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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1898 CONVENTION DELLGATES AT THEIR CAUCUS Continued from Fifth Page. pecially to a man who has taken so te part in State pelitics as I have, beneath the do with- the spotless W] and the blue of our flag, 'the eagles looking down upon us, & place upon the State ticket. The e you ! of the nation and the world are at this | moment upon us. We have just drawn with_the clasped hand of the North and the South from the sword hilt, that sword | which was sheathed when the civil war came to a triumphal close. We have drawn that sword on behalf of an.oppressed race, and now it has been | In that war we | ment lanted our eagles upon the heights of | party. over the | California, returned to its scabbard. antiago and unfurled our fla waters of Manila Bay. Our influence and jurisdiction followed the sun in its west- ward course tlll it stopped on the western Shores of the Philippines. Out of that war have come issues vast and momestous, not only to this State and our nation, but to universal man. But these issues depend to a great ex- | tent as to their decision upon the action of California_to-day, and the election which is to follow. That great states- man_whom General Barnes placed side by side with Lincoln and Grant in the Pantheon of our national heroes, has left }! to the enlightened public opinion of ’America toidecide what course shall be fuken and how those issues shall be de- cided. We must elect our ticket in this campaign in order to have an influence in directing that national palicy and de- elding the course which shall be pur-| nor I will 'be tne jumping-jack of any e R U aking the pihce which | devil-inspired political boss in the State California may make in directing the | of California. (Applause. ! public-opinion of America and the world. | Colonel Eddy—Mr. Chairman and gen- Along QLe western shore of the Pacific, | tlemen of the convention: I desire to say | With her thousand miles of seacoast,| to you that under no other cir-| washed by those emerald waters, and | cumstances than those that have | seag with commerce stretching from Ha- | happened here within e last 1, the Ladrones and Philippines to the | five minutes would I . ever Orient, a mighty conflict for the trade and commerce of the world is to take | half of any J The great | Wish you to dlstinctly understand that it | Pacific | was not intended that I should say as one | Word in behalf of any gentleman for this place in the coming century. struggle which is to be upon the will either give us a place of the. worl powers, or will rel- egate- us -to -third place. With issues presented we must place before the people of California a ticket that | arauous duties of an office and confer a | favor upon the Republican party of this 1t- | here | Chairman and fellow-Republica e that closes above us, | ite, the fervent red | stars and the | to_ask for | | of the age in which we live. | thoughts_that are moving to action the | canism on the soil | should be in the vanguard of this greaf can be elected, and one of the things nec- | _ essary for us to do is to recognize every portion of this State. I am here from a county situated 500 miles north of your county, which has given the standard bearer under whose leader- ship victory will be assured, that county that gave McKinley Jority in 1896. I come before you to ask for the sec- ond place upon the ticket. I believe we have the man for the place an hour. If you will give us a place upon the ticket we will have a personal inter- 700 ma- est in its success. Of course, we have that anyhow, and no matter what the result may be, you will find us with coats off, sleev for the success of the whole ticket. man whom I would nominate, like Lin- coln and Garfield and Grant, sprang from | to this State | world. from | solutely false and baseless, | age in political life. | | State by putting in nomination a young man, full of energy and full of experience, who is looking to the rising sun of a better He will do the party more good than any man that has been nominated for the position, in my opinion, to-day. Vote for Frank McGowan, ar you won't make a mistake. (Voice “*McGowan! McGowan!") Mr. McGowan of San Francisco—Mr. s of this State Convention, this is an auspicious year for Republicanism. We are blessed at this time with the grandest President since the days of Lincoin. Our army and navy have won and excited the admira- tion of the world, which we are about to face as a new mnation. We are making rapid strides In material, moral and po- litical progress, and these conditions are thé result of the sterling Republicanism The great 0000C000C0000000CO00000 men of this nation of ours are the senti- amd thoughts of the Republican It is eminently fit and proper that the land of peace and plenty; California, abounding in the blessings of freedom; California, whose loyal sons are now consecrating an imperishable Ameri- of the Philippine Republican march of patriotic deas. I promise you, my fellow-Republicans, if you honor me with this nomination that 1 will carry the banner of the Re- publican party from one end of this State to the other. If elected, I will endeavor | to discharge the dutles of that office to | the best of my ability. I assure you if I} am nonored as a Republican In the full consciousness that 1 will see the light as God gives me the right to see it. that discharging the duties of that office I will do it according to the law, and will not bend my knee to corporate influences, great to come before you to speak in l)eI candidate for this office. sume one high office, but I wish to say that under those | no circumstances will I sit as a delegate in the body of this convention and allow any man—whether he be George A. Knight or anybody else—to hurl insinua- tions at me, simply because 1 happen to be a delegate from San Francisco, that I had subscribed to any programme in the (Applause.) ay that the insinuation is ab- | so far as I am concerned, and I believe this moment that there is not a gentleman who is as- sociated with me who has been pro- grammed upon this question of the can- I wish to 4 for the | didacy for Lieutenant Governor or any | other office. (Volces, *“Sit down, sit| down.”) Just one word: I am not here to speak disparagingly of any candidate; far be it from me to do so. I expect to work for any man who Is nominated upon_this ticket, whether it be the Hon. ‘Mr. McGowan or any other man. I am not here for that purpose. I am here to say that T will do whatever I ¢ 8 man who Is nominated, but I d the humblest ranks of life. ' By his own o efforts he has gained a place—a warm |1 say now, that I believe that sin | place—in the regard and affections