The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 5, 1904, Page 4

FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY MAY 35, 1904 LETTERS SHOW [BREAN PLANS HE KNEW CODE| SONE TROUBLE Dimond’s Writing to Hyde | Former Democratic Nomine-e Read in Land Fraud Hear-| May Bolt Convention if| ing to Contradiet Him| Things Do Not Suit Him | HYDE'S TITLES UP AGAIN POLITICIANS WORRIED | Opponents of the Nebraska Statesman Are Trying to| Prevent Any Overt Act| N e Fictitionus Elizabeth = Di- mond Appears as Grantor in Many of His Papers | Epecial Dispatch to The Call The monotony of a dull day in the land fraud case was broken yesterday afternoon when Francis J. Heney, counsel for the Government, read in evidence a series of letters between OMAHA, May 4—Members of the | Democratic Success League, recently organized here, say they are convinced | that it is Bryan's purpose to leave the | Defendants Henry P. Dimond and |national convention if he cannot have | Fred A. Hyde, showing that the for- | what he wants. mer had full knowledge of the Califor- | “Within a month,” said one of the nia school land laws when he was try- | members of the league to-day, “J. F. ing to get the General Land Office at | Harley of Lincoln told Mr. Bryan he Washington to remove the bar put up- | would like to be a delegate to the St. op the Hyde aud Benson leu selec- | Louis convention. He explained his | tions. position on public questions and prom- Throughout his testimony Dimond |jsed Bryan he would back him in been seen even in this land of flowers so beautifully decorated. Fifteen thou- sand calla lilies formed a hedge ex- tending entirely across the front of the broad stage and beneath these a beau- tiful frieze work of smilax and ferns reached the floor. Around the railing of the galleries, with flags and bunting for a background, the same scheme of decoration had been carried out, the while forming a perfect bower of EMINENT LEADERS IN METHODISM ATTEND THE GENERAL CONFERE | Continued ¥From Page 1, Column 2.|extending over a period of twenty vears, and asked the conference not to consider him as a candidate for re- election. 3 Dr. James M. Buckley of New York presented a set of resolutions com- 'mendins the great work performed by Dr. Monroe during his tenure of office as secretary to the General Conference and expressing the appreciation of the church. While Dr. Buckley was read- ing his resolutions a photographer set off a flashlight in the gallery and a bloom, beneath which the delegates sat. | Sudden flash and report so startled the The ceiling had been hung with im- mense flags, drooping in graceful folds from the center to the galleries and giving the appearance of a great sun- shade. In the rear of the stage an im- mense flag of shimmering silk fell from ceiling to floor. Bishop Merrill called the conference to order in a formal manner and open- ed the day with a brief prayer.’ conference, called the roll of delegates. The entire morning session was given up to the assignment of seats to the various delegations. Owing to the fact that it was impos- has Insisted that he had no part or lot | in Hyde's irregular method of obtain- ing State school lands by employing the friends of his colored janitor and | other irresponsible persons at a nom- inal consideration to sign affidavits | setting forth that they were applicants in good faith for such lands for their own sole use and benefit. Hyde had | admitted to him in the famous letter ; of January 16, 1902, that such methods had been employed, but he had not understood that they were contrary to law. He testified further that he had never read the sections of the Political COode requiring applicants for school | lands to make their' descriptive affi- ‘davits from personal knowledge of the lands sought to be “located.” The let- ters that Heney introduced yesterday, however, made it plain that these sec- tions were the subject of frequent cor- respondence between Dimond and the land speculator. Under Heney's cross- - examination it came out that Dimond had a copy of the code at hand when in Washington, and that he had, at Hyde's suggestion, written the Interior Department calling attention to the strict requirements of the school land <ections furnishing presumptive evidence that the Hyde-Benson titles offered to the Government were valid. io HYDE'S LAND TITLES. ~ The day's was largely with documents put in a great numb: letters from Hyde 10 Dimond and vice versa, covering the matter of Dimond's f the California code, but acqua wce with the fact acting, while at Washing- both Hyde and Benson. Then