K, thence to the Golden Eagle. No band nor drum corps preceded them, but the delegates kept time to their own incessant shout of “Gage, Gage, L T. Gage,” stopping at intervals of half a block to wheel into line and startle the inoffensive natives with ear-splitting cheers for the southern candidate, Arrived at the Golden Eagle, the dele- ¢ ation marched to the headquarters of > Mr. Gage and broke up a conference be- tween that gentleman and several north- | ern politician After each had shaken | hands with the candidate the crowd start- ed down stairs to “Whoop ‘er up” for their man. Right here occurred a pretty little inci- dent that contrasted strongly with the sullenness that marked every faction in last week’s gathering. It proved that, however spirited the rivalry among can- didates and delegations may be, they are all Republicans, as soon as nomina- tions are made all strife will end and every man will turn to and work honestly and devotedly for the successful ones. LEON DENNERY. Quob‘bno’bacsuaaifiabog PROBABLY GAGE o ONE BALLOT. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Aug. 23, 0 a. m.—The indications at this hour point to the nomination of Henry T. Gage on the first ballot. The Pardee men concede that Gage has made impor= tant acquisitions to his strength in San Francisco. Licutenants of Brown and Pardee held a conference an hour ago on theselection of a chairman, but did not recachan agreement. Par- dee followers are discour= aged. They expected sup= port from San Francisco, which did not develop. fag =R at bed =3 feReR=R=ReRaRReRuReRaRe R Kol DQQQIJDQOQQQQQDQOB This is not a squabble among politicians, but an earnest effort on behalf of the best element of Santa Clara County, the tax- payers and business men to over- throw a system of political free- fa = hard 3 1 Government »n floor. half. the and harmony, some suc! - on ht try 1\ some of the nt so that in the ev. League zed by the credent - able to defeat the ents and that his dele This propos plea that, for the sake h com- tes to hoast that they do not care whether a man is a Democrat, Republican or Populist so long as he is one of their crowd, and booting which has worked a deeper and more lasting damage to an otherwise magnificent county than can be here detailed. ierms on almost ey i ¢ the Hiat suggested to the | who, like the pirates of the high ; Minent League that they take | W10, 1K€ Y 8% The ‘contesting delegates are seas, are ready to fly any flag for e | the sake of plunder. not office-seekers, They want O e e JUDICIAL NOMINATION MAY BE MADE FIRST Candidates Apprehensive of a McFarland and Van Fleet Slate, Which in for Governor. was a Vi with the names of break this slate they are the organization of the o the slate is to put the j Southern Pacific Company nominated. »wn that work is t should be dispo: loting for Governor be; Sm could direct the they could defeat a ins. Judicial contest. B e g 40“{4#040*_6{0#“4v¢_60000¢0"0‘0#4#0$06 DR a ot o i S0 SR SE SR S 2 o 5 g 20 B 8 R SR S EADQUARTERS, SAC act, nearly all, S the contest for the Supreme Court is held to be paramount The delegates d Angellotti are extremely vention shall provide that the judicial nominations be the contest for Governor is brought on. held n friends of Judge Wil a, did not join support of the plan might imperil the chances of their can- but the delegates who did join in the movement assert ntura are in sympatny with them. candidates are apprehepsive that a slate has been made McFarland willing to join with the Pardee delegates in nvention. cial nominations first. could be delighted If McFarland should be The corporation has already made itself felt here,-and it is ing done elsewhere to d’s retention on the bench. Judge Van Flect s not classed with McFarland as the rallroad’s can- ‘dldate, but nevertheless the advocates of ‘making of judicial nominations contend that the Supreme Court nomina- *d of and settled in every re: The friends of Sweeney, rith and Angellott! could put a stop to trading in some degree if they organization of the convention. wholesale combine to elect two Judges and a Governor, whose names are on the same slate. tices, the friends of Pardee, Brown and Gage would be compelled to show their hands, and for their own good they would show clean hands fn the PR TT POCUUTEGN S x they aret gravely in earnest for R R g = = 1 government. Their effort in that behalf in the recent primaries has Republican voters, but by a shameless resort to fraud and in- timidation made possible by hav- ing the machinery and the offi- cers of election under their sole control. g They placed their candidates for delegates as sole officers of