of | words have been spoken the strong- | P oo hoow Bim best. An able ora-| est man we can nominate is the Hon. | Jacob Neff. an able lawyer, a man of great en- a man who will strongly appeal to young men of this State, I believe he is the man that you should pre- Gage of Los Angeles. Gentlemen of the convention, I appeal to our justice, I ap- {wu[ 10 ¥ hope @ battle L ire for success in the great which now awaits us, and I ap- peal in the name of that duty which we | of the ticket composed of men who do | within a few months we have seen the ornians, and the Republican alifornia, a_part of the great owe as Cal party of Republican party o the whole peoplé that California is capa- f rising to the grand opportunity her. Give us our deleg ar nia will nobly respond. I ask you to nominate Thomas H. Selvage for the second place on your ticket. (Ap- plause and cheers.) R. H. Lloyd—Mr. Chairman and gentle- men of the convention: I have heard the | praises sung of Native Sons placed nomination; I have heard the sung of candidates from differ tles In this State. I have no nomination here, but 1 an who was here before any | of Jacob Neff for Lieutenant Governor have in Vative Sons of them arrived (laughter), or before expected (laughter) an whose name is hon- ie American Native Son ored b in Cal is eput not sary. His fame and his tion belong to the State. If his biography, read the history If you want a man against one thing can be said, a man his_fellow men, a man w a who would sooner do right than anything on respects the rights of ever; body. who ble, intelligent and has_the ability and honesty to perform every duty h will fall upon him in this position, give you the name of a man who be- to no part of this State, but who ngs to the entire State—Jacob Hart Neff. (Applause). { Mr. George A. Xnight—Gentle- men of the Convention, I owe to you| as ‘a Republican sitting in this con- vention to at least tell you the truth. | earth, w (Laughter.) I was never in a Repub- | lican convention in my life that I di@ not tell’ the truth—when I can- not tell the truth I will keep still. (Voices—Good boy, George.) . We have nominated Henry T. Gage for Governor of this State, a clean: cut lawyer; a man who can make canis; Rl with | I should be successful in the ensuing of this State a campaign honor to himself and honor to the | © party; a man that we need not be | P a man who is able to | ties go, 3 t | Senate shall be discharged in a sat- ashamed of; take care of himself, and he does nof need any assistance. Now, Lenry T. Gage is concerned, that is enough. We want a Lieutenant Gov- ernor to preside over the delibera- tions of the Senate; a man who is up in parliamentary rules, who is clean- cut and quick in his decisions; a man who is next to the Governor of this State; a man of whom also we ought not be ashamea and that is the kind of a man I am golng to give you, and it is Frank McGowan. (Voices— Good, good.) Now I want to talk right down the row of the San Francisco delegation some good common sense. know how you fecl. I am one of you, and when I can- not talk, I do not say anything. I want you to vote right. No harm 1s going to come of this—and, gentlemen, I am go- ing to talk right from the shoulder, too. The gentleman who has just been put in nomination, Hon. Jacob Neff, has been crowned with all the glories that man needs in this world; 2 man who sits now in the eventide of his life, with more honor than any Republican that I know of in_this State. There is not a _man that dare question the integrity of Jacob Neff, or his life long work, in the inter- ests of the Republican party. And this convention, as men, should do him the honor and say to him, “Rest from your labors, well done, good and faithful ser- vant.” (Applause) You cannot heap honor upén Jacob Neff by giving him the onerous duues that are involved upon the presiding officer of the State Senate. ‘Let me tell you fellow Republicans and members of this convention, that the fme has come mnow; this is the time vhen you ought to pick up the papers that were printed this morning and read the names of those who are to be on your State ticket. A voice, “Good boy.” 1 am a programmer. There never was a straighter programmer than I am, but when 1 tell you 1 cannot do that thing, I tell you I won't, and my forefoot'is stuck in the mud and you cannot budge me on the proposition. Vote for Frank McGowan and when you_go to your homes you will not have made any mistake, Four years ago I stood In this convention and told you that Judge de Haven would bring votes to your ticket and down the line, the center line of the San Francisco delega- tion, in their hearts, knew he was a tower of strength. But they did not have the gray matter at the roots of their hair, or something that grows up the backbone to air their judgment. Now get right in on this. This man is a good presiding officer. He has been in the State Senate; he can make a campaign equally as good as Henry T. Gage, and he will be by his side. He Is one of the best orators in this State. His superior is not in the State to-day, and it will help the ticket. With all the honor and the fiog for ever and ever to my friend Mr. Nei I do this in kindness to relieve him t as the running mate of Henry T.|yention: in | Republican party. t 1 will not sing his praises, | you | V' of | that at this time, after erying my- | that I have the least feeling of re- when he was carrying as far as isfactory manner. | | Mr. Preston of San Mateo—Mr. | Chairman and Gentlemen of the Con- I do not propose to take up your time with a lengthy speech, but | r patriotism, I appeal to your | in the interest of the Republican of the bugle and the beating of the drum | party; in the interest of the success not tear down, but men who are f the nation, to show | builders in the land, men whose in- a loss of le tentions are yours, men who are iden- ate | tified with you, men who believe in | this country to studying the geography | the welfare and glory of California, I bow in humble reverence to the| Hon. Jacob Neff in the interest of California and in the interests of the | The secretary proceeded to call the roll, and before the roll call was completed, on motion of Mr. Knight, the nomination was made unanimous. | Chair—Gentlemen of the convention, I introduce to you Hon. Jacob Neff. | Mr. Neff—Gentlemen of the Con-| ention: It is hardly to be expected self hoarse to make myself heard ho | over this vast body, I should make an address. Gentlemen, in the few words that I have to say, I hope that you will bear with me. In the first instance, I wish to say that this honor has come to me without being sought. I did not seek this hopr, but through the partiality of my | friends I was brought into this con- | test, and