The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-08
WILL BATTLE NEXT WEEK,
The Junta Agrees to Give Buck
ley an Interesting
Meeting.
IT DEMANDS a LITTLE TIME.
The Buckleyites Want Smaller Com.
mittee and Will Not Quit if
Beaten.
IT DEMANDS A LITTLE TIME.

Juutt Will come OH next week. 1QeTe lS
no prospect of interference with the mill,
and the people will get their moneys
! worth.
Yesterday forenoon a Buckley COM
mittee presented to Chairman Watkins
their petition for meeting OF the general
committee. They had arranged a refusal
| Of Metropolitan Temple for either Monday
| or Tuesday night next, and asked Mr..
| Watkins to call the meeting for next
Monday night. Mr.. Watkins has an affable
smile, plug hat and ready and decisive
, tongue. He said that he would call the
meeting, but not so soon as all that
| within a reasonable time.
| The petition, which required fifty names,
! had sixty-nine signatures. The COM
| mittee consisted of Attorney Joseph
| Rothschild (chairman), Robert Boyd,
| John Kreling. J. ]. Flynn, James O'Connor
and Thomas Ford.
"a committee presented petition to
| me and asked that the meeting be called
| for Monday night" said Mr.. Watkins yes
| terday. 81 told them that L would call
the meeting within a reasonable time,
within ten days or two weeks, and the gen.
| tlemen were perfectly satisfied with that.
l didn't propose TO call the meeting for
Monday night, because we are not quite
ready, and it would not be fair to give
them the advantage of their own time. AS
to the situation | have nothing to say.
We are saving wood and saying nothing"
The committee chased around after Mr.
Watkins yesterday morning and found
him with Gavin McNab at the Mills build
ing. The committee pinned Mr.. Watkins
down to promise that he would call the
meeting within ten days, and with that
the Buckley men have to be satisfied.
The new general committee to be ap-
pointed by the Deuprey committee is
nearly completed and yesterday Junta
leaders, while expressing eagerness for the
fray, said that the meeting would likely be
called fer the latter part of next week. If
nothing new develops to change present
plans and expectations the meeting when
1t comes will be decisive one and afford
fair test of the full strength of each fac
ton. Until then there will remain pend
ing the question of votes as to whether a
new party organization is to be appointed
then by anti-Buckeyites or elected at a
primary to be held at once according to the
Buckley plan.
new feature of the Buckley programme
came TO light yesterday. If the Buckley
faction wins the machine and orders a prI-
| mary the new general committee elected
will be a smaller one. 1t will consist, in
all proba bility, of fifteen representatives
of each district and total of 270 members,
instead of twenty-five from each district
and a total mem bership of 450.
| But this would be but carrying out the
very programme decided on a year and a
half ago by the anti Buckley management
of affairs, and it would be doing what is
| required by the present constitution of the
general comm Ittee. In March, 1894, when
Max Pepper was chairman of the general
committee and in command of the Organi-
cation the constitution was amended max
ing the new general committee that was
then to be elected soon consist of fifteen
from each district. The committee or
dered a primary under the constitution as
amended at that time by two-thirds vote,
and one was called for July 30. The call
provided for district club enrolment from
the 25th to the Goth of June and nominal
tons on July 16. The enrolment went on
and then the Buckley scare and the trouble
about purifying the rolls arose.
On July 81 Pepper resigned as a member
OF the committee from the Forty-third
District, but retained the chairmanship
The ARRANGEMENTS for the primary were
carried out to the 9th, when at meeting
of the general committee Peppers motion
that the primary be indefinitely postponed
was carried. The managers were afraid to
risk a primary because Buckley was
around, convention delegates were elected
by the committee itself and the committee
has simply continued to exist until now,
the amendments to the constitution re-
naming as adopted.
1t is that Indefinitely postponed primary
which the Buckley faction will hold within
thirty days or so if they can exhibit a
majority of the general committee next
week. The Junta is appointing a new
committee OF $50 because they do not hold
that the amended constitution is particu-
larly in force in that respect and because
large committee is deemed safest in the
same town with Buckley
Ii one side finds that it didn't count it
self right and is beaten when the meeting
| comes what will it do then? Now that is
where the factions differ-that is, the
leaders. The Junta people say that if
Buckley should gain contiol of the ma
chine they would simply fight on until
the platforms of the convention halls are
reached and win there. If Buckley is still
unbeaten then, they say-at least some of
them do-that they will vote the Republi-
can or Non-Partisan ticket along with
thousands OF other Democrats who would
never stomach Buckley again.
Inc Buckleyltes, If victorious, would on
the other hand exhibit chiyaIric magma
nlmity. They would want success for the
ticket and Buckley would gently har-
monte back into the ranks all who would
fold.
Should the Junta win at the meetine
nearly at hand it would not be the Water
100 to Buckley that some people imagine.
VI course not. Buckley would 90 right
ahead and make the best of it, gratified
mat things were no worse. If the Junta
mas the majority next week, approves the
DeuPrey committee and adjourns sine die
the buckley wing will 81 nply say, stYou
can [, under your constitution, adjourn
sine Gle without two-thirds vote, and
the committee is not adiourned.n The
buckley wing will meet as the regular
general committee, order the primary as
Planned and steer for convention halls.
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