The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-02-01
SAY TEaNCIsco,s ExCREsCEScEs.

4Lr. a. T. Sgotts Mr. James c. NealOn,
lr goau Y DouElerty and other Survivors
II tLe buckley wreck are bUsiiy engaged in
aolelvoIing o. heal the breach 10 the Demo
crate party iU lHis city and county with a
y.ee to the recaptlre Of the Offices next
fail At the same time Nj. Gavin McNab
and other Democrats who have been kick
ing iu tie traces fer two or three years pro-
pose to ignore TIE County Committee and
confer lie power Of nominating candidates
upon new Democratic junta, brushed up
and curryc0mbed and warranted to be gen.
tie and kind in single or double harness
Between the two factions the battle RACES
Eerce and hot The Spots faction calls the
McNaU faction a gang Of irresponsible sore
heads, while the McNabs Tetort that the
SPOTS people are nothing but bOHs on the
Democratic back. The people look on with
an amused air and wonder if both parties
ara right
Tie predicament in which the city Dem
ocracy finds itself is depIorable It's leader
is in exile, and whereas fidelity to him was
little while ago tie test Of sound Democracy,
he is row the most trusted Democrat who is
his most bitter enemy. People at large do
not understand such rapid conversions. In
.
pateuce from lis disgrace, nothing hap
pCued except what the public generally be-
iiev5d, crystallized into sworn statement
AtlLe time when Spots, Nealon. Dougherty,
Eairey G Schmitt took their orders from
Buckley with abject obedience. he was
suspected by the public and he was known
Iy bis friends to be TObbing corporations,
selling franchises and acting as a broker in
r-r+ D. &c frr1f
did Lot dare to dispute bis commands They
now appeal TO city Democrats to sustain
item IN tie position Of controllers Of the
party, On the grounds that Buckley has gone,
that they have turned over a new leaf, and
that the lamp still holds out to burn. The
utmost that they will cOncede is an offer to
dilute their politics with one part of the
opponents Of Buckleyism, and these people
pretend to understand the people.
Tie politicians who are taking time by
tie forelock in drills for the fall campaign
are wasting their breath. This year the
people intend to take hand in the cleo
tons; and, thus far, they do not observe
anything IN the preparations of the party
managers which inclines them TO delegate
their sovereignty to any Of them. 1t may
be that McNab & Co. would be an improve
firm If CTimmins, Kelly & De Young would
be better political bosses than the late Nj
Higgins. But nothing that has thus far
transpiTed encourages any such expectation.
There has been a change Of names that Is
all. The OLD spirit survives, with the same
cid aim-boCdle. and the same old methods
bribery and corruption. There is as yet
not The slightest reason for believing that
the public interest or the public welfare
would lie benefited by a swap Of a gang Of
old bosses for a gang Of new bosses bred in
the same school.
The power Of the public 70 make itself
felt in politics is derided by professional
politicians because the puUIic is 50 hard
to rouse, aud because it is SO difficult
10 prevent nOn-party movements falling
under the control Of party bosses Bat
there are occasions on which the public can
lie reused. and Efforts TO bottle them up can
be defeated tits believed that this is one
OF them. Ont Of tie profound discourage
ment which beiell the people Of San Fran
cisco hen the late reform movement was
knocked out By the Supreme Court at the
instigation Of the Southern Pacific. a feel
ing has arisen that the life of the city re-
quTes a general uprising against Doodle.
Il is a feeling that will not evanesce. II
will endure until some results have been
attained. il viii probably take shape in a
new organization, equally opposed 20 Demo
cratic Doodle and TO Republican knavery,
and there is every reason to hope that il
will be engineered with such prudence that
it can Tetain-at least for a couple Of cleo
tions-its independence Of bosses and cor
pOTatjOns