o r, of Hy e's counsel, of- f e the patents, certifi- cates of purc e and deeds held by his client to all the California and Oregon school lands for which deeds of relin- - quishment had been given by him to the Goverrment to obtain the leu sec- tions. T of documents covered all the thirt) counts in the indict- wment, and the reading of e briefest . descriptions of them took Schiesinger ne y an hour the defects in the titles based these documents that the prose- alleges in support of its charge he defendants conspired to sub- tute fraudulent titles to State lands unassailable title obtained from the wwernment. Hence it was notieed with interest that among the grantors named in the deeds appeared the nam: of the #ctitious Elizabeth Dimond, whom Hyde at first claimed was a ser- vant in the Morris household at East Oakland, but who is now conceded to have been 2 myth. The transactions in bher name, including the affidavits and acknowledgments purporting to have been executed by her, constitute a ma- terial part of the Government's case against the alleged conspirators. Leon was recalled on the in the morning and by Samuel Knight el regarding his re- de arld Walter K. Slack, who, S uels, was formerly a clerk in Hyde's office. He testified that the etter to Defendant Joost H Schneider at -Tucson, which he had _crafted for ck to sign, was written &t the suggestion of Detective Burns Burns had told the witness of an at- tempt to interview Schneider, when the Transforming three meals into a full day’s work is a pretty intricate and | trying process. | The point about “FORCE” is that it meets Diges- tion more than half way and the two work hand in hand to accomplish it A o Beriey malt whes combined with whest, par- - oS taver your poor stomach & 1ot of hard | = el i, i o CERO | Knight's questions designed | tained everything he wanted.” “Will you stay with me in a bolt if it should come to that?" asked Bryan, and Harley replied that he would not. | A few days later Tom Worrall, Bryan's right-hand man, called on Harley and told him that he could not possibly be a delegate to St. Louis, giving as his reason Harley's refusal to bolt if necessary. Members of the Success League assert that they are not fighting Bryan. Thelr chief con- cern is to see’'that a delegation repre- sents Nebraska that will not bolt. They expect to see Bryan lead a movement out of the hall if things do not go his way and say that if the Nebraska dele- gation goes with him it will be a hu- miliating blow to the Democracy of the State. Within a few days the names of delegates whom they will fight for | at the primaries will be announced by the league. The fight will be made on | tHe personalities of the candidates and there will be no attempt to make Bryan an issue. W. H. Thompson of Grand Island, candidate for Governor two years ago, and now candidate for national committeeman, came to Oma- | ha to-day in an endeavor to pacify the Bryan and anti-Bryan wings of the party. This mission did not meet with any success and the fight will be car- ried to the polls on May 25. +* . latter had refused to tell what he knew about the Hyde-Benson land opera- tions, giving as a reason that he die rot want to incriminate his friend Slack. SLACK' HAD NOTHING TO FEAR. “On hearing this,” said Samuels, “I advised my client, Slack, to write Schneider to keep nothing back through consideration for him. The letter was drafted by me and Slack copied it. In it Slack said that he had no objection to Schneider’s communi- | cating anything he knew about the writer to any person or under any cir- cumstances whatever. The letter was given to Burns, but before it was de- livered Schneider had fled to Mexico.” Samuels was asked by Knight wheth- er Hyde had ever spoken to him re- garding any anonymous letters he had received. The witness said the subject had been mentioned once, Hyde speak- ing of an unsigned letter attacking him personally and having no reference to the land business. The only person mentionedin connection with the letter was Miss Laura Farwell Hyde had tcld the witness that some one had tried to connect her indirectly with the anonymous letter referred to, but that he knew she had nothing to do with s> disreputable a matter. Al this point Hyde himself requested | and obtained permisgion to make a statement “In justice to Miss Farwell, who is now dead.” he sald, “I want to say that I never charged her with writing suspected that ' such a letter or even she could have any connection with it. Neither did any one else who knew her. Samuels declared he in San Jose or its vicinity