The morning call., 1894-09-23
BARRELED HIM
M'Dade Went Over the
Hoops Kicking.
WHELAN FOR SHERIFF
Another Boss Candidate
Nominated.
RAlNEY'S YOKE ACCEPTED.
The Convention Is His to Use as
He PleaseS.
SOME THREATS OF A BOLT MADE.
1t Is More Than Probable That the
Party Will Tamely Submit
TO the Lash.

Sam Rainey pulled the strings again last |
night and up popped another machine |
made Democratic candidate in the person !
of Richard l. Whelan for Sheriff
The rope rasped the necks of the dele
gates in the municipal convention very |
severely. but they adjusted it as best they
could and told each other that it was not
Rainey who had so roughly pulled
But it was Sam, and he PIT his full $50
pounds on the line. The Democrats who
know politics and recognize the methods
of boss must have known that it was
idle talk TO say that they would have to
await any further developments to be sure
that they were being headed like lot of
cattle by the lariat-thrower.
Yet such men as Barclay Henley and
Jere Lynch. who are not likely to be de-
ceived by the existing circumstances. did
say that they could not decide wht Their the
convention was being slated until the
Assessors fight should be reached.
But John j. McDade knows that there
is a slate, and that ne has never been on it.
He was barreled last night in the most
approved fashion, though he fought hard
against going over the hoops and slaves
His refusal to give Sam RaIney two-thrds
of the patronage of the Sheriff's Office in
the event of his election cost him the
empty honor of running on the Demo-
cratic boss named ticket, and he will have
TO retire to private life to reflect upon the
uncertainties of a political career.
And now for the balance of the pro-
gramme. It will be rendered Without
hitch according to the bill which Raney
has prepared at the Bush-street stables.
The proceedings of the convention last
night gave abundant proof of the useless
ness of fighting against the boss. McDade
knew that his position was weak, that
Rainey had issued instructions to every
one or his men to vote against him. yet he
decided t. die fighting and to test the
Strength of his enemy. He found that the
returned fugitive had him in his grasp and
could do with him just as he liked. What
Mr.. Rainey liked was to beat Mr.. McDade,
and that was what the Sheriff learned by
his experiment.
On the streets yesterday it was rumored
that McDade had Withdrawn. Every body
who knew anything about the situation
saw plainly that he could not win. and
from predicting that he would Withdraw
they came to asserting it. But McDade
bad done no such thing. He might have
saved himself from bad defeat, but he
chose rather to let the convention show that
it was in the control of a boss and 60 be-
fore the people with a collar around its
neck He called his deputies about him
and issued orders TO them to 90 out and
save every vote possible, but it was all use
less. He had been selected as a mark for
the vengeance of the boss and he could
get no more votes.
Then be went down to the convention,
determined, as a last hope, to delay matters
If possible so that a vote could not be
reached last night In this attempt he
showed that he had many friends who
would stand by him in the hour of need.
He succeeded by dtlatory tactics in holding
the convention at bay for two hours.
Sam Braunhardt and Andy Clunie were
the instruments with which he worked
Braunhardt took the initiative by Offering
a resolution setting forth that it had been
publicly charged that the convention was
boss-ridden, and declaring it as the will of
the body that committee be appointed TO
investigate the charges and report the re-
suits next Monday night.
He followed the introduction of the
paper by a speech in which he declared
that there was a slate in the convention.