I have been successful. I do not desire to have it understood sentment toward any delegate that thought Senator McGowan was a bet- ter man for the place. I want to say that I indorse your platfcrm—every word and every syllable of it. It breathes the true spirit of Republi: m, of which I am a believer. If | ampaign and be elected I can only ledge you that so far as my abili-| the duties of president of the | I shall know no | Democrat, no Republican, no Popu- | list when it comes to a discharge of | duty. I believe in fairness in poli-| tics, fairness in business and fair-| ness in the every-day affairs of life. I have been honorsd, gentlemen, | and I thank you. With this I retire. (Applause.) After several announcements by the secretary the convention adjourned untll 8 o'clock. Evening Session. The chairman called the convention to order at 8:20 o’clock. » The Chairman—The convention will be in order. Take your seats. A motion was made and carried tnat | henceforth nominating speeches be limited | to five minutes. | Mr, Meserve—Mr. Chairman and gentle- | men of this Republican convention: It is | my privilege for the first time in the his- | tory of this convention or of any other | State convention to appear upon the plat- form and place before it the name of a man whom we want to receive your suf- | frages. Los Angeles came here, and came here for a purpose. Part of that purpose | has been realized in the placing at the | head of your ticket the incomparable Henry T. Gage. Now, gentlemen, long be- | Tore It was thought of placing fhe name | of Henry T. Gage before you, young men had thought for years of elevating to the Supreme bench a man who, though a young man, has been elevated and hon- | ored, and it Is as a Koung man and a young_member of the bar of that county that I appear before you in the short space allowed to tell you something of tgnt young, able and great jurist. 1 say that the young men of to-day have a right to be proud. The young men of to- day have a right to say something and u{ something at your hands. General Barnes,” my friend General Barnes, whom I personally love, has told you in words which none of us could hope to imitate, the story of the great war just closed. He has not told you all that appeals to us young men and of that which he, a# an old man, has not thought, He and you went through the troubled times of 1861 to 1865. You have léarned lessons of patriotism in those hell fires. ‘We have learned them simply as tradi- tions at your knees, but to-day the young men of this nation, Inspired by the thought that their lives are of value in its su%port. a lesson learned in this war, come here to-day believing that they are of the same value. It is not the life of the man whose days were nearly run, and whe simply crowned the efforts that appeals to you. It is the life of the of the| You are the young men who pick up young men we bring before you. It is the death of a Bagley, it Is the death of a young man. It is ‘the life of a Hobson, of a Finley that says to the young men of to-day, you have something in this | of this State, and whose name_will bring | | Shot was fired at Fort Sumter it black- | fines of this State who can be named that | the Unfon ask you to place upon this 0OOOOOOOOOOOO000OOOOOOO09000000000000000000000000000 THE CALL'S SPECIAL CONVENTION SERVICE. SACRAMENTO, Aug. 24.—The arrival of The Call special train each morning is one of the events of the day to the delegates and to persons interested in the Republican convention. Never 1n the history of political gatherings in California has such service been accorded to the people as that rendered by The Call during the past two weeks. the outside world as soon as the people of the metropolitan district. The news has been given in its entirety by men versed in the arts of politicians. Not only has it been ably gathered and written, but it has had the added quality of being presented to The Call’s readers in pleasing form. The importance of the forthcoming struggle has warranted all this effort, of which the flying special train has been the outward and visible sign, on the part of the paper. The delegates to the convention, the residents of the Capitcl City and the other strangers within its gates are not the only persons who profit by the enterprise of The Call. In the gray of these sum- mer mornings, as the special thunders over the rails at the rate of sixty miles an hour, bundles of papers are dropped at the various towns along the line, the residents thus learning of the doings of The forecast of the work of the eonvention has been so accurate and so just as to excite the ad- miration of the men interested in it. They take it as an indication Jf the confidence placed in The Call staff as well as of the clever manner in which they have anticipated the moves ‘upon the political chessboard. The Call will continue to serve the people in the future as it has in the past, both in the quality of its news and in the delivery of the completed paper to its readers. (4] N 000OOO00000000°°°°°°°°OO09oo0000000000000000000000OOO I | | | | ©o [ © o o (] (=] © [} (] o © (] © (] (] o © [ © © © © | | i | i | | [ the mining section, I ask you to consider the name of the Hon. Stanley A. Smith of Sierra County. _Judge Seward of Sierra—In behalf of Sierra County and the mining interests, 1 take pleasure in seconding the nomina- the thread and carry it forward to make a success of that which has been laid before you. Gentlemen of this conven- tion, the man whom I am going to pre- sent to you to be nominated is W. . Clark, known by the members of the bar as “Billy” Clark. His life is a pecullar tion of Hon. Stanley A. Smitn for As- one. In 1888 he was nominated for Su- | soclate Justice of the Supreme Court. I perior Judge and he ran ahead of his| heartily indorse what has been said in tic his behalf, and we as miners believe that In 18% he was nominated again, a mining man ought to have a place on cket. ed the highest vote of the conven- % ahead of his ticket. In 189 | the Supreme bench of the State of Cali- again nominated, receiving the | fornia. highest vote in the convention, leading | C. T. Jones of Sacramento—Mr. Chalr- man and gentlemen of the convention: An able, upright and conscientious judi- clary is the safeguard of the Republican party in the State. What more exalted position, what is more important in the gift of the people of this State than As-| sociate Justice of the Supreme Court? They have in their keeping the life, lib- erty, pursuit of happiness, of the un- alienable right of the citizen, the execu- tve and legislative branches of the gov- the Republican ticket in that county by over 1000 votes, getting the largest vote ever received by any man in any election in that