The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-18
FOOTE is
HARD HIT,
Buckleyites Gain Sweet
Revenge by Defeating
Laymance.
FITZGERALD ELECTED A
DELEGATE.
The Alameda Fight Reopened
In the Third District
Convention.
BUSINESS MEN" USE THEIR
KNIVES.
Triumph of the Daggett.IriSh Faction
Over Their 0ld.Time
Enemies.
BUSINESS MEN" USE THEIR
KNIVES.
Triumph of the Daggett.IriSh Faction
Over Their Old.Time
Enemies.

SACRAMENTO CAL. June 17.-There
was sweet revenge for the enemies of w.
W. Foote, when NJ. J. Laymance was
beaten by Fitzgerald as delegate to the
National Convent in the Third District
Convention in the middle of the after
noon. They were not alone. the old
fighters on the other side of the vendetta,
who thanked heaven with an eager Joy
the Daggett- Irish crowd who have so long
been the under dogs.
1t was sweet to the Buckleyites and
sweet it was to the enemies of Gould from
Santa Clara, from Los Angeles and else
where. To the Buckleyites it was the one
blessed thing the convention had brought
them. The victory was mainly theirs, for
they hate Laymance, and solely on Foote'S
account. They knitted Laymance that
Foote might feel the blade. Foote had
made Laymance' fight his own. He had
declared that he stayed in the Alameda
County fight because LaymaDce was his
friend. He shared in the brief Joy that
followed Laymance's majority in the Ala
media delegation.
Laymance's ambition to beat Fitzgerald
for delegate was the one great issue IN the
elared for Gould, no curses have been too
fierce for the Buckleyites. They had for
months made Chilly" Foote their hero;
had cheered every mention of his name in
their meetings; had Endorsed him time
and again for delegate-at-large, and had
whooped him up in every possible way.
There is no questioning the fact that the
Buckleyltes piled into Foote's fight in
Alameda County, and that they sent
nearly 200 experienced district primary
workers with competent managers over to
the primary. They freely offer affidavits
full of specific times, places and names,
and the men who went are loudly declar-
ing what they did.
This army of the San Francisco push
stood of the similar Mint "push" which
went over under Daggett's orders to help
Fitzgerald. These men reported to the
bosses who handled the Foote-Laymance
fight There is no testimony that Foote
personally entered into any bargain, but
it is declared that they expected Foote'S
support In the convention.
So 1t is no wonder the Buckleyites used
as a knife all the influence they had LETT
when they were beaten. 1t needed but
few votes TO turn the scale and balance
any advantage Laymance gained through
Foote'S understanding with Gould.
The same influence was visIbly played
during the day and evening to defeat
Foote for delegate at large. The Buckley
ties sought to turn their friends in the
Los Angeles, Santa Clara and other dele
CATIONS to the Daggett. Could McNab
ticket, which included Geary and Cole
IaFt ont
John P Irish blessed the day that de-
feated Laymance and even took for bliss
full Joy the broiling sunshine, for in his
view right and the nobility of Alameda's
Democracy triumphed when Foote meta
phorically lay low in Laymance's known
summer suit. He spoke frankly and with
a candid air about the somewhat sensa-
tional victory of Fitzgerald, of John P.
Irish and of Daggett.
sit retires Mr.. Laymance from Alameda
County politics, " said Mr.. Irish this even
ing. at is stinging rebuke of the Grim
inal methods he has long pursued in Ala
media County to the disfranchisement of
every decent man in the party. 1t is also
a distinct rebuke to his aiders, abettors