The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 4, 1902, Page 2

(] COLEMANS N G Covr THomMp 3o OF Moboec WA s THE CENTER_ OF wvisSio~ . . M K You~G, oE. Lo o To PoLtTICS ADVERTISED SA FAcTIiONDS GLE N ANGELES, BJEGTED DEMoOCRATIC BE ING (N REPLUBLICAMN PAPE RS. H\W NEsBIiTT STIRRED OP THE/ couNT> e~ B GEID EXPOSED’ DE MOCRATIC ~ BEE™N DorE rRg G e NS CouN Ty A (. JUDGE TTRAS = LOOKED CO FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 MFIDENT. . 1902 AME FAILS TO LURE VOTES N/ EF S THE WONDERED \WHAT CHAMNCE HE He&o To GO TO z VA S HINGTOMN ENE THoWGH © HE GoT FEE NomiNAaTION - o~ ® ' OETH . | MAanN JTEENUOUJL)' PLACED LaNE ’ 1~ NMOoOMINATION SPRIGHTLY DEMOCRATS WHO TOOK A HAND IN THINGS POLITICAL DURING THE TERM OF THE CONVENTION AT THE CAPITAL Old-Line Democrats Apply Oratorical Lash to Wielders of the Journal- istic Bludgeon. Continued From Page 1, Column 7. NOMINATION OF LANE. Convention Uproariously Receives the Name of the Candidate. the f >wed when Seth Mann of | ced the name of Frankl K. Lane before the conveation. Mann's ad nest, logical and convinc was frequently interrupted ie spoke in part as follows: ention he Democratic party of 1 is the master of a can name Xt of Caiifornia and make ai interest to the to the plain people na v are deares on this occasio ection of our cai our mo the sel resent time—the need of the hour—is firmness, of moral courage, of i Democratic joyalty; a man who esture of no man or set of men; of jon (cheers and applause), of no man on the face ong insthis, that gs on earth & es his own self-r ause.) In a word, a a man-whose record is clear, and well known, and whose e and safeguard people of ¢ he will be true to those principles as he has been in the past, and will be a worthy repre- sentative of our party; a man whose word and whose sacred honor are dearer to 1ife Spesking after an intimate, personal and endly acquaintance with this map of more than twenty years, 1 say to. you that such & man is Frankin K. Lane (tremendous ap- plause and cheers), and 1 ‘esteem it-a hig Eonor to have been called upon by him to plac Mim in nomination for the position of Gov r of the State of California before tl entlon. = Franklin K. Lane fis'a.man o sturdy and stalwart moral courage. His publie history demonstrates this fact. When- cver he has been called upon 2o render a de- cision in_public office his record will show that he had been controlled by no motives other than those of truth, fairness and jue- 1 (Cheers and applause.) every course that he may be called upon to pursue In public life, in any action or de- cisien that he be calied upon to make, ke will be influenced only by those circumstances and by reasons of the public necessity or public £00d. of right and of Justice, .and by none Gther. Let whomsoever come before him, wheth- er represe ive of the poorest and the lowiest or of the most powerful and most opulent, he will receive at the hands of Frankiin K. Lane even justice, and no hostilities and no enmities that might seem to be generated by this.con- vention will follow him beyond this ball but truth, fairness and justice are the watchwords the touch of the character of Frank- lin K Lane. (Cheers and applause.) In any such decision as he may be called upon to make 1 say to you that you may trust that he will hew to the line of right, let the chips fall where they may Furthermore em he is a safe man, a conserva- e man, & man whose sole interest would be Governor of the State of California, whose tiv rve the rights of the whole people and of the whole State: & man whom every one would find to be an advocate safe, sure and SLrong, pro- vided he was in the right. In every period of disaster, of danger, of emergency or peril, in Frankiin K. Lane the people of the State of California will find & man of courage, a man of sell poise; all that know him understand that fact; no One cen. come into communication or meeting with Franklin K. Lane that will no respect him as & “man. plain people and his recognized sympathy, his continuous work and help toward the plain people of the State and of every place where he may have dived, is due to the fact that he is one of them, & man réared from their midst, who has worked by them side by side and who knows the feelings of the workingman, who knows his sentiments, who knows his desires, bis aspirations and his aims by the familiar touch of constant daily labor in communion with him. He in_his early youth in the town of Napa in this State was a messenger boy, and later, clerk in & country store; afterward he be- came & printer and a newspaper man. He him than | JJe desire and highest desire would bé to con- | He