county. Gentlemen, on behalf of the Los Angeles delegation, 1 present to sou the name of W. Clark. Delegate from Orange—Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the county of Orange, whick is contiguous, and for many yea.3 waa the largest part of the county of Los nomination of Angel 1 second the Judge Clark. ernment may become incompetent, may Mr. Hutchinson of Napa—Gentlemen of | become corrupt and venal, but if you have the proper kind of judiciary, and if we have men of ability there, If you have men of standing and of purity, the rights of the people are preserved. In seiect- | ing a candidate for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, it seems to me that personal friendship even should be cast aside. Locality should not be thought of; delegates who look for character in a nominee should look for purity of char- acter and look for legal learning and | should look for peerlessness. In looking over these characteristics for a mominee I take pleasure and pride in naming, in behalf of Sacramento County—aye of the people of the State—Judge T. B. McFar- land of the present Supreme Court. (Ap- plause and cheers the Convention: Sometimes in the ex- citement of the moment in the rivalry attendant upon a Republican convention, we delegates do not give that careful consideration to qualificatiéns and ele- ments of strength of the various candi- dates that may appear before us, and that applies to every office, and it ap-| plies with great force to the gentlemen | who are asking for the nomination for | Associate Justice of the Supreme bench | at your hand | It behooves us to note that the gentle- men who are placed as candidates upon this ticket for that high and honovable office that they shall have not only the qualification for that high office, but that they should also bring elements of & stréngth to the ticket upon which they | Judge McFarland needs no eulogy at my may be placed. 1 have the honor to|hands. His life is as an open book. His place before this convention a gentleman | Técord as a Supreme Court Justice is be- who has education, who has natural abil- | fore you. All of you that know him as ity, who has experience upon the Supe. & man know that his character is pure, rior bench of this State, whose record | Know that his very name is honesty it- as a citizen and a soldier make him emi- | S¢lf and know of his ability as a Justice in nently fit to grace the Supreme bench | the court. As a Republican, my fellow citizens, no man within the confines of thousands of votes to the Republican | MY Voice can say that any man is more lNll’li’, if placed upon it. That man is| deserving at the hands of his party. the Hon. A. J. Buckles of Solano County. I call your attention to the fact that twelve years ago you placed him upon your ticket as a Justice for the office to which he now aspires at the Los Angeles convention. At the ensuing election the head of your ticket was beaten, many of the candidates were beaten, but Judge McFarland led your ticket to victory. (Applause.) 1 ask vou to place him upon the ticket. He is deserving of that nomination, and if nominated he will be elected, and if elected he will serve you faithfully. I/ thank you for your attention. Judge Van R. Paterson—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the convention: You are now about to proceed to pronounce your verdict upon the most important duties that you have ben called upon to perform here—the selection of a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of California. San Francisco has no aspi- rant for that position, but I am proud of (Appiause.) Ve, the young men of this convention, | have 'within the last year heard the sound | E- that have summoned the army and navy | »f this country ‘to a great conflict, and | Atlantic squadron, with her Brooklyn and | her Oregon, come back in safety. With s than a thousand men in | battle we have seen the leaders of our | forces humble Spain and set the people of of the nation to tell where the state ends and begins. But the time was, gentiemen of the convention, and. many of you on this floor will remember those brave men | who laid down their lives to battle and | glory to honor that old flag, for when the | ened thirteen of the stars on that flag of | blue and it opened a chasm in this coun- | try out of which was pouring thé lives of | the honor which I have here to-night of thousands of brave men. seconding the nomination of that tried, When that time came in history Judge | unimpeachable, true jurist, that honest, Buckles, then a lad of 15 years of age, in | the State of Indiana, heard the first call for volunteers, and he with others marched up to Washington under that first call. As they marched they kept tep to the chorus, We are comln%\ Father Abraham, three hundred thousand | strong.” (Applause.) | In the battle of Bull Run he was In the | Nineteenth Regiment and in that battle | he was wounded. He was taken to the hospital and after some time recovered. Then at the battle of Gettysburg, the Nineteenth Indiana at that time consti- tuted one of the regiments which formed the band of noble men in the army of the Potomac, known as the ‘“Iron Bri- ade.” At the battle forces were pouring through the Union line, the colors of the Nineteenth Indiana were taken from the rusfaed. honorable man, the Hon. Thomas B. McFarland. (Applause.) There is no lace in the world when men come to learn another so quickly nor so well as in the consultation reom of the Supreme Court. Month after month, year after year, in the interchange of views in the search of those principles which are ne- cessary to the proper determination of those great questions of life, liberty and propetry which reach multitudinous forms, every question of mental and moral strength and weakness of every member of the court, is necessarily a question for every other member of the court. Gentlemen of the convention, it is from this standpoint, it is from such as- sociation and from such observation that I have learned to know, and knowin have come to learn to love, respect ‘and regiment and Buckles saw them and, fac- | agmire Judge McFarland. (. ~-I E T e nmains hot and hell, reacued | * Ha la absolutaly’ fne. " consclentinma— them hnd brought them back to the Unon | thoroughly so—magnificently equipped by line. When he came back, he had a bul- let through his shoulder.