The San Francisco call., 1896-04-21

few days and formally act upon the re-
turns.
The members of the Republican County
Committee held a brief conference last
evening to consider some bills ana ooos
and ends of primary matters.
The next thing before the party is now
the State Convention ut Sacramento on
May 5, and interest is now centeTlng III
that important party council. In Cne
Fifth District the returns from the 1hlrGy,
seventh District will be contested Dy Eu
DonneIly, who led the defeated opposltlon
faction in that district Donnelly alleges
that fraud was committed In that dlStrlct,
and that the minority delegates are en-
titled to recognition.
A farcical contest in the Forty-second
District, filed by Leon Dennery, Is not CIV
ing anybody even as much concern as Is
Donnelly's little contest. Dennery seat
in the County Committee was declared va
cant after he had moved to the twenty
eighth District and lived there some time
in the Burlington Iodging-house, claiming
to be st i'll a member of the County Com
mittee.
Dennery got the use of a couple OF stalls
last Wednesday and ran little dlstrlct
primary of his own, dozen or so or ms
friends casting their votes for the ticket ne
got up for his own amusement.
Kelly and Mahoney are still shouting
about their contesting delegation from the
Fourth District and are making great
efforts to get few people to believe that
the product of their rump primary, IN
fiated by 1900 fraudulent votes, has some
possibility of getting recognized by the
State Convention to the .extent of being
given half the San Francisco vote. The
tactics that Kelly and Mahoney are now
pursuing and will pursue until the conyen-
ton meets are the same ones OF
trickery, fraud and unfounded claims
that have marked their course since
that midnight meeting IN Mahoney's
rooms at which their programme was lor-
mally started
Yesterday Kelly and Mahoney gave out
the absurd news that leaders of the regular
party had made offers of compromise
with them, which offers they had
spurned in the fuliness of their
nine hundredths of the local Republican
party is so solidly massed in support of
the regularly and legltimately constituted
party authorities, the proceedings they
have taken and the delegation named and
elected by the people of the district at the
regular primary, that few have thus far
thought Kelly and Mahoney worthy of
very serious attention, the abSurdlty OF
such a story is evident.
Thus an opposition movement, headed
and controlled by two OF the most infa-
nous and despicable politicians that have
disgraced and kuifed the party in the past,
is backed by less than 800 Legitimate voters
and has for its only goal the requirement
OF corrupt horsepower in San Francisco
local politics. For these reasons it will
not awaken a great wave of sympathy
among the Republicans of decency and
sense, who will come from all over the
State to make up the convention, and the
prospect of the delegation sent by the Re-
publican voters of the Fourth district be-
! nj.
pany appears exceedingly remote.
Political moves are developing steadily
in the ranks of the sundered local Democ-
racy. A new idea has bobbed up in the
Junta now the large Rainey-D -Daggett ele-
meut has been defeated by the adoption of
a constitution of the cinch kind which Sc
curely shuts it out of power in the organi-
Zation while it remains what it is. The
McNab Lanigan Sullivan combination
now has all the power, and it will name
the delegation to the Democratic State
Convention, though the form OF primary
election will be gone through with.
John Daggett is now to be shut out
along with Sam Rainey. He will get as
many of the 164 delegates to the conven-
tion as stingy and victorious inside
which ne has fought may be willing to
dole out to him. The Daggett-Rainey e1e-
menJ may be allowed twenty on a pinch.
Daggett will not have many San Francisco
votes to swing for Carlisle and to make
com binations with in the State Conven-
tion.
McNab, Lanigan and Sullivan are, of
course, looking mainly to the control of
the local party. The Buckleyites have
declared for silver, and Will send silver
delegation to the State convention. This
is recognized as strong play, because the
majority Of the convention will be for
silver and not likely to seat a gold delega-
tion marshaled by the Federal brigade.
Now, with Deggett out of the way,
the Junta can meet this Buckley
play by mixing in lot OF silver delegates
and perhaps by sending delegation
/ which has majority for silver. The Junta
! leaders do not care particularly, as far as
they are concerned, whether the delegation
/ IS for gold, silver or greenbacks, and
with Daggett's administration influence
squeezed out the administration influence
welded by Welburn and one or two others
can be repressed somewhat in the interest
of local expediency.
The executive committee of ninety oi
the Buckley general committee elected
last Thursday evening will meet for or
ganlzation at Pythian Castle this evening.
Ex-senator NJ. ]. Donovan will be elected
| chairman and steps will be taken to ac-
lively push things along.
At a meeting of the Pond Democratic
Club, held at Kaufman's Hall, southwest
corner of Fifth and Mission streets, last
evening-it also being its twelfth anniver-
sary-the following officers were elected
for the ensuing term: President, f.
kaufman (re-elected): first vice-pres-
ident, F. P. Callundan; second vice
president, Michael Conway; secretary,
?. II. Gardner (re-elected); fnan cial sec
retary, George w. Davis; treasurer, John
Q. Feldman; sergeant-at-arms, B. G.
Mooney. After the election of officers q
repast was partaken of. Quite a mum Der
OF charter mem bers were present. Short
speeches were made and toasts drunk.
The club then adjourned to meet next
Monday night.
TRIED TO END HER LIFE