The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-27

and the business cracked through by
Chairman Joseph Rothschild related to
unfinished arrangements for the primary
election. The attendance was fairly large,
and among those present, belonging to the
committee or not, were most of the active
leaders from the Occidental Club, includ-
ing James II. o. Brien, A. T. Spots, John
Mccarthy, Thomas ]. Glynn, NJ J. Dono-
van, Sam Newman, DR.. Bryan, 2. F. Dun
don, E. t. Mills, Robert Boyd, Thomas J.
Ford, Chilly" Harrison and others.
Rollcall was dispensed with and the
first business was the amendment to the
constitution proposed at the last meeting
by James H. O'Brlen. restoring the con-
stitutional membership to twenty-five
from each district instead of fifteen, as it
was made i'll 1894 by an amendment W hich
never operated because no primary cleo
ton was held under it,
The only changes proposed were the SUBJ
stltutlon of twenty-five for Fifteen" in
two places in section of article l. but
somebody discovered that ten of the
twenty-five were by the constitution to be
the five officers and the five members of
the canvassing committee of each district
club, the rest being elected directly as
members OF the general committee, and a
middle arose that was finally Strengthened
out by the showing that the club officers and
committeeman described would all be
newly elected at the primary. Then P
T. Dundon found that the ten club officers
were, by the constitution, Tex officio''
members OF the general committee, and
then there was a hot discussion about
what "ex-officio" meant, during which
Robert Boyd called for Cushing's Manual.
1t was shown that these ex-otficio men,
bers. 100 of them, had been voting right
along in the general committee for three
wears, but ex-officio was finally stricken
out and everybody felt better.
M. J. Donovan, chairman of the COM
miitee of twenty-five in charge of the pri-
mary, designated as the committee on
supervision and arbitration, reported a
total enrolment of IL 800, and the crowd
cheered.
every name is there honestly and
fairly" he said, land this will be the
cleanest primary election ever held in San
Francisco by any party or by any wing of
any party"
He announced that James II. O'Brien,
chairman of the finance committee of the
primary committee, would receive from
the district chairman the constitutional
assessment of So 30 on each nominee.
DR.. James /. Stanton, chairman of the
printing committee, would have all the
ballots printed for each district, and nomi-
nees were TO be reported to him.
On Saturday evening the clubs of each
district will meet TO nominate club officers
and Imembers of the general com mittee.
Meeting places for the nominations were
announced as follows:
Twenty-eighth District, ST. Nicholas
Hotel, 2i4 First street: Twenty ninth,
h-American Hail. Thirtieth, Music
Hall, Mission street; Thirty-first, Phoenix
Hall; Thirty-fourth, Harmony Hall;
Thirty fifth, Silks Hall, Precita and Mis-
sion Thirty-sixth, Polander Hall, TWENTY
eighth and Church, Thirty-seventh,
Lowry's Hail. Ivy avenue and Lagpna
Thirty eighth. Powers Hall, Turk and
Pierce; Thirty-ninth, Justice Barry's
courtroom, new City Hall; Fortieth,
Forty-first, Larkey's Hall, Webster and
Fillmore; Forty-second, Turner's Hall,
3l2 o Farrell; Forty-thrd, 413 Stockton.
Waiter Gallagher wanted the name of
James G. Mcguire placed on the roll of
the Thirty-ninth District and moved that
this important proceeding be ordered.
The Thirty-ninth wanted to put Judge
Mcguire back in the general committee
and they couldn't if he was enrolled.
Robert Boyd asked if Mr.. Mcguire had
requested from Washington the honor and
Gallagher replied that Mcguire had not,
but he recognized the fact that he could
not enroll because he was attending to his
duties as q Congressman. He knew how
he stood and knew that he would have en-
rolled if he had been here. Somebody else
said that the Thirty ninth wanted unani-
mousIy and bodily TO re-elect Mr.. Mcguire,
and his name was ordered added to the
1850. Then the committee adjourned.
The Iroauois Club will be red-hot to-
night because the annual election is to
occur, and the rivalry between the Buck
ley and anti-BucEley factions, represented
by James ]. Flynn and
Charles Gildea, the opposing candidates
for the presidency, is very keen.
This is the first serious election contest
the club has ever known, and along with
the keen desire and effort on both sides to
capture the organization there exists a
general desire to repress the contest below
a point where it would prove dangerous to
the club at an important time.
On a full vote the factions would be
about evenly divided, but there are sew
eral other things to help make the result
uncertain. The anti-Buckleyites counted
include more of the mem bers who rarely
If ever, go to q meeting and who would be
hard to get out. Flynn's workers will
make special efforts to get out every friend
OF his. Then there are good many men,
bers who. like great many local Demo-
Gratis just now, are keeping very still while
the factional fight goes on and taking no
sides. They are trimming their sails to
reach something hoped for in the future
and they are very polite. A lot of these
fellows Will be out of town or find it i'm