The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 18, 1898, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1898. ably, shall never be disturbed by legrs- | lative action until a second referendum | shall determine that it shall be modi- fled or changed. Gentlemen, if there s | on the face of this earth an avalanche of human stupidity it is contained In those two words initiative and referen- | dum. { Now suppose that every time we have | a two years' election there is an Initiative 5 d a referen- ED SRR Dg dum for a dozen, twenty, thirty, gWould Causey iy 3gmerenni- ; U are to » Great o E‘;esp‘;‘\.@:clfl J\Tnlvm <L y B egisla- | g Confusion. ¥ ¢F B, 08 - | 3 ing to under- VOVOORSIOOD stand them? e. | They all need study. They need deba That is what we have Legislatures fol And yet the proposed candidate for Gov €rnor says, not to the Democracy, be-| cause business men in the Democratic | party know it s arrant nonsense, to the b Populists that he will do all in his power | as Governor of this State, If elected, to bring about this condition of usion and turmoll and irresponsivle action. Fellow citizens, that is enough for me. 1 would never vote for a man who could | honestly say that he was in favor of the | initiative and referendum. More than that, the Populists, platform Mr. Maguire stands upon, al- though the Democratic party ignores it, is in favor of the Government of the United States issuing irredeemable money | in unlimited quantities, according to the needs of the people. And four years ago the National Populist platform declared | that 1t was the. dut the Government to issue to every , woman and child in the United State: dollars of irre- deemable paper money. Now, they say that the national banks | should be made an end of. There never was so good a nking system as that of | the national banks. There never was one where the rights of the people were so protected, where the interests of deposit- ors and where the holde f their notes were so guarded on every s and there is yet to be a gle instan national bank failure where the holder of its bills | whose | | tem of natlonal banking. body but the Government to issue money, be issued to the people | ents, and if there »ded, let the Gov- work and start great big the purpose of issuing its system! Thing of it for a mo- A government like ours, now ap- ching one hundred millions of people, with no banks, and only the Government and let that money through public improves are no improvements n. ernment go tc enterprises fo printing money on paper as fast as it 1s needed for purposes of government, It goes out to the people, and the Government cer- tainly ‘would not be kind enough to issue paper money that it would not take back. t goes out from the Government, and the people get it, and when dutles are to be paid the same dirty money comes back to the Government and goes out again. And that thing shifts about until endless bank- ruptey comes and we are in a_condition | that the Continentals were in with their | Continental mon Then, last of the_single tax. all, comes Maguire with | T don’t question his sin- DOOGOO BV cerity about 1t | o 3 o because he has g agtinciandy Srnileis e | is Si 0od many years. | b HIS. “ng]e 52 g{s says it is not | [=3 Tax. o an Isay it | o issue, be- FOBOGOT B R s e apor. tle of that, and in that very platform is | the proposition that each town or com- munity, whichever it may be, shall have | the right to determine, independent of | any other portion of the State, what its system of taxation shall be. 'Was ever | wnything more absurd than that? Siski- | you with one system of taxation, San | Francisco with another, San Mateo with | another and San Diego perhaps with the | singl | it? It is a proposition that | E 1 bear all the burdens of povernment. The reason for this proposi- tion is the socialistic idea that any man | who claims to own land for himself 18 a | usurper; that land belongs to the people, | tnd thai no man has a right to the use of t except so far as the immediate culture of the soil is e: ntial to gaining his live- ithood or furnishing him vegetables and ) feed his chickens. What is the single x? Tt is to set free from the burden of supporting the Government your banks, | your railroad corporations, your steam- ships, your manufactories, your homes of tlegance, picture galleries, whatever is beautiful, whatever is of luxury in life, | shall be free from taxation. Nobody thall pay a tax except he who has land. Mr. Maguire said the other night that it s clalmed that the tax upon land would ‘mpoverish the farmer. e says, no, it | foes not; the farming interest already in California pays 5 per cent of the taxes, | ind that is not because the farmer is | taxed upon his land, but because every- ing he bu has paid a tax before 1t | mes to him. and it all finally culminates | ipon him. Take off the taxes of the manufacturer and the farmer won't have to the tax that his plow costs. He| ®on’t have to pay the tax upon the crop that he raises; he won't have to pay a | tax upon anything, and so, Instead of | paying 50 per cent, he figures out that the ‘armer would only pay 12 per cent of the | dillion of dollars necessary to run this | tate. Well, we say, where is the rest of ft He says, “Oh, that goes to the olty shose people who live In the cities an own_land in cities have to ADVERTISEMENTS. 