The San Francisco call., 1896-03-26
HOW RA|NEY IS
GETTING THERE,
He Is Rapidly Strength.
ening His Grip on
the Junta.
BUSY DISTRICT BEES.
The Stable Man Is Trading Dag.
gett's Mint Patronage.
for Power.
WHY BRAUNHART WORRIES.
Rainey's Rapid Rise to Power Pre-.
sages Stormy Times for the
Junta Faction.

Sam Raipey is hustling like everything
to tighten his grip on the Junta organiza-
ton, and by that token stormy times are
in store for the local anti-Buckley faction.
Rainey's mastery of the faction, which
the State Central Committee recognized as
the regular local organization, is conceded
by many of the anti -Raineyites themselves,
and is patent to ali who know Sam Rainey
by his works and who know what is going
on in the local Democracy.
OF course, .''Rainey," when spoken of in
this boss sense, includes Daggett some
what as the greater includes the less. The
shrewd stableman is handling Daggett's
local political forces, and Rainey directly
controls more votes IN the general COM
mittee than does the superintendent of
the Mint. whose "pernicious activity" and
offensive partisapship'' have done much
to pile up more Democratic enemies, but
Daggett stands by his friend Rainev,
Rainey stands by his friend Daggett, and.
Daggett's power added to Rainey's is Just
about the strength that is ready to rule.
But the anti-Rainey ia ction of the Junta
faction happens to control the machinery
through having the officers and commit
tees. That is little bit like the minority
having the inspector at a primary in which
case the minority always wins. Chairman
Sullivan and Gavin McNab have been run
ming things with the occasional assistance
of q few Others like Sam Braun
hart, M. C. Hassett and Frank
Hughes, and Chairman Sullivan
is able to give deci sions. appoint commit
tees, call or not call meetings, and so on,
in way which gives Rainey decidedly
the worst of it. Rainey shifts with su-
preme contempt at these ''kinderga-tners"
who are trying to do politics, and calls
them names unfit for publication.
So Rainey needs a good strong majority
if he is going to get a Daggett delegation
sent to Sacramento, and if he is later to be
able to control things locally to his own
ends by forcing compromise with Buck
ley or effecting other moves or combina-
tions. Sullivan, backed by what is
partly in truth , and partly in
is matching himself against Rainey, ex-
pecting to checkmate him and be able by
slender majority or by tricks and arbi-
trary manipulation of affairs to carry the
faction through to victory in behalf of
political purity" and few offices for the
decent element.
Rainey will see about this in that pecu-
ling just now. He is reaching out for
votes in the general committee. One way
OF getting them is by offering jobs in the
Fire Department. Another way is to buy
them with places in the Mint. Dag
gett has placed the United States
branch mint largely at the disposal of
Rainey to do local politics with. Sam has
long had a number of men in the Mint
and recently he has put some more there.
Six weeks or two months ago he put in
Eugene McFadden of the Thirty y-eighth
District. "BilIy" Williams OF the Thirty
seventh, and Tom Healey of the Thirtieth.
These are. of course. members of the
general committee, able to deliver to
Rainey other votes in their districts.
In the Thirty-second District the twenty
five delegates to the general committee
are controlled mainly by "Tim" Donovan
and Frank Lester. Donovan is credited
with having twelve of the twenty-five who
are friends who will stand by bim. 1t was
known yesterday to several that Rainey
has offered Donovan place in the Mint
to come over to the Rainey side with his
friends.
Samuel Braunhart, the Port Warden,
was given boss-ship of the Twenty-ninth