AMHS[ Be B[Okefl. the ele:tion. They excluded every other person from the room where the officers of the election and the ballot boxes were situated. They committed actual frauds and actually stuffed ballot boxes, as was d#Railed by the affidavits of some of the best citizens of the county. Shall delegates basing their rights to seats of such a shameless primary be allowed a place in this con- vention? Will you put the seal of your approval on such meth- ods and uphold the boss system in Santa Clara County? We ask you not to seat these delegates, but that you seat the delegates named by the Republican Good Government League, which ac- tually represents the majority of Republicans _in Santa Clara County, but which by foul meth- ods was made to appear to repre- sent a minority. We ask this in “RAMENTO, Aug. 22—In many countles excepting San Francisco, Los Angeles Buckies, that the Eliison, order of supporting anxious An important this evening with a view of accomplish- ams, who hail from Ven- conference, because th the written thereon, and to d Van Fleet The only way they can see to smash It 1s believed that the smooth the way for Mc- independent methods in the pect before the bal- Buckles, Eilison, They also claim that In the balloting for Jus- no political favors nor places, but | fair dealing and honest county | been defeated, not by the voice or | action of a superior number of | the name of simple justice and in the interest of true Repuhlican—; ism, which is everywhere synony- | CAMPA'GN LIK[LY mous with fair play and good | | government. | |Congressional Elections to the Front. W. H. WRIGHT, airman Santa Clara County Contesting Delegation. SAMUEL G. TOMPKINS, | Secretary. | Rea is making a desperate fight, and is willing to trade any place on the ticket | et S amindtion for Sceretars BOTH PARTIES ARE LINING UP | of State for Paul P. Austin and have hi | delegation seated. He went to the ¥ no delegates and told them he would back up Kirk for Superintendent of Pub- lie Instruction if they stood by him in the B 5 g8 8 Q ISSUES TO BE PRESENTED TO | convention. He next told the friends of | THE POEPLE. Black. who is looking for the same nom- fnation that he was interested in their i e return to | nst the | fight, and that he expected ccelve help in the fight ags = T e e Fempue. He met with | With the Democrats Financial Man- poor suce however, for it soon be- | agement of the War Over- came known that < attempting double 3 ¢ he has Pr shadows: Silver and v s ve for the > 5 place. }\},‘wlng the te a Tariff Questions. son of Childs, and when h of | | the deal he commenced Kicking in the | 2%} = traces and Rea desisted. If he had not | | done so Childs would have started a row & Spectal | in the delegation that would have resulit- Do Dispatch to The Call. ed in splitting it asunder. NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—The Washing- | N ACKMANN ton correspondent of the Herald tele- JOHN L graphs ow that hostilities with Spain have ended, interest in approach- ing Congressional elections will in- crease. Both parties are later than usual in lining up on the issues of the campaign and indicagions point to a short and sharp campaign in most dis- | tricts of the country. Issues growing | out of the war will figure largely In the campaign and the silver and tariff : questions will be thrown more or less Supervisor Can Easily Beat into the background, though the Dem- His Oppnnentv ocrats would build one of their prineci- pal issues—that of the financial man- L agement of the war—on their ideas of CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- |free silver and greenbacks, as brought MENTO, Aug. 22.—There fs talk to-night | Out in the Chicago platform and in de- that honest John Lackmann., who made | bates on the war revenue bill in Con- | TO BE HONORED. [MENTIONED FOR THE BOARD OF | EQUALIZATION. Republicans Confident That the Honest | such a clean record for integrity and |gress. They will criticize the Repub- | abliity in the Board of Supervisors of | licans for the bond issue and for the iSun Francisco, may be n‘r;m!nnt(—d in the | war revenue laws, which they claim First District for the State Board of | o, s | Equalization. The Democrats have put | s ais HOre Ielvaon he pcondiog forward John P. Dunn, whom they re- | % ¢"® §1€™ oo niican Congressional gard as a strong man, but the Republi- | cans believe that Lackmann can defeat him. The City and County of San Francisco alone comprises the First Dis- | trict. | A very pretty contest is in progress in the Second Equalization District between | L. C. Morehouse of Oakland, the incum- bent; Alex Brown of Milton, Calaveras