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4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1902. THIRD BALLOT SHOWS A GAIN OF TWENTY-EIGHT VOTES Gage Musters Full Strength and Fails. R . atch to The Call, ARTERS, SACR. fon reassembled at 3:15 o'ciock. The weather was torrid, and the cent waving of fans by the dele- indicated re among ntingent— f the ad- 1ad in the re: general d pted by a rising vote e whom €loquence pleaded ment, free men and equal laws BALLOTING IS COMMENCED. The chair then ordered the first ballot on nomination for Governor to be taken. Pardee in the midst of his delegation: Flint w urrounded by is lieute: the nts piatform stroking rd; while Hayes, in hand, occupled a chair at the head 8San Jose delegation, ready was & CANDIDATES NAMED FOR GOVERNDRSHIP Continued From Page 3, Column 7. & gentieman whos: name alone should be his nomination and his election, as it is his record t's in a name? a poet has asked. Isvery- Whenever a billionaire and he than once, widows, petul, i claim his name. 2 name 1e there a man here who would name his sop Benedict Arn name? Homor. We u yashing- ton an w from 1o g hills that from wr pomat nother, thrille wi patriotic fervor. \\:l name of our candidate The history of ciy ization when at the 4 the par- t of Darwin and Huxley our an- their tails and came down out of live in houses, the first tool of hopest industry they fitted to their hands to fashion from the wild wood articles of use for humanity was the fiint. Why, with the fint primeval man carved his gods on the door post of his cave. With it he manicured the finger- nails of his wife. With it he shaved himself, cut his own bair and took the scalps and hides of his enemies. The flint—why, in the interest of art laid the foundation of all the great pic ries of to-day, dim with the faded giories of old masters and resplend- ent with the glory of the young apprentices when with the fiint he etched the first hut of saurus on the tusk of the mammoth. —why man was going to bed at dusk because he couldn't see in the dark, and it was with the flint that the first shower of sparks caught from the sun showed him the Wway across the room from his bell to the water pail throush a wilderness of rocking-chairs thet lay In wait for him This was the light of the flint long, long ages before the microscope discovered the at- tentuation of the California match. The fitnt— while it builded the pillars of good govern- ment, while it laid the foundation of good society, while it taught the kindergarten of art, it was invincible in war. It made the only arrowhead, the best spear point, and by and by when man invented gunpowder and bored out bis first musket and said, *'We have done with the flint,” lo, the musket was a broomstick in his hand until he, screwed the fiint into the hammer of the gun. THE FLINT—ITS VALUE. You couldn’t get along without it. It is un- like anything else in the world. - There is Aug. 2%.—The interest at- the balloting for the gub- nomination was mani- by the tremendous crowd acked the hall when thel | * what might come. Governor Gage remain- room in the Capitol Hotel and a him rmed as to the results | 17th Assembly District B Bhted hifh 90 miicl 18th Assembly District. . 3 i generally recognized that the |19th Assembly District = Solano would be a fair test of Gage's - n the convention and in this no aps, the Gage people Sa: oaq 3 | disappointed. The To- | opa horis District..|. | peated announcement by The Call that |2sth Assembiy District. Geage lacked 100 votes of capturing the | Stanislaus ... ncmination was verified when the first | Merced ballot disclosed -that he. was short just | Madera ...... 84 votes, Tuolumne Following first ballot on Gover- | Mariposa is the nor in < Tulare n Francisco— | 28th Assembly District. | 20th As ; District h As: District 1st Assembly District 24 Assembly District 3d A mbly District. S4th Assembly District 35th Assembly Distri 36th Assembly District 37th Assembly District 38th Assembly District 39th Assembly District. 46th Assembly District - | 41st Assembly District { 420 Assembly District. . | 43@ Assembly District.. 43th ‘Assembiy District. . | 45th Assembly District | Alameda— | Assembly 47th Assembiy 48th Assembly | 49th Assembly | 50th Assembly | i District District. . District District.. District District District 5ist Assembly 524 Assembly San Mateo Ssnta Cruz Santa Clara— 5th Assembly District. Héth Assembly District h Assembly District 3| San Benito . 5 1 | Monterey District..