The San Francisco call., 1896-03-10
THE JUNTA SEES
THE SALT RIVER,
It Is Dumping on Rainey
Rocks and the Danger
Is Great.
BUCKLEY IN WAR PAINT
Vigorous Preparations for a
Great Donnybrook Fair
on Saturday.
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
A Practical Certainty of a Harmony
Committee and an Open
Primary.
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

That the anti-Buckley Democratic Junta,
now headed by Gavin McNab and w. p.
Sullivan, is on the verge of complete disas-
ter is plainly shown by the trend of Demo
cratic events and sentiment.
For long time after the split with
Buckley in the old general committee
Braunhart proclaimed the certainty of
the State Central Committees recognizing
their organization as the regular party
machine.
Now that the meeting Of the Democratic
State Central Committee next Saturday
has drawn near it appears certain that the
State Central Committee Will do no
such thing. 1t will not recognize
the Buckley general committee as
the regular machine either. 1t will
clear the Democratic decks. as far as State
politics are concerned, of Buckley, Ralney,
Daggett, McNab and all the other ambi-
tious factional elements now variously
playing their power against each other
and ag ainst the middle and will order an
open primary for the whole party and ap
point committee to boss it.
That may in the end turn out to be q
victory for the Ruckleyites, as they are
strong, ably and com pletely organized
under Buckley's mastery direction, and
| they don't want anything better to tackle
than another good old-fashioned, rousing
primary.
The members of the State Central Com
mittee from the interior have very few of
them any use for Chris Buckley, and they
would go good ways to keep him
out of control and recognize decent
element worthy OF recognition. But Sam
Rainey is the one real great power in the
Junta and they don't like the odor Of him
any better than that of his old partner.
So what can poor State Central Commit
tee do? The interests of the party must
be looked after.
If the Junta was composed entirely of
good men like Gavin McNab it might get
the works from the State Central Commit
tee. But the Junta is already on the rocks
and it may even go to pieces at the first
meeting of its new general committee
called for Thursday evening.
That depends upon two questions. Has
Sam Rainey general control of the organ
ization, and, if he has, will he consider it
a wise political move to show his hand at
that meeting by seating his friends in
contesting delegations or by defeating Col
onel w. P. Sullivan for chairman?
Back of Sam Rainey and associated with
HIM is the Daggett strength. The Ralney-'
Daggett strength is conceded to be danger
trolls forty or fifty votes in the new COM
mittee and if he votes with Rainey the
three elements will have their pleasure.
Lanigan has lain low and nobody yet is
certain where he stands. He is dlckering
and waiting.
So the Thursday night meeting is
fraught with fate for the Junta. There is
so much factional feeling in the aggrega.
ton of discordant elements that the meet
ing may develop merry row. Every ef-
fort is being made by McNab to avoid this
and present a smooth front.
If the Junta does not go to pieces in
general smash on Thursday evening, as it
is in danger of doing unless concessions
are made to the Rainey element, it will at
least appear before the State Central Com
mittee on Saturday trying to cover up the
Rainey- -Daggett part OF itself, and denying
Sam Rainey with every breath. This is what
is believed by a large number of leading
Democrats to be the thing that makes
| recognition OF the Junta machine by the
State committee an impossibility. The
State committee will not take power from
Chris Buckley to feed Sam Raney, and
besides that a large element IN the party
is opposed to John Daggett. Some oppose
him ANYHOW, and some because of his
efforts to gain control in San Francisco
politics through the use of Mint patronage
But on top of all this there are those
who were long with the Junta who are now
repudiating it, because of the strength that
Rainey has secured.
Max Pepper is in Los Angeles and will
not return until Friday. He is intensely
opposed to Rainey and before the primary
declared that he would drop the move
ment OF Ralney because too strong. 1t is
said by some of Peppers friends that he
will appear at the meeting of the State
Central Committee and openly declare war
an, psi, u Il To- .0sc
Club is another one of the Junta element
that has repudiated it on Raineys account.
The Buckleyites are piling up ammuni-
ton and getting ready for vigorous
night. Judge Rober: Ferral Is out hust-
ling through the State, seeing committee
men in favor of the harmony proposition
mentioned. The State Central COM
mitteemen are getting. loaded up
with pointers from both sides. The
Buckleyites take the stand that the
State Central Committee has nothing
to do with the local situation, and that
they will make no appearance unless they
are invited to come forward and be heard.
But then the invitation will come early,
and they will early land in the middle OF
the fray, with attorneys like Judge Ferrai,
Peter f. Dunno. A. J. Clunie and other
Democrats of party fame and prestige:
Gavin McNab will make the speech OF
his life in roasting" Buckley,
and as likely as not somebody will
say something about Mr.. McNab. The
history of that adjournment sine die
by Watkins and other events will be told,
and there will be stacks OF affidavlts on
local political history. The Buckleyites
still declare that if the Junta should be
officially recognized they will simply 60
right ahead and send their own delegation
to the State Convention. Altogether the
coming meeting of the State Central Com
mittee promises to become historic.
The club presidents Of the Buckley Cen
eral Committee held meeting at the Occt
dental Club last evening in preparation for
the meeting of the general commlttee
which Chairman Joseph Rothschiid has
called for Wednesday evening at Odd Eel
lows Hall. At that meeting some action
will be taken in anticipation OF the state
Central Committee meeting.
The Buckleyites will to-day open perma-
nent downtown quarters at $50 Market
street.
IN THE FORTY-FOURTH.
The Maxwell Faction Declared War