The San Francisco call., 1895-12-24
BUCKLEY TELLS STORIES,
One Is About Clifton Mayne
and That Metropolitan
Franchise.
The Other Is His Explanation of Why
Big Newspaper is His
Enemy.

Chris Buckley, the Ravenswood farmer,
got back to the City night before last after
two weeks stay in rural parts, and the
advice and consultation which the CHIEF
engineers OF the Buckley faction prize Sc
highly and heed so well could be secured
by the leaders at the Occidental Club yes
terday in larger amounts than over the
telephone wire.
Buckley and his supporters are losing NO
opportunity of declaring that Boss Buck
ley is out of politics. Chris and his friends
said so again yesterday. The Buckleyites
want to be in a position to say to the pub
lie and to the State convention: "It's a
libel. We are not Buckley faction, but
the regular Democratic party. Buckley
may be friendly to some of US personally,
but be is out of politics; isn't controlling
this organization, and will keep his hands
off. All this 'BuckleyP cry is hula
baloo raised by this handful of reyo-
lutionists to get hold of the parity"
That is what they will say and they will
try to make that bluff win.
So Buckley kindly advises his friends
what to do and how to do and they follow
all of his advice, but Mr.. Buckley is out
of politics. There is probably involved
somewhere in the proposition great big
difference between 'advice" and "direc-
ton, and this when discovered will ex-
PLAIN clearly Mr.. Buckley outness.
Buckley told his story of the Clifton f.
Mayne matter-tbe matter of Mr.. Mayne' S
recent stories that he went in with Buckley
in 1880 to run the Metropolitan Electric
Railway franchise through the Board of
Supervisors by methods which brought
about Mayne's indictment by Grand
Jury while Buckley wrongly escaped.
Buckley'S story was as follows:
Mayne was introduced to me in 1890 by At
torney George Perry. Mayne explained his
railway franchise scheme and wanted me to
take an interest in it. l sized him up ad-
yenturer and one incapable of managing such
scheme. He said that he had bonded great
deal OF land near the Park and he appeared to
be professional boomer anxious to carry out
big real estate scheme.
/ refused to have anything to do with the
scheme, but Mayne persisted especially in Oc-
tober, 1890. All / said to any of the Super
visors was TO advise them TO let the thing alone,
and especially cautioned them not to 90 any
thing looking like s'clean-up'' before going
out OF office. IN November l went to Europe,
and the franchise was given while l was in
London and had nothing to do with it.
will say that Mayne told me during q talk
afterward that he had made contract with
the managing editor OF a morning paper by
which the paper was to back the measure and
get lhdyOr IOIu u igu 1t duQ T6ct1f6 PlZ,OOO
If the scheme was successful. The paper, he
said, lived up to its agreement, and he said
that he had foolishly surrendered the contract.
About four months ago, shortly after he was
indicted by the Grand Jury for some fraud in
another direction Mayne called on me and
said that some of my enemies had offered to
clear him OF the Indictment if would swear to
some statements they had prepared and on
which they wanted to irdiet me. He adj
mitted that l had never had any business
transactions with him. He declared that he
was not guilty of the charge against him, and
as he n ad come to Inc for advice, | advised him
TO stand trial openly.
asBuckley also gave his explanation
of why certain influential journal is now
and has been vigorously opposing him
His story involved certain half-forgotten
electric light franchise which was not
granted in 1890.
The proprietor of that journal came to me in
the fall OF 1890 with information that he
wanted afranchise for an electric light company
and asked me to go and see his business repre-
sentative in>the Nevada block. This man told
me that the people interested had 500 900 in
vested n the electric light scheme and couldn't
get franchise from the Supervisors. Then he
said, "Now, you are the Board OF Supervisors, >
and offered me 5000 shares at 81 share.
both declined and resented the offer and left
but before l went ! was told that the news
paper in question would ruin me. The attach
was soon begun and has been kept up eyel
since
Buckley, who for a short time has
made the Savoy his City headquarters, has
returned to the Baldwin Hotel