| 1] 3 | District y Assembly Assemb + R e rth with which we can compare y on Men for all ages in the arts have worked with filnt. No combination ever worked it. When you want to shape a statue to your own fancy you take the marble that will yield to the blows of the chisel. When you went to mold a man to suit yourself you take a putty man, earth, outside of the garden of Eden, has developed and grown with it up to 4 | this day, in establishing in it schools and a man and nc | | ccliege unequaled in any part of the State. Fifteen years ago, before I had made my home in Santa Clara, I was wandering out and discov- ered a wagon freighted with a load from the Badger”. State. Fifteen vears ago one of the but you canzot ehape a flint with a steam | people conmstituting that load was a man of hammer. It 18 s flint, always perfect. | thirty years; another, his brother. Both of If you v\‘[rlk(‘ lh? oo g g, v sty lh‘em had ’hPPX’\ practicing law, working in se nto your face 2 cloud of . - | mines and in agriculture. T said in m: dering and blinding. If you strike the fiint it > s y g that the country was built up by the law, by the men of the mines of muscle and brains. These were the larger builders until there come these young men ‘to look over the situation. These young gentle- men had an immense quantity of means. They settled in our valley, traveled down into the lower end of the county and amid a grove of oaks they exclaimed, ‘‘Eureka! Here we will build our homes and help to develop this great Californian commonwealth, which ha: become now, by the civilization of the East flowing in and opening up Oriental trade, the grand center of the commerce of the world, I call to mind the declaration of Seward, that the Oriental trade coming on the Pacific Coast would be the greatest upon the earth, and that prediction ie being fulfilled. Now, fellow citizens from this ‘‘Badger State’ of Wisconsin, one of the great States of the North- west, taken out of the great Northwest Terri- tory, which was dedicated by the colenial fath- ers to freedom, education, and morality, came thege ycung men, with a noble mother to guide them. They pitched their tents, culti- Vvated their orchards, buldded their houses, and then came the cyclone of the Grover Cleveland free trade bill and almost rulned them, for they were engaged in iron mines. ‘These men settled with us, helped us to build the county and have been at the head of reform move- ments, have advocated edueation, morality, general protection to American industries, and labor; have cultivated their flelds, bought and run newspapers, and by their influence the | people of San Jose have been able to declare | that this year {s the year of the people and, by God's grace, the people will rule the coming years. Among these men was a gentleman who is known as ‘“The man with the black hair,” J. ©O. Hayes, one of the most enterprising men in our county, one of the most energetic, a man whom the breath of slander has never reached, a man who has done more to build up the in- stitutions of the State of California located in our county than any other man in it. We have Do malice toward any candidate. ‘We have charity to all, and whoever is nominated by this convention will receive the largest ma- Jority that was ever given by Santa Clara County to any candidate on earth.. We pro- Dpose to do it. Therefore, Mr. Chairman, I take great pleasure in nominating for Governor nf this great commonwealth J. O. Hayes of Santa sends out a shower of sparke of fire from its e gnen oL mystérious and beautiful heart. If you break a granite bowider into a hundred fragments you have a hundred pieces of granite, but break a fiint into a hundred pleces with a blow of a sledge and you have a hundred flints. We do not say ‘‘a piece of fint.” We say “‘fiint"— | every plece as perfect and strong and as great | { | % marble with a hammer it | | | and by men | as the whole original fiint. Now, gentlemen, in behalf of all that the flint has done for humanity, by the memories of yesterday, by the achievements of to-day, by the possibilities of to-morrow, in the name of the whole human race, I second the nom- in of Flint. (Applause.) The claims of J. O. Hayes for the nomi- nation were advanced by J. E. Lewis of Santa Clara in_ the following speech: I acquired a habit in earlv vears, when ar- guing a case to the jury to look first at the y, and finding before me the representatives | this great State of California, I wish first Lefore proceeding to acknowledge the obliga- tions of Santa Clara County to the gentlemen who arranged the seats in this convention hall. Properly, they placed Santa Clara in the front. I am more than gratificd to find here my nd Burdette, with whom I anclently at- tended conventicns in that grand Republican | State of Icwa. He never went back on the Republican candidate since 1856, when the party was organized. I am pleased to meet him here to-day, and find that he is improved by age. 1 wish to acknowledge my obligations to the immense korde of “Buckeyes” 1 see here before me. 1 know who they are by their looks. I wish also to acknowledge the obliga- tions to my friends