The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-12
SOME VERY RAW WORK DONE
Crowley Pictured as the Boss
Suffer.
HIS COMPLACENT DISCLAIMER.
Republicans Express Respect for
Colonel r. II. Meyers-What the
PopuIists Are Doing.

More battles were fought IN room lU2 OIL
the Baldwin Hotel last night when the
committee Of seven which has undertaken
the gigaEti tic task of purging the Demo-
cratic primary rolls of suffers resumed Its
labors.
For an hour the hotel lobby had been
crowded with members OF the contending
factions, and when the committee met
they FASTENED upstairs to air their grleV-
ances before the purists.
Billy Murphy, who had been Quoted on
Monday night by the assurance that Sec
retary Sailor of the Forthwith would be
required to give him a copy of the roll In
that district, again appeared before the
committee with the complaint that the
secretary had again failed to give him
roll, saying that he did not have 1t and
that he had not seen 1t since the enrolment
closed.
1--WE had it once" said an excited mem
Der of the Murphy crowd, land while we
were copying il Tommy Chandler came
and grabbed it"
Chairman Pepper said he had seen the
secretary and that that officer had said
that the reason he had not complied with
the committees ORDER was that Murphy
wanted the original roll, which was not in
his possession. The matter was settled by
another assurance that the secretary
would be required to produce copy OF the
roll at The cumm tees room for Murphy's
inspection.
Then came the old Thirty-sixth District
fight, the cOmbatants as eager for the fray
as if they hadn't been struggling over the
roll like pack of hounds over a fox for
ten days. They crowded into the arbit a.
ton cham Der until it could hold no more
of them, and NJ. G. Sears for while was
spokesman. He wanted the committee OF
seven to indOTse the action of a majority
of the district committee, he said. PreSl
dent Crowley and Secretary j. L. McCor-
mack had been tried, found guilty aud de-
capItated by the general committee of the
district, aud their places had been filed by
the election of O'Brien and Morgan as
president and secretary. II was
this action he wanted tue committee
TO affirm. He made a long speech
in which he SAID that Crowley had on the
first night of the enrolment walked off
with the roll under his arm and then said
it had been stolen. He opened up the
next night at another place, and after the
enrolment had taken place said the roll
had been stolen again. When he began
the taking Of names the third night he
skipped two pages, and the fourth night
he skipped another page. This gave him
room 20 insert all the suffers Ire chose,
huO OOdlo do Iub ui4tlAonb III odS ibE Ohob
be had filed the vacant places with
choice lot OF suffers of his own manufac-
tuTe or selection and for his "owD aggran-
dlZement." For this charges of fraud,
roll-stuf1ing and all the rest of it had been
brought against him and the secretary, and
they had been notified to appear al a
meeting of the general committee and
answer them. The meeting had been
held, the delinquents failed TO appear and
the commi tee had expelled them.
The charges were read to the committee,
aud they made President Crowley out to
be very bad man indeed.
William Ring next took a fall out of
Crowley. and shaking with rage and in
dignation, charged him with having or
dered him off the platform and Incident
ally with Eaving done the things alleged
by Sears. Peter Quinn also bitterly COM
planned that he had not been allowed to
see the roll, and he had it in his pocket all
the time he was talking. as subsequent
events showed.
Steve Crowley was the coolest man of
the lot. He complacenty told the com
mittee that he had not stuffed the roll,
hadn't seen it, hadn't left any blanks nor
done anything unusual or wrong. he
didn't then know what had become Of the
roll except that it had been stolen. The
committee ordered the man who had it to
produce it. the room was cleared and in
walked Quinn with the stolen document.
1t had some blanks in 1t, and showed
enough names for city directory. Quinn
was instructed to tell the men outside that
they needn't come before the committee
again; they had the right of appeal to the
general com mittee.
The Thirty-ninth District developed an
other row. All efforts to get copy of the
roll from the secretary had been vain.
Committeeman Fenton promised to see
that the secretary produced II at 1873 Golden
Gate avenue this afternoon for the inspec-
ton of the malcontenLs.
In the Thirty-second man named Toner
hat been elected TO the district committee
to fill q vacancy, and the committee was
asked to confirm the election. The matter
was referred to the general committee.
A motion was made to postpone the day
for making nominations, but it was al
lowed to remain as at present fxed-the
18th inst.
The r epublican County Committee met
last night in Shiels building, but ad-
Colonel f. II. Meyers, chairman of the
State Central Committee. No business of
Importance was transacted.
| Those persons who think that Judge W.
T. Wallace's sole ambition is to become a
Justice of the Sale Supreme Court and
that he swill try for that alone are mis-
taken. If the Judge Is tryiog for the
| Court at all, then he has two irons IN the
fire, for there looms up before him the
possibility of becoming a United States
Court Judge, and his friends say that he
would much prefer that place as il is a life
billet. A new circuit court district is to
be created by Congress, to be known as
| the Ninth District, and it is this that
Judge Wallace will be an applicant for.
The Judges friends think that he has pull
enough with President Cleveland TO secure
for himself the nomination.
Delayed mails have greatly interfereG
with the efforts of the State Central Com
mittee of the POpulist party 10 estimate
he strength of the party throughout the
| State. Yesterday only two letters were
received at the State headquarters at q u
Third street. One was from a merchant
in Santa Rosa saying that the Populists
| had increased in strength in SOnoma
| County within the pas few weeks and thai
| the outlook for the party in that section OF
the Slate was very bright. The chairman
of the County Committee of MERGED wrote
that the Populists would carry that county
for the State and Legislative tickets. The
County convention was held last Satur-
| day at MERGED and there were $50 delegates
present. A number of other county con-
venlions have been held but the State
committee has been unable TO hear from
them.
E. NJ. WardaIl of Monrovia, Los Angeles
County, chairman of the State central
committee, was in the city yesterday. He
saws that the party Is going to surprise the
pubic with the tickets it will put forward.
The Populists are searching for the very
best men they can get In this county
they will be particularly careful. and Mr..
WaTdall says that people will be com.