Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-11
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store-keepers, clerks and Others who can
not spare the time of evenings. No plan
/, could have been devised more likely to put
the PARTY machinery into the hands OF
professional politicians, and exclude from
participation in primary roiiii.s the re-
spectacle, thinking, tax-paying element OF
the community. Seeing the ease with
which Mr.. Buckley controlled the Demo-
| cratic primaries through the clubs, Mr..
Higgins was led to adopt the plan
also, and having in the Republican
| COUNTY Committee enough adherents to
force his scheme through, he saddled
the Republican party with club in each
Assembly district, which was given the
power to elect delegates TO all Conven-
tions. Mr. Higgins made short work of
controlling the clubs. He had the County
Committee which named the enrolling Off
GERS and issued the charters, and care was
taken that nowhere but in the big indie
pendent Thirteenth District should any
opposition to Higgins be allowed to rule.
PROTESTS AGAINST sTUFFING And BULL
DOING
Were made in plenty, but Mr.. Higgins
County Committee always ruled in favor
of the hoss's crowd, and so when the time
came to put up municipal Convention,
Higgins had captured it all except about
thirty-tive delegates. He did not do this
unaided. He had assistance from Buckley
and Rainey, the latter loaning whole
bodies Of Democratic freemen to vote at
the Republican primary. 1t was a sham
and fraud Adherents Of Higgins had
charge Of the rolls and the ballot-boXes,
and when it was too much trouble to vote
suffers, ballots were counted in by the
handful. Not man went on the Higgins
ticket till he was pledged to vote the slate
for all time. Then having the Conven-
ton, Higgins and Cannon in back room
of the Mint saloon, with DIR. May and
Jake Stippacher as assistants and advisers,
prepared the slate. Higgins had sense
enough to see that he must enlist some
outside interest or his ticket would be
beaten So he went to Claus Spreckels
and, to hatter him, offered to let him name
man or two. Higgins would gladly have
taken Blake for Mayor, but Blake was too
vacillating in his note of acceptance to
the boss, and when Spreckels accepted
Captain Merry, at Higgins prompting,
THE BOSS WAS HUGELY PLEASED.
He had got his man, and got Spreckcs
into the fight also. Then Higgins played
at battledore with the Sheriff''s office.
First it was Sedgwick and then Patterson,
and when it had become certain that Sedg-
III l,a Do
given the place Wadham was put on
the slate for Auditor and Ruddick for Tax
Collector; but Badlam, Higgins and few
Others changed their minds, and forsooth at
at the eleventh hour Wadham was told
he could be Tax Collector. RuddicS was
shelyed altogether, and Stone put up for
Auditor, and Higgins willing tools in the
Convention voted as they were told, chang
ing the programme at wave of the boss
hand. The Convention absolutely had no
Will of its own. Mr. Higgins, for freak,
ordered weeks halt, after judicial nomi-
nations were made. \ halt was taken.
As if Mr.. Higgins and his friends had lost
all care to hide their proceedings from the
public, a scene occurred in the Convention
last Tuesday which
GAVE THE MACHINE RULE AWAY
So openly that a Hottentot not three
weeks in this country could understand it.
The independent minority wanted Super
yisors nominated in certain way. Chair
man Machin, Higgins man, ruled the plan
out of order. Three minutes later Dave
Mcclure, a Higgins man, moved the adop-
ton of the same plan. The point is well
TAKEN" said deputy boss Machin, and in
stantly the plan previously ruled out of
order was adopted No wonder that the
Independent minority left the hall in dis
gust Higgins owned the Convention; now
let us see what he did with his power In
the Thirty-second District he had nomi-
mated for the Legislature Joseph Franklin,
alias Joe Franklin, alias Frenchy, sailor
boarding house runner of the average i'll
repute of that notorious class of men. Take
another instance. In the Thirty-third
District the man chosen for County Com
mitteeman to perpetuate the Higgins rule
is Paul II. Bediger, who used to pull an
oar in the quarantine boat, and is
NOTORIOUS CoCK-FIGHTER
And dog-fghter. Strangely enough, Buck
lev names Il sailor boarding-ho house man
from the same district for the Legislature,
so the public has no choice of evils. If
one wanted evidence of collision between
Buckley and Higgins in making their
states, the ticket would show it. In every case
where Higgins has put up a plant tool,
Buckley has put up one of the same kind
to run against him so that, no matter
how much scratching is done, the bosses
secure the man. For Sheriff, Buckley puts
up a slloon-keeper, of accustomed pliancy,
one Pete Hopkins. zgainst him Higgins
rams Patterson. can vouch COR it that
Higgins can get favors from Hopkins and
Buckley from Patterson, 50 what do they
care if the people do scratch? Buckley
puts up Jim Flynn, Il sort Of half-decent
striker, plasterer by trade, and ex-
Secretary of the Sand-lot, for County
Clerk. Against him Higgins runs petty
fellow, who never owned Il rod of land i'll
his life, one Louis Jacobs. For Superin-
tendent of Streets, Buckley renominates
his old tool, Louney, and Higgins his old
tool, Charley Ruggles.
VOTE AND TAKE YOUR CHOICE
The public be id says Higgins
g il they scratch Ruggles, we have Louney."
TO h with the public says Buck
ley; il they scratch Lonuey, we have
Ruggles"
For Coroner Buckley has his facile tool,
! Livingstone, and Higgins his facile tool,
Lawler. Either are the same to the bosses,
and they don't care which one is elected
suppose this is all right in the eyes of
boss politicians, but | notice the public is
growing FESTIVE. They are only too eager
to vote for Il taxpayers ticket If good men
are put on it, but the chances for that are
not favorable. If looks as if the tax payers
now gathering were in the Endorsement
business. More of this anon.
OBSERY ER.
An Editor insulted.
Editors have to put up with all manner
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