from Indiana, the * Hoo- siers”; the “‘Wolverines” from Michigan, the ‘Suckers” from Illinols, and last, but not least, the “Badger” from Wisconsin. SANTA CLARA SPEAKS UP. Fellow citizens, I do mot propose to make a set speech-before you in presenting a can- didate from one of the greatest counties in the State. You will admit that we have been modest. We have not had a candidate for State office for twenty years. Is not that modesty beyond anything in the history in California? "The county of Santa Clara is mot only modest, but it has waked from a long sleep. The city of San Jose, the Garden City ‘ff, the sxlale. has sust yashed its clothes and | Clara County. come clean from machine litics. of Santa Clara. selected by the ol mhissich NOMINATION OF GAGE. fathers as being the most beautiful spot | Governor Gage was placed in nomina- ation | in' their place in Placer. Fresno— 60th Assembly District. . 61st Assembly District Kings . o R n Luf Barl Ventura Kern Los 67th 68th Angeles Assembly Assembly Assembly Assembly Assembly District District District District Districf Distrjet District District District mbly mbly Assembly Bernard San Diego— Oth Assembly 80th Assembly District District. . Totals . Necessary to choice 416, CHANGES ON SECOND BALLOT. The second ballot resultes Gage, 325; Flint, 269%; Edson, 52; Pardee, 123%; 6). Gage, Flint and Pardee’s vote reased at the expense of Edson and Hayes. In ‘Delt Norte Gage gained one. The Second District took three from Ed- son and gave them to Gage. In the Third District (Humboldt) Edson received one from Gage. Shasta County gave Gage two more, and Pardee gained two in Lassen and one in Sierra. Yuba _took five from Edson and gave them to Flint, who also got two of Edson’s in Sutter County. In Nevada County Gage gained one, as did Pardee. Flint lost them, but got two Flint got one of Gage’'s in Alpine. He also took one of Edson’s in Glenn County. Two of Edson's went to Flint from Colusa County. Pardee lost one to Flint in Lake. Flint . tion by J. W. McKinley of Los Angeles, who said The Republican party of Californfa assem- Dbles to-day and upon this occasion for the transaction of business with that satisfaction that a party always finds under the circum- stances which exist in this nation and In this State with regard to the national prosperity that arises from Republican rule. The pledges of the Republican party made in its National convention, made in its State conventions, have been fulfilled to the very uttermost limit. Our national administration has conducted its for- eign and its domestic policy in a manner which has made ug respected abroad and prosperous at home. The Stdte of California, more per- haps than any other State, because of the age of development in which we live, because of the circumstances under which we go on with the development of those magnificent resources Which are found from the Oregon to the Mexi- can line, this State has been in the position particularly to reap the benefit of Republican rule and Republican policy. Our great city has become the gateway for the commerce of the East. Our industries from one end of the State to the other, diverse as they are in char- acter, have all been building up under the munificent influences of Republican rule in the nation and in the State. Passing from national affairs to State affairs, which engage our attention to-day, we recog- nize the fact that under’ the wise administra- ton in this State every pledge made by the Republican convention of four years ago has been fulfilled. An economical and careful ad- ministration has reduced the expenses of gov- ernment, has reduced the tax rate, has enabled this State to transact its business to better advantage and.at less cost than has ever oc- curred in the history of California. Dangers Which threatened our business, our commerce, and our intercourse with the East have been avoided by the courageous and wise action of the Governor of this State.in taking measures that prevented California from being put In quarantine. The malignant hate of the news- bapers, supported by unlimited purses, has been unable to point out a reason why the ad- ministration of the Governor of this State ghould not be indorsed, or why the present Governor of this State should not, be renom- inated. Upon an occasion like this, as has been well sald by the speakers who precéded me, it is Wwell, indeed, that we should stop to consider hat will be the effect of the test upon this occasjon. Accepting that as the mods of determining Who the nominee should be, I say to you that the candidate whose name I shall present s the only logical onme for this convention to nominate. And the support that has gathered to him here upon this occasion is the best evi- dence of that fact, and I take it that those Who have come here with him as their. first