i a man of the | X | received his education in the common schools | of your State and ended with a special course versity and in the Hastings College Law. Throush his own eforts and his own work he supported himself the higher schools, in the University ifornia and in the Hastings Law Col- has practiced his profession with d honor and he has been three times ) the position of City and County At- y in the city of San Francisco. -On the irst_oecasion on which he came before the | municipal nominating conventicn of San Fran- cisco asking for their support he won against the opposition, determined and tireless, on the art of the sp-called mach! organization Democratic party. (Applause.) When ext came before that eonvention for a nom- gh reputation which he had won years' incumbency {n the office and the popularity which was his by right, for it was well wom and well deserved, made second nomination inevitable and his third nomination followed as a matt < of course. r these circumstances 1 say to you that Lane's public life and public successes are due to no one man, are due to NO Organ- ization, are due to no faction of the Demo- cratic party. What he ‘has won in the Demo- cratic party of the State of fornia he has won by his own merit and by his own friends who have stood him because they thought he was a good man, a strong man and a good Democrat. His services. his sympathy, tory in the cause of united labor are famillar to :all who study those affairs and also L any others. Some ten years ago, before he d entered the strenuous life of po le he was the proprietor of a newspaper Tacoma, he maintained the office of his paper as a union office and paid the union rate of wages, against the competition of other rate offices in the same town and in recognition of his services in the cause of union labor, he ss then made in Tacoma a member of the acoma Typographical Union. (Cheers and ap- auee.) Later, in San Francisco, in recognition and se of his services in procuring the yse the union label, for which your platform res to-day, upon all city printing in the ty of San Francisco, he was again honored by the typographical union and made an honorary member of San Francisco Typo- graphical Union No. 21. (Applause.) Owing o the work of Franklin K. Lane while in office as City and County Attorney of San Francisco, because of advice which he gav and which was followed by the Board | Public Works in_San Francisco, laborers and employes of city contractors in San Francisco are serving but elght hours a day, when formerly they had to work ten and tweive. (Applause.) These are some of the services for united | Jabor and for the cause of the plain people that Frapk Lane has done. As there is no cause > doubt—no one will question the honesty, the. uth, the reality of his sympathy with the wuee of the plain people, with the cause of nited labor. At the last election in San Fran- cisco, in behaif of Mr. Lane, the labor con- vention left vacant upon their ticket the office of City and County Attorney, £o that no moni- nation was made upon the labor ticket” for that office. Mr. Lane received the nomina- tion from the Democratic convention and this receiving virtually the support of the labor vote, was elected again by a majority of over 10,000. Thus he may be said to be rather In office by Virtue of this support which he has re- ceived from the labor elements of San Fran- cisco than from any other cause. He is re- garded by many of them as their representative. s their man in office, as the man whom they have placed in public incumbency, and they may be and are justly proud of his record. (Applause.) There are gathered about Mr. Lane to-day— come to his headquarters—those of you who have been there know it—many members of labor unfons who declared that it Mr. Lane is nominated. by this convention they would gladly support him. Just before I came -upon this stand here I was met by a man in the lobby who said to me: ““You can go upon. the stand and say that I a member of the Electrical | Union of San Francisco,” I believe a delegate, he told me, to the convention to be held shortly in San Francisco, “you may say from me,” and | he handed me his card at the time, “you may say for me that I and other members of union labor in Sacramento would gladly support | Franklin K. Lane for Governor of the State of California if this. convention should name him for that high offi (Cheers and applause.) | But above all we need, as 1 bave said in the beginning, a democratfc Democrat, one whose record is clear and pure and straight upon Democratic principles, and in bebalf of Demo- | gratic canasdates such a man is Franklin