4444444444444 9444 Sakes | tablishes a | ought to support him. Alive! “Here is the very place to buy your clothes. We'll go no further —we can do no better!” Thus spoke a delighted woman out hunting with her husband for clothing bargains. What she found was one of my specially offered $7.50 suits. She was so well pleased that che persuaded her husband to buy an ovep- coat, too. Another phenome- nally good purchase for $7.50, These two special offers, with something great in Men's trousers for $1, are a trinity of rare bar. + | gains | will offer for the next | seven days. | Men’s In Wors’teds and chev- Sl.lits iots—blues, l:flacks and * mixtures — single and double breasted, well made, guar- anieed to fit and worth $10 any day. This week spe- $7 50 . cially offered at - - Mefl’s F,ancy covert th and blue, Overcoats. ;4o brown kersey overcoats. My new stock — this week's special offering for $7-50 Men’s Trousers, $I:°° Fancy striped worsted trousers ; the celebrated “Ox-Breeches.” The regular $1.75 trousers. $l 00 . This week - ‘- d.d. Gildea, THE NEW CLOTHIER, Market &t. and Grant Ave. 014 Examiner Office. T T Y Y Y Y Y Y YT Y Y T T Y YT Y T Y T T Y YT Y YT T YT YT TY T YT YT YT Y T YT YT T Y Y T T YT IT Y YT TP TP T TPTTTYIIPPPY | convention—a convention of 700 | cause the: D R R TR other large proportion of the taxes of the State. e poor man who goes out here into Hayes Valley or. up on_the wind-swept hills of the Potrero, or finds his way out into the sand hius and es- home has to bear the other 80 odd per cent of the taxes of the State, because, he says, it will release the farmers. ’And yet in the same breath, and with the most curlous incon- sistency, while he says that the man who in the country owns land will only have to pay 12 per cent where he pays 50 per cent now, that men like Miller & Lux, who own vast tracts of land, won't be able to hold them. Why not? They have been paying 50 per cent of the taXes up to this date, and when they pay 12 per cent they can’t hold them. But Mr. Maguire is pledged to support it; and that is a good reason why no man It makes no dif- ference that Mr. Maguire is serious or that he believes what he says. A man’s belief is not the test of whether he is right or wrong. You go with me up to Stockton and I will take you in the yard of the asylum and I will_ show you men | who are walking up and down there, and e lieve that they are the savior of the world; some of them be- lieve they are Julius Caesar, and Na- poleon; some of them think they are Dan- iel Webster, and so does Maguire. Mr. Magulre has had always a strong association with the men who underlay & Maguire some of them S met upon - the ¥ then unimproved land in the neigh- g a o borhood of th ' City Hall, from & Sandlotter. U, Fily (R their ~ title — th © Bandlotters — and DOSLCOOBO 0 | who there inflicted more injury upon the material interests of California by their language and their conduct than fifteen 3 ollowing could repair, It was a of men who gave us for a Mayor a man as Isaac Kalloch, who would leave his seat in the Mayor’s chair and g0 out and harangue tLose men, telling them to wait their act of violénce, to wait and not to make these streets run with blood, until he had been to the Leg- islature to see what could be done, and then, if the Legislature would not do as Mr. Kalloch said, he would come back and tell them what to do. Do you re- member the times:we had with them Do you remember how for weeks this city was under martial law; how men who | had money here and were investing the great capitalistic enterprises of this State fled with it as from a scourge? Do you remember how hard it was to wrest the condition of things from the grasp of those men and to put it upon a basis which assured the world that the ople of California were not of that br: or sort? was not a Sandlotter, I always supposed he was, and, at all events, if he is not a Sandlotter, his con- duct looks like it: he acts like it, he smells like It—he iS a Sandlotter. On the other hand the Republican plat- form stands for order, for State security, | for everything that can make life pleasant and whatever you have secure. But the cry of mad dog Is raised against it, and it is said that the Republican party and the platform of the Republican party is that of the railroad; that behind it is the rail- road; that Mr. Burns and Mr. Herrin and bone or two others whose names I am glad for the moment to have forgotten, have been in possession of the party and ha: been wielding it to suit their own end and because the astuteness of a Call porter in Sacramento pretty nearly fore cast the ticket and wrote it down, it was | said that it was a ticket that had been ared beforehand and that he got hold t. I could have done the same thing. I was in Sacramento, and 1 was not in the confidence of the railroad company, eithe I have been trying lawsuits for the rai road company for a number of years. I have given them good service, though I say it myself, and they have paid my bills; but they know and I know that my retainer with them stopped at the court- house door. If the railroad company has political plans or purposes, if it undertakes to rule olitics of this State or the men of it in thelr political relations, upon my soul and hongr 1 don’t know it. 1 have never been approached by a single person con- nected with one of those companies during the whole time of my relations with it as an attorney to do or not to do one single act as a cftizen, to say or not to say one single thing as a frequent public debater; never once, at any time; and I would not have accepted the suggestion if it had been made. 1 was in the Constitutional Convention, and I voted totally against Governor Stanford's impressfons and feel- ings. He believed that the right of owner- ship and the right of control of the rail- road company went together. I did not believe so. 1 believed that those great Ful\ik‘ utilities ought to be controlled by aw, and T voted and acted and spoke as [ felt to be my duty toward the people of the State of California, There were men who said to me then, “You will get your salary docked when you get back to San Francisco.” 