The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-17
The Ex-Supervisor Holds a
Frosty Harmony Meeting in
a Courtroom.
WATCHED BY THE BIG BOSSES.
Dundon Would Unite the Junta and
the Buckleyites by District
Operation.

Ex-Supervisor P. F. Dundon is trying to
reorganize the local Democratic party and
he succeeded last evening in holding a
rather frosty meeting in Judge Conlan's
Police Court room for the purpose.
The party is about to be reorganized,
but greater masters OF practical politics
than P. F. Dundon-Buckley, Rainey and
Lanigan-are going to boss this operation
and they will see that Mr.. Dundon doesn't
run things too far off the track as he goes
about working his ambitious scheme.
Buckley and Rainey are taking an in
terest in Mr.. Dundon's plan and might
possibly ap propriate it later, but just now
they are only regulating it.
Rainey, Daggett and Lanigan are about
ready to chuck the Junta into common
pot with the Buckley organization and
then divide the new organization with
Buckley, in which operation Chris will
become boss of the works.
Dundon is trying to get the district
committees of the two organizations to
unite and select new machine. The
Buckley plan, which is mainly being en-
gineered by John Mccarthy, president of
the Occidental Club, is to have both sides
agree on a committee of seven, which
shall control primary election, at which
a new county committee and delegates to
a municipal convention shall be chosen.
Mccarthy is proposing Senator White,
Congressman Mcguire, J. F. Sullivan.
Henry Eichoff and Sam Daniels as mem
bers of this committee.
Dundon has been interviewing members
of both factions for two or three weeks,
and among those invited to be pres
ent at the meeting last night were:
George T. Marye, Chris Refs, ]. I. Burke,
]. ". Mcdonald, P. ]. Harvey, DIR. G. A.
Clinton, James Butler, John ]. McDade,
Richard !; Whelan. James M. Block,
William M. Hinton, Joseph Leggett,
P. F. Dundon, jeremiah Lynch, G.
w. McEnerney, James NJ. Smith.
Judge ]. ]. Coffey, H. ]. McAvoy, James
d. Phelan, Joseph Clark. f. F. Strother,
II. G. Creswell. John Mccarthy. Judge 9.
T. Conlan, A. M. Armstrong, James f.
Twigg and John E. Buckley.
Those VINO responded were Fire Commits
sioner Mcdonald. exSupervisor Strother,
Armstrong, Mccarthy and Twigg. While
this corporaPs guard patiently waited for
an hour the arrival of some of the other
invited thermometers, quite number of
unlimited Democrats dropped in. Among
of the House of Correction, Deputy Sheriff
Ciack, Walter Gallagher, I. s. Cronin,
Harry M. Kelly and Joe Hayes. John
Mccarthy also came to keep an eye on
things.
1t was about o'clock when Mr.. Nc
Donald became chairman of the meeting
which he called to order. Mr.. Twigg was
selected as secretary.
Dundon took the floor and after explain
ing the purpose of the meeting TO be to
devise plans to reconcile the differences
existing between the two Democratic
factions submitted the following as the
basis of wooing peace back into the house
of Democracy:
We do hereby recommend that for the pur-
pose of uniting the whole Democratic party in
this City and County, the members of the
general committee OF both factions shall fill
any vacancies that are existing, and then at
an appointed and agreed date both committees
shall come together in their several districts