K. ne. | The.candidacy of that true and earnest. up- | right and straightforward, upright and down- right Democrat, William J, Bryan, defeated but | mot discredited, was by him supported with en- | ergy and force. With him as a leader we should have no campaign of defense, no apolo- | gles, no explanations to make. But from out | and sbove the din of conflict of this convention | and out of the dust of the arena we can hear | arising and sweeping from _snowy-capped Shasta to the smooth beaches of San Diego, from the whispering pines of the Sierra Ne- vadas to the much-murmuring Pacific, the dfa- pason of the people’s voice, of the Democratic of some 3000 his his- | cs and | | should be withdrawn. power to secure his election.” J. V. COLEMAN PROTESTS AGAINST UNAUTHORIZED USE OF HIS NAME AMES V. COLEMAN, whose name was presented in the -State Democratic Conven- tion for the gubernatorial nomination, was interviewed last night in this city, and made the following statement for The Call: “The mention of my name as a candidate for Governor on the Democratic ticket was totally unauthorized and unwarranted, and was done without any consultation with me. While I fully appreciate the spirit that actuated my friends in making me a candidate, I would have refused to allow my name to go before the convention had 1 been consulted. never at any time indicated that I was seeking the nomination. I fully appregiate the honor of having my name appear before the convention, but in justice to myself I think it only right to explain that it was done without my knowledge or consent. When I saw my.pame on the bulletin boards I was thunderstruck and immediately wired to the convention that my name “I regard the nomination of Mr. Lane as perfectly satisfactory and'shall do all in my I have | hosts, joining in one grand, harmonious chorus £ viCtory. O entienen, in the name of Democracy, in the name of the plain people for whom the Demo- { cratic party now and forever will stand, in the name of truth, loyalty, independence and per- | sonal courage, I name as the next Governor of California that intrepid, tireless and invincible man, Frankiin K. Lane. (Cheers and ap- plause.) Thomas O'Connor_of San Francisco, the #boy orator of the Mission,” seconded the nomination of Lane in a neat and witty address that provoked laughter. He said: soul of wit,” and, since wit is pleasing, 1 shall En‘sen\!'or % be brief. A week ago the Republi- can convention met here in this hall and they reviewed their career for the past four years, and they themselves having placed the stamp of their disapproval on it. we need not refer to it at all. They repudiated their last four years Chief Executive, and, my friends, by doing so they may have acted wisely, but I think not. 1 feal that they have mistaken the popular pulse; they-have not judged aright the signs of the times; they are like those sinners of old, who, “having eyes, they saw not, and having ears, they heard not.” How eminently fitting it was, then, thaf they should nominate an eye and an ear specialist. The Republican party has selected its doctor. Let us go on with the good wark, and let us name the ity and Coun- ty Attorney of San Franciseo to draw the last will and testament of our departing brother. Frank Finlayson of Los Angeles sec- onded Lane's nominatjon in a vigorous address. ADDRESS BY GEARY. Democrats Are Urged to Forget Quar- rels and Seek Harmony. Thomas' J. Geary of Sonoma mext took the platform amid the cheering of the faction that had hoped to see him nomi- nated. When the applause had subsided he seconded Coleman’s nomination as fol- lows: 1 came to this convention with an honorable ambition to be the nominee of my party for the Governorship of this State, because I believed that by reason of the political mistakes and errots of our opponents, of the peculiar combi- | mation of circumstances that present themsely | now for our consideration, there was afforded | an opportunity with Democratic unity to win a Democratic victory. With prosperity greater than ever before known to our people; side by side with that prosperity marches the army of discontent; prosperity manifested by enormous combinations of wealth, grinding and pressing down the laborer and the man consuming the products of its industries. This evil, more than all others, demands redress at this time in the country’s history. To the Democratic party alone must the people turn for relief from this peculiar con- dition of affairs.” Thé Democratic party, in dealing with this problem, does not have to write any new article in its créed. No new plank need be added to its faith. No expedi- cnt legislation, destructive