The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-07
A Meeting Of the General Com.
mittee Will Be Forced
at Once.
VICTORY OR A WATERLOO THEN
Measuring Strength for the Issue of
Primary on the Deuprey
Committee.


ley and the Junta are about to close in in
another life and death struggle in the gen.
eral committee and as the final plans are
being retouched and the final orders given
on each side a somewhat definite survey of
the opposing forces may be made and
foundations found for guesses on the re-
suit.
The Buckley generals have about fixed
on the time for an assault. Within day
or two the Buckley challenge to battle will
be given in the form of petition for a
meeting OF the general committee signed
by fifty members which will be presented
to Chairman A. A. Watkins. Under the
rules the chairman must call meeting in
obedience to such a petition. This petit
ton now lies in a desk at the Occidental
Club with the fifty signatures readily
secured the other night, and Buckley is
about ready for its presentation. The petit
ton will fix the date of the meeting not
more than a week off.
The Buckley programme for the meeting
is to smash the Junta scheme for the APP
pointment of new general committee by
the Deuprey committee by passing resolu-
tons against this revolutionary proceed
ure, condemning the McNabers and their
operations and declaring that the COM
mittee should not adjourn sine die until
a new general committee is elected by the
people of the districts in the usual fair and
| Democratic way. Then primary for the
| election of a new general committee will
be ordered to be held within thirty days.
The Buckleyites have perfect confidence
| that they will run that primary and elect
and control large majority in the new
| party organization.
Ii this programme should be carried out
| in the general committee within few
| days it would definitely and clearly show
what now seems certain-that Buckley and
| his old friends are In control of the party.
That Deuprey committee programme is
| being zealously worked on by the Junta.
The Deuprey committee OF twenty-five,
which was desperately seized on as the
means of salvation by Buckleys enemies
when he appeared few weeks ago, and
which has been arbitrarily declared to have
power to reorganized the party, is at work
| IN connection with the committee of
twenty-five appointed By Chairman Wat
kins. At least such of this fifty as actively
| favor the programme decided on by Nc
Nab, Braunhart, Pepper, Rainey and the
other cooperative generals are at work.
| A new general committee of $50 is about
made up. The fifty have listed themselves
and most of the 225 additional mem bers OF
| the general committee, who were ordered
| as the second section of the new commit
posed to be stanch anti-Buckley Demo-
Gratis.
The committee workers have also pretty
we'll made up the list of the remaining 200
to be appointed from the various districts
outside the general committee to take the
places of 225 members who are not badly
wanted or who don't want to be in the
new committee. Much care and canvassing
is being done in each district in making
the selections by the Junta leaders who
control all the committees operations.
| Their new committee is to be of such good
and reliable stuff to the last man that
Buckley man will never be able to get
| smell of anything on the inside.
With this new general committee about
ready the next thing for the Junta to do
| is to breathe into it the breath of life and
| formally give it the party macne a
! little while ago the MaNaber talked about
doing it all by sim pie proclamation.
| &The new committee would assemble on
the simple authority of the Deuprey com
mittee and go right ahead running the
| party, while the present general commit
tee was to be killed by proclamation by
Chairman Watkins, declaring it adjourned
sine die. Now the talk is that this new
committee, now a-bornin' is to be gwen a
title to the works by the present general
committee. At the next meeting, when
ever that occurs, the Deuprey committee is
to report that by virtue of its sovereign
authority to reorganize the party it has
appointed the following new committee
etc. Then the present general committee
is to approve the report and adjourn sine
die. The new committee will meet at
once, organize and be the regular party
machine.
These two interesting programmes are to
be fought over at the meeting that is so
near. Either one will gain the stamp of