\For that act upon_the battlefield, he was made the standard bearer of his regiment, and the same flag in the battle of the Wilderness, he was again wounded on the field of action. In 1865, when commanding a_ skirmish regiment, he was again wounded, this time resultin, in the loss of his leg. That is the recor of the soldier. (Cries of “Time.”) I beg your indulgences for one moment. He then came to this country. After havin been admitted to the bar, he was electe: district attorney of Solano County twice, He was then elected Superior Judge of that county and the second time he came nature as well as by trainlng. He is in the vigor of manhood, mentally and phys- ically, and as true to the fonstitution and the impartial decision of discretion as a Judge as the pole to the polar star. Now, gentlemen of the convention, I want to say this to you—that when the founders of this Goyernment divided it into three departments they placed the Jjudiciary above all the others, with dis- cretionary and supervisorial control over them, and with this idea—that if there arose any question of policy, any question of law, the Judges should be put there with no pledge save their honor and no bond save their own integrity; and when they did that they impliedly said to the up for re-election, the Democrats indorsed | peoplg of this Government, ““When you him to & an. They did not have a man | put a man in tha(fgosltion you put gl?m whom said would be nominated | there for life and f8r good behavior.” they against him. That is a part of his record as a judge of that county; for eighteen years he has sat upon the Superior Bench of Solano County and out of forty npggtt‘\ls taken but six have been reversed. at ig his record as a judge. (Applause.) Gentlemen of the convention: Sixteen thousand old soldiers are waiting to see what recognition we will give them upon this State ticket. 1 venture to say that there is not one man within the con- Now, gentlemen, if you want to get good Judges you must say to them that if in your judiclal career you perform your functions as judicial officers fairly "and well you will be preferred, and it {s only upon that theory, gentlemen of this con- vention, that you can get Judges who will aspire to those positions. Judge McFar- land is_invincible. He is-absolutely fear- less. There is no political tempest, there is no storm of passion that can shake him. You owe it to yourself, you owe it to the party, you owe it to the people to nominate this man who has been so loyal to the Republican party, who has been so firm in_hig convictions and in his de- will aid tne strength and power of this State ticket more than the name of A. J. Buckles of Solano. Recognize this old soldier and put him on the ticket. General Sullivan—Mr. Chairman_ and | cisions. Nobody can force him by fear gentlemen of the convention: Fortu- | or by flattery or b{ cajoling or by whee- Rately. it is mot necessary, after the elo- | dling from the path which his conviction has blazed out for him. His life is an open book. All through his life he has fol- lowed this motto, “Bound to swear to the ipse dixit of no master. Whither mv con- victions ca me, thither am I borne, and a willing and_welcome est.”” General A. L. Hart—I desire on behalf of the Thirty-ninth District of the city and county of San Franclsco to second the nomination of Judge McFarland for Supreme Judge. (Applause.) George A. Knight—Mn, Chairman and gentlemen of the convention: I rise at this time with not so much enthusiasm of speech as I had, but with the fervor that this occaslon should inspire. I arise to ask this convention to nominate Judge Van Fleet Associate Justice of the Su- preme Court. (Applause and cheers.) I will tell you why I do so, gentlemen. Judge Paterson has just said there has been a well defined tacit understanding that all decent, liberty-loving American citizens entertain the idea that when you find a Judge that is pure; when you have found that a Judge is able, when you have found a man_that is fearless, that exercises Ludiciu.l function without fear or favor, that man should be retained for the benefit of the people and not for the benefit of himself. Our United States District Judges, our United States Circuit Judges and our United States Supreme Judges are ap- pointed upon that theory and for that reason. ow, gentlemen, Judge Van Fleet is no stranger to the people of this State. It is not my purpose to eulogize, it is not my purpose to take uq’the atten- tion of this convention longer than to state a few facts which I know to be true my which you can verify If you wait for fu- ture developments and the action of this convention, and the election of Judge Van Fleet at the polls. He is a good lawyer, he is a fearless man. He came to Sacra- mento and engaged in the practice of law with success, was elevated to the Superior Bench in this city and county and no Democrat was found to run against him. He also received the nomination of both parties and was overwhelmlnsl{‘ elected, no one running against him. iring of the irksome duties of the office of Superior quent remarks of the speaker who has just preceded me, to say much. But since T have had the honor to fight side by gide with Judge Buckles on the battle- fleld of Gettysl urf. 1T cannot remain in my seat and let his name go before this convention without indorsing it, and add a few words to those so eloquently ut- tered by the gentleman who spoke before me. Phe 20,000 old soldiers of the war of ticket the name of A. J. Buckles. (Ap- plause.) _ They are the principles of a great or- ganization which is not a political one. 1 said on a former occasion, and I repeat it at this time, that that organization is composed of old soldiers and is one in which we have no politics and no Dem- ocrats (laughter). therefore they are en- titled to your consideration. We hope that you will give place upon your ticket 1o one of the first representatives of that organization, the former department com- mander, Judge A. J. Buckles of Solano. Mr. Webb—Mr. Chairman and gentle- men of the convention: T apprehend that the people of the morthern part of this State will not be lamented because of the great number of its citizens whose names they will find upon the ticket here being nominated. (Laughter.) Com- ing from the northern portion of the State, representing the county of Plumas, T desire to place before you the name of a gentleman for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court of this State. His name is Stanley A. Smith of Sierra County. He has an experience of many years upon the Superior bench of the county. He served his time as District Attorney. He is a lawyer and a Judge of mature X“"' and a man of strict i tegrity, and a man of undoubted capac- ity. His ear can no pfbre catch the con- fident demands of the Imgerh-lln ‘wealth than it can the meekly whispered prayer of ruined poverty. Gentlemen, it is time that we should remember loyalty north of Sacramento, T call your attention to the fact that unless a candidate for the Supreme Court be drawn from the north there will be none representing the north- ern end of the State upon the ticket. We