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FACTIONS AND FUSIONS. 819
the legislature the convention should select men of
the "highest capacity, purest integrity, and most de*
voted loyalty;" that they should be left unpledged
and free in regard to senatorial perferences; and that
in selecting delegates to the state convention, and in
the choice of a county committee the same principles
should be observed. But when they came to meet
the boys and the long and short hairs in convention
at Sacramento, the independents were not recognized,
and withdrew. The moral effect of their presence
was not altogether lost, and the convention performed
its duties in a manner leaving nothing to complain of
except the defeat of a proposition from James M.
McShafter to vote on the question of primaries or no
primaries at the next general election.
S. W. Sanderson was renominated for supreme judge,
and elected by a majority of 6,000 over H. H. Hartley,
but only such candidates of the people's union
party, represented by the independents, as had great
strength personally, were elected this vear, and in
1867 the sceptre passed away completely, since which
time primaries and bosses have ruled the hour in the
metropolis. Between factions and fusions the political
muddle was often unintelligible. In San Francisco,
in 1865, the boys, or short hairs, fused with the democrats;
in Sacramento they did the same, but there
was, nevertheless, a working majority of union members
in the legislature, 1 which performed some good
l Coon'i Annals of 8. F.f MS., 27. •
•The state senators elected in 1865 were Henry Robinson, Alameda; G.
W. Seaton, Alpine and Amador; J. W. Freeman, Fresno and Tulare; P.
Banning, Los Angeles; A. L. Tubbs, William J. Shaw, J. 8. Hagcr, S. F.;
P. W. Murphy, JSta Barbara and San Luis Obispo; W. J. Knox, Sta Clara;
L. E. Pratt, Sierra; E. Wadsworth, Siskiyou; L. B. Mizner, Solano and
Yolo; George Pearce, Sonoma; E. Teegarden, Sutter and Yuba. S. P.
Wright, a hold-over senator from Klamath, Humboldt. and Del Norte, was
chosen pres't. Ihe sec. elected was John White, asVt sec. Charle* \V. Gordon,
clerks Martin Rowan, W. F. Heustis, Albert Hart, M. E. Gelston, E.
B. Edson, Bart. Morgan; sergts-at-arms, John Moran, James I^ane.
The assembly was composed of John L. Wilson, Thomas En pan, Alameda;
Miner Frink jr, Harvey Lee, Alpine and Amador; W. P. Tilden, George E.
Smith, Butte; Isaac Ayres, M. M. Collier, N. G. Sawyer, Calaveras; William
S. Long, Coluaa and Tehama; F. A. Brown, Contra Costa, L. H. Murch,