choice are going to cling to him as thelr can- didate and gather around bim. the elements which will make him nominee in this conven- tion. Under his administration, under the wise measures and positions which he has taken. FOR FLINT, AND AN ADJOURNMENT DELAYS THE FINIGH Edson’s Vote Dwin- dles With Each Roll Call. also got another from Edson in Sonoma, in the Thirteenth District. In the Four- teenth Flint gained two and Pardee one, Edson and Hayes losing them. In the Thirty-fifth (San Francisco). a Pardee man voted for Flint. * Flint gained one that Gage lost in the Thirty-ninth. Par- dee gathered.up one in the Fortieth which Flint dropped, Flint took a Hayes man in the Forty-seécond and a Pardee,vote in the Forty-third. Pardee picked up one deflected from Gage in Samta Cruz. THIRD BALLOT’S RESULT. The third ballot resulted: Gage, 332%; Flint, 279; Pardee, 121%;; Hayes, 57; Edson, 39. Gage and Flint gained a few votes lost by Eldson, Pardee and Hayes. The Second District (Humboidt County) gave four. of Edson’s votes to Gage. Shasta _also gave Gage two_of Edson's votes, Lassen County gave Pardee three, instead of two, as on the first ballot. Nevada County took one from Gage and Pardee each and gave them to Flint. Kl Dorado gave Flint one of Pardee’s. pine went back to Gage. Flint gained two from Pardee in So- noma. Yolo's half-vote was switched from Gage to Flint. In_Marin County Edson's vote went Yo Flint, who also gained one in Tuolumne from Edson. The Thirty-ninth District (San Francis- co) took one from Flint and gave it to Gage. The Forty-second gave Flint one of Hayes' votes. GAGE MEN CAUSE DELAY. It was evident that a deadlock must ensue and the Gage forces demanded an adjournment until to-morrow, the osten- sible purpose being to count noses and arrange matters with a view to coming to an agreement. A motion was made by W. D. Tillotson of Shasta to take a recess until 8 p. m. and McKinley of Los Angeles amended to make the hour 10 a. m. to-morrow. Considerable excitement was caused by the motion to adjourn before the comple- tion of the balloting and Judge Burnett of Santa Rosa, who filled the chair in the absence of Chairman Neff, ordered the sergeant at arms to clear the aisles. The motion to adjoufn until this evening be- ing lost on the roll call, the amendment to take a recess until to-morrow morning was. carried. After the customary announcements of Congressional meetings the convention took a recess until 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. labor and capital, hand in hand, are going on | Wwith the development of our magnificent re- sources. It is true.that my candidate has enemies. I would not love him as I do if he had not. The man without enemies is the man who has so little courage and honesty of pur- pose and backbone, who is so colorless in life that he does not conduct himself in a way to make enemles. My candidate came to this State as a boy. His life In the southern portion of the State kas been one in which he has built up his reputation and his strength, by those rugged characteristics which: mark the Western man, the strenuous man, the man who in every re- lation of life goes stralght forward doing that which he belleves to be right. even though he may attract the hate and disiike of the meaner creatures Who are kicking below him. Through all his life, through his administration of the goyernment for three years his conduct has been such that I belleve he has endeared him- self to the people of this State, and that if nominated will sweep it by an even larger majority than that which he received four years 2go, With this history of his administration, with which you are familiar, it is unnecessary for me to waste words in pointing out the charac- teristics of the man who, contra-distinguished from many other Governors that California has bad, has the honest courage to go straightfor- ward doing the right as he sees it. - With these arguments in his favor, with the argument of his administration and his position in th: hearts of the people, delightful duty of placing’ before this conven- tion the name of Henry T. Gage, LAUDATION FOR EDSON. M. C. Allen seconded the nomination of Gage and he was followed by A. P. Van Duser of San Francisco, who seconded Edson’s nomination in an address which was frequently interrupted by calls of time. He referred to Neff as *‘the Lion of the Sierras” and then proceeded to tell why he favored the nomination of Edson. He'then resumed I have nothing to say against any candi- date, but I say there is not a living chance for but two men now before the convention. The one is the Hon. B. B. Edson and the other is Hon. Tom Flint. Now, then, I will tell you— (Cries of “Time! Time!') Now, keep quiet, if_you vlease. I will not worry you at all. I stand here not to give you hot air. I want to give