The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-30
THE MAGU|RE- DAGGETT WAR GROWS BIGGER

strong ammunition for himself just now.
He proposes to call President Cleveland s
attention TO this and various other similar
expressions of administration policy, and
then ask the administration ii 1t can swal-
low Mr.. Daggett and his ways. Ii 1t can,
he proposes, as stated, to see what he can
do in Congress.
1t is quietly told that when Mcguire saw
Secretary Carlisle few weeks ago the
story about Daggett taking the Mint
washi ing away from Senator Buggy because
he had not given his complimentary vote
for him for Senator was the thing that
surprised Carlisle most, although he took
a serious interest in the rest of Magulre'S
story, including the sacrifice OF the rela-
tives of other Senators, the Resale mine
stock scheme. and so on.
Now. in addition to his former charges
Mcguire will lay before the President an
account of Daggett's recent ''pernicious
activity" in local politics and set it beside
the Presidents letter of 1886.
Mcguire has still another gun to fire.
He proposes now to actively take up the
recently developed idea of putting the
minis of the country in the civil service
classified list When the employees of the
Mint here are placed under the protection
of the civil service law Mr.. Dagget..'s pa
tronage power will suddenly drop, and
this is another way that Mcguire sees of
dealing Daggett blow, as Daggett's four
years term will not be up for considerably
over two years.
In this matter Mcguire will simply be-
come especially active in a measure that
would probably be taken up by Congress
anyway. In its last annual report the Civil
Service Commission recommended that
various branches of the Treasury Depart
ment be placed on the classified service
list, the first named being the Internal
Pnxr ,nr,t hnc hay re
and the third the assay Offices. Since then
the Internal Revenue Department has
been put on the classified list, and now
many employees and officials of the minis
of the country, as well as others, are
strongly favoring the same step with the
minis. In urging this measure Mcguire
expects to make effective use of the recent
scandal at the Carson Mint and the use
which Mr.. Daggett has made of the San
Francisco Mint.
Mcguire expects the cooperation Of
most, if not all, the California delegation
at Washington, and that of Congressman
Bowers especially. Bowers, though 6
Republican, has stood on the same ground
with Mcguire on various matters, includ-
ing the railroad funding bill, and is
| friendly to him. Then, as O Republican
he is not expected to stop long at criticiz.
ing the administration. Senator White is
an old political enemy of Daggett's and
! what patronage he has received from
| Daggett is not supposed to have closed
| the breach to any great extent. White
was chairman of the Stockton convention
/ which read Daggett out of the party and
| further hostility was engendered at the
San Francisco convention OF 1886. They
belong to opposite wings of the party, and
when Daggett's appointment was being
considered by Cleveland White joined with
all the rest of the California delegation,
except Geary, in vigorously protesting
against his appointment.
Just now some of the people who are
after Daggett are telling how Eugene
Townsend, superintendent of the Phila-
delphia Mint, had his official head cut off
but few months ago. The law says that
the superintendent of the mint may at
his discretion exact bonds of his employees
One of the charges against Townsend was
that he organized a guaranty company or
dered lot of his employees to file bonds
and sent them to his own company, where
they were charged liberal rate. Now
they are drawing q parallel between that
guaranty company and Daggett's Rosalie
mining scheme.
So John NJ. Daggett Of Siskiyou has
succeeded i'll stirring up another rig and
interesting Democratic mess. The war
will rage from the Twenty eighth District
in San Francisco to the White House and
the halls of Congress.