since 1902, and repeated with emphasis that he had not mailed the Town Talk letter or any other of the'anonymous com- munications. He had -never used a Blickensderfer typewriter, the only* one , he had ever seen being the one owned ! by Dimond. CLEARS MRS. CURTIS. All these denials were in answer to to dis- cover the author of the anonymous communications. Stiil others were ob- written or countenanced the writing of an anonymous letter to or against him or to or against any one else. Finally he denied having any knowledge that would implicate Mrs. Belle Curtis with {the new celebrated epistles. This | brought another emphatic utterance [ from Hyde. “Mrs. Curtis did not write any of the anonymous letters. She could not have done so. She had no knowledge of facts contained in them and—" “1 object to this volunteer statement from Mr. Hyde,” interrupted Knight. “If he wants to testify let him be sworn and take the stand. He has re- fused to do this. Hence we do not want his unsworn statements to go on the record. “Objection sustained,” missioner Heacock. Samuels manifested a disposition to make a speech in answer to every Question, and finally denounced Knight and Wheeler for “instigating the sus- picion” that he or Slack had any con- nection with the letters. The examina- tion was at last concluded, however, and he left the stand. United States District Attorney Mar- shall B. Woodworth was then called for a few questions on the lines af those asked Slack and Samuels. He said he had nothing to do with the letter to Schneider and had not talked with either of them about it, but he had sent Slack to Washington just as he had sent the other Government wit- :n:ue-m :;nm ;'::u. znneueol , without ing them of the progress of the invest n.' 5 X D‘ ‘When the day closed Dimond’s coun- #el had made no apparent progress in ruled Com- had not been! from the witness when he de- | | clared he had mone but the friendliest | feeling toward Hyde and had, never | spectators, the speeches of welcome by | the Governor, the Mayor and represen- | tative California Methodists, this part | having originally | of the programme, been planned for the opening feature, was postponed until evening. DELIVER BRIEF PRAYERS. When the confusion attending the iseats had subsided . Bishop Merrill called the conference to order and in- | troduced Bishop J. C. Hartzell of Af- rica, who delivered the opening _prayer. | He was followed by Bishop W. H. Wi ren and Rev. Dr. D. W. C. Hunting| | D.D., of Nebraska University, who a) delivered brief prayvers. An hour was | then given over to a musical service. The calling of the roll consumed the time wup to noon, when a motion was Icarfled to adjourn until 3 o'clock { before the actual business of the con- ference should ciaim their entire at- | tention. | Bishop Edward G. Andrews presided |at the afternoon session and Secretary ; the General Conference Dr. D. Y.| | of | Monroe of the Central Pennsylvania | Conference, who arrived just in time to tuke charge of his work at the after- noon meeting, called the roll of dele- | gates. After finishing this task Dr. i Monroe asked to make a stafement to the General Conference. ask, he said, to be excused from further service as secretary, not because he |was in feeble health, as had been stated, although he is T1 years old, but for other and sufficient reasons. Dr. Monroe told of his service as secretary, Rev. | D. S. Monroe, D. D., secretary of the! | sible to secure any degree of quiet and | | composure among the delegates and | assignment of the delegates to their | in| order to permit the late arriving dvle-i | gates to make their hotel arrangements | He wanted to. ! eminent New York churchman that he i tcok occasion to express his condemna- itiun of such methods. {‘ SECRETARY IS EL&CTED. “I want to say,” said Dr. Buckley, | pausing for a moment after the flash, | “that Yhe man who did that may be a photographer, but he is ignorant of human pature. I trust that those in charge of this hall will not again per- mit such nerve-racking acts as that without due notice to those present.” “1 shall ask,” said Bishop Andrews, “that the superintendent of the build- ing and the officers of the law pro- tect us from another such shock.” Dr. Buckley's resolutions were adopted unanimously and a copy or- | dered presented to the retiring secre- tary. Nominations for General Conference | secretary being in order, the following names were placed before the confer- ence: Dr. James B. Hingeley of Minnesota; Dr. Stephen O. Benton of the New England Cénference; Dr. E. M. Mills, {Dr. C. C. Townsend