you common sense. Now, keep still, if you .please. I say In- the first place, I have nothing against the gentleman from Los An- geles, the lincumbent. I helped to put him there. I traveled over the mountains of this State to do it. But I-say this, were he the best man on earth, for fifty years It has been the common law of this State one term for Governor and then stand aside. There is not an instance in the history of California ‘Wwhere a man has been nominated twice for that of- fice; not a bif of it. This is history. Thers neYer- was a Republican victory in this State Al- | I perform to-day the | BEST TAPESTRY BIUSSELS. WILTON VELVETS. Reduced to. BODY BRUSSELS. Reduced to. ORIENTAL RUGS.. 25 to 40 per cent. CARPET RUSS o W. & J. SLOANE & CO. CARPETS = FURNITURE To make room for new shipments, WE OFFER TO CLOSE QUT MANY PIECES in the most correct styles and finishes, including PARLOR, DINING-ROCM, LIBRARY, HALL FURNITURE, ETC., at prices marked down 285 to 50 per cent. Reduced to. Se=wed, Lined and Laid. We are showing a large selection at reductions varying from Big assortment to close at EXCEPTIONAL VALUES. Drapery Department... We respectfully invite you to inspect our stock of LACE CURTAINS, which we offer at very much REDUCED PRICES. Stock many times greater than can be found elsewhere. W. & J. SLOANE & CO. i14-116-118-120-122 POST STREET .SAN FRANCISCO. DRAPERIES .- 75¢ per yard $1.00 per yard $1.25 per yard won by ‘a_divided Republican party. I say there is a dlvided party now existing here and gentlemen claim that Los Angeles shall have the sixteenth year of her Governorship. They can't do it. They say they should have it 3 vindicate a most elegant gentleman, an able man. They can’t do it. We are not in the vindication business. Why, gentlemen, if ths Angel Gabriel should come down here from heaven, of course, going through Sacramento, the boys would throw mud at him. Of course they would. If he should.say, ‘‘Gentlemen, I 4am a candidate for Governor of California and 1 want you to rub the mud off my feathers and fix up my plumes,’” they would say, ‘‘No, Gabrlel, we can't do it, because while we are brushing off your wings the Democrats will nominate the devil for Governor and elect him." They would do it. I say we can’t do it. I say we can't break the common law for the best man that ever lived. The gentleman from Alameda is all right. Alameda is good against anything. I say that he is all right to stay in Alameda. (Laughter, confusion and cries of ““Time! Time!) Gentlemen this is not fair play. If ycu have not respect for my hairs have respect for my hald head. I am going to say this about Dr. Pardee: ‘I stood o and helped to try to nominate him four years ago, but he stopbed at the starting post and walked off the platform. No matter how much you think of him in Alameda when he made that deal in San Francisco to throw down this man (confusion) he ended . his career. (Callg of “Time, time.”) What have I done to you that you should do this to me? I stand here to represent a | gentleman unimpeached and unimpeachable. | I say that I am seconding the nomination of | 2 man who is entitled to your respect and I say more than that. Gentlemen, so far as the candidate from San Jose is concerned, I will admit that he is the best looking one in | the bunch, | would nominate him. But I say to you it is | not the time to nmominate a man on that ac- count and we won't do it. I was about to make this point: I say there never was a victory won by ug in California with a divided opposition party Everybody must stand in | upon the candidate for Governor. In 1867 a divided party defeated us. In 1880—. EXCESS OF ORATORY. A delegate from Alameda—I want to call your attention to the fact that there is a resolution passed here that five min- speeches, and we don't want to stand here all day and hear the gentleman talk. The Chairman—The gentleman has been talking four minutes and three-quarters. Give him one-quarter of a minute more. Van, Duser—Now, 1 am going to have that quarter of a minute. Time, time, don't go. My time don’'t go on while | these gentiemen are interrupting me. I | will say right here another thing. There | havebeen five good men before the people defeated in good years. This campaign now is the turning point of the next Presi- dential election and I say that this con- vention has a responsibility that reaches far beyond and over the nomination of any man for Governor. It may decide, as California_did decide once, the Presidency of the United States, and whether or not the Democratic party should come into power again. It has been said here that | the Los Angeles candidate will get the labor vote (interruption and confusion). I | say to you, gentlemen, that, in my opin- | ion, there is but one man who can go into | this campaign with a united Republican party (cries of “Gage, Gage; Pardee, Par- dee’”). No, sir; it is not. | The Chairman—If you will just keep quiet for a moment more he will close. Now, do please keep order. You are not transacting, business in this manner and juiet. Ifan Duzer closed his address amid gen- eral acclamation, and when he stepped down Judge Baliard of Orange seconded the nomination of Gage. He said: I have not a word to say here against any gentlemun who has been nominated for this high office. I have no prognostications to make as to whether if either one of these gentlemen shall be nominated he shall be vic- torious or go down to defeat. I am a Repub- lican, as every man in this convention doubt- less is, and they will, as they ought to, bow to the will of the majority, which is supposed to be, and is, the wisdom of this convention. I have no aspersions nor any insinuations of the remotest degree to cast upon any of these gentlemen. We are here representing the Re- publican party of this great State, and we ought to, as men of age and experience, stang upon our individual judgment, and not be led away by these stories that are being circu- lated broadcast in this land about this man or that or the other man. We ought to have wisdom of our own. Most of us have grown gray in the service of the Republican party, and in the State of California we ought to | know some things ourselves without having to | get them second or third handed. GAGE AND HIS CAREER. The gentleman who seconded Henry T. Gage's nomination, from San Francisco, said he would send greeting to the southland from his con- stituents in San Francisco. I live in the south- landy the home of Henry T. Gage. More than thirty vears ago there came Into the extreme southern portion of Los Angeles County, now Orange County, a.poor, friendless boy, penni- less, and who had to g0 to work upon a ranch for & living, and who studied law as a pastime, That ‘man, since that tife, has been a resident of that locality, and the State of California, and occupies ore of the highest positions at the bar of California, and is to-day the Gov- ernor of this imperial State. I8 there a man in this house that ever heara the slightest, the remotest insinuation that Henry T. Gage, as a citizen of the sunny southland, ever did a man or & woman or the society in which he circulates a wrong? Never in your lives. It remained, after all in all, at the close of his administration, it remained for the politicians to try and down this man, but the people are back of him and he will hot be downed. If you will give him this nomination we are with him to a man from Orange County. That is his home practically, and when a man is backed by & solid home delegationt he’is pretty nearly in- vincible. There is only one serious charge, in my judgment,” against this man, and that i this: - T will mot keep it from you; it ia said that he never combs his hair. I have bought him a 10-cent comb and he has promised me eu:;.u elected again he will keep his hair slick. v W, Herrin of San Francisco seconded 1 e e roars | that beautiful and fair city, and If the ladies had a vote they | you won't get ahead at all. Please keep | utes shall be the limit of these nominating | | ty. the nomination of Hayes, as follows: It gives me great pleasure to second the nomination of J. O. Hayes of San Jose for Governor of Caiifornia. ~ (Applause.) I have nothing to say of the other candidates. They are all good men, but we think that Mr. Hayes is the best man, and on behalf of the united anti-boss Republicans of San Francisco and San Jose we second his nomination. Mr. Hayes has been a resident of this State for thirty years. He s a man of large property interests. He employs a large pumber of men and he has ever been and he now is the friend of _labor. Mr. Hayes is probably better known in con- nection with the Good Governmiemt League of San Jose. You recall about five years ago there was a league formed in San Jose for good government. The conditions had got so bad there that the public schools were infested by bossism. Those institutions are ever sacred to the American citizen. It got to such a condition there that the school teachers had to pay tribute to the bosses in order to hold their positions. Mr. Hayes took charge of that Good Government League and he made a man- ful and a determined fight and to-day the bosses have been routed from San Jose and one of the most Dbeautiful cities in California, is once more ruled by the decent people of that city. (Applause.) A WORD FOR MR. HAYES. Mr. Hayes stands for everything that is de- cent and honorable in politics and against ev- erything that is vile and corrupt. You nomi- nate Mr. Hayes, gentlemen of this convention, and you will nominate a man upon whom a.i the elements of the Republican party of the State of California can unite. Nominate Mr. Hayes