of the fundamental principles of the party, need be introduced for temporary purposes, as our opponents seek to do. But, in the Democratic doctrine, consti- tutional with us, that all men shall have equal rights, and special privileges shall be ac- corded to none, we find the key for the cor- rection’ of ‘this evil. On that platform, broad enough for every Democrat to stand upon, no matter what his past; on that platform, broad evough for all to stand .upon who believe in the supremacy of manhood over the dollar, who belleve in human liberty as against humen greed, 1 know the Democratic party can g0 to victory. On this convention rests an obligation greater than thMt ever before It is said, gentlemen, that ‘“brevity is the. entrusted to any like assemblage. We must not be blind to the conditions, nor permit our personal ambitions, our personal friendship ta this. It has been stated that I was the candidate of one element in_the quarrel with which we are all familiar. I was never the candidate of anybody. If I had been chosen by this con- vention, as I believed I would; if I had been chosen Governor of this State, there would have been but one boss in that Capitol I would have been that boss. But this is not a time for me, or any other man, to permit his persomal ambitions to stand in the way of party unity. Let Uis find for a candidate one Wwho' can regelve the support of every element and every faction in this hall, one who can bring to his assistance the indorsement and the support of all other elements which we need to make our victory certain, and behind that standard-bearer let us all stand in and make of him a successful candidate. o T think that it is idle to take men who have been mixed up in these rows and try to har- monize in that way. We must go outside of the contestants and find a man who has not been in the melee, one whom we all respect, whose character and whose manhood we all recognize. With that in view I take pleasure in seconding the nomination of a man whom I have known for years. 1 knew him when he represented San Francisco in ‘the Legisla- ture of this State in times when loyaity to the people was made a merit by the Democratic party; at a time when in that legislative body 'the political career of men was belng threatened by the monopoly which had done o much to disgrace, to destroy and to disrupt. I take pleasure in seconding the nomination of the man whom I know will be the next Gover- nor of California, the Hon. James V. Coleman. TOLAND IS LAUDED. ate Equalizer of Ventura Named ¢+ Among the Candidates. Edward White of Santa Cruz placed in nomination for Governor Thomas O. To- land of Ventura County. He said: I have listened with a great deal of pleasure to the high encomfums bestowed on the various candidates for the nomination for Governor by the different gentlemen who have placed them in nomination before this convention. As the gentieman whom 1 propose to place in nomina- tlon before you possesses to a very marked de- gree all of those qualifications, I do not propose to take up your valuable time with any spread- eagle speech. I propose to make a plain state- ment of facts and call your attention to some of the qualifications that my candidate pos- sesses, His public record is a matter of so much notoriety to the Democracy of this State that nothing I can-say would bring him more clearly before you. He has served in high offi- cial stations, he has always been found jearless in the councils of the Democratic party and he has never faltered in his allegiance to the De- mocracy of this State. I desire to place in nom- ination before you & gentleman who four years ago Was chosen to be the Democratic nominee of, 1 think, the Fourth Equalization District, for the prominent position of State Equalizer. 1 was proud in that convention to second his nomination and I felt no doubt as to what the outcome would be were he elected. _Although he ran in a very largely Republican district he ‘was successful. As to what his record has Heen you al know it. He succeeded in adding to the a sessed valuation of the railroads of this State the enormous sum of $16,000,000. He has always stood up as between the opposing forces of the railroad company and the plain people. He comes before you with a clean record and there is no man in the State of €alifornla who can say that he is anything but a loyal and conzistent Democrat. And, my friends, I be- lieve that he will do more to unite the Democ- destroy our personal judgment in crises like | —_— racy of this State than any man whose name has béen mentioned before this convention. [ agree with my friend, the Hon. Thomas Geary, in