The San Francisco call., 1896-06-12

Angeles to be disposed of.
lie Is expected to appoint committee
on platform that will report an mdorse-
ment OF Cleveland, an Endorsement OF
i5 budd and money. plank framed accord e O.
Ing to the wishes of the machine, or rather
according to their Judgment OF what they
may be able to get through.
Eighteen mem bers of the State Centrai
committee are involved IN the San fran
cisco contest. The recognition OF the JunSa
VIII give Daggett large majority OF them.
VI more Importance is the Executive
COMMITTEE. 1t is the main part OF the
st ate machine. It will run this cam palgn,
and it can shape things to desired ends Tor
the State campaign two years from now.
1t is power that Daggett has been
asslduously playing for. 1t can influence
the composition of the Legislature on which
so many political am bitions depend. IL Is
a force that can be played in ali directions.
Inc Inc man OF large influence IN the otate
Com mlttee can command much ana many.
They will be all palms and roses that
fall IN Daggett's way at Sacramento-some
Democrats dom think.
Gould and McNab are to be Daggetts S
chief heutenants in directing the cam
palgn according to the partnership ana be
big men themselves, and Gould, with am
nltlon burning in his soul, would De
Speaker of the next Assembly and Gov
ernor later.
So Daggett is the chief convention issue.
Other big issues are adjuncts of it. As
Daggett goes so will go Gould, so Will go
the boss-ship of the party, so.wlll go the
dominant forces that will give character
direction and control to the reorganization
OF the local party that will follow the State
Convention.
The game that depends on the cham
plonship is a big one. 1t is worth digging
up good man on Sunday night to win
1t with. 1t may be really worth the thun-
der and the wreck and carnage and battle
smoke that will come with the conven-
tons beginning.
The local contest is one of those doubt
tul political convention issues concerning
which hlndslght is worth more than fore
sight. Both of the factions are confident
OF victory and with the Buckleyltes half
vote would be a fairly satisfactory victory.
The main fight will probably be fought
at the very opening of the convention
when the attempt is made to let the Junta
delegation put in their 161 votes on tenn
porary organization.
There will at once be made a motion
that San Francisco be excluded from the
rollcall, and Gould, who, as chairman OF
the State Central Committee, will, of
course, stand by the committee, IS ex-
pected to make ruling that will be ap-
pealed from TO the convention.
1t is expected that the row at this start
ing point will be worth going miles and
miles to see. The Buckieyites will have
strong champions from the interior on the
floor and at the front, and they will be
there themselves to back up their own
spokesman.
1t will be urged that according to all
right and precedent both factions should
Withdraw until it is decided who the legal
representatives of San Francisco are. 1t
will be shown that this is quite different
from the ordinary contest in which one
set of delegates has credentials from the
one party power which issues them and
the other comes asserting its claim to Gre
deDtials.
In this case the rival delegations each
present credentials, which on their face
are of equal value, and they come from in
dependent party organizations. One deie-
cation has the advantage of having been
recognized without any hearing of evil
dence by the State Central Comm ittee, but
1t Will be urged that the committee had no
right or power and no occasion to bestow
this recognition at the request of one fac
ton and that they come from the organi-
zatlon com posed of boilers and represent
ing but very small element of the party.
The question is, Which is the legitimate
and regular party organization in San
Francisco? The Buckleyites will ask only
that they be given fair hearing on the
merits of their case and that their rivals
be also made to wait for the judgment of
the convention. On this issue the first
and probably the decisive battle will be
fought, and fought with desperation. They
will point for a precedent to the two State
Central Committees in the party in the
fifties, each of which sent delegations to
the National Convention, which kept both
oil the roll until the contest was decided.
But the battles at Sacramento will
nearly all be between the machine and the
rest of the party. The machine has some
advantages always. Its programme is
carefully prepared and it fights with sole
regard to practical success.
The Buckleyites have engaged a large
hall mean the Colleen Eagle Hotel for head
quarters and will advance on Sacramento
in force next Monday.
eve have the equities and they have
nothing but the bugbear Buckley" they
say.
Chairman James I. Stanton has called
another meeting of the delegation at
Pythian Castle tonight.
Talk about district delegates to Chicago
is not lively in the Junta. George T.
Marye and E. B. Pond had been talked of,
but their being gold men is thought to
have made their selection unlikely unless
Daggett wants to get in what gold men he
can. James V. Coleman is spoken of in
Ine rourtn, ana Louis Metzger wants TO
go. James d. PheIan will probably be
favored by the Junta crowd from this end
of the Fifth district.
Most, if not all, of the Congressional
nominations will be made at this time.
The Fifth District convention will be held
at Sacramento, and it yesterday seemed
likely that V. P. Scheller of San Jose
would capture the nomination in competi-
ton to A. j. Clunie and Jos. P. Kelly. Max
Pepper, who dug up Scheller and got him
in the race to beat Clunie with, thinks
that he has accomplished his fell purpose,
and he probably has. Scheller will have
the Santa Clara County delegation solid
and claims three or four of the seven San
Mateo County votes.
The San Francisco vote depends on the
outcome of the local contest. Clunie has
some friends among the Junta delegates,
but majority will support Scholar.
The lroquois club will make one of the
crowds that will go to Sacramento on Mon
day. They will wear white plug hats,
carry tomahawks, install the officers of
new lroquois club at Sacramento and cut
pigeon-wing generally in the political
uproar.
AFTER FOOTE'S SCALP.