1 sald: “All right; let her 80 Gallagher.” 1 came back after that con- vention was over, and neither Gove Stanford nor Mr. Crocker, nor Judge San- derson, nor anybody else connected with the Central Pacific Rallroad Company e\'fr questioned my vote or my right to vote. They say that from Gage to the lowes name, the ticket was all arranged by the L0 0w OO0 O O politiclans* before prej o! b % they yvent 1o Sac- ento. g There Was Nog ot t,”u,{ 5:{@: uccess t o Republican Convention. ‘was o Slate, © due to totally dif- : . DOVVLTFDONT will - produce a success on the one side and faflure on tne | other just as long as men are struggling for political office. Dr. Pardee, his principal opponent—a splendid citizen, a man for whom I have always had a most sincere admiration and friendship, and whose conduct in that con- vention lifted him almost to the stature of a god—lost that nomination. * Why? Because he had been engaged in a figat With Mr. Davis In Alameda County and had not taken occasion_to look outside the county. He and Mr. Davis were pulling hair so much inside of the limits of ..la- meda County that they did not know what was going on outside. They went up to Sacramento with the Alameda boys behind them—a splendid lot—but when they got up there they found that the heifer they expected to. plow with had been plowed with by the southern men, | who came up together, and the game was made by the time they gnt there, and that is_the explanation of the whole business. Does anybody propose to say—look at old Jake Neff, a mirror of honesty, a man of the most ultimate independence in thought and_action, into Whose face no man_ can look without seeing his nature and his character there lying as clear and sweet and brtht as the pebbles under- neath the pellucid water of the brook. Did road make him? made anything half as good. You may g0 down through that ticket, and the resuit of it was, as is always the case, the man who goes as Gage went s‘& that or 800 men —with 150 or 200 vallant friends beside him, who would make any reasonable combination to effect his election, was able to combine here and there and there and here, and the thing naturally took its course, Tt was not the result of the de- bates on the floor of the convention. Those speeches—fine as some of them were—were perfunctory, but everybody knew what the result was going to be, be- knew the work had been done. It was the fairest convention, the least interfered with by corporate power and control, that was ever held in the State of California. Did the railroad write the platform? Why, fellow-citizens, that unfortunate committee on platform was appointed in the afternoon and went out and went to work. It was not like the platforms you see in some conventions, where the com- mittee on platform and resolutions goes out and comes in in half an hour with a platform as long as you can reach, ali written out and crystallized, which ex- presses the plans and purposes of the gurlm But those men went to work about o'clock in_the afternoon, and they worked steadlly until 11 o’'clock the next morning. Were they working for the railroad? Had Mr. Herrin sent up to them a platform to be prepared? I won- der {f Mr. Herrin sent them this—let me read it. No‘!, the Democratic party adopted a resolution condemning the leg- iglation of the last Congress in respect to the settlement of the Paclfic Railroad debt. It was unanimously adopted by Senate and by House/as a rider fo a bill, where a single objection would have pre- vented its golng through. It was consid- ered, upon a review of all the eircum- stances, fair and just. It was without limit as to time, but the amendment of Mr. Barham (Republican) of California limited the time within which that might be accepted to a single year. It went through with unanimous consent. That don’t make any difference to the Demo- cratic party of California. They treat that just as they do the silver question— issue; just the same as if they were in favor of slavery to-day. The. ‘would issue a resolution that the aboli- tion of negro slavery was a crime and a WO upon the South, and try to make i%nn ssue in the campaign. So they have the silver question, and now they kee; up that cry of mad dog about the rail- road. I met Senator Morgan, to whom— I say it with all reverence—Mr. Maguire in | 1 'is no more to be compared as an antl- raiiroad fighter than the glorious sun at midday is to be compared with its re- flection in the mud puddle—who fought the railroad proposition all the time most bitterly—I heard him say here—and he said it openly—that that was a wise and just dispositfon of that e%uomlnn. and he was glad it was disposed of, because it would enable the Government—and that was all they were looking at; that was all Congress was looking at; they were not legislating for California; they were seeing what they could do to get the Gov- ernment’s money back. | See what they sald—the Republican | convention that was cm;}lroil%d ‘tv;y figu ige IDOOI0A0 {zu,r’g: nag " e . A 0 say & Republicans i [emer ‘}’éfi (other . Al . & and the » 'flfiflilnglo& (hnl(% ; declar 2 ”:‘ Railroad. % Jom't ‘make any | difference, a year VOEONGE GO0 was. a good deal of time and they never would accept that proposition. This fs the Republican par- (y's reply to that statement, If Mr. Hunt- | Ington ever made it; I don’t know wheth- er he did_or not; that he did is not proved by Mr. Maguire's assertion on the | subject when he was on the stump, and I would like to have him hand up some corroborative affidavits. This is what the Republican party said bout that subject: | The 1ast Congress having unanimously passed | | & law providing for the collection of the in-| | debtedness due from the Central and Western Pacific ratlroads to the Government, the Re- publican party favors the enforcement there- | of, and unless such law and all the provisions | thereof be promptly accepted and complied with, by such specified raflroad companies, that the | 1aw be strictly enforced and the lien on said | roads and properties be foreclosed and said roads and mortgaged property be sold, accord- | Ing to law, and that all funds that now or | hereafter are realized from either or both of | the said Pacific railroads or from the collection of their debt to the Government, whether vol- untarily, or by foreclosure, be applied to the construction of the Nicaragua Canal Do you suppose for a moment that | that resolution emanated from the office of the distinguished counsel of the South- | ern Pacific Company, if Huntington’s | views were what Mr. Maguire charges | them to be? No, fellow citizens: that ery of the railroad, so far as this cam- ouign is concerned, is a cry of mad dog. | They think they tie the railroad question | to the tail of the Republican party as | boys tle a tin kettle to the tail of a| dog and set him running, and think | everybody will believe he is mad because he is afraid of the kettle. Now, that is the condition, and the | Republicans of this State have no rea- | son to be ashamed of any man who 18 on that platform, or of any declaration | contained in it. It {8 worthy to have the | support of every man who loves his par- ty or his countr I am sorry that dissensions have arisen | here betweén our two leading papers on bject of the | Fsxpmnnten g0 APt 9008 ht to aspire to any office in the gift :1rz§e \flnple? The only thing that T saw he n\m{n to do is to say that he is, and make his fight in the open. California need not be ashamed of the discretion it has shown in selecting Senators hitherto. It has had a very good list. Go back to Casserly, Democrat; Hager, Democrat; @@@@@@O@(’)OQ99@0@0909099@0009@@0@99@@’9@O?@O@é@@é&@?"“@ POBBINIPIVIVIODIDIHHIDBODDHDIHDOHH D required of the United States Senators | in this State hitherto he cannot be elect- ed Senator, and all the bosses that God ever spawned on earth can't make him one. The man who responds to that test | may get it, and, as has been said, there are others. e {Here ex-Senator Maher shouted, “Give us & man who can talk, Barnes.”] Mr. Barnes continued: I want to say one word upon that sub- ject, because I shall have no other oppor- y it _here or probably get a of the San Francisco pa- pers except the Democratic one, That I8 this: I have never voted any ticket or for any man on any ticket but the Republi- | can. 1 have never swerved for an hour | from my allegiance to the party. 1 wi ; for sixteen years president of the greatest | olitical club that ever existed in this tate—the Invincibles. 1 have spent more money, according to my means, for its | success, and 1 have traveled this Btate, as | 1 shall this year, in summer heat and | dust, whirling from town to town and eat- | ing ox-horn steaks, and being trotted | around after the meeting to see the si- | loon keepers in the town who were good | Republicans, and spending some hours, which produced di squiflin% reflections, with those gentlemen, and leaving those | who waited on me that evening to !le»r it off the next day, while I had to travel to the next town and go through the same experience. 1 have done that In every Presidential (‘ampui%fl and everg guber- natorial campaign. 'his year, when as a Joke it started in that way on the part of the Examiner to tease Mr. de Young— that was the only object of it—it an- 'nounced that I would be a candidate for the United States Senate, of which I had no more idea than that I should be a can- didate this year for Emperor of China. People began to talk to me about it, the diseage of ambition began to take hold of and I though QOOGHOARG G meand T houit er 1 get it or not. I am wmmfi to do this State service if the State thinks I can do it service. 1 am willing to act for the best interests of the State, and from my long acquaintance with it and my knowl- edge of its wants 1 belleve I can fairly represent it. But I want one thing un- derstood: 1 have not a dollar for the financial irrigation bt one Single dry spot in the Legislature. I haye no bureau of | publicity or promotios. T have no agent out Pulllng up a !hl;le job for me, and I shall sollcit no indlvidual man for his vote. You will all say, then, that I will be beaten. Well, rerhaps I shall, and yet you know lightning does strike some- times, and once in a great while a man gets an office without debasing himself, beney in office. "Once in a while, even be- | before the millennium comes, that thing | may happen, and when it happens I shall be Benator and not before. Now, ladies and gentlemen, a word, for I am admonished that I have been talk- ing to u nearly two hours. (Cries of Go on.”’) Oh, yes, it is very easy to say, ® 99009599959990000000000000009066 609000000000000000066606006006600 f=3 o A Senatorship. One P. Doolan, Francis J. Tlen o De Young g GEMYE e Murphy, Dr. T. B. Leland. I. Gutte, A. . ©Should Fights ‘pemgrm‘n\dem mick. Howard Park, G Howard Thompson, r. de Young & in the Open. & is ‘a_ candidaic | Lyons, W. H. Vincent, Willlam C. Murdock, Danlel O'Neil, <@ e L Boland, J. C. McKinstry, George F. | ] oo ssett, Leo Kaufmann. Louis R=%-F=-2=R=R=F=3-3 -] 5 ;] Samuel Braunhart, M. C. Hassett 5 Mr, de Young is like every other citizen Thomas 3. Walsh, Timothy 1. O'Brien, John Fay of this city or any other city. He has Van Wyck Jr.. Max Popper, Harry N. Kelly, W Farl Democrat; Snrgenll‘ RPpgblh“n“;i‘ Bn o ucrat: Patkin. Rebnc| The grounds of this appeal are as follows: can} they are all gentlemen. 