County, and James H. Stow of Contra Co Henry P. Dalton of Oakland is also sald to be a candidate, but he is not active in promoting his candidacy. Brown claims that a majority of the counties in the northern part of the district are pledged to his support. He has a la number of friends who are here act working in his behalf. These friends say that a_portion of the Alameda dele- headquarters the indications at pres- ent are that there will be little discus- sion of the silver question unless the Democrats force it to the front. Few demands are being recelved for finan- cial or tariff literature, most of them being for documents relating to ‘the war and to Hawaii. The Republicans are managing the literary part of thelr campaign with considerable shrewd- ness, and most of the literature that they are sending out to attack the Democrats is made up of quotations from Democratic speakers in Congress. The issue of territorial expansion will not figure as prominently in the cam- paign as might be expected, for two reasons. First of these is that the Re- publican administration has not yet | gation will support Brown as against = Kforchouse. At present Stow's strengtn | clearly defined its policy any further is an unknown quantity, a fact that|than as to the retention of Porto Rico, and has not therefore given the Dem- ocrats an opportunity to take issue with them. The second reason is that, while the Republicans are tending to- | ward expansion and the retention of all territory taken from Spain, the Demo- crats hesitate to take an opposite course. Another issue on which the candidate will pursue his own course will be the practical management of the war. SHOT WHILE PREACHING. Dastardly Attempt on the Life of a Georgia Missionary. NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—The American Missionary Association has received dis- patches stating that Rev. J. B. Fletcher, a Congregational minister) and one of its missionaries, has been shot while attempt- ing to organize a Congregational church at Smiley, Ga., which is about twent ity from his home at Hagan, Ga. He went to Smiley as the result of corre- spondence concerning the organizing of the ‘church, which he had been carrying on for several months. While in the pul- it he was shot through the window, his ody bem.i riddled with 117 buckshot. = His condition is serfous, but it is expected he will recover. The would-be assassins are !%ld tg‘ be colored officials of a Methodist churc] leads to the belief that Brown will prove to be the successful candidate. James Stanley of Alameda has been added to the list of aspirants. George H. Arnold is desirous of secur- ing a renomination for the place on the Board of Equzlization from the Fourth District, but his raiiroad affiliations have created a strong feeling against him. His | opponent for the nomination is Frank Mattison of Santa Cruz. Mattison is a popular member of the Native Sons and | has a strong following in the district. His friends claim that his nomination by the convention is all but assured. Morosco’s Safe to Be Moved. A force of men will be put to work this morning moving the big nine-ton safe from Mr. Morosco's office on the first floor of the theater building to the second floor to make room for improvements. The safe is an unusually heavy one to be moved, and it will be necessary to cut away the door frames to get it out of the old office and into the new. The pres- ent offices will be made into reception rooms, and Mr. Morosco's old bachelor apartments on the second floor will be turned into offices. —_— e As people get along in years the rec- ollection of the price paid remains with them longer than the recollection of the good time. | The Los Angeles people as they started through the assed Dr. Pardee's headquarters and quickly lining up before | the open door gave three cheers for Ala meda’s son, as sincere and hearty | they had given but a few moments before for Gage. Dr. Pardee was immensely gratified at this compliment and express | his pleasure in a few happy word | the ‘Los Angelenos went down_ stalrs begin their part in the butto joling, handshaking and jost The Los Angeles delegation caucused this afternoon and decided unanimously to remain loyal to Gage until he is either nominated or defeated. The contest for the Sixth Congressional District nomina- tion was also taken up, that county hav- ing two candidates in R. J. Waters and . A _vote was taken re- sulting in favor of Waters by forty-five to forty and he was declared the unani- mous choice of the delegation. San Luls Obispo, however, has its own candidate, Judge Gregg, an_attorney of that town, aving come to the front