bespeak at your hands a fair considera- | Judge of SBacramento County. he connect- tion of the claims of the north. We sug- | ed himself with one of the t law firms in San Francisco—Mastick, Belcher & est to you, gentlemen of the south, and {o you, gentlemen of the interfor, in the flush of victories here achieved and con- fident in the victories vet to fall in your behalf, that you can do well to consider the northern part of the State, to whom ou will look in November for your ma- Mastick—and there he won distinction at the San Francisco bar. Judge Paterson, tiring of the duties of the office of Su- preme Judge, resigned, Judge' Van F]g? _appointed to fill that vacancy. e tF:r\ went before the people and was el | political, and whatever kind. | an honor to the State and the pride of nation. jorities. ected and he is now serving that term. Gentlemen, ain, representin; the| He comes to you to-night asking for northern part of the State, s) ng for| your support. He comeés to you not " craving; he comes to you with no prom- ises. He comes to you as pure as God’s sunlight, clean as a pebble, and as brave a man as ever sat upon any bench in the land. (Applause and cheers.) Gen- tlemen, he deals out the law to the pau- per and the King as he finds it. He gives them a law_ as it is upon the statute- books, and there has never been any one to question his integrity. His surround- ings as a man, his ability as a Judge, and his footsteps are as a good citizen. I ask you to renominate Judge Van Fleet, and he will do honor to the Republican | party as a Republican, and he will do | honor to the bench in the equal dispen- | sation of justice to all classes, religious, In him you have a strong friend, a good man | and good Judge, irrespective of party, the friends' who know him. I ask you to nominate him at this time. I thank | you for ur attention. (Applause.) Judge I. C. Hart of Sacramento—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the conven- tion: The representatives in this conven- tion from Sacramento County with whose judicial history he was for a number of years identified in a career distinguished by consummate ability, could well be ac- cused of unpardonablé ‘dereilction of duty if they did not at this time indorse the | candidacy of the Hon. W, C. Van Fleet | for Associate Justice of the Supreme | Court. (Applause.) Called to the nisi | prius bench when a young man in this | county it was but a short time when he | was recognized by bench and bar as,a man singularly suited to the performance | of judicial functions. By the profound | learning that he displayed and absolute | fairness and impartiality with which he | presided over cases in that forum and his | career upon the Supreme Bench of this | State, though brief, stands as a monu- | ment to his learning, to his erudition and | his integrity. His name, gentlemen of the convention, will add to the strength of this ticket, particularly in the mnorthern | part of the State, where he is honored and | revered, and he will continue to do that sort of thing upon the Supreme Bench | which we expect from a profound jurist. | (Applause.) | udge Short of Fresno—This is not the | time fellow-Republicans for further | speech-making. “Suffice [t to say that in | the matter now under consideration by | this convention there is no politics. The sole question for consideration is ablility and the honor and integrity of the ge tieman who shall be nominated for the postion here sought. As one who has had opportunity of per: sonal knowledge and observation, as person who has as much interest as any man in this State in fairness and he esty and ability of the Supreme bench this State, realizing that by reason of rh short term which he has occupied this | bench he is entitled to an indorsement and re-election as a matter of right and as a matter of courtesy. Realizing that | he is a man who inspires friendship, who | inspires confidence, and who is an honest | friend and an honest man and an _able Judge, 1 second the nomination of Judge | Van Fleet. (Applause.) Judge J. F. Davis of Amador—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the conven- tion: Make no mistake about it. You | have come to the most important part of | your deliberations. In our complex sys-| tem of government by checks and - bal- | ances the judiclary is the balance wheel. | People may lose faith in their Governors may lose faith in their Legislatures, bu if the American people lose faith in their Judges the end is at hand of the Republi- | can institutions. To thefyudlciary is the life, the interpre- tation of the fundamental law of your land, the interpretation of the constitu- tion ' itself. The maxim that Abraham Lincoln gave in the middle of the war is as correct in matters of judicial experi- ence as it is in war—"Don’t stop .0 swap | horses in the middle of a stream.” (Ap- plause and cheers.) When you have found a good man, tried and true upon the bench, keep him there. I care not what a man may have accomplished in other fields of life, but I appeal in the matter of a fu- dicial nomination to his record as a law- yer and a Judge. I rise at this time from force of my conviction and all the power that is in me from my heart and my bran | to say to this convention that one of the | best names- that you can place upon your udicial ticket #s 'W. C. Van Fleet of San rancisco. (Mpplause and cheers. tie started as a lawyer at the bar in this | town. He worked himself to the front at this baf. His record as a Superior Judge | of Sacramento County for eight years this community of SBacramento, where if | anywhere a Judge upon the bench is un- der a white light of the calcium—his re ord is unstained and unchallenged. .’ I | record upon the Supreme 2 ) shows e’ bhas in him that attribuve * ways de- votes in the heart of @clawyes ». pa T tion and loyalty of the bar, namely—that | he Is fearless, that he is able, that he is fair and that he is correct in his decision. That is a touchstone. The man before whom you go to try a case, feeling that you have a good one, and know confidently that if the law is with you he will be bound to give it to you, and in behalf of ability and in behalf of fairness, in behalf of wide learning, in behalf of everything that goes to make a fearless Supreme Judge, I rise at this time to second the nom- h|ml|0n of W. C. Van Fleet of San Fran- cisco. Mr. Matlock of Tehama—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the convention: We are all Republicans, or at least ought to be. I desire on behalf of the Republi- cans of Tehama County and of Northern California to present to you as a candi- date for a place upon the Supreme Bench Hon. John F. Ellison of Tehama Coun- ty. (Applause.) Judge Ellison has been a citizen