The San Francisco call., 1895-10-13

is reward of virtue which is counted on
much to give strength to the Junta and to
keep weak fellows from straying into
Buckley's camp.
The possession of the chairman and Sec
retary of the general committee is big
trump, too. The situation promises that
it will be played in few minutes or so.
The Junta doesn't want any more meet
ings of the general committee. 1t would be
simply a waste of time and it would be
hazarding too much with the possibility
that Buckley would be found to have a
majority at another meeting. The adjourn
ment week ago Wednesday night was
carefully taken ''to the call of the chair
Secretary Thomas P. Cusick is with the
Junta, being deputy in Welburn's office.
Without the chairman and secretary how
could the Buckleyites secure meeting
that would be technically regular? Wat
kins would ignore any petition for meet
ing and Cusick wouldn't send out single
notice. That illustrates the decisive i'm.
portance of that fight for the chairman
ship. If Buckley had four-ifths of the
committee and the four-ffths met it would
be simply a voluntary mass-meeting.
So as the Junta is apparently afraid to
risk another meeting it is not likely that
one will be held. 1t is intimated that
when the new committee is created Chair
man Watkins will calmly declare the old
committee out OF existence, without any
funeral service, and the new organization
will go right ahead as though it were a
very nice day, leaving the Buckley mi
nority or majority to enjoy life in its
freest way.
The able form of Max Pepper suddenly
rises among the anti Buckley leaders. On
the anti-Buckley side the forces and COM
binations will keep changing somewhat
like the pretty things in kaleidoscope.
Max is right in the fight now. AT the Oc-
cidental Hotel he and McNab and Braun
hart oft bunch their heads. He knows To-
cal Democratic politics like one who helped
make them, and the present general COM
mittee is to him an open primer. People
have been saying that Pepper was dead
leader, but death is very uncertain in poll
tics, as Mr.. Buckley is demonstrating.
Max is ''out of politics" he says, and that
is reminder of the remarkable number of
very active men who are out of politics
just now.
Several people politically wise pondered
yesterday over the twenty-five. appointed
by Chairman Watkins, and tried to find
riddles and solve them. 1t was decided
that Max Peppers influence would be
pretty strong in that committee. 1t was
generally. Judged that the. twenty-five
would be influenced about as follows:
OF the members at large, A. A. Watkins
would be largely controlled by McNab and
Pepper. P. J. Harney, Port Warden, is
especially intimate with Braunhart and
Pepper. Pepper and Braunhart have been
political twins for good while, and Pop
per is strong influence behind Braunhart.
James Denman has been friend and
standby to Pepper ever since the Sullivan
Dwyer revolution. Joseph Leggett, the
law partner of Congressman Mcguire, has
no affinity for Daggett of the Junta, but is
friendly to McNab. McNab has consid-
cradle control over Gavin McNab. L. v.
Merle has always worked with Pepper in
the Iroquois Club.
The Representatives OF the districts are
sized up as follows: Henry Healy of the
Twenty eighth owes Ed Lanigan for a Job
under the Board of Supervisors. e. P.
Troy Of the Thirtieth is especially close to
Pepper, as is Troy's brother. who was
once secretary of the State Central Com
mittee through Pepper influences. Ex-