'They are | 1. The power of sald Democratic City and County Committes to choose all men of character and standing, and I delegates to sald or any convention is fixed and limited by section 16 of don't care who the man 1s, T dont care the rules and laws which were imposed upon said City and County Com- whiat newspaper he owns, It he qosegt mittee by the Democratic State Committee as a co come up Oy the standard that has been| o o000 %004 control, and as a limitation of its powers. 5 Willing to g &b g men us & Serve £ Erapao L bane o the State. g gfil:‘fc(plg.po? acle SR p ok p s cus,ihe Suip of e delegais to/stid poV & Non-Partisan convention, wrote to me asking me to call on hi; that Frank J. Sullivan, also a member of the c‘;’n\'elméon. insisted on my signa- ture to the pledge. ing that I would much rather have my name taken from the ticket. not done I do not know. fully yours, vxie President Board of Education. POPPOPPPEOPOOCPPPIPOOPOOPPCIPODPIOOOSGOS POLITICAL PIRATES EXPOSED Francis J. Heney Demands That He and Other Democrats Be Accorded Their Rights. The Czar-like methods of a place-hunting majorit~ of members of that self-admiration socfety. more commonly known as the Phelan-McNab committee of one hundred, have been called to the attention of the Dem- ocratic State Central Committee by Francis J. Heney. He objects to be- ing sandbagged by those who under the guise of reformers are resorting to methods that Bess Buckley would not have countenanced in his palm- lest days. The grounds of Mr. Heney’s objections and his expose of the highbinder methods of the committee are best told ir the following com- munieation: BAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17, 1898. To the Democratic State Committee of California, Seth Mann Esq., Chairman—Gentlemen: Please take notice that I hereby appeal to the Democratic State Committee of California from the action of the Demo- cratic City and County Committee of San Francisco on the night of Fri- day, September 16, 1898, in adopting by a viva voce vote the following re- port and resolution, which was presented to said committee by Charles W. Fay, as chairman of a sub-committee previously appointed by the said committee to prepare a plan for the holding of a municipal convention for the city and county of San Francisco. to wit: Your committee appointed to report a plan for holding a convention of the Demo- cratic party for the purpose of nominating candidates for the various offices to be filled at the ensuing general election, beg leave to report as a result of thelr confer- ence and recommend the adoption thereof: \ First—That a conventlon be formed for and held on Monday, September nineteenth (15th), 1898, at & p. m. Second—That the convention consist of not more than 100 members or delegates. Third—That the city and county committee appoint the delegates, and the dele- gates to sald conventlon consiét of the members of the city and county committee and such others as may be elected to flll the vacancies occasioned by resignation of any delegates. Fourth—That as some members of this committee have announced that they would be candidates for office and would not participate in the convention, that those members of the committee who are candidates for office other than for Board of Supervisors, Board of Bducation and members of the Legislature, he requested to resign forthwith as delegates to the convention in order that the city and county committee may select and appoint delegates in thelr places. To further carry out the plan presentad, vour commitiee resolution and unanimously recommend fts adaoption: Resolved, That the Democratic city and county committes of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, deem it expedient to call a convention of the Democratic party of not more than 100 members, for tKe purpose of nominating can- didates for all muniefpal. county or city and county offices, and for all judicial offices, and for members of the Legislature of the State of California. and all of which sald nominees are to be, voted for at the zeneral election to be héld on Tuesday, the eighth (Sth) day of November, A. D). 1898. That said convention be held on Monday evening, September 19, 1895, at the hour of 8 p. m., or as soon thereafter as sald convention shall organize, and that the place of meeting shall be Native Sons’ Hall, or such other place in the city and county of San Francisco as a majority of the members of sald convention shall de- termine, That the delegates selected to said convention be the following-named persons: R. Beverly Cole, Dr. C. A. Clinton, James Denman, M. Greenblatt, A. Compte Jr., B. Cope. Charles W. Fay, J. M. Klein. George McGillivary. Jeremiah Deasy, R. William T. Hese, Thomas J. Pinder. Hu Jones, D. C. Maguire, R. Whiting, P. J. McCor- Jeremiah Coffey, John McGilvary, Dr. T. E. Shumate, M. H. Hernan, Finlay Cook, F. K. Lane, E. A. Brideford, Timothy H. Meade, Patrick . Charles E. Jones, Bartlett. W. D. Tarran, J. M. Nougues, John H. Grad Sldney M. herewith present a w. Lynch, Rudolph Herold J Thomas Murray. J. McGee. James Butler, Rdward Reddy. Edmund Godchaux, F. P. E. Troy, Willlam A. Murrison, James V. Cole- man. Henry Lichtenstein. R. V. Curtis, F. C. Drew, J. V. Cavagnero, J. H. Hanson, Matthew Lally, Barna McKinnle, J. B. Refnstein, Osgood Putnam, John F. Twig John Réedy, Dr. Max Magnus, Percy Henderson, L. F. Byington, Ben Hawes, Bart Burke, C. M. Stoltz. Clitus Barbour, Dr. ‘C. A. Dozler, Barry Baldwin, Jasper McDonald, Joseph Leggett, George Smith, I. L. Gallagher, John E. Buckley, Emil Pohll, J. D. Maxwell, Lawrence Hoey, John Heney, Willlam I Renwick. C. J. Gal- lagher, Willlam