The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18
VIGOROUS PROTEST AGAINST Dis
RUPTI0N OF THE: GENERAL
COMMITTEE.
OPEN PRIMARIES INVITED
DAGGETT, WATKINS AND MCNAB
SHARPLY CENSURED BY THE
SPEAKERS.

ne NIL tribes OF the occidental Club,
under the leadership OF Buckley, have not
by any reckoning been vanquished by the
committees of Gavin McNab and John
Daggett. Buckley's followers at the Occi-
dental yesterday boasted that they were
sustained by the real voting and working
strength in nearly all the Assembly dis
tricts, while the McNab-Daggett contin-
gent represented little more than the COM
mitteemen elected to reorganize the party.
Word was passed from club to club
throughout the City yesterday that a meet
ing OF Democrats, independent of Fed
eraI patronage and outside of the Deu-
prey committee, would be held for con-
suitstion in the lower hall of Metropolitan
Temple at o'clock. The call for the
meeting aroused the keenest interest
among the followers of Buckley. They
We're sure their leader would fight to the
end, but they were not expecting the glad
tldlngs of immediate action.
An authentic report quickly gained cir
culation that Buckley was at headquarters
on the hill personally "giving advice" so
many of the district leaders hastened to
the Occidental Club to be advised.
buckley, surrounded by faithful BODY
guard, arrived at headquarters shortly
after O'Clock. So anxious were manv of
the assembled statesmen IN waiting that
they went down the garden stairway to
greet the boss at the gate and get in
W0rd or two before the conference opened.
The interviews were short. A few words
were spoken to each active lamb leaving
headquarters. 1t was understood that
secrecy was imposed as to certain instruc-
uons impaired, but no secret was made of
the fact that Buckley had resolved to
mas - /, u
Naob and Daggett. Openly it was asserted
that Buckley would not quietly submit to
organization OF the party by self-consti-
tuted leaders, who had no following worth
reckoning outside of persons employed
IN the United States Mint and the Revenue
Collectors office.
Claims put forth by McNah that the
lroquois clubs, which Max Pepper has
been so active in organizing for several
months, would support the Deuprey COM
mlttee were disputed by the Democrats of
the Occidental Club. They stoutly main
tanned that Pepper could not swing the
1roQuols braves to the support of the Fed
eraI brigade. Buckley, they say, had 8
many followers among the Iroquois as |
McNab could muster.
The line on which Buckley proposes to
fight ii ouS with the Federal brigade was |
distinctly disclosed at the Metropolitan |
Temple last evening. AS early as 80 |
o'clock members of the general committee |
began to assemble in the lower hall. Buck |
ley did not appear him self, but he was rep |
resented by Colonel O'Byrne, ?. +. Dunno, |
James O'Brien, Joseph Rothschild, P. H. |
Dundon and many others.
1t was shortly made known that the
members OF the general committee at
tending-the men who stood so resolutely
for James O'Brien when a A. Watkins
was elected two weeks ago-had resolved
10 resist to the end every effort to dissolve
this committee and vest its powers in the
Deuprey and Watkins committee of fifty.
The meeting was called to order by Jo-
seph Rothschild, one OF the vlce-presidents
OF the general committee, and Thomas L.
Ford was elected secretary.
The roll OF the entire committee was
called by districts and the responses were:
Twenty-eighth Assembly District =. Twenty
ninth s, Thirtieth 4, 1hirty-frst z, Thirty
second 9, Thirty-third 9, Thirty-fourth II,
Thirty-fifth 8, Thirty-siXth Is. Thirty-seventh
5, Thirty-eighth i, Thirty-ninth 13, Forteth 4,
Forty-frst 9, Forty-second 4, Forty-third l6
Forty-fourth D. Forty-fifth 5. Total 14O.
Others came in before the rollcall was COM
pleted and their names We're added to the
list. Additions we're made until the chair
man announced the presence of 160 mem
bers-four more than o. Brien s vote in the
contest with Watkins. Announcement of
the attendance was greeted by great dem
onstratlons OF approval.
Wien the chair announced that the
]. J. O'Byrne introduced a long preamble
and resolution setting forth the proceed
lngs Of the Democratic municipal conven-
tion and the recognition of the general
committee by that body, and the further
action of the convention that the motion
to appoint committee of twenty-five
should be referred to the general commit
tee to be disposed of after election.
In conclusion the document is as fol-
lows:
ReSolUed, That any attempt of any individual
or set of individuals to disorganize the general
committee by adjournment sine die or other
wise is against the interests of the Democratic
party of the City and County of San Francisco.
Therefore, we pledge ourselves to resist any
attempt to disrupt, disorganize or dissolve said
body in the interest of formation OF a slate
committee to be vested illegally with our fixed
rights and powers, and allow such clique to
constitute themselves the Democratic party of
San Francisco, and we bind ourselves TO stand
together in protecting our plan OF organiza-
tion and the district and precinct system of
representation.
The resolution also denounced the &C
ton of the Deuprey committee in organizing
TO control the party as illegal and revolu-
tionary. The acts of a. A. Watkins in ap-
pointing twenty-five men to join the Deu-
prey committee, without the consent of the
general committee, were also pronounced
illegal and revolutionary.
Colonel J. j. OByrne advanced to the
platform and spoke to the resolutions. He
began by saying that he was under obliga-
tions to no boss and did not recognize boss
control.
:'We want" he said, "neither boss nor
clown to rule this town" Unless home
rule in our municipal affairs be sustained
by the public conscience there can be no
success N the Democratic party. He paid
his respects to Gavin McNab, calling that
member of the Junta "cold icy fanatic''
who had joined hands with friend Sam
Rainey laughterl and the immaculate
Daggett of Siskiyou. Daggett was alluded
TO as one now encrusted with purity, but
one who faltered and was read out of his
party church when resolute man was re-
quired to stand up against monopoly. He
spoke of Thomas Jefferson's great service
10 the country in resisting the encroach-
ments of the FederalIsts and standing by
the principles of liberty as represented in
home rule. He feared that the Federal
officeholders of San Francisco to-day had
taken up the heresies SO common early in
the century. tIf we expect to rule this
town we must stand up against these Fed
eral officeholders, who are seeking to or
ganiZe the re iected elements of the Darty.p