The San Francisco call., 1896-10-02
The Notice on the Door at tn
Headquarters of the Junta.

nights session of that banquet to enjoy
another course, and they added 10 their
joy the anticipation of the string of in
dorsements TO be made by the Buckley
Aid Society"
Neither wing had any particular further
business of its own to attend to. but talk
was plentiful and cheap.
The Junta found itself without any
formal headquarters, because Demo-
cratic coup had been played by Max
Pepper, who had, in his disgust at
Rainey's capture OF everything he wanted
TO take closed up the party headquarters
in the Flood building.
Max has been the main guy of the Junta
for some time. He took a deep though
for clean politics from the very moment a
year ago when Gavin McNab GOT Sam
Rainey and his fire department. push,
John Daggett and his mint push and some
others to stand in with q movement to
fight the returned Buckley in the in terest
of go0d government. So loyal was
Max. that be advanced the rent of Flood
building headquarters month after month.
1t developed that every last chair and
desk and ink bottle in the party's head
quarters belonged to Max, too, somehow
or other. 1t is said to be lot of old
Iroquois Club fixings, which he had owner
ship or control OF.
Anyway, evening before last Pop.
per's gorge turned so completely at the
way Rainey was running everything, in
Guiding Jimmy" Phelsn, that he swore
for thirty-hve minutes and then gave some
orders to his Lieutenants Devereaux and
BienfeId.
The result was that three OF Peppers s
wagons stopped unheralded before the
Flood building. Without warning and
without further permission every sugges-
tion of furniture in the Irregular" Demo-
cratic headquarters was hustled downstairs
into Max Peppers wagons and carted off
to be stored in his barn.
The door OF the Regular" Democratic
headquarters was soon locked, and when
that was done there appeared On the In
side of the glass panel the sarcastic sign,
Democratic Headquarters Removed to
st. George Stables, Bush, near Kearny."
That is what Max Pepper did TO the
headquarters. He has not been going
around like roaring lion about it. He
has just seen Sam Rainey sweep the field,
and he has crawled into hole and nursed
his woe in silence.
The loss of the headquarters hasn't
troubled anybody much apparently. The
actual headquarters on Bush street answer
all practical purposes and those, like
Chairman w. P. Sullivan, who don't like
them haven't the heart to care whether
there are any headquarters or not.
When the noise In the room is stiiled
and when amid IT the clock stops ticking
one notices it. Thus was the absence of
Gavin McNab. amid all this political rout,
especially noticed yesterday. 1t is years,
they say, since Gavin McNab was not at
the front or in the middle of 10 cal Demo-
cratic politics.
1t is recalled that Gavin, the author and
long the boss of the Junta, has been dur
ing this convention a four spot that
couldn't be played because it was marked.
McNab and his acknowledgement, Chair
man Sullivan, ruled and dictated and
talked and promised and got interviewed
for months, but when the time for busi-
ness came they stepped aside, and Sam
Rainey and Ed Lanigan claimed their
own.
Dozens of the lesser lights who stood
long by the decent" faction, to get left in
the end, yesterday either exclaimed sadly,
Its too - bad" or cursed for fools the
''kindergartens" they had followed into
1.-THE soup
The fact that the minority by threaten
ing to get out and bolt and roar and by
urgent pleadings did induce Sam Rainey
to accept Phelan as stroke of political
policy does not count much now in tenn