The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-05

loudly right now while planning work for
Rainey's forces and Daggett name leaves
bad taste in his mouth. Braunhart
shares Peppers political emotions. Lani-
gan quarreIed with his old friend Rainey
last year and they are hostile yet. McNab
always puts Sullivan in Rainey's place
and declares himself friend of Sullivan,
keeping still about the stableman. He is
not credited with having much love for
Daggett. Neither is Welburn, who has
just the same aspirations that Daggett has
toward State and National conventions
and party power, though he keeps back
there from where he silently peeks at the
row and waits to see how it will turn out,
instead of going into Denny brook Fair
with club, as does John Daggett.
Besides these and other political ard per-
sonal hostilities there are among the
rather independent Democrats who have
got into the Junta movement no greater
proportion of friends and admirers OF
Daggett than exist throughout the local
party generally, and these independent
and pretty decent elements, who are be-
ing led and worked by the managing
bosses, are about as hostile to Rainey IN
principle as they are to Buckley, whom
they consider no worse a rascal, though
a greater one.
The Junta has been a grotesque outfit
from the start, being composed of all sorts
of enemies and discordant elements, who
rushed together through a variety of mo-
tives to keep Buckley from getting his feet
too far into the trough. When it came to
getting up the new organization the diff
ficulty Of the division of power nearly pro-
duced wreck at the start, six weeks or
SO ago. Rainey and Daggett were the king
pins because of their large strength in the
regular general committee.
Without them no anti-Buckley organi-
cation could have made pretense at a
start unless it was purely revolutionary
one gotten up outside the regular party
organization. So when it came to- APP
pointing the new 450 Rainey and Daggett
wanted control, and there were wide diff
ferenceS of opinion as to the political i'm
portance of Ed Lanigan and others and
their consequent share of power. That
was a critical time. Lanigan thought he
was getting shut out two weeks ago and
declared himself. He said that he might
as well be "done up'' by Buckley as "those
fellows" and he bad hot few minutes
with Daggett in his outer Office at the
Mint just while McNab and Fire Commits
sioner Mcdonald were having another row
in the inner office.
Things were temporarily patched up,
but out of such noble combination with
such force Of cohesion early war is ex-
pected to come. The anti Raineyites and
the anti-Daggites realize that both are sore
handicaps in their fight for alleged purity
and things that repel desirable support
ers from the faction. But their tactical
strength and their district politicians in the
Mint and the Fire Department are badly
needed for an anti-Buckley primary. 1t
is limited that unless the primary for
choosing delegates to the State and mu-
nicipal conventions can be held under the
new primary law the Junta will find out
that it will be impossible to hold pure
primary and appoint delegates, as was
done two years ago.
That would be one opportunity for the
dumping. 1t is expected that clashes will
come in the enrolment now at hand and
in the club primary to follow. Rainey and
Daggett help form the nucleus, and as
soon as the faction gets little stronger
the unpleasantness is expected to begin.
Both factions know that Rainey person.
ally is merely opposing Buckley at the
moment because he can't get his new and
big price. Rainey, however, has not the
grip on the Fire Department that he had,
through the fact that Chief Sullivan has
acquired very strong control of the de-
partment through his recognizing the
force and through the popular backing he
has acquired.
Sullivan is sincerely anti-Buckley, and
though Rainey and he are a. strong friends
rs ever sullivan udS grown 10 WueIe
Rainey does not own him wholly. So
Rainey can't run or sell out the Fire De-
partment as readily as little while ago.
The Fire Department is deeply In poll
tics now and it is wading in deeper. 1t
will keep on wading and it is against
Buckley. For a long time Chief Sullivan
has been Systematically "firing" all Buck
ley men, until the old Fire Department
guard that used to stand by Chris is out
and a new gang is in. These ex-firemen are
now being organized by Buckley into
regiment, and somewhere between 400 and
800 of them have signed roll of organiza-
ton. They are ready for an old-time
Buckley primary and they are eager to
knife Sullivan and Rainey and anything
they are into.
On Sunday, at meeting of the district
engineers and foremen of the department
political orders for the coming Junta
primary were given. Every one of the 500
or 900 men in the department is expected
to be an anti-Buckley soldier. Under the
rule taking the department out of politics
they cannot join any political club. They
won't. When the three days enrolment
is over on Saturday night an army is to go
out soliciting signatures to the rolls to get
up a big showing of strength to help
establish the claims of the anti Buckley
faction to be the party. 1t is in this en-
rollment work that the men of the Fire
Department are ordered to hustle to help
keep Buckley's hands off the department.