The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
Will Trim Sails and Produce a
New General Committee
Thursday.
MAGUIRE HAS A FAIR PLAN.
There Will Now Be Two Democratic
Machines and Two Primaries
Instead of None.

Lie ClanOr ana events Ol IOCdl DeHO-
cratic war came at quick time yesterday.
New tangles appeared and new plans were
formed amid the busy discussion OF the
| great general committee meeting of Satur-
day and the fierce exchange OF You did"
and "You didn't
The Junta pulled itself together yester-
day, got up a new and highly interesting
programme and went, almost fercely. to
work on it.
The Junta started from the assumption
that there is no general committee at all
| now since Chairman Watkins declared the
old one adjourned sine die after calling
the ayes and not the noes. So the COM
| mittee of fifty, composed of the Deuprey
| and Watkins committees, is the sole local
Democratic governing body, and it must
go ahead and create new general COM
mittee.
1t was concluded to do this in hurry.
Last night Chairman w. P. Sullivan and
| other leaders wrote and hustled out notices
for meeting of the committee of fifty for
Wednesday night. At this meeting the
| list of the new $50 to constitute the general
| committee will be completed and the men,
bers appointed notified.
Then on Thursday evening this new
general committee will meet, effect per-
manent organization and do something or
other important at once. This will be a
dav ahead of the meeting of the regular
general committee, and it is supposed that
there will be some advantage in doing
something first.
This is merely carrying out the original
Junta program me in big hurry, but
beyond this the programme is wholly
changed. Rainey, Daggett, McNab ct al.
have wisely realized the opposition to an
autccratic government and the universal
popularity in the party of the primary
| idea. So sails have been trimmed to the
popular breeze and the ship Junta, by
throwing the helm, has been steered
toward the regular good old Democratic
course.
Yesterday it was announced that the
new general committee to be appointed
was to be only a provisional committee
anyway. The programme now is for this
new and clean ana anti Buckley commit
tee of Rainey and Daegetts to order a
primary to be held right off to allow "the
people" to elect a committee.
This primary will be held right away,
| too. So, as the regular organization,
backed by the Buckley faction, the sup
porters of Mcguire and the body of the
primary next Friday night, there are In
| sight for popular delectation two grand
and rival Misunderstanding for purity
and Buckley's for Democracy.
The general committee is adjourned
sine die and we are going right ahead"
said Chairman Sullivan last night. ave
will not recognize the Friday night meet
ing or have anything to do with it. They
| may meet as much as they please and do
what they please. Then, this committee
never reorganized the authority of the gen.
erai committee anyway. Our power to
| recognize the party was given us by the
municipal convention and we are exerciS-
ing 1t. This provisional committee or $50
will probably order primary soon, but
the details are all yet to be arranged"
On the other hand there is Joy, the
| thrill of victory and renewed activity for
the future in the Buckley camp. The po-
sition of the Buckleyites who have demon
strated that the Junta was badly beaten in
the general committee is naturally that
the general committee, the legal and only
existing party machine, the rival general
committee now a-bornin will be simply a
revolutionary body composed of few fol-
lowers OF few bosses who will proclaim,
I'VE are the people and the Democratic
party" The present general committee
will go right ahead under its constitution
and bylaws, hold primary and generally
cHJoy VIC advantage Ol De1HS the regular,
lawful and only proper machine.
The adjournment to Friday night. made
by motion put by Vice President Roths-
child, required three days notice OF the
place by the chairman of the committee or
the vice chairman who presided at the
close of the meeting. To-day is the day
when 1t is necessary for that notice to be
given. 1t is conceded that Mr.. Watkins
will not issue the call, but the Buckleyites
will wait until the evening, and then if
Mr.. Watkins has not acted the call VIII be
issued by Vice-Chairman Rothschild. AS
things look now the meeting of Friday
night will be quite easy and harmonious,
as the Junta people will keep away and
their opponents will be in undisputed
possession of the machine.
The extent to which Mcguire has been
controlling factor in the defeat of the
Junta, which has now retired from the
battlefield to play on its own battle-ground,
and in the triumph of the primary idea in
the party, has not been generally realized.
1t was Mcguire who made the present stu
alton. A few days ago it was Buckley
vs.. Junta fight Three or four days ago
Mcguire rose and stepped forth with blast
after blast against the scheme OF his en-
envy, Daggett. cried flair play" and ex-
pounded Democratic law. The party's IL
terest quickened and the moral force OF the
demand for primary regardless OF BUCK
ley became irresistible and triumphant.
Under what plan the regular primary
Will be called and held has not been set