The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-30
CONTENTION SORE.
North Beach Democrats
Are Divided.
1T IS A HOPELESS BREACH.
Two Factions of the Forty-Fourth
District Committee Fighting
Over the Spells.

Hopelessly divided upon the question OF
selecting one of the eighteen deputies fol
Tax Collector Block seems to be the Forty
fourth District Democratic Committee.
Mr.. Blocks deputies are to start at work
next Tuesday. but there will probably be
only seventeen OF them.
One faction of the Democrats at North
Beach has already chosen man for the
position, John c. Burke. He received
fourteen votes at a meeting on the 9Th, but
the other faction. headed by Otto Keeper,
wants Louis Coleman. So, Thursday night
a meeting was to have been held in Der.
saglieri Hall to chose Mr.. Coleman. A few
of the faithful did gather and Chair
man Max Pepper Of the general comm ittee
held down the chair, but as there was NO
quorum present, an indefinite adjourn.
ment had to be taken without action,
despite the eagerness TO have something
done which was manifested by Leopold V.
Merle, the popular president of the
1roquois Club. There were eleven men,
bers of the committee. however, who would
agree upon MIR. Coleman, it was found. and
there the matter stands: Burke IA, Cole
man II. as the result of the separate meet
ings. at different times, of the two bellig-
erent factions of this committee OF twenty
i've stalwArts.
Mr. Merle found the occasion an oppor-
tune one to inquire if there were not some
charges 10 be read against two of the
members OF the opposing faction, namely,
Z. w. Pope, ex-C0unty Chairman, and j.
+. Winter for having consented to the use
of their names upon the LOng-Green
ticket. These charges, he said, were
drafted last Tuesday. and he asked why
Messrs. Pope aud Winters were not pres
ent to answer them. No satisfactory
reply could be drawn from the disap-
pointed party workers.
But the matter of choosing a deputy
clerk for Mr.. Block, in accordance with
the dlctum OF the general committee at
the METROPOLITAN Hall assem- blage, and the
trial of MesSTs. Pope aud Winter under
the urgent pressure of Mr.. Merle, are not
the only things that are tending to dislnte-
CRATE the FOrty-fourth District committee
.. NJ. GOldaracena's running for School
Director upon The NOn-PaTtiSan ticket and
his resignation from the committee and
the subsequent selection by his friends of
Abraham Coleman to fill his place, are
otfenses which can hardly be forgiven.
Mr.. Pope heads the faction which now
claims to be the regulars" aud the
throwing out of the committee by him and
his friends of George B. GillCn and
John P. Mccormick for removing their
residence from the district and elect
ing as their successors Thomas Maxwell
and A. DecOurileuX was bitter dose for
the Keeper faction. If, however Keepers
friends are in the minority in the district
committee il is said by their opponents
that they succeed admirably with The gen.
eral committee through Max Pepper and
Andy" Clunie, whose influence is pro-
nOunced hypnotic. and the outcome of it
all is that the names of Messrs Maxwell
and Decourtieux have been tabled and
TEraEn r4 n Ill.
Kept on theilist by the general committee.
ms, Of course, along with the tabling of
be" ColemRa's name, makes differ
eIce OF three members In the personnel of
the committee, either way. dependent
upon " hichevar point of view 1t is looked
at. Therefore. each of the factions claims
a working majority Of the committee. LII
Messrs. Gllon and Mccormick were pres
eDt the Keeper faction would seem 10 have
q majority, but if. on the other hand, Messrs.
Maxwell and Decourtieux should appear
instead, the Pope faction would be supe-
TiOr in numbers. The trouble is, however,
that the factions manage to meet on differ
ent nights and in different places.
Apropos of the epleied eXchequer of the
Mohawk Club which caused all the trouble
with that organization, as the member of
the Carlisle CLUB say. the following is a
age and draw an aggregate OF S1700 a
month: NJ c. haley. County Clerk, 1888
a month; J. j. began, deputy county
clerk, $50; George Dabovich, deputy
county clerk, $50; John Mahoney, police
court clerk Judge Conlan's couri). $500;
Henry Barbee. assistant superintendent of
the House of Correction, 500; George
Seakamp, deputy sheriff. $3.50; Bernard
Kiliilea. eommissary of the County Jail,
S125; Henry Manke. clerk in the Tax Col
lector's Office, 500; Daniel Rodgers. Su-
peTvisor, 500; Dan CapuTro, tender at the
Fonrtf-street bridge $50; j. Catania. gar
dener at Washington square, SIS; Patrol
Driver Josephs, at the new City Hall, $50
John CosgroVe, laborer at the Custom
house, SIC.
One Of these servants of the people, j.
Catania. is now a strong Pope symDa-
tbZer.
''The whole trouble in the district-all
this dissensioD," says Mr.. Pope. sis the
result of the nnblushing way in which the
other side secured control of the primaries
for Jack Fay and against Tim Mccarthy
at the last election, and struck off about
200 good Democrats from the rolls
1t Is all because of that ungrateful man,
Senator Fay" says Gardener Catania.
There are some people who are able TO
hypnotize the general committee" is MIR.
G0idafacena's explanation.
"0h, 1t is the old Fire Department-the
old Cleveland Fire Brigade" contem ptu-
ouslv observes L. Y. Merle, supporter of
Mr.. Keeper. And so IL goes.