P. Sullivan Jr., Willlam F. Humphreys, H. L. Rea, W. P. San- itution for its guid- Said section 16 provides that “In the event of the selection of dele- gates to any convention by the committee each member thereof shall have, as far as practicable, the right to name and select an equal number of such delegates. To find the number of delegates that each member is entitled to appoint, the total number of delegates to be selected by the com- mittee shall be divided by the number of members of the committee, and the quotient shall be the number which each member is entitled to select. The remainder, over an even number to each, shall be elected at large by a vote of not less than three-fifths of all the members of said cornmittee.” No other methad of selecting or appolnting delegates to any convention fs‘provided for by sald rules and laws except that of holding primary elections’for @uch purpose. When,_the question of the election of said delegates by viva voce vote was before sald committee I objected to that method of procedure, and made the point of order that the vote could not be taken viva voce, for the reason that said rules and laws provide that when delegates are elected at large by said committee It shall be by a vote of not less than three-fifths of all the members of said committee, and I demanded that a ballot be taken upon the election of said delegates. The chairman of said committee arbitrarily overruled said point of order. E. A. Bridgford, a member of said committee, thereupon demanded a rollcall upon the election of said delegates, and the chairman of said com- mittee likewise overruled said demand and arbitrarily proceeded to put to a viva voce vote of sald committee the question of the adoption or re. jection of sald resolution, declaring all the members of said committee to be elected at large as delegates to said municipal convention, and arbi. trarily declared said resolution carried, although in truth and in fact the same did not recelve the vote of three-fifths of all the members of said committee, as this appellant believes and therefore alleges; and although in truth and in fact many of the members of said committee so declared elected as delegates to sald convention could not, as Is well known, secure the votes of three-fifths of all the members of said committee for their election at the present time to said or any other convention, The right of each member of said committee to name and select one delegate of his own choosing and by his own appointment to said muni. cipal convention out of the one hundred delegates to be chosen under said plan was thus arbitrarily and unlawfully taken away from him. 2. Said Democratic City and County Committee has no power under sald rules and laws to select or appoint any member or members of said committee as delegates to said or any convention, either by individual ap- pointment or by election at large. 1 further appeal from the action of said City and County Committee on said 16th day of September in adopting a resolution that it is the sense of said committee that proxies be not allowed in sald convention, upon the ground that the object, purpose and effect of said resolution are to deprive each member of sald committee of his constitutional right to appoint a delegate to said convention, in accordance with the provisions of sectfon 16 I further appeal from the action of the chairman of said Democratic City and County Committee and from the action of said commlitte in per- mitting twenty gentlemen to vote upon said resolution for the election of delegates to sald municipal convention and upon said resolution against the use of proxies who are not lawful members of said committee, for the reason that they have been elected by saild committee to fill vacancies in sald body, but have never been confirmed as members of such committee by the Democratic State Committee, as required by section 12 of sald rules and laws. Yours respectfully, FRANCIS J. HENEY. e R RO RORORORCR RO CROR PR RCRS PP9O99900009900900POPOPPPPPPDIPDDDDOOD R O OO R R R R R R OB RO R ORORORORCROR R RO OROR R R Y @ *® ® L4 @ ® @ ® & 4 @ L4 @ @ @ @ L d § § a death blow in reference to | the Republicans. without putting himself body' and soul | the party pledge, and after reading I re-|absolutely no hove of winning anything, in the hands of other men, Without pro; (u:e‘p] tc? 5gn it, on account of ft! se- | and the Populists are so cut up with (fo ising every place that can be given away | verity. Mr, Perking wrote to me a sec- w{lan-lng factions in the party that their or controiled by him durin is incum- | ond time. When I called he sald to me | chances went glimmering when they re- ected the overtures emocrats. , say- I agaln refused, say-| 1 8 tnea of the county ranks of the Republicans. ek dodel North End Republicans. Why it was Most respect- THOMAS R. CAREW. to the entire opposition to The Democrats have to a union with t+» It is a noteworthy fact that many of the have joined the 04040460404040404040404090¢040404040440404040404¢04040404040940¢404040+040404040404+0404040404040404+0+04040 0 on. There never has been a time in our lives when we had such occasion for the inspiration of love of country that we have to-day. The life of this nation has been a life of struggle. We fought through the war of the revolution for our independence. We fought through the war of 1812 for the defense of our mari- | time rights. We fought through the war with exico to protect the people of Texas. We fought through the war of the rebellion, brother against brother, and friend against friend, for the prese vation of the Unlon; all the while glory- ing in victory, but all the while regret- ting that our arms were not turned against