of the Northern New York Conference and Dr. E. W. Lane. Three ballots were taken before Dr. Hingeley was selected, the first giving him 146, the second 246 and the third 351 votes. On motion of Dr. Buckley, the rules governing the last General Conference were made the rules of the present conference. The subject of the deaconess’ work, which was brought before the confer- | ence on a motion by Rev. Mr. Brush- | ingham of the Rock River Conference, | stirred up a lively debate that occu- pied more than an hour. Rev. Mr. Brushingham's motion was for a com- mittee on deaconess’ wurk, composed of fifty members, one-half ministers and one-half laymen, three to be ap- pointed by each of the fourteen district conferences, and the remainder by the | Bishops. This was amended by Rev. iDr. Hughes of St. Louis so as to give i the Bishops power to appoint the en- tire membership of the committee. The debate that followed was lively, Dr. Arder of Ohio, Dr. Boyle of Pitts- burg and Dr. Thomas B. Neeley of New York arguing against giving the Bishops the appointive power, while Dr. W. H. Wilder of Illinois!argued | 4 | PREPARING FOR CONVENTION. Republican National Committee Rec- ommends Temporary Officials. WASHINGTON, May 4.—The sub- committee of the Republican National Committee, appointed to make ar- | rangements for the coming natlonal committee, met here to-day for the purpose of completing a preliminary | organization of the convention. | After agreeing that former Secretary {of War Elihu Root would be recom- | mended for temporary chairman, the sub-committee in looking up the prece- | dents found that it had been the cus- tom for the full committee to select the temporary chairman and this- will be done at a meeting which Chairman Payne will call for Chicago June 15. | Charles W. Johnson of Minnesota was agreed upon as general secretary of the convention. The committee also ! agreed to recommend John R. Malloy of Ohio as assistant secretary, seven | other assistant secretaries, including | Walter S. Mellick of California; five reading clerks, a clerk at the presi- | dent’s desk, an official reporter, two tally clerks, a messenger to the chair- man, a sergeant at arms and assistant and a chief of doorkeepers. . All with the exception of Mellick, named as one of the assistant secreta- |ries, are from east of the Missouri River. It was decided that each delegate " to the convention would be apportioned one gallery ticket in addition to the ticket of admission to the floor. A re- port was received from the Central | Traffic Association, saying that a rate iequal to the fare one way for round trip tickets would be made to and from | Chicago, the tickets to be good going from the 16th of June until the 20th | and, returning, good until the 29th. DETROIF, May 4.—James H. Stone, i who to-day was selected for one of the assistant reading clerks of the Repub- lican convention, has been dead for a number of months. He was a promi- nent citizen of this city. [ — | A Great Deal for Very Little. You can g0 to the St. Louls Fair and back for sixty-seven dollars and a half, or to Chi- 4 cago and return for seventy-two fifty, if you buy your ticket next week. Take a berth in one of those newly decorated and upholstered tourist cars of the Union and Southern Pa- anonymous letters. The hearing will g0 on at 10:30 this morning. z - i L S BENSON IS HELD. New York Hearing Against the Land- Owner Is Concluded. | NEW YORK, May 4.—At the con- | clusion_of the preliminary hearing to- | day of John A. Benson, the California landowner, under indictment charges of bribing Federal officials in | Washington and fraudulently obtain- | ing title to Government lands in Cali- i | by Commissioner Shields on a war- | rant of removal. “+ — BRING YOUR WANT AD I THURSDAY, FRIDAY OR SATURDAY. Classified Advertisers in Next SUNDAY CALL RECEIVE FREE—FREE—FREE THE SIX-IN-ONE ICE PICK. Cracks Ice on Scientific Principles. IT SETTLES AN ANNOYING HOUSEHOLD - See Ad on cific. S. F. Booth, Gen, Agt, U. P. R. R | Montgomery street. | o — their effort to find the author of the on fornia and Oregon, Benson was held | ] ATTACKS DENVER TICKET. Senator Patterson Hires a Hall and Denounces the Democrats. DENVER, May 4.