of California for almost a quar- ter of a century, during which time he has actively, energetically and honestly discharged the duties incumbent upon him as an attorney at the bar and as Judge of the Superior Court of Tehama County. It is an easy thing to win vic- tories in counties where you are all Re- ublican, and when I hear gentlemen rom other counties telling what they have done in order to build up the Re- publican party and give grand victories to the principles that it advocates, T am reminded that a Republican in Tehama County, or in Shasta County, when he cas# his ballot is as potential as in a county that gives 5000 majority for the Republican ticket. Judge Ellison has been a candidate and elected twice to the Superior Bench in Te- hama County, defeating both times the strongest men of the opposite party. He is respected as a citizen, he is admired and revered as a lawyer, and an honest man. That is not a common thing in the Democratic party, but we have lots of them on our side. Now, gentlemen, let me call your attention to a few things and I trust I will not get over the five-minute rule. It is a fact that two great wars have come and gone and passed into his- tory. It is a fact that the whole political appearance of this country since the elec- tion of Abraham Lincoln has changed in policy, largely, but I tell you it has been almost a third of a century since a man in Northern California has had a place upon_the judicial ticket. Generations of men have come and gone, and still we are up there fighting for the prineliples of the Republican party and where are your Jus- tices of the Supreme Court from? Three of them are from Sacramento County. They don’t want anything though. Where are the balance of them from? Good men, hongred men, and all that sort of thing, but we want sometimes to come in for a part of this loaf. How long. O Lord, shall we wait? (Laughter.) Hold us here and time will end and eternity commence, but we will have no interest whatever in our affairs. We are entitled as Republicans to have a place. upon this ticket, because we are true and loyal to the great principles of the kfmny. ‘When I thought of Judge Buckles being talked of here as being in the great battle of Gettysburg I thought of myself upon that occasion. 1 was there, and I was almost scared to death. (Laughter.) One of the reasons of that - | resulting from studious habits; | mind, and he is in every respect | sections, and we do feel, gentlemen, that I_had too much exposure (Laughter.) We have the greatest navy, you are told, in the world. Spain has the greatest submarine navy in the world— all under water. (Laughter.) Now, I un- dertake to say, gentlemen, that one Re- publican is no better than another if he is an honest man, If he knows the law he is good for a Judge. (Cries o “Time.”) Time—time will never end. (Laughter and cheers.) We are entitled to be recognized upom this ticket. We are orphans of the Republican party. In that matter we have a mother, but we have no ancestors. That is the condition we are in. So far as 1 am individually concerned, 1 have no desire to have an never have had a judicial offize, because I never saw a thing in the world tnat would not take sides on. (Applause.) It is in my nature—always has been—to be for the bottom dog regardless of his color, and I insist that we are entitled to be recognized upon this ticket. Judge Elli- son is an honest man. That is the high- est compliment that you could pay to any man. He is a lawyer of ability, and he is a good Judg& Out of the forty or Afty | cases that have been appealed from his | court in the last eight years only four have been reversed in that time; and that was the fault of the Supreme Court. (Applause and laughter.) As for myself, it is just as natural for me to be g Re- publican as it is for a toad to hop. . I in- gist that we are entitled to be recogaized upon this ticket. (Laughter and _cheers.) 'We are loyal as Republicans. We have stood up and fought while we hdve & common enemy that outnumbers us and we have got away with him. That is the idea of it. I say to you that a quar- ter of a century—yes, a third of a cen- tury—has_passed Since we have been recognized. Judge Sprague of Shasta was nominated about thirty years a and he died a year afterward. (Laugh- ter and applause.) I insist that we ought to be recognized. (Laughter). We pre- !!(’l}l you one of the B;lesthlawyterlsna:f afifornia for Judge, and an hones ) 5 - gin some localities that I have been | was that and now I tell you is a rare thing.” (Laughter.) | informed by the honorable gentlemen that my time is up. I will take an appeal. (Laughter.) But I want you to remem- ber that we are entitled to be recognized. I 'say to you that there never was a thing that came before Judge Ellison for his consideration that did not receive atten- nvestigation and a fair BOSS REAS POWER IIAS GONE DOWN Continued fromx Fourth Page. in the hands of A. J. Martin, one °f the cleverest of political managers 4t the convention. This combination of facts resulted in one of the most em- phatic triumphs of the convention 0F Charles F. Curry. After the adjournment of the cor- vention to-night, there was practically no effort on the part of candidates 0 effect new combinations. The battles were over this morning and the results were published exclusively in The Call this morning. These results were em- bodied in the forecast of ‘the State ticket, and were based, as already indi- cated, on a careful poll and canvass of the convention. The accuracy of the forecast was verified to-day by the nominations made by the convention. At this hour, 1:30 o’clock to-night, there is no reason to amend the remainder of the ticket, as published this morning. To-night the streets are crowded with enthusiastic Republicans cheering their | nominee for Governor. The delegates to the convention have one more day of convention life before them and they seem determined to inaugurate their campaign of enthusiasm before they tion, thorough i decr;sion. andgl insist that we are entitled | leave. to be recognized. ‘A aclegate from San Francisco—Mr. Chairman: 1 move you that the gentle- | ,1,.q ypon the ticket, will add strength man be recognized. Mr. Matlock—I move as a substitute that Judge Ellison be recegnized. How long will you leave us out in the wilder- ness and cold? Two~big wars have been fought, and still we are standing out there, orphans, and have had nothing to do with it. We have been voting the ticket and we can show a higher per cent of votes cast according to numbers, and fewer losses and no desertions. (Laughter and cheers.) Charles A. Garter—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of this convention: I will take the liberty of recallini the atten- tion ‘of this convention to the fact that the Hon. John F. Ellison has been placed in nomination as Assoclate Justice of the Supreme Court of this State. As an old friend of Mr. Ellison, as a practitioner at his bar, as a long resident of Tehama County, as a present resident of the ad- joining county of Shasta, I am here to- night to add one voice in plea for recog- nition of our part of this State. 