saying that all individual preferences should be cast aside and that we should consider in our choice for our candidates only)that man who will add strength to our ticket. I be- lieve that the candidate that 1 nropose be- fore you will to an eminent degree control the required ‘strength. I have, therefore, gentle- men, to nominate that peeriess Democrat, that consistent public man and public_servant, Thomas O. Toland of Ventura County. BUDD PRAISES COLEMAN. Former Governor Has Heart-to-Heart Talk to Delegates. Former Governor James H. Budd took‘ the platform in behalf of Coleman and his friends gave him an ovation as he spoke as follows: 1 have listened to the nomination of three steriing Democrats and as a man who has entered into some political fights in his life and understands what elements are necessary for the success of the Democracy in this publican State of California I desire to have a heart-to-heart talk with the members of tais convention. Since 1872 I have been a mem- ber of Democratic conventions in this State. I have gone dowp the line frequently to de- feat, often to victory, but I have never yet struck my colors nor heve I ever yet allowed personal ambition or personal consideration for any man, friend or otherwise, to influence me in_my choice of a candidate. We are here, the trustees of the Democracy of this State.’ We are told by them to get together in consultation and to choose, if it be possible, from among the great Democrats ur the small Democrats, or any Kind of Demo- crats at all, a man who can go out next November and bring back to this party suc. ceas. It Is not alone the Governorship of Cal ifornia that Is at stake now. It is the mi sion of the Democratic party. The man does not live in these United States who can ob- trude into the half-way of this party his per- sonality. We have United States Senators de. pending on our action to-day. We have a Legislature, with legislation for the benefit of the principles enunciated here. We have mem- bers of Congress, and all these things are matters that rhould make us pause and con- sider who. is the man that can lead us to victory. I bow with deference to the great judgment of the gentlemen from Alameda, the Hon, Seth Mann, but I will belleve always that I co ducted my campalgn as successfully as he has his in the past. (Laughter.) 1 pride myseit on being a chooser of wihners. (Cries of ‘‘Gool Boy.”) I pride the Democratic party on beng a chooser of winners, and in the State of California to-day you cannot win with San Francisco giving the Democratic party 11,000 or 12,000 majority unless you can go to th» interior and ) get other votes. I myself was the happy possessor of some 11,000 or 12,600 votes in that city when I ran, and but for ths interfor of the State I would have gon: down !bec-h, n-:h:yn-d a :inen:lyd ugo majority, and re. even doubted wheths sagarely. (Laughter.) S b Ve want & winner. We want no favorite We want a vote getter. We want a mn: l:n:; will go into this fight and harmonize ail tre elements of the party. Who will scuttel the sreat Democratic ship and carry down with it every man aboard, and every official Siate and natlonal, because of persomal pride per- sonal ambition or personal resentment? Not I. TUnless we lay aside personal ambition andg personal resemtment; unless we concentrate wp. on a man without ‘any element of onposition we can never land him a winner. The State l% close at the best, close when there is no dis. 1 Budd, Geary and Toland Accept Defeat and Pledge Their Ticket. Support to the sension in the Democratic party. 1 abide always by the decision of a com- vention. I am a worker. My purse is open, and my mouth also, and that brings me to consider candidates & higher regard or a greater respect for that | sterling young Democrat, Mr. Lane, than I have. No one. Mr. Lane has been elected a City ard County Attofney, and has made a very good ome. If he has ever served in any other capacity it has eseaped my notice. Wita the record of Tom Toland in the Legislature and as a member of the Board of Equalization ou are ali famillgr. * No man could better one. But when we come here we de- sire to set aside all contentions and feelings that may have been aroused by our bickering and backbiting, If you will, and to choose among all these candidates & winner. T b lieve that the man who can lead us to vietory at this time is the gentleman who has been ‘seconded by Thomas Geary, whom I hoped to place before convention. James V. Coieman is a man against whom no one will say a word. He 3 ability, of great ability. He has a legislative record behind hi He has a record for the campaigns that s conducted