Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-16

u consideration; and VINO more poteut 70
aid his cause-for coin-than the cadets"
Rangers" Iegions" or "Guards?" They
are massed together, work in unison, and
have at least the appearance oil strength.
OH, THIS UNIFORMED ARMY
Is fine thing. 1t is organized by poll
tician, equipped at the cost OF a candidate,
given arms and munitions OF war and
turned loose to pray on community, with
full power to pocket all the loot 1t gathers,
either of cash or of office.
While everything on the surface OF the
municipal fight appears smooth and pleas
ant, there is war going on; revolution IN
each party against the bosses who assume
to control In the Democratic party the
forty-seven clubs elect delegates who put
I'D all tickets. Now the forty-seyen clubs
have about 7 900 names enrolled, of which
perhaps $500 are suffers, non-residents,
professional politicians and Republicans
These all vote one way, represent one ele-
ment and easily control the clubs. They
may be divided into three patches: Four
hundred of them are the personal follow
ers of Chris Buckley, hangers-on to his
saloon and occasional workers IN non
clerical political places, for many of them
cannot write Every one OF them Is on
| two or three club rolls, or has dummy
name or names which he votes in different
clubs, so this 400 represents 200 votes at
a moderate estimate.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT CROWD,
Under the leadership of Sam. Rainey,
with the aid of fictitious names and APP
pearance on two or more rolls, count about
| 200 more, and the remaining | 100 are
the municipal employees and the bogus
names they represent. 1t is simple
proposition in arithmetic: Four hundred
| loafers or less, 400 firemen or less, 400 City
| Hall clerks and street men, multiply them
selves by three or four, elect club Presl-
dents and Secretaries and examining COM
mittees, and by controlling the clubs con-
troll all the nominating Conventions as
fully as if the whole Convention was one
man. and that man Chris Buckley. Mr..
| Buckley does not own the whole 200
his personal following is less than 400, but
| he has Sam. Rainey and the fire depart
ment 400 for 4 partner, and IL thus IN a
good position to make combinations with
the 400 City Hall employees. To begin
with, he owns poor Tim Lowney, decent,
honest man, bv the way, and that gives
him the use of the street department force.
\ lie is at outs with the House of Correction,
| Shear having gone over to the Carroll
Murphy combination. Assessor Holtz,
having four years Of power, ignores him.
| Recorder Bryan is his staunch friend. The
| Tax Collector is cold, and the Supervisors,
all of whom want to be either Mayor or
Tax Collector, will do his bidding in all
things. Sesnon and the County Clerks
crowd are against Buckley, and thereby
hangs a tale. Sesnon was a sort of
LEADER AMONG THE DECENT HOoDLUMs,
Who composed the Howard Club and as
sumed to control things in the Eleventh
! Senatorial District, but beyond that had no
power. He was a legislative candidate,
and besides him the Howard Club had a
regular independent legislative slate, free
from Buckley's control. Buckley, who is
! a polite man, did not care about this; was
willing. in fact, to let the district run itself
but Greathouse of the Examiner, and Bill
! English went to him and demanded that
! the legislative candidates from the Elev-
enth should be named by them. Hearst's
senatorial candidacy had to be looked after
and they wanted control of the Legislature
| for certain railroad measures. Buckley
reluctantly consented to interpOse, and
with Greenhouses slate in his hand wen;
| down and asked the Eleventh District to
break their slate and substitute his. TIC
say that
TIE HOWARD CLUB KICKED"
| Would be to use an expression totally in
adequate to represent the situation, and at
last, TO placate them, Buckley was forced
by Greathouse TO give Sesnon the nomi-
nation for County Clerk, and in exchange
the Howard Club adopted Greathouse's
legislative slate. But Buckley and Rainey
in the meantime had got from Sesnon a
pledge that they should name his clerks
! and deputies, and the thrifty Sesnon had
| further told the Howard Club that in re-
turn for their support they should name
his su6Ordinates. GrcathOuse and Eng
fish got their Assemblymen and Senators
who were nominated and elected to a
man, and ever since the extra session the
Examiner has been busily engaged in call
ing them traitors, recreants, and other pet
names, because they did not care to ac-
knowledge Greenhouses power TO control
all their votes. Sesnon, finding the Office
fewer than his promises, failed to
keep any Of them, and it is openly
asserted about the City Hall that he sold
every deputyship in his gift, and certain il
is that since he has been in the Office his
real estate purchases exceed in amount his
total salary. Buckley and Rainey and the
Howard Club were all left in the cold, and
the other partners to the job Of controlling
nominations and fixing slates-(ireath
and English-do not appear to have Jared
much better, if their public squeals express
their private feelings. Mr.. Greathouse
may deny his share in the job, but Mr.
Buckley viii not, for Mr. Buckley rather
pridcS himself on his truthiulness, and this
| is a matter Of such common nOtorietY
among the boys that he would not be 50
foolish as 10 deny it. This depression
about Sesnon has led me away from the
! purpose OF showing the combinations with
which Buckley works-hjs own 400
Raincy's 400, and share Of the Office
holders 400. Except in rare cases respect
able people have been driven nut of the
clubs, hence there is no hope for q change,
and the Democrats who do not want Buck
! ley, English, Greathouse and the rest OF
that little clique TO use the party Is though
they owned it, are on the
RAGGED EDGE OF REVOLT,
And if there are not two conventions and
two tickets, many respectable Democrats
have promised to give the bosses 8 lesson
by voting the Republican ticket, and this
Is no open threat, but quiet talk. On the
other hand, Republican losses arc so much
like the Democrats in their ways that nu-
merous OBJECTIONS may he expected from
their ranks, if it does not get 50 far as two
Republican conventions. There are not
wanting those who say that the RepubIi-
can and Democratic bosses have allied
themselves Tor the purpose of carrying out
q contract to put up Spring Valley
Mayor and Board Of Supervisors, and it
is fact that most of the Demo
cratic fremeu and suffers have put
their names upon the rolls OF
the Republican clubs, so that, with some
slight exception, the same men will posi-