The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18
BUCKLEY NOW DECLARES WAR ON THE JUNTA

cratic party of San Francisco. The cues
tlon now Is, in the language of the tday.
wv no is going to get the works?' (vice
Chris Buckley. Upstairs. two weeks ago,
tEe general committee met to elect chair
man. Watkins received 1874 votes and
James ID. OBrien 154. AT that time
y Brlen gave proof that he was the right
Kind OF man. He has future in the
Democratic party. He went right up to
ms opponent, congratulated him on his
success and moved to make the choice
unanimous. The Watkins maiority-the
lo4 men who voted for him-are now
afraid of the minority.
Ihey dare not risk another battle, but
are seeking to disrupt the general COM
mlttee and to organize the party outside
OF party lines. We have now 10 mem
bers OF the general committee in this hall.
DO you wonder then why the Watkins
majority is afraid of another battle? Now
let us look at facts and state things dis
tlnctiy. In politics as in business it pays
right. A man that Escorts TO living or de-
cepton will not win in the end. A COM
mlttee that resorts to deceit will share the
same tate as the individual. Disaster and
confusion will follow
Now here is man from Siskiyou and
another man from GilYoy trying to organ
lze the Democratic party of San Francisco
s'AAS VI bhC Now lOOh al w at
klns as an example of how good man,
put flexible in the backbone and weak
generally. can be used by bad men. You
see that Watkins has appointed twenty
nVe men to reorganiZe the party without
consulting the general committee.
Dunno reviewed the entire history of the
last municipal Democratic convention
from its inception to its adjournment He
read from the minutes of the convention
showing that vigorous protest was entered
against the appointment of a committee
OF twenty-five, and that finally the whole
subject matter was referred to the general
committee to be disposed OF after the
election.
Now the man from Siskiyou and the
man from Gilroy say we are bad people
that we got possession of the minutes OF
the convention and made the record to
suit ourselves. Mr.. Gavigan may be ac-
cused of doctoring the minutes, but the re-
porters of THE CALL, Chronicle, Examiner
aud Bulletin, who were detailed to narrate
what occurred at the convention, reported
the proceedings as the secretary entered
them in his minutes. These men from
Gilroy and Siskiyou have come together
and organized a committee without the
approval of the general committee. Mr..
Watkins recognized the Deuprey commit
tee without consulting the general COM
mittee. He goes further in usurpation by
cOIlIuIlbcC. L MS new
organization has pretty rotten pedigree
on both sides.
If the other side can beat US at the pri-
mary in the regular way we will say to
them go ahead and nominate a good ticket
and we will support it. The general COM
mlttee is legitimate organization. They
recognized it, but now would destroy it.
The resolutions were adopted by a
unanimous vote.
The annexed pledge was given out for
signatures OF committee members:
We, the undersigned, members of the general
committee, and representing through our
organization the Democratic party of the City
and County of San Francisco, bind ourselves,
individually and collectively to oppose dis
organization, disruption or dissolution by an
adjournment sine die or otherwise of said
general committee, and agree 10 maintain said
organization by all honorable means in the
interest of the Democratic party of the City
and County OF San Francisco, and oppose revo-
lutionsry methods.
Among well-known Democrats who were
present at the meeting were: Recorder
Glynn, ]. J. Maloney, James H. O'Brlen,
a. T. SPOTS, Samuel Newman, DR.. Stan
ton, ]. J. Flynn, Phil Fay, Samuel Has
kins, D. M. Gavigan, Joseph Rothschild
and Captain Callundan.