in the his- tory of Democracy in the State of California. against me that I had bad and corrupt mo- tives—that he also has a_pretty good pu but when I come to censider that the Demo racy of this State usually runs its campaigns on jawbone and is not .able to pay its bills until it gets a new lot of candidates to assess, I think the matter of a man’s financial ability ought nct to be consid What are we go- | ing to Ao? (A volce, ‘‘Nominate Lane.”) 1 belleve there is a place in the Bible some- where that says “Ephraim is Jjoined 'to b s idols,” and then they add ‘let it rip.” It may be that the nomination of Mr. Lane will carry us to Success. I hope so. But gentlemen, tha is conjectural. That is not a certainty. Tha is not a matter that any man can count on because the canvass of the State has not shown to that effect, But that James V. Coleman can, no one will dispute (applause); that James V. Coleman is a sure winner, all must admit, and while Lane might win, Coleman cannot | lose. Coleman is an employer of labor in tke largest sense of the word, and his relation { with the laboring man is that of the utmost friendship. Scattered throughout the mines of the State of California the industries set to work by J. V. Coleman are to-day employing a large number of laborers. In Calaveras and in other counties in the southern portion of the Will bring to him as a tried and conservative man the vote of the farmers as well as the vote of the laborers, the vote of the miners as well as the vote of the pevple of San Francisco, I say to you, gentlemen, in all sin- cerity, that in my humble judgment the nom- ination of James V. Coleman will mean abso- lute success, State and natioral. "The nomination of a unknown quantity and the waiting of contingencies that may or may not happen makes it too problematical for us to risk it. We do not own the Democratic party, We cannot play mumble-de-peg with it. We cannot throw dice for the chances of fortune. We as conservative men should give to the interior of the State a man who 31l can say is an emplover of labor, a user of capital, a man broad in business senses, and who will receive, as he has in the past, the support of the people of the city and county of San Francisco. Earnestly as a man can say who has mo ambition, and no desire for advancement; earnestly as a man can say to a convention of 4 party that has honored him far beyond his deserts in the past, I ask you, in he name of the entire State, in the name of the National Demoeracy, give us a: our leader James V. Coleman of San Fran. Cisco, and 1 promise you now as I have prom- {sed in the past, and my predictions have never yet gone awry, that will mean ghsolute, cer- tain success. (Applause.) SCORES PRESS ARROGANCE. Former Judge Sulii:ln Denounces the Enemies of Lane. Judge Jeremiah F. Sullivan of San Francisco seconded the nomination of Lane in a strong speech. He said: 1 stand before you as one of those alleged rare things of this day—a San Franeisco Democrat. We have there a few who con- sistently in season and out of season, whether the party bg In power or out of power, always every day and all the time have been con- sistently members and votcrs of the Demo- cratic party. I have been reminded by kind and considerate friends who have watched me since my infancy in San Francisco that f.was assuming In my attitude in the present mat- ter, a position which my friends regarded with { extreme caution and care. The honors that have come to me since when 26 years i age I was first elected to office In San Francisco, Fave come to me every time when my name yas marked wpon a Democratic ballot, ema- o ands ocra ~entions. e o I say to you gentlemen the sit calling for serious deliberation. ‘;‘2:3; "‘13:; 4 it that serious deliberation. 1 realize full well There is no man who has | have a | is a man of | I wa¥ going to add—but it would be charged | State, Coleman has business ramifications, that | con- | e that now, as ten years ago, when I stood in the councils of state of the Democratic party, that there are some who have known me from | my iafancy that know when 1 take a stand 1 do it because I believe I am right. and [ desire to present the claims of a gentleman named before this convention who fills, in my mind, the perfect ideal of a Democrat: a man of spotless integrity, a man of high moral worth, @ man who never bends the pregmant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning, a man whose candidacy for the high office of Governor of this State did not bemin with last Wednesday afterncon after the Re- publican convention had closed its delibera- tions. I know him in his private life: I