The morning call., 1893-06-07
POPPER DEFEATED
His Own District Knocks
Him Out.
No DOVE OF PEACE WANTED
j. j. O'Byrne Gets the Place on the
Committee-Treacy and Har-
ney to Contest.

Max Peppers desire to assume the lead.
ership of the local Democracy has met with
a backset.
His attempt to become member of the
general committee from the Thirty fifth
has been thwarted. His enemies outnum-
bered his friends in that district, and
Colonel }. j. O'Byrne was elected over
Pepper last night.
This defeat will be sorely felt by Pop.
per. who has staked all and made des-
perate fight to become boss of the divided
Democracy. He was urged for this place
by his friends and was looked upon as the
white dove of peace that would unite the
turbulent factions of the clamorous Dem-
ociacy, but when he announced himself as
a candidate for the leadership his oppo-
nents, who were disposed to let him re-
main in peace as the fgurehead OF the
State Committee. pounced upon him with
all the rancor they had shown toward o other
Democrats who have posed for martyr
dom. They organized against him, and
his friends and the members of the gen.
eral committee were as little disposed to
have him for leader as TO have any leader.
He who poses as a leader is an Ishmaelte,
his hand turned against every one, and
every ones hand turned against him. The
local Democracy wants no white dove of
peace" and when Pepper appeared as
such he was incOntinently plucked. This
was done in most elegant form last night
in the Thirty-hfth. Peppers own district
Last Saturday night the general commit
tee held a meeting, at which Pepper 5
candidacy was mooted by lis friends and
booted by his enemies. He was not yet a
memb ber of the general committee, but he
had hopes of becoming so. His own dis
trict was unTepresented and of course he
could become member. He had only to
secure the chairmanship OF the committee
his becoming member would follow after
as the day follows the night.
Only it did not.
His enemies in the committee succeeded
in getting postpOnement for two weeks.
This would prevent any action in the
general committee and leave the dove
killers to concentrate their efforts on the
Thirty-1fth. This they did, with the re-
suit that Pepper has been defeated so
overwhelmingly that he will have hardly
show OF becoming member of the gen.
eral committee. much less its chairman.
Yesterday was most busy day for
Peppers opponents who held innumeraple
conferences. They were bound to knock
him out, not that they have a strong can
didate in his place, but that Peppers
policy and peaceful procivities were OBJ
jectlonable. Poppar's opponent, his chief
competition for the job of bossing the local
Democracy, is Mr.. Treacy. Pepper has
another opponent in the person of Major
Harney. who is backed by ex-Judge Sulli-
van.
1t seems that the anti Pepper element in
the Tnlrty-fifth District found au easier
way out of the difficulty, however.
A meeting was called of the committee
in the Tbirty-hfth last night, and after a
stormy time the matter was terminated
BY the election of J. j. O'Byrne TO fill the
only vacancy existing in the committee
membership.
Thus tho anti-Popper men have spiked
the first gun Of the enemy. and it will now