—Senator Thomas M. Patterson addressed an audience of 5000 people in Coliseum Hall to-night on “Local Issues From a Democratic Standpoint.” The speech was an as sault upon the local Democratic ticket, which will be voted upon at the city election on May 17. Senator Patter son has repudiated the ticket, charg- ing that the Mayoralty candidate, Robert Speer, is the agent of the cor- porations and that the ticket itself from top to bottom is not Democratic, but “Speer.’” The Senator inveighed against elec- tion frauds, which, he declared, have made the name of Denver “infamous,” and for which he charged Robert W. Speer to be responsible as the ‘“local Democratic boss.”” Senator Patterson personally paid the expenses of to- night's meeting. —_——— BLISS TO SUCCEED HANNA. New York Man Likely to Manage the Republican Campaign. WASHINGTON, May 4.—Cornelius N. Bliss of New York, who dined with the President last night, when Sena- tor Aldrich also was a guest, left for New York this afternoon, after talk- ing to several influential Republican party managers during the day. It is now practically settled that Bliss will very shortly make known his willingness to serve as chairman of the Republican National Commit- tee if the members who are to be elected at the national convention in June should ask him to do so. —_———————— SAN FRANCISCAN WEDS Marriage of Dr. F. E. Ross and Miss Margaret Benton Is a Social Event. PITTSBURG, May 4.—Dr. Frank Ellmore Ross of San Francisco was married this evening to Miss J. Mar- garet Benton at St. Stephen's Epis- copal Church, Sewickley, a suburb. The event was a social affair. The vested choir of sixty voices sang “The Wedding March” as the bridal party A BELLE OF PITTSBURG entered the church. The Rev. Wil- liam Benton, a cousin, officiated and the Rev. Robert Benton, father of the bride, gave her away. John R. Ben- ton of Washington, D. C., a brother of the bride, acted as best man. The couple left for Washington. e —— AMERICAN MINISTER TO 'VISIT KING PETER Will Present His Credentials to Prince Placed Upon a Throne by Regicides. VIENNA, May 4.—Jacobson, the United States Minister to Greece, Rou- mania and Servia, tvill go to Belgrade to-morrow, where he will spend a few days and present his credentials to King Peter. A telegram from Belgrade says that elaborate preparations are being made for King Peter’s coronation June 15, the anniversary of his election to the throne by the Servian Parltament. The coronation will take place at Kosieritza. ) ———— Gold Standard Rejected. : PANAMA, May 4.—The proposal before the Assembly that Panama should adopt the United States gold standard was rejected, after an ex- cited discussion, by 16 votes to 13. The Government and the opposition parties did not act as units. NCE —_— strongly in favor of the substitute. The Hughes substitute was carried by 2 large majority and the committee will be appointed by the Bishops. ADDRESS BY GOVERNOR. Dr. W. F. McDowell of Ohio moved | the appointment of a judiciary com-| mittee, which, he asserted, was very much needed by the general conference to consider the many questions of law that constantly arose. He wished this committee to be composed of one mem- ber from each district conference and three at large, to be named by the Bishops and confirmed by the General | Conference. The resolution prevailed and the first matter that will come before the judiciary committee when it shall have been chosen is the subject of a standing provigion for superannu- ated Methodist ministers. The Episcopal address was made a special order for to-morrow morning at 10:40 o’clock. To-night at Hazard’s Pavilion Gov- ernor George C. Pardee welcomed the General Conference in behalf of the State of Californtf.’ He said: Ladies and Gentlemen: Not all Californians are Methodists: but all Methodists ought to be Californians, for all real Californians are good people, and ail Methodists, being also good people, would make ldeal Californians. Therefore, ladies and gentlemen of the Meth- odist convention, we welcome you to Callfor- nia, the “land of sunshine, fruit and flowers,” r. except, of course Sundays and holidays: the land where one may bathe In the pellueid water of the placid, unvexed Pa- cific_and lunch on strawberries and oranges on New Year's day: the land where the Fourth of July may be celebrated in comfort and with pleasure; the land of the big trees which, liv- ing for thousands of vears beneath our Cali- fornia sun, are irrefut: evidences ‘of our healthful climate: the land of the Yosemite, where one may gaze down five thousand feet into the depths of the ancient glaciers’ mighty furrow and watch the water falling in filmy laces and In milky foam from cliffs that make the gazer's upraised face turn white as he survevs their shuddering heights; the land guarded by the snow-capped Sierras. holding in their arms the heroes of Donner Lake and sentineled by silent and majestic Shasta and mighty Mount Whitnev: the land