know him in his public life. It has been said with rare courtesy toward that gentieman that the office that he has filled has been merely the office of | City and County Attorney of San Francisco. I | ask you, gentiemen, to look back a few years to the time when a gentleman who had been Sheriff of one of the northern counties of New York tock up the banner of the Democratic party after years and years of consecutive de- | feat and gave to the nation the only Democratic administration that it had in the national cap- | ital during the last twenty-five years, that of Grover Cleveland. Must it be thrown in the faces of the earnest, honest advocates of San Francisco who come here as delegates to claim your calm, deliberate attention that the gentle- man whom we present is only City and County Attorney of San Francisco. I say to you from | ggme knowledge of the questions invoived that e administration of that office since the change in the local laws governing San Fran- cieco has called for ability of the highest order, and that we have found in Frankiin K. Lane. | I say to you, gentlemen, that I am almost as | familiar with the local conditions in the city | and county of San Francisco as any of the gen- | tlemen who have honored you Ly addressing you this afterncon. Since about 10 years of age it | has been permitted to me to live as a resident | in that glorious metropolitan city, and I say | that the battleground where is ta be won vic- | tory In this campaign is the great city of San Francisco. 1 say to you that I know from personal observation and daily intercourse that (it there be a vast mass of voters in that city who. are not i the nks of the Democratic party, - that their pathies will go out to us when we send back to them their fellow craftsman, Frankiin K. Lane, in whose judgment they have confi- dence and of whose loyalty to them and to every possible condition of circumstances he has given absolute and convineing proof. I say to you, realizing the responsibility of my utter- ance, and knowing whereof i speak, _that Franklin K. Lane, a member of the Typo- graphical Union, will not be opposed by the or- ganized labor of San Franeisco. It is said further, and as a matter of con- sequence to be considered, that there may ba withheld from him as the standard-bearer of the Democratic party certain support from certain quarters. I speak not in anger, I have no resentment, but I desire to call ‘at- tention to the fact of recorded history, that ten or eleven years ago, with some younger men of Xhat city, I deemed it my duty to the Demoeragc party to pick it up out of the dust and mdency into which it had been thrown in 1890, and after one or two years of service to put it into possession of every municipal office in the city and county of San Francisco. The assistance we had from the publicatio: in that endeavor was nil. ‘When we gathered together those people and during that campalgn we who had known of Stephen M. White as a native son of the eity and county of San Francisco, we who knew the desire of the whole citizenship of this State to make him a Democratic Senator to worthily represent us In the couneil chamber of the nation as a Senator of the United States, wen: along and struggled day after day, week after week and month after month without any a from the press of San Francisco, and in t early days of January of 1808 we had proud satisfaction of sitting in the Assembi: chamber and making of Stephen M. White th- proud distinguished Senator from California We battled because We knew our cause was just and right and that principle was on our side. Without the aid of the nress of San Francisco we made Stephen M. White & Sen- ator from Calfornia. 1 am reminded that a spirit of harmony should characterize the proceedings and th> selection of the candidates of this convention Gentlemen, T believe in harmony. That was one reason why yesterday, at the outset of deliberations of this convention, when a num- ber of gentlemen were asked as to whether It Wwas wise to precipitate at its initial sta controversy over the office of chairman, I said: “There s no gang of bosses, thers Is no cliqgue of tyrants, who want comtrol of th: party machinery of the Democratic party. I merely want to see a worthy standard-bearcr carry our banmer to victorv. 1 will gladly shake by the hand the gentleman selectsd hv others to conduct, as he has done so ably up fo this time, the deliberations of this conven. tion."" 1 like harmony, but T do not Vke the ha meny that involves the deliberations of Democratic convention assembled by the delib- erate choice of the Democratic voters of the Continued on Page 5, Column 3.