The San Francisco call., 1896-08-30
The Congressional Patronage
Was the Price Asked of
Candi date Maddux.
POLITICS AND THE MACHINE
Gould Plays the Fusioa Game to Get
the Governorship, and 9th.
ers Have Their Marks.

L. J. Maddux, Democratic nominee for
Congress in the Seventh district, has re-
fused to turn over his possible party patron-
age to small bunch of ambitious Demo-
cratic politicians who are bossng the
Democratic end of the fusion game that
is now being played.
For this reason Mr. Maddux is who'll Y
out of the fusion race. There is no possi-
bility of the fusion committee agreeing
upon him as the fusion candidate. 1t is
thoroughly understood, and it has become
e practical certainty that Castle, the Popu-
list nom inee, will be the fusion candidate
if the mess of fusion and party committees
now playlng the game ever reach the
point of declaring fusion Congressional
ticket.
The secret that party patronage and
personal ambitions were the controlling
factors in the Democrapulist bunko game,
for which a lot of politicians are now sharp
ening their wits, has been more than sus-
pected for some little time, but it is now
out with much confden tial but reliable
testimony to back it up.
1t became known yesterday to a num-
Der of Democrats who are not in the inside
of the select fusion ring that member of
the Democratic State Central Committee,
who represented other powers as we'll as
himself. asked Mr.. Maddux the other day
bosses of the Democratic State Central
Com mittee If he were made the fusion
candidate and elected.
Mr. Maddux Indignantly and promptly
refused to enter into any such deal. 1t
soon became current and reliable inside
information that Castle is to be the fusion
candidate. There is no evidence at large
that Mr.. Castle has decided away his
hoped-for Congressional patronage and
influence.
This is the secret of the fusion game in
all the seven districts. 1t is play for
present and future political power and
patronage, and there are an interesting
lot of players The politically wise who
know the men aud issues involved and the
natural and sure course OF party politics
laugh quietly al the high-fown talk about
PATRIOTS NJ and such like that some of the
players indulge in.
II is we'll known to those on the inside
that Frank H. Gould and Gavin McNab
are the biggest bosses who are pulling the
strings from the Democratic side in this
fusion game. 1t is continuation OF the
game that Gould and McNab have been
playing with the State party machine for
a wear or more.
Frank a. Gould has long had consum-
ing ambition 10 secure the Democratic
nomination for Governor two years from
now. Gavin McNab wants first and al
ways to acquire the power OF boss in the
City and in the State, and when it comes
to getting something else he is generally
understood to be out for the best he can
get without having to depend on pepu-
lar election.
Mr.. McNab has long been known to
have in his minds eye the attorneyship
for Sheriff or Pubic Administrators In
San Francisco. but it has now become
generally known that Mr.. McNab has re-
fiected that he might just as well set his
mark high and play for an election as
United States Senator two years from
now.
To achieve these am bitions and to ac-
com plish the political things that must
precede and attend their fulhilment re-