and you will nominate a standard bearer of which the Republican party will well be proud. Nominate Mr. Hayes, and in Novem- Ber next I assure you that this State will give the “Grand Old Party” at least 40,000 miajovi- (Applause.) Nominate Mr. Hayes and when the polls close after election we will tele- graph to President Roosevelt and to the ad- ministration at Washirgton that old California, which we love so well, has once more shown its feaity to the Republican party. (Applause.) Grove L. Johnson of Sacramento took advantage of the opportunity to second Gage's nomination to pay his respects to what he termed the “California Knock- ers’ Club,” as represented by John D. reckels, W. 8. Leake, H. G. Otis and H. de Young. His tirade falled to rouse enthusiasm except among a few of Gage’s warmest adherents. That his heart was not in the work was quite evident. Johnson spoke as follows: There is one phase of the contest that is now before this convention that has not been touch ed by any previcus speaker, no matter what candidate he may favor. It is the quest whether men in the State of California s have the right to aspire to office in the Rep lican party without asking permission of ce tain would-be newspaper bosses. It is & que tion whether every man in the Republica party is to be a free man, to-do as to him seems best, to carry out the dictates of his conscience as to him seems proper, and to aspire to any of- fice in the gift of the péople that his friends may think he is competent to fill The question before us is not mew. It is a question of resistance to tyrants, of resisfancs to bosses, and these the gentlemen who have spoken of the efforts of their candidates to rid a certain portion of this State of the demination of a boss should take warning by the history of the times and see to it that the whole of Cali- fornia is not laid at the feet of three men who seek to dominate the principles, the candidates and the policies of the Republican party. Un- less we rise up in our manhood, unless every delegate asserts his rights, unless every Reput lican asserts his rights in the State of Califor- nia the time will soon come when no man dare be an aspirant for nomination at the hands of the people of the State of California, unless he can présent a certificate reading thus: ““This man has been examined by Sam Leake and we certify him to be a good Republican and fit for office.—M. H. de Young, president; H. G. Otis, secretary; John D. Spreckels, treasurer. The California Knockers’ Club.’" THE WIVES, THE DAUGHTERS. I tell you, fellow-citizens, fellow-Republicans, tellow-Californians, I speak out of the fuliness of my heart in this, knowing what I say: I spesk to you because every man here knows that a campaign of vituperation, a campaign of wicked slander has been inaugurated in' this State against a certain candidate simply and solely for the purpose of driving him not mere- ly from being an aspirant from office, but for the sake of driving him from the State. You who have wives, you who have daughters and you who have children and all of you by the recollection of the mothers who bore you, acise in your majesty and your manhood and rebuke such attempts to destroy a man, not merely in his party, but in his home, soéfety and the ate. The people of the city and ecoun Sac candidate that you favor and that T favor. has not been needlessly kind to us, but we rec ognize that he has done his duty as chief mag- istrate. We recognize that he is an honest man. We recognize that he has made a good Gavernor. We recognize aigo that in - the tempestuous times that occurred in San Frane cisco mot a year ago, when capitalistic greed and monopolistic oppression sought to drive the workingmen of the city. into rebelfion, when they called on the Governor to erder out the soldiers that they might ' shoot ' down the strikers, he stood on the rock of the constitu tion, like King Canute of old, who bid & Waters of the sea to recede, but unlike King Canute of old, he was obeyed, when he said tg monopolistic greed and corporation agsrandize. ment, “Thus far shall you march axainst the workingman and no further." Fifty thousand workingmen of the State of Califarnia will come behind the candidate that I favor and that ail the people ought to favor. In behalf, then, of the county of to, iri behalf of decency and of honor and manhood, in behalf of repub. lican_institutions, I second the nomination of that honest man, ‘that good Governor, that stal. Wart friend, that man who stands for nd decency, Henry T. Gage. o Snook of Alameda asked that candidates take the platform, hu?g?::- attention was gald to the matter, » to the Second- Hocking of Stanislaus rallied support of Flint | Ty o n the following nomination vernor ‘Dolitiont monSt 31“'. rolbedbatvatomin troiv. s Continued on Pags 5, Column g,