The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-23
He B|DES WITH BUCK.
RAILROAD COMMISSIONER STAN
TONS OPINION OF THE
REORGANIZERS.
ALREADY CANvAssING THE Dis
TRICTS AND PREPARING FOR THE
New GENERAL COMMITTEE.

"1ou ask me why | am opposed to the
Junta-the reorganlzers, as they call them
selves" said DR.. James Stanton yester-
day. "I'll tell you. 1t is because / do not
think the party should be divided against
itself, and particularly because I do not
recognize the validity of these ex traordi-
nary committees.
1.-THE men who are at the head of the
movement are not the sort of men that in
spire confidence; they are tyros at the
game of politics and have in no way dem
onstrated their fitness to lead. Take our
friend Max Pepper, for instance. We have
had him at the head of affairs time or
two, and whenever there was an attack,
W henever a moment came when the proper
sort Of a leader would stand up and guide
his party; Max has resigned. A sensitive
spirit IS good thing, but for the head of a
party organization to resign when his SER
vices are most needed, does not strike ME
as signal proof of his ability.
Then this cry of Buckleyism! / have
known Buckley for fifteen years. He has
sometimes given me advice in politics, and
in the City has always been considered q
Buckley nomination. All Buckley asked
me to do was TO attend to the peoples
business as carefully as I would my own.
Buckley is boogie man to these gen.
tlemen. Why, during the investigation of
the freight rates not long ago Buckley
happened to meet me on Montgomery
street. Out of this chance incident a cir
cumstantial story was created. 1t was
intimated that Buckley had come to me
direct from the railroad office, and it was
presumed that | would do whatever the
railroad asked through Mr.. Buckley. OF
course man OF any sense would know
| that Rnollau 10 pn foolish b
| choose Montgomery street in broad day.
| light to make an illicit proposition to an
| office-holder
| They talk about the Occidental Club,
and want to read out of the party all who
belong to 1t. If they are going to crowd out
every man who has been friendly to Buck
| ley they will have but small party left
1t Is not back beyond the memory of men
when Mr.. Pepper was stanch for Buckley,
| ana, II my recollection serves me right
| Gavin McNab himself accepted nominal
ton as Supervisor from the boss.'
1t Is the presence of such men as the
Railroad Commissioner in the Buckley
ranks that worries the Junta. Stanton
| just now stands very high among the vir-
tuous Democrats. They compare the record
he has made as Railroad Commissioner
with that of W. w. Foote, and Foote's
record was enough to place the nomina-
| ton Tor Governor In his grasp had he
UOo ib W ctIOiiS5 OLdHGCH now LDdL
he will be offered mem bership in the
| new general committee by the Forty
| fifth District, an offer he Will decline,
| because he is not in sympathy with the
| reorganiZers.
| Men are already at work canvassing the
| districts, and the preparations for battle
at the primary elections are well under
| way.
The Neutrality-suspicious. contingent
say Buckley is certain to be overwhelm-
| Ingly defeated at the primaries. The ex-
| boss, they say, has forgotten nothing
and learned nothing. He does not realize
that methods of ten years ago will not do
| now. The time when he could send an
ex-convict with orders that nobody dared
| disobey-the time when he would sur
round polling place with thugs and over
awe respectable citizens-is back in the
| dark ages of San Francisco politics, but he
| does not know it and is relying on the ex-
pedlents OF ten years ago to win.
| But Buckeyes merry men laugh at the
reorganizers call them prentice bosses and
| baby politicians and are sure that when
| they come against the practical politics OF
the Blind White Devil" they will realize
for the first time that Democratic politics
IN San Francisco is no boys pastime.