1 am able to come here and speak from per- sonal knowledge to perhaps many who are not acquainted with Mr. Ellison, and T can confirm the opinions _already found in the muiltitudes of friends whom he has gathered around him and testify before t%\]s convention that this man is| an absolutely pure man. He is a learned | man, he is a Judge in every respect, he is an affable man, he is courtesy itself joined to dignity and the strict observa- tion of the proprieties; he has learning. a_legal a Judge. | We do not claim for him that he is the bright particul all other luminaries are dim, but we do say for him that if events should be so ordered that he should be elevated to the Supreme bench of this State, he will not ulY below the level of his surroundings, and he will stand up on a plane of full equality with the society into which he enters. We leave him to your gracious acceptance, whose triumph gshall better publish his commendation. = (Applause and cheers.) Ernest Weyand of Colusa—Mr. Chalr- ma On behalf of Colusa County and the northern part of the State, I will say that Colusa County desires to second the nomination of Judge Ellison. There is no more true saying that was uttered by sudge Matlock when he was nominating Judge Ellison: ‘“We are entitled to be recognized; we are entitled to it and we should be recognized by this convention.” 1 second the nomination of Judge J. F. Ellison of Tehama. (Applause.) Orestes Orr of Ventura—Gentlemen of the convention: I Tse to place in nomination for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court the Hon. Benjamin P. Williams of Ventura. Judge Williams has had a long career upon the bench in our section of the State. His decisions have uniformly met with the approba- tion of (he{oeople with the possible ex- ception of fellows upon the other side. We in that section of the State should have something to say upon the matter of the distribution of the Justices of the Supreme Court, and I think we are en- titled to be heard upon it, representing as we do more than a fifth of this con- vention here. We have not had for some years a_single member of the Supreme bench of the State of California. We who are attorneys, practicing at the bar down here, feel this to some extent and this is known by all of you. The interests of | that section of the State are somewhat different from other sections’. The liti- ation that arises there is somewhat dif- erent from the litigation arising in other on behaif of that section of the State we should »e_ “ititled to a place upon the ened by #h of the State of Califor- Y ¥ deserving citizen that rep- wir “section. Williams' career upon the bench has vears. He has been elected and re-elected since his first election—without opposition tn- sec- | is majority was "been now some fourteen to it not on! b his soul that attracts men to him. behalf of Ventura County I name of Hon. Benjamin P. Will ly in the southern but in any ortion of the State where he may come, ecause he has that human xlndnessoin n lace the jams be- fore this convention and ask his nomina- tion as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. mfi (Applause and cheers.) Seviere of Humboldt—Mr. Chairman gentlemen of this convention: Not- withstanding the fact that the delegates from the citrus belt seem to have for- gottel map o to ave disregarded n that Humboldt County is upon the f the State of California and seem one thousand Re- publican_majority which she will roll up for the Republican ticket this fall, T sec- ond the nomination of a jurist from the citrus belt for Justice of There is not in_the minds of the Court. the Supreme ‘Anglo-Saxon_people a_higher veneration entértained for any American institution than is entertained for the judiciary. Tear down, if you will, every buiwark of our freedom, or besmirch the judiclary. You will but never dare trample re- member two years ago, in Chicago, the Democratic convention met and performed its labors, and but for an unwise criticism upon the Supreme Court of the United States the windbag from Nebraska would have conducted Spain. the late war against Now, in behalf of Humboldt Coun- ty, desiring a man in whom we can trust and place the welfare of our widows and orphans, of our old and in- firm and of God's unfortunate pecple, in behalf of Humboldt County—that county famed for its unbounded forests—I rise to ar star before whose light | second the nomi of Ventura as | Justice of the { and cheers.) jupreme Court. nation of Judge Williams roper judicial timber for (Applause H. C. Firebaugh of San Francisco—Mr. Ellison the nomination of Hon. J. ISur})nse of | Chairman, as a member of the San Fran- | cisco delegation, I rise for the secondin P, 'or Associate Justice of the Su- preme Court. The nominations were then closed, and the secretary was directed to call the roll. At the conclusion of the roll. call the vote was anounced as follow Van Fleet 522, McFarland 175, Buckles 154 Ellison %, Williams 164, Smith 27, Clark . It was moved and seconded that the nomination of Judges McFarland and Van Fleet be made unanimous. carried. Seconded and The ehairman—The next business in or- der will be the nomination of a candidate for Secretary of State. now in order. General A. L. Hart—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the convention: It was | Nominations are n- timated on this floor to-day that the San Francisco delegation was upon the slate. If the gentleman who made this state- ment In relation to that delegation will only recall the history of the last four years and remember_the occurrence in the convention of this State and in this hall fo yr years ago he will become strongly reminded of the fact that there is at least one man of that delegation that is not and never was slated and does not be- long to any association that is not in the interests of the but one slate. georle. San Francisco has an Francisco during this convention has asked for nothing. Our delegates came here and honestly cast their votes in favor of what they be- party. lieved to be the best interests of the Our slate is Charles Curry. (Ap- plause and cheers.) There has been no request—there has been nothin, which wouls asked—of this convention have justified the gentlemen who are associate® with me upon that delegation in joining in anything. 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