where alone is possible a Los Angeles a Pasadena. a Red- land= a Riverside now echolng with the bustle of businees. the music of machinery and the whirr of wheels, where, even within the short adult memory of him who stands hefore vou, tha arid acres were peopled only with the wild things of the hill and vlain. where now the orange and the vine. the lemon and the fig tree please the sight as far as eve can reach. WELCOME TO GOLDEN STATE. We welcome you to the land whose 750 | miles of cosst are indented by three great bays, with that of San Franciseo, capable of shelter- ing inland-loeked satety the flested navies of the entire earth the greatest harbor in the world, that hay whereon sits San Franeisco. only eight years older than myself, her well nigh hailf @ milllon of busy people sheltered where but three score vears ago the shifting sand dunes held supreme control and where, looking out- ward through the Golden Gate. the eve of him who reads the oregnsnt future sees the laden srgosies bearing hitherward across the p'acid Pacific the wealth of the land that was the t. but Is now our own Wi shortly shower into our receptive I i land where the great valleya of the | mento and the 8an Joaauin offer tn the genial | | California_sun their fourteen million fertile acres, which soon will neurish millions of happy and contented neaple: the land whose movntains. covered with glorious pines and mighty redwacds, such as no other land has - vielding am millions of the ana_give us vet another name | ate: the land where nature, al- | never eruel to her children, man | s up her willing treasures to him s forward his suit: the land that neath the melting &now responds | niling flowers to gentle winter rains | and snlendid summer suns: the. land that woos | ard laye her magic spell on him who comes Within the influence of her nepenthe air and | sun and nlain 2nd sea Welcome, in a word, to California! And wel- | come, Anubly welcome, through the zates of the great City of the Angels. which like the city built by Aladdin, sprang into being almost in a night! We' welcome California style. for our doors are lockless, standing wide aJ Walk in. we pray you: all we have ls yours. Mayor H. P. Snyder spoke for the city of Los Angeles and told the visit- ing churchmen the city was theirs. For Southern California Rev. John L. Pitner; for the laity, Frederick H Ringe, and for Pacific Coast Methodism Bishop Hamilton bade wel- come to the visitors. Responges were made by Justice Charles G. Lohr, on behalf of the laity, and by Bishop C. C. McCabe for the min you in simple, open-hearted We have no kevs to give yon, HEARST'S MEN | CARRY 10V New Yorker Is Victorious in the State .Convention | and Has a Safe Majority | SESSION 1S TURBULENT — Embittered Speeches Made on Both Sides and| the Rivalry Is Intense | DES MOINES, Iowa, May ¢.—William | R. Hearst swept the field in the Iowa | State Democratic convention held here to-day. He had a majority of more than 150 in the convention and Hearst resolutions were adopted, the Hearst delegations from the contested counties were seated, Hearst delegates were se- lected and the convention was in- structed tb vote as a unit and stands | by Charles Welsh as member of the National Committee. The convention was boisterous, and the orators, of whom there were many | on both sides, were hissed, some O‘i them being driven from the stage. Congressman M. J. Wade, the only Democratic Congressman from Iowa; | J. W. Sullivan, late candidate for Gov- | ernor; M. F. Healy, who came out of | retirement of six years to do it, and others appealed to their party in vain | against instructing. The Hearst people would listen to no | compromise, and Wade and Sullivan | do not appear on the delegation. It is /| headed by J. M. Parsons of Rock| Rapids, the other delegates at large being General James B. Weaver of Colfax, Judge Willlam Carr of Man- chester and 8. H. Wadsworth of Coun- | cil Bluffs, Cries of “bought,” “brass collar,” | “how much did it cost?” met the Hearst speakers whenever they attempted to speak and pandemonium reigned in the convention. | The resolutions adopted were mild. They include a paragraph touching the evils of taxation, etc, and lay ! greatest stress on the trusts, and point | to Willlam R. Hearst as the champion of the anti-trust idea. The trust para- graph is as follows: “Second — That we recognize in the ! predatory trusts the greatest danger | that has ever threatened the life of the nation and the welfare of the people, | and denounce their scheme of levying tribute upon all producers and con- sumers as