The San Francisco call., 1895-10-07
The Deuprey Com mittee to
Reorganize the Democracy
at Once.
TO SURELY SHUT OUT CHRIS.
Watkins VIII Enlarge the Com
mittee About Which Hot
War; Is Pending.

enjoy battle between Blind Boss and a
Junta.
McNab, Rainey, Welburn and Daggett,
the Big Four, re-enforced by Ed Lanigan,
Samuel Braunhart and the rest of the anti
Buckley lieutenants, will proceed strongly
and boldly with the reorganization of the
party this week. 1t is plain that the pres
ent party organization is about to go to
smash anyway. The Buckley forces,
who are out to save the party from Chris
in the name of decency and purity, pro-
pose to create new general committee ac-
cording to some plan right away
This ancient general committee is moth
eaten and unsatisfactory ali around, 1t
has been in existence since the spring of
1892 when it was created by the unsuccess-
full Sullivan-Dwyer revolutionists, and it
has long outlived its natural term of life
already. That is bad for one reason, be-
cause in both wings Of the party there are
plenty of good Democrats, nu N bered with
the outs, who have long been grumbling.
"Well. is this committee going to last for
eVer?" and who want chance to be on
some sort of a general or county commit
tee, go to conventions, and generally have
''put in" in the party affairs. So on both
sides a fresh start is wanted.
The Junta finds stronger reason for
quick and decisive action in this line in the
startling strength that Buckley has de-
veloped in the committee. There is no
telling how much he has or may soon
swell the 154 votes Jim O'Brien got the
other night, and if Buckley gets majority
in the committee there will be nothing left
for the other side but clean bolt and rev.
olution. So the Junta's programme is to
quickly reorganize the party by creating a
new general committee of 450, by some
method that will insure it to be the anti
Buckley element. The method will be the
one that appears the most certain and ex-
pedient.
On the other hand, in the contingency
that Buckley does capture the committee
through force of habit or otherwise, the
local governing body will Just as surely
be re-created somehow. Buckley would
want a new deal for the boys and would
want a committee fashioned in a more
workmanlike and finished way. Should
Buckley capture the committee and pro-
ceed in his masterful way to establish a
new and strong party organization it is
not generally believed that he would 'play
the hog"
Christopher is blessed peacemaker who
has come to conciliate, aIlay, harmonic
and unite. He doesn't want lot of Dem
ocrats to go off and wreck the grand old
party, and he isn't trying to purify the
party by getting even Gavin McNab out of
It, There would be quite a number of
front seats and other nice things offered
the Junta and its present following with
his blessing.
othere will, with small doubt, be another
meeting of the general committee pretty
soon. Whichever side feels sure of
majority will cali the meeting. At such q
meeting, it Is expected, the confident side
will propose plan of reorganization to be
denounced and tiercely opposed by the
other side. 1t might be that both the
Buckley and the McNab forces would feel
confident and go into battle. Many say
that should the Buckley side feel sure of a
small majority when some proposition for
reorganization came along from that Deu-
prey committee or some other source, it
would be cordially welcomed by the Buck
ley side, which might next proceed to
make some slight amendments.
So war, smash and new things confront
the local Democracy, all because the exc
Grated boss has guessed that he has lived
down past, thinks that he has future,
and has come with ingenious effrontery
and brazen modesty to claim the Demo-
cratic party. 1t is to be regretted that no
body in whose judgment implicit faith can
be placed will say how strong Buckley is
or is likely to become. The Junta people
say that the Buckley forces are already
dislntegrating, that he is beaten, that the
majority against him is larger than on
Wednesday night, and that he will soon be
driven into the sewer, where he belongs.
Buckley men claim certain victory and
wink and smile. There are a great many
people in town who do not think that
Buckley is false alarm" as the poll
ticlans say.
The antl-Buckley programme is an in
teresting one, as far as it had been de-
veloped yesterday. 1t is now proposed to
call the Deuprey committee of twenty five
together this week and have Chairman
Watkins appoint committee of like size
from among the members of the general
committee, to act with it. The chairman
has not been authorized by the general
committee to appoint any committee to
kill it, but the chairman probably has the
inherent power. A member of the Junta
said yesterday that this would probably be
done. That would give the Buckley side
fine chance to howl with astonishment and
Indignation.
This joint committee is to prepare q
plan OF reorganlzing the party. ''Reor-
ganization" seems to be used incorrectly,
as the process is, in its ultimate nature,
simply the establishment of new general
committee in place of one whose two years
term of life has expired, as should, in the
regular order of things, have been done
over year ago. 1t is the method that is
going to make the war. The natural way
1ct VI NOOioCt oAA OPSAA VI OAuU Y,
free to all the party.
The way the junta is going about it
leaves wide room for protest, long war and
a pretty mess. The jurisdiction of the
Deuprey committee, its powers and the
regularity of anything it and any arbitra-
rily associated committee may do will be
subjects OF hot contention. But then all
that will be incidental though interesting.
1t is might and not regularity and techni-
calities that is going to rule. Both sides
are after 1.-The works" and practical expe-
diency will govern. Technicalities will be
seized on and protested against as they suit
factional interests.
Still, the technical situation of the Deu-
prey committee is a thing of timely inter-
est and it promises to be made much of.
In the dispute over it the junta claims
that the committee was appointed to re-
organize the party, with power to act, and
it is just now declared that it will proceed
to do so. OF course, incidentally there is
no knowing what the committee itself may
do when it gets together and how far the
present leaders will influence its action.
1t is, however, almost solidiy anti Buckley
The Buckley men declare that when that
committee was announced on the closing
night of the last municipal convention
resolution was adopted by the convention
referring that committee and ANYTHING it
might do wholly to the general com mitfee.