The San Francisco call., 1895-10-16
SORRY FOR EACH OTHER.
The Puritans and Mr.. Buck
ley'S Men Exchange
Sympathy.
WHY THE BLIND BOSS SMILES
A Comparison Of the Followers OF
the Factions-Mr. Rainey's
Pleasant Place.

When the Democratic State Central
Committee picks out the true Democratic
party of San Francisco from the false
which is one of the things it must do be-
lore the lines of battle are drawn for the
next campaign-there will be stripping
OF pretenses and revelation OF records
that will be like a foretaste Of the great
Judgment.
Whether the followers of the faction of
Purity, Proprlety and Pepper shall be
deemed the elect, or they who have been
attending Mr.. Buckley's 5-oclock beers
and pink gin-and-waters, depends on a
great many more things than resolutions.
Messrs. McNab, Braunhart and Pepper
say the work is cleverly done, and the
party has discarded the Blind Boss utterly.
Where is his following?" they exclaim-
"a few political incurables whose offices
have been taken away from them because
they were unfit to fill them-a lot of heel
ers and toughs who might have been of
use TO their master IN the days OF primary
murders and ballot-box stuffing, but who
are helpless and harmless now that the
real men of the Democratic party are
guarding the party's honorable name"
The McNabers the Braunhartoise and
the Popperese with the Watsonians, the
Daggetans and Denmaniacs say the Blind
Boss fight was lost as soon as it was begun,
and wonder why he persists IN continuing
a losing battle instead of going back to the
Ravenswood farm.
But the Blind Boss-by deputy, of
course, for he is like the Grand Llama
now, invisible to all but those next to the
throne-does not worry.
With US, says the mouthpiece of his
emlnence, "is the fighting strength of the
Democratic party. Who is the white
headed boy of the Democrats to-day !?
OF the people against the common enemy,
the Southern Pacific, was made under a
shower OF abuse from the Puritans. Under
which banner is Jimmie Stanton now2
Are Charles II. Alderman, Horace G..
Platt, George r. b. Hayes, Fleet L.
Strother and a hundred others of their
class political incurables, deprived of office
by their party, or do they consider them
primary pirates and heelerS?
The truth about it is that the Demo-
cratic army realized that the men who
prate of purity have disorganized the party
and that 1T must have captain of suffi-
clent strength and wit to lead it on to vic
tory. That's why Buckley has come to the
lore again. Buckleyphobia is not nearly
as fashionable disease as it once was.
They called Columbus Bartlett a Buckley
man and the same cry beat E. B. Pond out
of the governorship. How long ago Is it
when Max Pepper himself marched under
Buckley's flag and boasted that he was at
Duck's right hand ?"
1t may be and the Puritans say and hope
that the Blind Boss has been crowded out
Of politics and is no longer to be consid-
cred factor in the prospective elections,
but 1t is certain he is making a lot of dis
turbance for q burned-out volcano and
maybe the signs that seem to point to a
renewed activity on his part are not all
fallacious.
why, Buckley is simply hard loser" >"
said Gavin McNab yesterday; she hates to
admit that his power is gone, and so he
keeps on churning. The men about him
of the better class are not with him at ALL
Most of them attend the Occidental Clubs
services just for the fun of it,
And while the two factions are COM
menting pityingly op each others weak
ness there is one man who is saying moth
ing at all, but who will cut big figure in
the end. Mr.. Sam Rainey seems TO in
cline toward the Puritans. If they carry