The morning call., 1893-06-16
POPPER is PAPA.
Democrats Select Him as
Local Leader.
TREACY is SHOWED UNDER.
There Is Fight for the Secretarysllip
i'm Which Assemblynlan
Cusick Leads.

The struggle for the lead ership of the local
Democratic party is at an end. At last
nights meeting of The general committee
matters were forced to an issue and the
Maguire-Treacy forces were completely
showed under.
The meeting was not as turbulent as
were the ones of last week, but then it
must not be supposed that it was a quiet
affair by any means.
CatcallS. Kisses, cheers and hoots were
placed strongly in evidence and almost
every man who attempted to say IA word
was made the butt of omebody's joke.
Then there were few little disturb
ances that came very near terminating in
fist fights.
OF course the delegates from the Forty
first District took part in one. 1t was, as
usual, over the seating of some people in
contested seats. The spectators also tried
hand at Quarreling. and met with some
success.
One enthusiastic admirer Of Mr.. Pepper,
while endeavorlng to cheer for his favorite,
accidentally brought his hat In contact
with neighbor's eye. In all probability
the man with the hat does not know even
now just who hit him.
Then there were the usual number of
fights in the co rridors and on the street. but
they were only small affairs and hardly
worthy of note.
Before the meeting was called to order
many attempts at forming com binations
were made by Treacy and Harney, who
fully realized that their chances OF success
were very slim. First an endeavor was
made TO combine the factions on Harney.
but u Jailed. Then an endeavcr was made
10 bring Colonel O'Byrne into the struggle
and have all the other men pull out. The
colonel was perfectly willing. but the Pop
per people would not listen to the PROPOSE
ton.
Then, as a last resort, Harney was
taken out of the fight. and his followers
were advised to vote for Treacy, but this
they absolutely refused to do. as the re-
suit of the ballot shows. There were $50
votes cast, and OF these Pepper received
nearly so per cent.
1t was thought that upon the conclusion
of the tight for chairman secretary to
succeed Mr.. Daniel would be chosen, and
in consequence ambitious scribes did
great amount of butt0nholing. The can
didateS for the Office are Assemblymen
Cusick and Boyce, from the Twenty-e ghth
ana Iwenty-nlnth districts. and Thomas
w: Doyle of the Forty first District.
In the preliminary fight Cusick ap-
peared to tavo the best Of the affair, and
had vote been taken last evening he GER
talnly would have won. but 1t was so late
when the result of the first contest became
| known that it was found necessary 10
| postpone all other business.
In the absence of Chairman DWyer, who
is at present in Fresno, Vice-Presldpnt &.
| A. Watkins called the meeting to order.
After the rOllcall Andy Cunie novel
that the meeting take up the reading of
communications. Kenny moved as an
| amendment that all other business he laid
aside and the resignation of j. j. Dwyer
oe accepted and his successor be elected.
Congressman Mcguire opposed the ad Gp-
tion OF the resolution until after the un-
finished business of the meeting, which
included the settling OF disputes in several
districts, among them the Forty-frst.
Terry Of the Forty-frst District stated
that for harmony's sake it had been de-
cided not 10 make any nomu ations until
after the other business Of the meeting had
been settled.
Nelly Murphy of the same district pre-
nounced Terry's statements false. and de-
| manded that the dispute over the seats of
McCue and OConnor be settled.
Andy Ciunie raised the point of order
that there being no recognized rules of
order for the government of the committee
| majority of members conld call up any
| business they deemed advisable, and he
| therefore asked, in order to do away with
| hlibustering, that the election OF a chair
man be made the immediate order of busi-
ness.
SUlOucl " byED6 opposed OluDte 8 IDEAS,
| ana became entahgled IN an argument with
James E. Kenny, an aspiring politician
from the Mission, who endeavored 10 point
| out to the doughty colonel that he talked
not wisely but too well.
Congressman Mcguire. in the best inter-
ests of the Democratic party, demanded
| that the committee proceed with the busi-
ness in the regular order without using
| insulting language or holding the party I'D
| to ridicule and disgrace. Mcguire further
maintained that the actions of certain
| members at the preceding meetings were
| justified by the surrounding circumstances
and had a precedent in higher and national
| bodies.
He Concluded by demanding that no ac-
| ton leading up to the Election of q chair
man be taken until after it had been fully
| determined that every man present was
entitled to the seat he held. as it was his
| desire to have no man chosen to govern
the party until it was certain that all
Democrats rad right to vote for his Sc
| lection. and that he could upon leaving the
| hall gather all the factions around him
and not widen the breach which at pres
ent exists in the party.
| Lowir of the Fortieth District endeavored
to pour oil on the troubled waters, but he
was cut off in the midst of a fiowery but
| inaudible speech by catcalls from the gal
| lery.
Joseph Rothschild in reply to Mcguire,
advocated the adoption OF Ciunle'S reS0ll-
| ton as a means of securing time. He
maintained that difference of ten votes
in the committee should cut no important
| figure in the selection of chairman, ana
moved the previous question, which
brought the delegates 10 a vote upon the
motion that the resignation of Dwver be
accepted, and the committee proceed to
elect his successor. ps5ss
DIVERS resignation was read and ac-
cepted, and Clune moved that the elec-
tion OF his successor be proceeded with.
An endeavor was made to consider the
resignation OF Secretary Daniels, but it
failed, and Supervisor James Denman,
taking the platform, proceeded to nomi-
nate Max Pepper.
Mr.. Denman did not endeavor to deliver
a speech. and limited his talk to very few
words, but upon its conclusion and when
the name of Pepper was mentioned the
audience and delegates became wildly EN-
thusiastic and cheered for several min
uteS.
Joseph Rothschild seconded the nomina-
tion of Pepper in short but pointed
speech.
Colouel O'Byrne, after lauding Pepper
and almost every other man in the party
whose name he happened to. remember,
proceeded to nominate Timothy Treacy.
IE the course OF his speech he endeavored
to tell story. but the crowd was not in a
story telling humor and attempted to boot
him down. Ii is needless TO say that it did
not succeed.
OByrne eulogized Treacy in the highest
possible manner, presenting him as Il