The San Francisco call., 1896-05-16
DEMOCRATIC WAR
FOR SUPREMACY.
Meeting of Alameda's Com
mittee Called for To-
Night.
FIGHTING FOR CONTROL.
Prison Director Fitzgerald and
Chairman Laymance Lead
the Factions.
EACH SIDE IS VERY CONFIDENT
Votes Are Being Sought For in
Every Precinct in the
County.
EACH SIDE IS VERY CONFIDENT
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, !
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90S Broadway, May Is.
The Democracy of Alameda County will
meet tomorrow evening to issue call for
a prim ary to be held the following Satur-
day night.
Although it is generally conceded that
the delegates who Will be named at Sacra-
mento by the men to be elected at the pri-
maries will not nominate the next Presi-
dent, there is still a very warm fight in
progress for the control of the party of the
County.
Under the call issued by Chairman
Gould OF the State Central Committee,
Alameda County is entitled to thirty-tive
| delegates. this being on the basis OF one
for each 200 votes cast for Budd for Gov
! ernor. 1t is, however, left to the option OF
the committee to elect one of the thirty
five as a elegate-at-large, leaving thirty
four to be elected at the primaries.
1t is considered probable that the COM
m ittee will take advantage OF the oppor-
tuDity to elect a delegate-at-large, and the
candidates are R. NJ. Fitzgerald, W. W.
Foote and NJ. J. Laymance. The factions
are headed by Prison Director Fitzg erald
on one hand and NJ. ]. Laymance, chair
man of the County Committee, on the
other hand.
NJ. J. Laymance has a powerful follow
ing. which is said to include William D..
! English, Warren B. English, Frank J.
| Motfitt, Postmaster White, P. E. Dalton
and ex-Sheriff McKiiican.
r. NJ. Fitzgerald Is said TO be supported
by John 2. Irish, John r. Glasscock, J.
| Daggett and Governor Budd. The fight
really represents the Irish and English
wings of the Democracy that have waged
lively warfare against each other for
years.
In speaking of his candidacy Robert
! Fitzgerald said: 81 have not asked anv
OF them to help me, nor have l promised
my support to eitu er of them in the event
/ OF my election. At the same time I shall.
stand with my friends and will not throw
any bouquets TO those who are fighting
me. l am informed that every Democratic
Postmaster in Alameda County has been
directed to oppose my election as delegate
to Chicago. 1t will not surprise me 10 see
the Alameda Democrats employed ct Mare
Island down here voting against me at the
primary.
Notwithstanding desperate efforts to
Gefeat me, am confident of success, for /
find / have friends in every precinct in the
county. Eliminate the Democratic Post
masters from this fight or permit them to
exercise their individual preferences and
the combination of politicians against me
could not carry one-third of the precincts
in this county in this fight.
81 am not fighting W. w. Foote, and it
has been claimed that | am making the
| DaggetS-Irish fight in this county. This
is not true-when the district convention
is over that settles it SO far as 1 am con-
| cerned"
There are ninety-nine members of the
committee that will meet tomorrow
night. and as both factions have many
friends the result is in doubt.
The fight is not confined to Oakland,
but has been carried into the county and
will be fought ont in every precinct.