The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
Occidental Club Will Move to
Market Street to Escape
Buckleyism.
WILL GET IN THE SWIM. TOO
There Will Now Be Fine, Large and
Convenient Buckley Headquarters
Downtown.

The latest plan of the anti-Rainey
minority in the Junta is to beat out the
stableman by appointing the delegates to
the State Convention instead of holding a
primary.
There is no official announcement to
that effect, but that scheme looms up in
the foggy, yet lurid air that envelopes
Sam Rainey's own machine, and the
Rainey Daggett people are eyeing
it with dark, determined looks
and getting ready to shoutwhat is often
called "blue murder" The Raineyites
are trying to find out if Chairman Sullivan
and Gavin McNab have any aces of that
color up their sleeves, but expect to be
ready with good majority in the general
committee to select the delegates them
selves by ordering primary, which
they can win like rolling off of logs.
Chairman Sullivan and Gavin McNab
are not saying anything much these days
or making any announcements. No Off
clal move has been made in Junta affairs
since the meeting of the general commit
tee about two weeks ago, though under
the surface beavers work is being
done, especially by Sam Rainey. At
the last meeting of the general
committee chairman Sullivan's dictator
ship was continued by authorizing him to
appoint a grievance committee to settle
the pending district troubles and COM
mittee to prepare constitution and by
laws, something the organization has so
far got along without
AS Chairman Sullivan will appoint the
law committee, it will, ofcourse, lrame the
provisions relating to the selection of con-
vention delegates on lines that he and
other anti-Raineyites may deem politically
wise. 1t may put In something about ap-
pointment of delegates, and the fight may
come up on the adoption of the constitution
and bylaws in the general committee. AS
the convention will not be held Until June
16, there is yet much time to let things
work and develop before calling another
meeting of the general committee. The
appointment of delegates by any plan
favored by the anti -Raineyites would
mean that Daggett would be dealt Just a
few delegates to Sacramento, and if this
proposition ever comes up in the Junta
general committee there will be war then
ana there.
The Raineyites and the Daggettites are
watchful and suspicious of Sullivan, and
their kicks about his dictatorship are
multiplying.
Sullivan is in favor Of home rule in
Ireland, but not in San Francisco" SAID
one prominent member OF the Junta yes
terday.
Mr.. Sullivan is generally credited with
being opposed TO primaries anyhow, be-
cause he believes that pure Democratic
primaries are impossible in San Francisco,
and that the interests of the party demand
that convention delegates be appointed by
the decent element of the party. Perhaps
he forgets what would be the consequences
of parting Raineyites and Buckleyites from
their chief Joy in life.
The Buckleyites are about to make an
other mastery move. They have decided
that they have an astral body, and they
are going to locate on Market street in it.
Perhaps it would be more correct to say
that they are going to get away. from
them selves.
Reduced to still more accurate terms the
Occidental Club is going to move out of
Buckley's big. fine, queer mansion at.
Bush and Stockton streets, so that they
won't be Buckleyites any more. At the
meeting of the State Central Committee
the other day Gavin McNab told that
Buckley owned the house, the carpets,
the chairs, and the cnspidors that the
Bucklevites had used, and, of course, 9TH
ers note the same thing. As Buckley is
out of politics, it is bad politics for the
Buckleyites to seem so close to Mr.. Buck
ley, and the Buckley leaders have decided
that it would be well to not be in Mr..
buckley company SO openly.
There is another reason, too and it is
another good one. The present Occidental
Club is out of the way and people don't
drop around unless they have specially
important business as rule, and head
quarters are wanted that will be head
quarters, where people will come to re-
ceive the glad hand, and where there will
be life and the boom of it. The general
committee headquarters at 935 Market
street, opened two weeks ago, consists of
one room, and was selected as temporary
place for the boys to come.
These general headquarters are for the
routine campaign business and for the
boys to drop in at. The Occidental Club
is a social-political organization, and it
exists on a higher plane. 1t contains
Buckley's throneroom, fine quarters for
the leaders to consult in, nice parlors to
welcome strangers in and a fine sideboard
for Sam Sample to dispense ginger-ale at,
So the Occidental is looking for adequate
Market-streetquarter where it will become
more prominent, more influential, more
lively and more a place where men will
come who are a little skittish about being
charged with going to see Buckley.
The general committee headquarters
will be connected with it and there the
Buckley faction will take new swing and
a new boom.