some other than a member of om own family and our own race. This time we have triumphed over the most viclous tyranny the world has ever seen. This time we have taught, as we have always taught, the nations’ of the world that the American soldier and the American sallor, the American armies and the American ships, as they were in the revo- lution, In the war of 1812, in the war with Mexico, and in the war of the rebellion, are invincible and unconquerable. No man can look at the flag of his coun- try to-day without seeing in it new light and a new beauty, new hopes and new promises of mankind; and it spans the oming ages of the future as the rain- fiow spans the retreating storm as the sun is setting with a bow of brlght and —_———— SHASTA REPUBLICAN Many Cir Victory of the Party—The Ticket Nominated. the a pfixl‘ulonmenlt of e the cKinley vote, w in former e{rs. But out of the 160 name. stage and over rough roads, deed a remarkable showing. Among other th|nis adopted commends ti beautiful promise. But, unlike the rain- | ‘$400,000,000 against to 000 in favor of bow that shall cease to shine wh the United States; it also declares for drought ceases, the rainbow of the Ame. | the collection of the debt due the ernment from the Central Paclfic le shall stand eternal, jean e . o oXed 0 | Wemtern Pacific railroads. heaven until this heaven shall be rolled away as a scroll, and the elements at 1 mell 3 ¢ "For Sherff, Charles H. Behrens last shall mre t in fervent heat. &:‘:k' F'o]g} ‘Bllod e Reco{ge{; 7;&“ Rt . 3 t Attorney, M. V. Primm; Not a Pledge-Breaker. e 1‘5.u :xlz.c smith: ’Jj‘etuu‘;er.t G, SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17.—Editor of | Burtner;' School Superintenden Call—Dear Sir: Noticing my name classed | Margaret 1. Poore; Surveyor, Alfred B as a ‘“pledge breaker” by J. 8. Webster, a member of the Non-Partisan conve tion, I desire to publicly deny that I ever took the pledge from the' last Non-Parti. san or any other convention. The facts are as follows: 7 G. B. Perkins, a members of the last Interviews with there has been an from the ranks of Presidential election the matter crats occupy third immense 'Populism OUNTY CONVENTION tances Point to Certain REDDING, Sept. 17.—The certainty of victory in the November election drew out, according to the apportionment, a larger representdtion of delegates to the Republican County convention which met in this city to-day than is of record in the history of Shasta County Republi- canism. Because of the large plurality v olled for Bryan two vears ago {he appor elegates, ll:ued on eav: arly -every man answered to his Eame. "When it Is consldered that Shasta County is three times the size of Rhode Island and that many of the delegates as eighty miles by had to travel as far );hls . the platform as e policy of the ad- ministration in chnnfiisnofion balance The county ticket nominated is as fol- ous delegates from different sectlons of the county show that defection since the & \of two "fi,’ s 81 3 e 0= Rird place. %Ea fallure of e fusion proposition in local affairs was The North End Republican Club North Beach held a very important met::f Ing last Friday night at ‘Washington- square Hall. President Joseph I Lavin called the meeting to order. Twenty-five signed the roll, making a total of 275 mem- ers. The club will give a high jinks on & near future date. The he:jxd usnerson‘;? the club are at present at 513 lontgomery avenue, e officers of the club are: President, Joseph P. Lavin; vice-presi- dent, James Hearty: recording secrétary, Georfie Burdet; financial secretary, John Quirk; treasurer, John O'Conne?; ser- geant-at-arms John Campbe —_————— Santa Cruz’ Bolting Populists. SANTA CRUZ, Sept. 17.—The middle- of-the-road Populists opposed to fusion will hold a county convention here October 1. At the Democratic-Po u!!"s‘é convention at Watsonville eighteen Popu- lists walked out, refusing to have further deliberations, and will take part in the convention of October 1. How About Your Blood Is it pure and is your skin clear, fresh and fair? Or do you hav jimples, blackheads, bolls, sores and eruptions? Hood’s Sarsaparilla will make your blood pure. Tt will cure all blood dis- eases, give you a good appetite, strengthen your nerves and make you feel strong and healthy. To-day buy and begin to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla -America's Greatest Medicine and be cured Hood’s Pills act easlly, effectively. 25c. 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Reed, one of the best-known Republicans in Alameda County, will in all probability preside over the county convention at San Leandro next Monday. The result of the primaries has not tended in any way to make clearer the formation of the county ticket. Outside of & few men the same condition prevails as before the primaries were held. One faction, which claims Senator Earl for its leader, is anxious to place on the ticket Tom Robinson, P. M. Fisher, Cal Ewing, James Clarke and W. 8. Harlow. The .other faction, which might be termed the Old Guard, desires to place for these same positions James Barber, H. W. Lynch, Hinds or Graham, Clarance Crow- ell and Oscar Rogers. The latter argues that it would be_bad politics to nominate Henry Dalton afid also his chief deputy, Tom Robinson, and that it would be no better to nominate Frank Jordan and also his chief deputy, Cal Ewing. Also an objection is made that if Harlow and Robinson be nominated, this will leave Alameda out entirely and will renew an unpleasantness that it was hoped had been buried at Sacramento. John R. Glascock, the Democratic ex- Congressman, will probably be nominated for Supervisor from the Third District. This rumor has brought forth a circular, scattered broadcast, and which says: “An attempt is being made to nominate on your (Democratic) ticket Mr. John R. Glascock for Supervisor in the Third Dis- trict. Will Democrats, Populists or Silver Republicans eupgcrt a man who openly knifed Willlam J. Bryan for the Presi- dency only two vears ago? Mr. Glascock is a gflldg\lk and should be in the Re- ublican party.” The circular is signed y_‘“Silver Republicans.” ‘The Republicans of Haywards have or- anized a campaign club with Dr. A. J. 