The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-12
Local Democrats May Choose
to Follow Any of Three
Banners.
THE FEDERAL BRIGADE AT SEA
Unemployed Politicians AreEBeing
Rounded Up Early for the Next
Primaries.

but is discouraging to the rank and file
| of the faithful, who look forward to the
next municipal campaign to supply them
with food and shelter for two years.
Max Pepper, ex-chairman of the Demo
cratic State Central Committee, represents
the ultra good. He believes that the sue
cess of his organization will tend to elimi-
| nate Doodle from municipal politics. He
| is, under the auspices of the Iroquois Club,
| organizing Assembly District clubs. Be
| fore undertaking this work it is understood
he devoted many months of hard labor,
assisted by friends, in room at the Bald
| win, going over the great register OF
voters classifying the Democrats in every
precinct. He and his friends are better
equipped for this work of organization
than any set of politicians who have ever
appeared in San Francisco. The clubs
organized by this wing of the Democracy
up to date are from the Twenty-eighth to
the Fortieth Assembly districts, inclusive.
Mr.. Pepper has received the worst end of
it from the Federal brigade. Few of his
friends have been taken care of, although
he managed the campaign that carried the
gett of the Mint and Mr.. Pepper there is
the most intense hatred and all Daggett's
men can be relied upon to fight the Pepper
organization.
John II. Wise is personally friendly to
Pepper, but the most substantial assistance
he generally renders is taffy. The states
man of the Custom-house is not regarded
as potential factor in local politics. The
few places he had to distribute were given,
not so much to vigorous, aggressive men,
who could carry their districts, as to men
who were sufficiently prudent to express
great admiration for the contour of the poll
tt cal intellect of statesman John I'll. Wise
and his hopeful son Harry
Welburn's Office is regarded by all poll
ticians as the most formidable. He dis
tributed his patronage TO the workers, and
rest of the Federal contingent combined.
A number of his deputies can carry their
respective districts as against any combi-
nation. At least they have always done so
in the past.
Welburn is personally friendly with
Pepper, but Edward Lanigan, one of his
deputies, is leader and manager of the Or
ganization which is the principal oppo-
nent OF the Pepper faction.
1t is generally understood that Welburn
will, in the main, keep his hands off in
local politics. Some of his principal depu-
ties are shouting for Pepper, while others
are whooping it up for Lanigan.
The Lanigan forces up to the present
time, although very numerous, active and
enthusiastic, have been general in their or.
ganization. That Is, they have not been
districted. Within a week, however, he
has organized two Assembly districts-the
Forty-hrst, his own, in which he has estab-
1ished strong club, and the Forty-fourth,
where the Sequoia organization was
formed.
Lanigan is between two fires. There is
E., 49,
has recently sprung up an intense an
tagonism between himself and Buckley,
the blind boss, and Sam Rainey, the boss
of the Fire Department.
Lanigan never liked Buckley, even in
the past when he did politics with him,
but when it was announced some months
ago that he had set up in business for him
self and would refuse to act any longer
with Rainey, the politicians were very
skeptical and said that it was a blind and
bluff. Rainey himself seemed to regard
it as an amusing freak of attempted indie
pendence.
But Lanigan has recently smashed the
plans and ambitions of the godfather of the
Fire Department in way that has made
him sick in his gizzard, and he swears that
he will break Lanigan if it is the last act of
his life.
This new boss has been very active in
procuring places for his friends and has
gathered about him the class known as
ode push" as well as large number of
substantial and conservative Democrats.
The opinion of the shrewdest Democrats
is that the fight at the primaries will be
between the Lanigan and Pepper forces
Buckeyes and Rainey's Occidental Club is
not being treated with much concern or
respect. It meets in Buckley's house on
Stockton street, and the three attempts at
organization have been CHASTITY failures.
The assemblages were mostly made up of
political "revolvers."
A revolver is political utensil that
was used extensively in the past by Buck
ley. 'tResolution" SPOTS is credited with
originating it. The idea was to take a
dozen or more political FOUNDERS into
district, call them by some particular
name, announce that they had organized
the district, and get off set of resolutions.
The next night the same men could meet
in another district declare themselves or
ganized, and get off another list of resolu-
tions. This would be kept up night after
night until the whole City had been
covered.
The head of Buckley's club is ex-Super-
Mccarthy. Already organized labor is
down on it because of Dundon's efforts
when Supervisor to reduce wages of all the
laborers in the City's employ.
Every effort known to bossism has been
used to swell the roll. eject" Maloney, since
THE Calls expose compelled Recorder
Glynn to dispense with his services as
mortgage clerk, has given the club his I'M
divided attention.
Dick Creighton stands nightly on the
corner of Stockton and Ellis streets beg
ging the political unemployed to go up
and enroll, while the way ''Chippie" Gal
lagher has worked the opium fiends of the
tenderloin has caused the impression that
he was compiling directory of ''dopers."
Jake Lindo, although he hasn't the dog
wagon he had in Buckeyes palmy days,
yet almost daily lassos something to take
up on the hill.
The Mint has been well represented at
the Occidental Among the well-known
" Cuckoos who unjustly occupy chairs
are " Bull " Collins of the thirty sixth,
prize-fghter Alex Greggains of the thir,
tieth, Charlie McCourtney of the twenty
ninth, George Ryan of the forty-fourth,
and number of other Daggett men less
known to fame.
On account of the disbursement that
has met the efforts of the Occidentals with
the rank and file, they think of changing
their name to that of the Business Mems
Association, the euphony of which pleases
the musical ear of CHRISTOPHER Buckley.
They think that the changing of its name
would make it veritable Chamber of