The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-29
MAGUIRE is GOING FOR DAGGETT AGAIN.

his home popularity, as to threaten 60
turn his back on the Cleveland administra-
ton if Daggett is upheld in his asserted
course of political piracy, party debauch-
cry and official mIsdeeds, it is predicted
that Mcguire will at least be able to COM
mand respectful and tolerably patient
nearing.
Not the least among the counts in Ma
CURES indictment will be the charge that
Daggett has, for his selfish personal ends,
ton to the National Convention, worked
discord in the party to the peril of the Ma
tional interests of the party, thrust him
self into the local primary politics of a big
city to which he was a stranger, and
forced therein the people he controlled
through his Government patronage.
These past three or four weeks that
have elapsed with much political gayety
have been jeweled with opportunities for a
politician IN Mr.. Maguire's position to find
out things about politician in Mr.. Dag
gett's position. The local fight between
Buckley and some Independent elements
of the party, including Mcguire, and the
combination starred principally by Rainey,
guire visited Washington last time. This
fight has given the CONGRESSMAN a whole
new caisson of ammunition and whole
new regiment to help work his battery.
1t is very likely that Cleveland and
Carlisle haven't heard m UGH about Chair
man Watkins election in the local general
committee three or four weeks ago or
about the way things went week ago
Saturday night, when Gavin McNab had
the gas turned off. in the hope that Rainey
and Daggett could get safely away with
the organization by the back door.
Now in this local fight John M. Daggett
has singularly distinguished himself as a
politician and done number of things of
which Mcguire has heard. He will tell
the folks in Washington about it all.
Those older matters, like taking the wash
ing away from Senator Buggy, will take a
back place for the things freshly dug from
the rich local political mess of the present.
Mcguire will try to make showing to the
effect that Daggett has been guilty of
offensive and indecent partisanship in the
way he has marshaled the people under
him to do his political work with Sam
Rainey, regardless of their individual in
clinations.
What specific things Mcguire will draw
from the recent local fight for presentation
at Washington are not given out, but it is
declared by his friends that there is plenty
to exhibit to Daggett's discredit. 1t is
matter of common knowledge among inter-
ested local politicians that when the two
factions were getting ready for that battle
in which A A. Watkins defeated James II.
O'Brien by vote of 1s4 to 154 Daggett
summoned man after man from their en-
ployments in the Mint to his private office
and gave them peremptory orders what to
do. Daggett had shrewdly placed his local
patronage where he could best use it for
himself, and he was able to exert strong
influence in the general committee of $50.
In this committee were quite number of
members who have places in the Mint.
Some of them, of course, have been from
the start eagerly enough on the Daggett-
Rainey side of the fight, but some have not
been. Not man, however, dared to do
anything but vote for Watkins that night.
Among the general committeeman in
the Mint are John Collins, George Ryan,
c. S. Arms, ]. P. Fenton, Charles Nc
Courtney and Fred Murphy. These men
belong to various districts. Then there
are other Mint employees who had relatives
in the regular general committee. Nathan
Seelig is one, and he has two brothers in
the Twenty-ninth and Thirty seventh dis
tricts respectively, whose votes are thus
controlled by Daggett. W. II. McGeeney
of the Forty-frst has sister in the Mint,
Con Sullivan has father there, and so on.
Other Mint employees could control friends.
Senator Mitchell of the Thirty-third is in
the Mint and is credited with controlling
three or four votes in that district and
others could be used as political influences
in various ways. A number of Mint en-
ployes not in the general comm ittee are
members of the Junta's new one, and rela-
tives of Others are in the new committee,
as for instance, the father and brother of
State Senator Mitchell.
This gives partial insight into the local
power the Boss from Siskiyou has acquired
through the tactical force of Government
patronage power which, when combined
with Sam Rainey's, amounted to over 100
votes in the general committee at the time
of Watkins election, and which was strong
control the appointment of the Junta's
new general committee and dictate its
policy. This partnership power is yet a
practically controlling one in the anti
Buckley organization. 1t has been the
way Daggett and Rainey were "hogging"
the power that has caused various warm
and dangerous quarrels in the Junta.
1t is Daggett's way of using this patron
age, proven in the recent disgraceful row,
that Mcguire will make the most of. He
will also maintain his stand that the Dag
gett-Rainey organization is a revolution.
airy one, with record of low political
trickery and with no title to the party.
He will show the attempted wreck of the
regular organization at the risk of party
defeat, and argue that Daggett has been
ready to sacrifice party interests to his per-
sonal ends. All around he has plenty of
lew material to add to his original
charges, which, it is limited, he is prepared
to strengthen with new evidence.
And then this Democratic row has come
Just IN time to stir lot of Daggett's old
enemies and lot of new ones into activity
against him. The whole Buckley faction
is naturally just now eager to Jump onto
John NJ. Daggett, and strong Democratic