'owell chairman and Harry Brunner sec- Tetary. The club started off with eighty- five members and President Powell has appointed the folllowing cnmmlthees: On organization—G. 8. Langan, C. % ar- mon, Dr. Powell, Dr. G. E. Reynolds, P. Wilbert; on enrollment — Charles Prowse, E. K. Strobridge, John J. Rose, John J. Haines, John J. Gomes. —_—ee— Maguire’s Campaign Committee. A special meeting of the campaign com- mitte of the Maguire Democtatic Ciub was held in Judge Mogan's courtroom Friday evening, September 16, with Pres- ident Frank Conklin in the chair. Mr. Oscar Hocks appeared before the com- mittee in behalf of the Maguire League and asked the committe to select three members to be a part of the campaign committee of the Maguire League. Act- ing upon the suggestion of Mr. Hocks the chairman appointed the following mem- bers: Dr. W. J. Gavigan, J. A. Fenton and Oscar Hocks. (n motion of S. T. Kohlman the campaign committee was ordered to recommend to the club at its next regul@r meeting that the members thereof give their undivided attention to the candidacy of Judge James G. Ma- guire. It was also ordered that the cam- paign committee meet every Friday evening in Judge Mogan's courtroom. The mee(ln% as addressed by James H. Ferren, Oscar Hocks, J. A.” Fenton, C. A. Bantel and Henry Blaney. ity Made Their Selections. The Central Republican Club of the Thirty-seventh Assembly District met last night and nominated the following as delegates to the legislative convention: B. W. Tucker, 1. P. Kincaid, O. C. Pratt, T. W. Nowlin, Mark Lane, A. Christian- sen and J. 8. W. Saunders. For the muni- cipal convention F. O. Allen G. Q. Stew- art, John H. H¢ r, R. 8. Pressle, G. D. Clark, J. H. Efinger and Edwin Moh- rig were placed in nomination. ‘scott, PRIMARIES 00 NOT DEVELOP ANY SURPRISES OAKLAND, Sept. 17.—The country pri- maries held to-day caused no surprise. In only the Second and Seventh wards and Washington Township was there more than one ticket. The great battle-ground- was the Seventh Ward. In this ward it was well known the Hilborn-Metealf contest was to be fought again, owing to the friction engendered by the issu- ance of blank certificates. It would seem as if the breach had increased during the interval, for the majority of forty-seven for Metcalf was reduced to eight for Jor- an. Not until the last ten votes were counted in the Seventh Ward, out of g total of 1386, was it known whether the Jordan-Melvin or the Leckie-Webster ticket had won out. The contest in the Seventh was bitter and also peculiar, The opposition was led by Robert Leckie, who well knew that he could not be nominated for Assessor even if his ticket carried. He carried his fight to the last trench merely to show how he could do politics, and he succeeded in coming within half a dozen votes of winning. In the Second Ward the Mehrmann-Fisher ticket won. Mehr- mann wants to be Coroner and Fisher to be Superintendent of Schools. In Wash- ington Township Assemblyman Clarke, who wanted to be Public Administrator, was beaten by H. W. Lynch, who wants to be Superintendent of Schools, by 70 votes. Berkeley's delegation is for Spear for Recorder, Waterman for School Superin- tendent and Howard \Vrlght for the As- sembly. The First Ward delegation is for Dalton for Assessor and Allen for Dis- trict Attorney. The Third Ward is for Dalton and Allen. The Fourth is for Church for Supervisor. The Fifth is for Cal. Ewing for Auditor and Tom Robin- gson for Tax Collector. The Sixth is for Frank Leavitt for Senator. Alameda is for Barber for Tax Col- lector, Rogers for Sheriff, Taylor tor Sen- ator and Knowland for the Assembly. Murray Township is for Fiedler for Treasurer. To-morrow will be occupied with ef- fecting combinations to be ready for Mon- day’'s convention. The Seventh Warders held a banquet at Barnum's after the primaries, and Billy Pringle made a speech, disclaiming il in. tention of being a candidate for the As- sembly, thus leaving the way clear—if i was ever anything else—for Howar: Wright. . Santa Cruz Republican Ticket. SANTA CRUZ, Sept. 17.—The Republi- can county convention selected the fol- lowing ticket to-day: G. G. Radcliff, As. semblyman; H. H. Miller, County Clerk; H. C. Cooper, Recorder; T. J. Lowrey, Auditor; Miiton Besse, Sherift; B K. Knight, District Attorney: J. 'W. Lin- uperintendent of Schools; W. H. Bias, County Treasurer; Dr. F. E. Mor- Fn_ Coroner; F. Mattison, Assessor; J. . Helms, Tax Collector. e Sonoma’s Good Roads League Meets. SANTA ROSA, Sept. 17.—This after- noon at an important meeting of the So- noma County Good Roads League held in this city a resolution was adopted urg- ing the raymem of $1500 yearly as the salary of Bupervisors, they being re- quired to devote all their time to county work. Matters regarding changes in the road law were dlsg.mned.s ' —_————— The Hilderbrand Family Objects. A rumor was current yesterday that an entertainment would be given shortly by the mewbers of the Tennessee Regiment for the benefit of the family of young Hilderbrand, who was fatally shot on Tuesday by Private Walter Rosser. The family is anxious to discourage any such g{:gd a::):i td"“;! it :o be clfsrlg under- at such a step woul e tionable to them. ¢ ? i