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Society aid alone witliout reconimendatioii. He liad favored the 

 State jtayinj^' tiie debt, and Imd always been and now was a friend of 

 tlie Society. 



liy tins time niucb feeling bad been made manifest, and it was 

 witb great dilliiiilty tbat tbc Cliair couKl keq) order; indeed, order 

 had ceased to be tbe rule. 



J. J. (Jreen nominated Mr. Finnepm. of San Francisco, for tbe 

 sbort term. 



J. T. Carey nominated Mr. Finnegan for tbe long term, whereat 

 the disorder broke into open confusion, and a babel of cries and 

 shouts went up and a do/.i-n men struggled for tbe floor, while tbe 

 Chairman hammered bis desk constantly, and eaUed for order, with- 

 out tbe slightest ell'ect. The nominations were now do.'^ed. 



A motion to adjourn till ten o'clock ^\'ednesday, .January twenty- 

 ninth, caused a stoi'm of ci'ies of " No, no, no,"' and " Yes, yes,'' to 

 break forth, and on the vote being taken, .scores of men gesticulated 

 frantically, and yelled, and shouted like mad. There were motions 

 to reconsider tbe order closing the nominations, ealls for division, 

 motions to adjourn, and motions to go to ballot for all four Directors 

 at once, a similar motion to the latter having already prevailed. 

 Tliereuiton anotber storm V)roke Cortb. and the assenddage roared 

 and .shouted in the most astonisbing and tempestuous manner, while 

 a score of men franticallv yelled " Division," "Adjournment," " Vote," 

 "Mr. President," " No bulldosing," "What's the matter with you," 

 etc., mingled with shouts and yells tbat would have disgraced a ward 

 meeting of the hottest kind. 



Messrs. Haymond, Hancock, AVilliam John.'^on, J. J. (Jreen, liul- 

 lard, Higgs, lioruck, and others tried to pour oil on the tr(»ubled 

 waters, but it only took lire, and tbe sea of wrangling men but 

 blazed the more furiously. J. T. Carey at last got tlie floor and 

 made a long speech in favor of Mr. Finnegan, and then, after the 

 lull, the storm broke out afresh. A dozen men surrounded tbe 

 President to advise him, while tbe crowd grew more unruly than 

 ever. Tbe singularity of it all was that the Convention was com- 

 posed fjuite largely of citizens of middle age, and of iniusually staid 

 demeanor. \'arious attempts to settle a disi)Ute as to whether Mr. 

 Finnegan was in nomination for the short or the long term were 

 made amidst the wildest confusion. Finally the Cbair held Mr. Fin- 

 negan was in nomination lor both positions. J\. S. Carey spokc^ from 

 the ])latform, and urgetl MV. l"'innegan for the long term. He was 

 interrujtted frequently, and rousing from a brief respite the as.sem- 

 blage entered u])on anotber scene of confusion and uproar, 'i'bo 

 Chair and several s]»eakers besought tbe members to j>ause, think, 

 and act like men, and not di.sgrace themselves, but lieated blood pre- 

 vailed and tbe confusion went on about motions and i»oints of order, 

 yells, cries, ebci-rs, and roars Ijcing interjected, each side trving to 

 outvote the other by loudness in vociferating "aye" or " no." l'"inally 

 Jerome C. Davis got a motign to a<ljourn until morning before the 

 body, and it was voted down. Senator .Murphy, Judge Welty, J. J. 

 (Jreen, Cree<l Haymond, M. D. Boruek, and others spoke for i)eace, 

 but with little elfect. J. T. Carey at last got on the stage, but the 

 assemblage refused to hear him. Finally, after over an liour of 

 wrangle, tbe meeting voted by a very large majority to jirocced with 

 the election, and reconsidered tbe order made to vote for the four 

 Directors at one time — Honorable William John.son, of Ivichland, 



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