Show INSTRUCTING DELEGATIONS The question of instructed or uninstructed unin-structed delegations to S1 Louis is receiving re-ceiving considerable attention The San Francisco Call of Friday has an article in which it discusses the question ques-tion at length I is against a pledged delegation from California and assigns as-signs two reasons for being so the first being that an unpledged delegation would most faithfully represent the prevailing sentiment of the California The other reason Is that i would be more able than a pledged delegation The first reason is a valid one and entitled to the consideration of all interested in-terested Pf the other we cannot judge We ao not see any particular force In the argument that it Is clear that only an unpledged delegation can truly represent all Republicans of Cali fornia because a delegation pledged to a particular candidate would be antagonistic to all others and the great mass of the voters of the party in this state are net opposed to any one of the illustrious leaders who have been named a candidates for the presidency presi-dency At some stage of the proceedings proceed-ings a delegation must oppose some candidate or so distribute its vote that all the candidates get 3 vote apiece while it gets nothing but contempt for so doing This question of pledged or unpledged delegations is assuming more and more importance When the New Jersey Republican Re-publican convention met the other day Senator Sewell boldly declared that he would not go to St Louis as a pledged j delegate and the consequence I the i > C delegation goes unpledged In theN the-N w Jersey convention it was attempted at-tempted to pledge the delegation to McKinley Its failure showed that the sentiment for him is not so strong as it was He is no surer of nomination nomina-tion at St Louis two months before the convention meets than Blaine was in 1876 The New York Evening Post says Blaines defeat was foreshadowed when the Massachusetts Republican state convention elected as delegates atlarge R H Dana Jr E R Hoar John I Forbes and President Chad bourne of Williams college and adopted this resolution That this convention leaves the delegates dele-gates of Massachusetts to the Republican Re-publican national convention unpledged and uninstructed in respect of Individual vidual candidates for president and vicepresident of the United States but expects and requires them each and all to work and al vote for those candidates and those only whose character and career give unquestionable unques-tionable assurance to the whole country that they will be faithful and zealous to maintain the equal rights of all citizens under the constitution to bring about the resumption of specie payments at a day not later than that already fixed by law and to effect a thorough and radical reform in the civil service to the end that the administration ad-ministration of public affairs may be characterized by efficiency efcencr economy and purity The growing sentiment in the Republican Re-publican party in favor of unpledged delegations and the increasing demand for a cleancut declaration on the money question with no straddles may j i I foreshadow the defeat of McKinley at St Louis I I I |