The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-05
Junta People Getting Ready to
Throw Over Rainey and
Daggett.
A BUCKLEY ARRAY FRIDAY.
The Fire Ladies' In and Out Prepar.
ing for Old.Time Pri.
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The Buckley primary committee has
called meeting of the regular general
committee for Friday evening at B'nai
Birth Hall, when a lot more primary and
other business will be transacted.
1t was practically decided at the last
meeting that the enrolment for the pri-
mary should begin December 8, and that
the primary should be held January a.
Wanting little more time, the primary
committee Of twenty five has now changed
the programme to the extent of setting
the dates for the enrolment, primary, ETC.,
one week later than those named before.
This will start the enrolment on the 10th
inst, and it fixes the primary for Janu.
airy IL
When the constitution of the general
committee was amended over year ago
it was provided that the general commit
tee to be elected at the primary ordered at
that time was to consist of fifteen from
each district, instead of twenty-five. That
primary was choked off at the last minute
and the existing committee remained in
power. At the meeting Friday evening
the constitution will be amended by pro-
viding that the old number of twenty-five
shall be elected at the coming primary.
Buckley wants as big committee as the
other people have.
Night before last the district delegations
IN the Junta met at the respective places
announced and organized for the work of
enrolment by eleoting officers and can
vassing committees.
Everything IS now ready for the Junta's
district enrolment. which will begin this
evening and continue for three nights.
Blank rolls have been given out, and at
the top of each page is the following
pledge:
am Democrat, am opposed to all forms of
bossism in the Democratic party and pledge
myself to support the nominees of the Demo-
cratic party at the next general election.
The primary committee has also an
nounced the following rules regarding the
enrolment:
Enrolment is to continue each evening from
z 80 to $50 o'clock. At the close of each
evenings enrolment the chairman and Sec
rotary shall sign their names In the line FOL
lowing the last name enrolled. Reports OF the
number enrolled shall be made at headquarters
each evening. No person can sign for another
unless the person wishing to sign is unable to
do so himself. In such cases the signature
must be attested. During the hours of en-
rollment an officer of the district committee
must be present.
AS the Junta rushes on It's way toward
its primary that is to be ordered very soon,
the talk and promise that Rainey and
probably Daggett, too will be dumped"
by the rest of the com blnatlOn grow
stronger and more definite.
That is the programme that several in
fuential elements of the anti-Buckley COM
bination have in mind, and some of them
are confidentially declaring right along
that Rainey will be thrown out as soon as
it can be done conveniently. Those who
do not go this far predict split and q
shake-up of some sort before great while
between the firm of Rainey and Daggett
on one side and their enemies, including
Max Pepper, Sam Braunhart, Ed Lanigan,
Welburn and others who may or may not
be joined by Gavin McNab, w. P. Sullivan
and others in that play.
Whenever Rainey talks about any of
those fellows or the whole anti-Buckley
outfit, of which he has been a mainstay for
his own purposes, he never fails to use
terms unfit for publication. Only Judge
Mcguire holds higher place than Max
Pepper in John Daggett's disesteem, and
now Max is the strongest and most active
of the, cooperative bosses of the outfit,
with large following in the new general
committee. Pepper denies any possibility
of the truth of new rumor that he is to
be chairman of the new general committee
to be elected, and says that it will be w.
P. Sullivan, of course. He says that he
has had quite plenty, thank you, of chair
manships, and is simply interested in the
good cause of keeping Chris Buckley from
starting in where he left Off.
But he execrates Sam Rainey Just as