The San Francisco call., 1895-11-25
If There Are Two Primaries He
Will Have Nothing to Do
With Either.
IT WILL MEAN PARTY DEFEAT.
The Men the Would.Be Peacemaker
Suggested as Primary
Committee.

The Democratic fight between the Buck
leyites and Raineyites appears so hopeless
of early settlement that Judge Mcguire
has about quit trying to be blessed peace
maker.
Mr.. Mcguire will start for Washington
tomorrow and he will probably wash his
hands of local politics in disgust just be-
fore he goes. At least he said last night
that if there were two factional primaries,
as now appears likely, he would have moth
ing to do with either one of them or with
local politics. for it would mean disaster to
the party generally in San Francisco. As
between the two factions, however, he be-
lieves that the one held by the regular or
ganization would be the legal one and the
one to be recognized as representing the
party.
Il know of no developments promising
compromise since the meeting OF Friday
night" he said last evening. both sides
have ordered primaries and apparently in
tend to go right ahead with them. If there
are two primaries it will mean party de-
feat and I will have nothing to do with
either one of them. / made strong effort
to have primary arranged to be held
under the absolute control of q committee
of men whose character would be guar
antee of honesty and fairness, but l have
been unsuccessful.
"I do not know what may develop in
the future. The Junta's new general COM
mittee is undoubtedly under the control of
Rainey and Daggett, and what they and
some others may do cannot be predicted. I"
During the two or three days preceding
the meeting of the new Rainey-McNab-
Daggett general committee, while Mr..
Mcguire was comforting with representa-
tives of both sides about his proposition,
he presented a list of twenty five Demo-
Gratis as committee to run primary IN
which the party would have confidence
and in which all elements would get
show for the strength in them. This was
that committee:
A. H. Thorough, Dr. c. A. Clinton,
Barry Baldwin, John H. Wise, Frank
McCoppin, E. B. Pond, James d. Phelan,
Robert Ferral, ]. B. Relnstein, George T.
Marye, Eugene Deuprey, M. G. Hassett,
Alexander Vogelsang. W. H. Metson,
John P. Dunn, Charles W. Welch, Eugene
R. CARRIER, D. f. Ragan, James Devote,
Anthony Quille, E. P. Enright, James F.
Smith, Matt |. Sullivan, Clitus Barbour,
Dr. James l. Stanton.
The Buckleyites would have accepted
that committee, or one about like 1t, and
been willing to surrender practical control
of the primary to it on behalf of the regu-
looked at it while, rejected the PROPOSE
ton and, acting on Maguire's idea, got up
similar primary committee of their own,
in which they named ten from Mcguire s
list-Messrs. Phelan, Reinstein, Marye,
Deuprey, Hassett, Vogelsang, Devote,
Smith ana Barbour. Some of those have
since declined to act.
~ DO not stick at Names" said Mr.. Ma
guire last evening, "but my idea was that
such men, and there are plenty of them in
the party, would be a guarantee CT nearly
absolute fairness and honesty in the con-
duct of primary. Another suggestion OF
mine was that there be but one rollcall,
commencing at the same time in every
district, so that repeaters could not go
from one place to another voting in the
names Of absentees.
'This would not prevent false registra-
ton and more or less fraudulent voting,
but with honest election officers inside and
single rollcall fraud would be reduced 10
a minimum and fair expression of the
will of the Democratic voters would be
obtained.
With Mcguire off attending to Congress
the situation will be left to the hands of
Buckley, Rainey and other local states
men to fix up or fight out, unless some
other outside powers step into the breach.
However, as fierce as the combat may
wage now and for little time, and how
ever earnest few nice people who want
nice politics may feel, there is little If any
doubt that before the last bell rings the
bosses, big and little, will settle things on
a percentage of patronage basis, and in the
interest of harmony and the party there
will be but one of those good old Demo-
yparioc