The San Francisco call., 1895-10-08


sary it would be taken, and properly so,
and it would be approved by the State
Central Committee as was the case with
the successful Sullivan-Dwyer reorganizers
in 1892
When that Sullivan-Dwyer executive
committee contended with the regular"
County Committee before the State Cen
trail Committee in 1892 for recognition it's
plan, which included the complete shut
ting out of the Buckleyites and extraordi-.
nary powers for the executive committee,
was amended, curtailing those powers and
providing for a primary election open to
all Democrats. AT that primary the reor-
ganizers won complete victory and
elected the general committee now to die.
This precedent of the recognition OF all
elements of the party may, by the way,
have an important bearing on the contest
which the present State Central Commit
tee may possibly8have to settle.
In 1892 the regular" organization was
bowling about the irregularity, etc., of the
''Sutter-street Democracy" and asking it
where it got its license to reorganize the
party.
J. j. Dwyer, chairman of the revolution
ary organization, answered the question in
an eloquent mass-meeting speech by de-
claring: 4 tell them we got our charter
from the hand of Almighty God and the
| Declaration of Independence.
1t is that spirit which, in the junta, now
waits to see how these tecfnicalities about
the Deuprey committe come out.
! Samuel Braunhart, who is more active
in the fight every day, said some things at
the Occidental last night which let light
into some corners. He first told this story
about the Deuprey committee:
1.-The idea of that committee, which the
committee on permanent organization
authorized the chairman of the convention
to appoint, originated with James f.
Smith, chairman of the committee of
which / was a member. At that time it
was evident that the general committee
might fall into the hands of Buckley, who
was making his influence felt AS you re-
member, the primary election had been
called off at the last minute by Max Pop
per, who was afraid of Buckley, and
the general committee itself elected
| delegates to the convention and
remained in existence. 1t was thought
that propositions about the organization
of the party might come up in the conven-
ton, and the idea was to have special
and strong committee to refer them to-.
No resolutions of that kind came up in the
convention, and the committee was not
announced until the last night. Now,
Peter f. Dunno, who led in opposing it,
moved to refer the work of the committee
to the general committee after the election.
His own resolution shows that 1t was un-
derstood then and by his side that the
committee should act in the future. Now
they say the committee was only a
convention committee. They say that
Deuprey arbitrarily gave the commit
tee full power to act,' but
that was the understanding of the commit
tee that provided for it. Them as to that
reference to the general committee, there
is no question about there being no
quorum. Only few minutes before there
was Tollcall on motion to adjourn sine
die, and our men left the hall or refused to
vote, with the result that mo quorum was
declared. There is no question about the
authority of the Deuprey committee
Mr.. Braunhart recalled some Democratic
convention history, from which he de-
Quoted interesting political wisdom that is
now timely and is being profted by the
junta.
lou S60 dt tudt tlI1e buckley anu
Rainey were busy, and the lack of organi-
cation on our side gave them their oppor-
tunity. The opponents of Buckley in the
convention had no effective organization
and the candidates were hocking to the
stables. Just before the convention the
situation was considered in caucus held
at the Baldwin attended by Jere Lynch
Barclay Henley, Max Pepper, Christian
Refs, George T. Marye, Charles Weller
myself and Others, and an organization
was proposed to control the convention in
opposition to Buckley and Rainey. II
was voted down on the ground that we
too, would be charged with programming
the convention. The result was confusion
in the opposition to Buckley and Rainey
The iunta never controlled the conven
ton. If we had been organized to NEE
the delegates the result would have beer
different.
"The gentlemen in the present move
ment propose to act on more practica
lines. In other words, they propose to 'dt
c politics. though clean politics. In thu
. event of success the workers, irrespective
+, of former affiliations, will be taken care OF
"No one proposes to set himself up il
this combination as boss. The men nov
in this movement are actuated by one de
1 sire, and for the time being have set asid
all their differences to accomplish the an
inhalation of Buckley"
What part is Rainey taking9" wa
asked.
, II have seen no evidence that Rainey
taking any active interest in the fight
; The friends of Chief Sullivan are aidin
him in his sincere efforts to keep the de
partment out of politics. I have no ide
what Mr.. Rainey will do. He has state,
to several of his friends that he is out G
politics. There is certainly no possibilit
of Buckley capturing the organization
The State Central Committee would neve
9 allow it, anyway"
i For two days the report has been freel
u circulated in the anti-Buckley camp tha
q on Saturday Buckley sent representativ
to Stockton in an effort to capture the in
fluence of Chairman Frank I'll. Gould {
the State Central Committee. The Stat
i Central Committee will of course be a fina
r | court of appeal If two local party organi