a modern system of brigandage which, while masquerading under the cloak of the law, in fact makes of law a mockery and justice a farce. In utter disregard of the natural and constitutional rights of the farmer, | the merchant and tke great army of wage earners, trusts have ruthlessly seized upon every branch of production | and distribution until every avenue of | human endeavor is compelled to be at the behests of these conscienceless criminals and pay tribute or cease to exist. | “Third—That we denounce the vicious | tariff system fostered and perpetuated | by the Republican party under which the trusts have been born, bred, fat- | tened and multiplied ‘until they | have every industrial interest by the throat, and we demand the repeal of | every tariff which denies ‘equal oppor- tunities for all*™ | Are| | o BOTH SIDES CON Rival Dt‘ln?(’l‘all(' Factions Claim Con- trol of Washington Convention. SEATTLE, Wash., May 4.—The Democratic State Convention will meet in Olympia to-morrow to elect a gdel gation of ten to attend the Demeocratic National Convention in St. Louis. The | only serious fight that will occur in the convention will be the struggle of | the Hearst men to control the naming of the delegation to St. Louis and to indorse Hearst. It is not yet decided | 1 NFIDENT. | | | HEARST BOOM 1S REFRESHED Prediction That the". Sar{ta Cruz Convention Will Give Instruetion to Delegates B3, IS IN OLYMPIA —_— TARPEY Bernard D. Murphy Rest'iug From His Arduous Work at the Monticello Club e At Hearst headquarters in the Grand Hotel it is estimated that not more than 100 of the 723 delegates to the Democratic State convention at Santa Cruz will oppose the resolution in- structing the California drh’gflllul! to support Hearst in the National Con- vention. The estimate is based on the result of Tuesday's election in the cities where the primary election law is mandatory, and on the returns of appointment made by county com- mittees in localities where the primary law is not compulsory. In several counties, meetings to elect or appoint delegates will be held next Saturday. The Califernia delegation to the Democratic National Conventlon will consist of twenty members, four at large and two from each Congres- sional district. There is nothing, how- ever, in the case of the national com- mittee to compel the recognition of Congressional districts in the selection of delegates. The entire delegation may be taken from one county or one Congressional district, but of course locality will be recognized on the broad ground of common fairness. No one is yet slated or widely men- tioned for chairman of the Santa Cruz convention. J. F. Coonan of Hum- boldt and David S. Ewmg of Fresno have had experience in handling con- ventions. Isadore Dockweiler of Lous Angeles and Thomas J. Geary of S noma are against instruction for Hearst, M. F. Tarpey of Alameda, the organ- izer of the Hearst forces on the Pa- cific Coast, is now at Olympia, Wash- ington. Bernard D. Murphy, chairman of the Democratic State Central Com- mittee, was at the Monticello Club last night. NAPA REPUBL 'ANS MEET. Name Men Who Are to Represent Them at State Convention. NAPA, May 4.—The Republican county convention met herq to-day and elected the following delegates to the State convention to be held at Sacramento C. A. Carvoll, J H. Stever, A. N. Bell, Dr. W. L. Blod- gett, G. W. Strohl, W. J. Lindow, W H. Corlett, S. Hennessey, F. W Bush and A. Brown. Resolutions were adopted indorsing Theodore Roosevelt for President, approving the State administration, indorsing Gov- ernor Pardee for delegate at large the national Republican convention, indorsing Duncan McKinlay of Santa Rosa for Congressman from the Sgc- ond Distriet and favering the re-elec- tion of Senator Corlett and Assembly- man King to the Legislature. ———————— Japan Purchases Locomotives. TACOMA, Wash, May 4.—Seven larg> railway locomotives are being loaded on the steamship Tremont a. this port destined for Japan. It is said the engines are for use on the new railroad in Korea. L P whether the Hearst men will attempt to instruct the delegation to vote for Hearst, as some of the Hearst leaders would be satisfied with an expression that showed a friendly interest in hi candidacy. Control of the convention is claimed by both the Parker and Hearst fac- ticns. ADVERTISBMENTS. “Bock’s Reciproci 9 2 for 25 cents IMPORTED HAVANA A Direct Result of the Passage of the Cuban Reciprocity ‘Bill ASK YOUR DEALER TO SHOW THEM TO YOU Now for sale In all First-Class Claar Stores, ASK FOR “Bock’s Reciprocity” 2 for 25 cents unmwhfiuhhffi.h