The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
A Sudden Call for the Gen
eral Committee to Meet
Tonight.
DAGGETT'S NEW WAR.
He and Sam Rainey Are Discov.
cred With the Junta in
Their Pockets. =. j.. Z.
THE JUNTA STRIKES. ROCKS.
Mcguire Fights Hard, Lanigan, Harvey
and Others Rebel and Buckley
Waits. =. :.
THE JUNTA STRIKES. ROCKS.


memb bers of the Buckley faction had of it
was at the Iroquois Club at 10 O'Clock,
when they met Mr.. Watkins, according to.
an appointment made in the afternoon.
This call, or rather the time fixed for
the meeting, made the Buckley men
furious. They claimed that they had been
promised three days notice. However,
steps were Immediately taken to send out
and see that every available man on their
side shows up tonight. -.
'It is piece OF sharp practice and bull
doing on the part of Mr.. Watkins, 2 said
Chris Buckley last night at the Occidental
Club after the news came in. Every man
ON their end will have<.notice tonight
The idea OF Watkins masquerading under
the cloak of respectability and lending
himself as tool to such political trick
sters. y man that would resort to tricks
of this sort has no business in decent So
cietv." !: .. >...:..>:.>
Buckley was asked what he would do if
the ma jority OF the committee resolved to
disband. 80.
The majority cannot legislate the
minority out any more than could ma
jority OF the legislature he declared. "If
they do carry through their resolution,
however, the minority will reorganize, fill
up the vacancies, and as the constitution
prescribes, organize precinct clubs, hold
primary and elect new general: commit
tee from the people," :. :" .. -.
There will be tall hustling and the roar
OF battle all day to-day and far into the
night. The Buckley faction has been
hot for a meeting tonight all this week,
but all the satisfaction they could get was
a strong intimation that it would be called
for early next week. The condition of the
battlefield is, otherwise than as to this sur
prise, quite the same, and it is full of new
kinds of fighting and interesting develop
ments in what has been somewhat misty
situation. -
Day before yesterday the mists cleared
sufficiently to those near the inside to re-
veal the towering forms of John NJ. Dag
gett and Sam Rainey, the reformer, side
by side, in control of the Junta and its
scheme of reorganization. Then there was
an explosion, and yesterday the Junta ap-
peared wrecked at last to many who were
up a tree where they could see something.
1t is only day or two since some people
interested realized that Daggett & Rainey
constituted political firm that not only
aspired to control Democratic politics, but
one that was practically absolute boss of
the Junta and its Deuprey committee, its
reform in the interest OF political purity
and its intense anti Buckleyism. That is
the kernel in the nut. :. :
Daggett and Rainey have pooled their
strength for. certain political purposes.
The wisest politicians in the party agree
that this interesting com bination controls
120 votes in the genera! committee. These
120 votes are all included in. the Junta
faction. that is claimed by the :Junta to
constitute the majority that will control
the organization. The Daggett- -Rainey
strength was thus controlling faction in
the anti-BuckIey faction, and when the
committee of fifty, composed Of the Wat
kins and DeupTey committees and con-
trolled by the Junta leaders, came to make
out their list OF the men who were to be
appointed as a new general committee
Daggett and Rainey were able to demand
what they wanted, because without them
nothing at all could be done.
Now Daggett wants to lead the Califor-
MIA delegation of eighteen to the National
Democratic Convention, and to carry as
many as possible of these votes in his
pocket, because he wants not only political
power and success. but he is anxious to
show the administration that Max Pop
per and other Democrats belied him when
they said in Washington that he was an
unpopular appointment.
To do this Daggett,wants the machinery
that elects delegates to the State Conven-
ton from San Francisco. Then with the
votes he could gather up all through the
State, especially from the north, his posi-
81 ho ft1l Pair
wants to be powerful local boss, and it is
universally agreed among the best in
formed Democrats that Daggett and
Rainey when in large control of the local
machine would divide things on this basis.
Thus it was that when the appointment OF
the Deuprey committee became privately
known it was discovered that in the new
organization Daggett and Rainey were to
be all-powerful, with the most OF the rest
of the power given to McNab and Braun
hart.
So, is it any wonder that mighty howl
has begun to go up? This fierce, new
howl comes from within the ranks OF the
Junta that was to SO harmoniously and de-
terminedly charge on the arch-boss, Buck
ley, and win all the decent elements OF the
party to its support.
First to the public ear came the bold
and bitter blasts which Congressman Ma
guire gave the Junta yesterday through
the columns of THE CALL, repudiating the
programme of the Junta and declaring for
primary election-the one thing toward
which the Buckley element had been
working. Mcguire is openly and aggres-
sively in the field against the Junta,
though he was stoutly claimed by Gavin
McNab up to two or three days ago, and
nobody will accuse him of favoring Buck
ley. Mcguire was being shut out OF every
thing and by his arch-enemy, John Dag,
gett. Now, Mcguire wields powerful
political influence. He has a strong fol-
lowing in the general committee, OF which
he and his law partner, Joseph Leggett,
are mem bers, and he is strong and popIl-
lar in the e@party all through the Fourth
Congressional District, especially with the
IRISH and independent elements, and along
the water front, where the seamen are his
trends, Maguire's friends in the general
coIlninlttee are reckoned at between thirty
ahu o. 1orty. He and Leggett will be on the
moor moor OF the next meeting of the committee,
VIII IsI, MS friends, ready for war.
- When the Junta started out to down
buckley Ed Lanigan was one of its lead
eTs. Lanlgan amounts to something po-
htlcaIly and aspires to be quite boss HIM
SELL he Is universally credited with own
ing three Democratic Supervisors and he
owns the forty-first District, besides hav-
lp' scattered strength throughout the