with the nine | of his delegation. As Waters_will | have seven of the nine votes from Ven- | tura it looks as though Gregg's candidacy | would get no farther than the Golden to oling, ca- Eagle. The orange-ribboned men from the south were out to-night to show their good will to all the gubernatorial can- didates and to empha their loyalty to Gage. Headed b band they formed in front of th Eagle at 8 o’clock and marched down K Fourth, thence back to The quarters. Here the column halted, and | after a selection by the band cheers were | given for The Call. Band and delegates then entered the Golden Eagle and pro- | ceeded to Dr. Pardee's headquarters, and a_serenade tendered Alameda’s’ can- didate. Somebody called for three cheers for the doctor, and they were given with a will. Dr. Pardee thanked the Los Angeles peo- ve. HALEJ SMILE IS A SURE | ple for their friendly manifestation, es- WINNER: ¢ - - tablishing at once the most cordial rela- 4 | tions by his good natured remarks. Three more cheers for Pardee, followed by three SHARON COLLISION VICTIMS. SHARON, Mas: Aug. citement and confusion clearing away of the wreckage last night's collision on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, it was reported that seven persons were kill- ed, four of them being mentioned as un- known. To-day it was learned definitely 22—In the ex- attending the used by that the total number killed was four, as | follows: Franklin M. Waters of Somerville, book- keeper, Boston, aged about 2. Mrs. Mars' Fitzpatrick of Boston, wid- ow. aged 70. Mrs. C. H. Frye, wife of C. H. Frye of Revere. = Mrs. C. H. Bristol of Winthrop. The number of injured is still unde- termined, owing to the fact that many who were hurt were able to go to their homes for treatment, while others who recelved medical tréatment near the wreckage were only slightly injured. It is thought that not more than twelve or fifteen can be included among those seri- ously injured. SENATOR BERT XK KKK KKK NN R * % ceeded to *‘mix it with the others. Clara delegations to sound the! “Yes, I am a candidate fo I have a good fighting chance. affair. for it that lles in my power.” ok sk sk ok sk ok ok ok sk ok ok ok ok sk ok ok g ok sk ok K L R TR LA R R R SRR R SRR EEREEES] FEEFREF XXX XX R FH R FXRXFRXEFRXHER R SR A SEAT IN CONGRESS : Has Eniered the Lists in Opposition to Loud and Woli in the Fifth District, CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Aug. 22.—State Senator Eu- gene F. Bert has entered the lists in the Fifth Congressional District in opposition to B. F. Loud and E. I. Wolf. Bert came up from San Francisco on to-night’s train in response to a request by his friends, and at once pro- For a starter Bert first paid his respects to the various gubernatorial candidates, after which he rounded up his supporters in the San Francisco delegation, dispatching trusted/lieutenants to the San Mateo and Santa as to his candidacy. Congress in the Fifth District,” said Bert in the parlor corridor of the Golden Eagle, “and my friends tell me that With two candidates opposed to me I, too, believe I can come close to landing the nomination. yet to make a personal canvass of the San Francisco delegation, but I have some good friends among them who will do what they can for me. This is the way I look at the matter. didate for Congress as to be re-elected to the State Senate. of that I care for, and If T am not selected for the Congressional nomina- tion I have my law practice to fall back upon. My friends tell me I can and I am golng to make the best fight times three for their own man, and the | delegation, acompanied by Gage. went across to the Capital Hotel to pay their respects to Lou H. Brown. That gentle- man was at_dinner, so after some music and a round of che back to the Golden Eagle and serenaded | | | Thomas Flint Jr. | " Gage called for cheers for his rival, and | s the crowd went after they bad been given the two can- didates stood arm in arm while the band | plaved another selection. After more cheers all around the Los Angeles men disbanded their little procession and re- | newed their labors in behalf of their can- ‘ didate. | JAPANESE SHIP CANAL. | A scheme for the construction of a | ship canal from Osaka Bay, on the Pa- cific, to Isuruga. on the Sea of Japan, by | the way of Lake Biwa, is under contem- plation by the Japanese Government. The | lake will supply 46 per cent of the dis- | tance to be converted, and it.is estimated | that it will require from ten to fifteen | years to complete the work, at an annual | cost to the Government of from $7,000,000 | to$10,000,000. 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