The San Francisco call., 1896-05-13
WRTUOUS BUCKLEYITES,
Say They Will Help to
Enforce Civil Ser
vice Reform.
CIeVand'S New Order Has a
Big Effect on the Old
Junta.
CHECKING GAVIN MeNAB'S AMBITION
The Active Buckley Executive Com
mittee BestoWs HonorS on
DR.. Stanton.

elevate the Federal service in San Fran
cisco.
The Buckley Democrats are free TO do
this. Hardly a mothers son of them has
a Federal Job, and as their minds and
motives are not warped by the power OF
patronage jobs they are in position to
extend their interest in GOOD government
to the Federal service.
They think that this late order by Presi-
dent Cleveland putting the minis, the in
ternal revenue service and some other
departments in the classified list is a
grand thing, and they hail with JOY Its
purifying effect in politics.
Now the Junta is, as everybody knows,
built on the Mint and revenue office largely,
with Sam Rainey's Fire Department as
another of the cornerstones, and with the
Custom-house, the Board of Supervisors,
the ambition of Gavin McNab and few
other little things to provide the rest Of
the foundation. The City has never seen
q political machine so thoroughly con-
structed of patronage jobs.
Every force that has played to hold to-
gether and to operate the machine has
been patronage one. Whenever McNab
and Sullivan have wanted to run the
machine TO grind out something, they
have signaled to patronage powers TO
''start."
Daggett and his Mint, working in COM
bination with Sam Rainey and his Fire
Department, have been the one big single
force at play. Daggett has used the Mint
in his political work with the Junta as no
boss ever used a Street Department. He
has discharged men for not doing his bid
ding in local politics, and has sold posi-
tions by the dozen to district politicians
whom ne needed in his local political
work.
1t is true that the powerful Daggett-
Rainey com bination has recently been
shut out of the control of the Junta, which
it so nearly gained by other patronage and
McNab com binations, but Daggett and his
Mint political power Is yet an exceedingly
strong factor in the strength of the Junta
machine, and it will be big factor in the
State Convention when the Buckley con-
testing delegation arrives.
In the Junta and composing much OF its
political power are politicians holding
Jobs in the Custom-house, the Internal
Revenue Office and some other Federal de-
partments. These Federal office holders
| in the Junta general committee number
some dozens, but as each one has his job
and his position in the general committee
| because he can control other votes full
| majority of the committee of 450 may be
reckoned as controlled by patronage
power.
The civil service rules require public
servants to avoid "pernicious activity, ."
offensive partisanship," membership in
political conventions and so on. So the
civil service order putting SO many Junta
politicians under the benefits and penal
ties of that law is about to work great
revolution in Junta affairs. Ii the law
works as 1t is supposed to work the lighters
nff rho RupRlavIfas will aOOn he ehOrD of
| much of their power.
A little army of little politicians op-
posed to them because they had to be
must quit to large extent. Becoming Sc
cure i'll their positions most of them will
| be glad to do so.
That is why all the Buckleyites are in
! terested in the operation of the benefcent
civil service law. Cleveland's order
strengthens them and weakens the enemy.
| They have taken fresh hope and courage.
| Now they propose to see that civil service
people obey the righteous law of the land.
If those fellows don't stay well within
| the bounds they will see that they are
made to do so. Politicians who become
civil service people will be watched and
| reported to the Civil Service Commission n
| if they keep on intimidating Democrats,
breaking up the party and all that.
The fight against McNab in the Junta
| executive committee was not Strengthened
1 out Yesterday. IL Uc buO inSCb
| ing tonight and it may not be.
| McNab will not be allowed to name fifty
or more delegates and boss things gener'
| ally. a majority are out for the right tC
| run their own districts pretty much.
| McNab's am bitten to name lot OF State
| Central Committeeman and to control the
next State Central Committee in partner
| ship with Daggett and Sam Rainey /:
| likely to meet lot of setbacks.
| McNab, it is told, has been going about
town meeting nice big Democrats and tell
| ing them that he was going to make the m
| delegates to the State Central Committee
| There are those who don't like that.
The Buckley executive committee held
| a big meeting at the Market-street head
| quarters last night. Chairman Donovan
| Secretary Gavigan, Joseph Rothschild
| James II. O'Brien, j. q. Nealon, M. j.
| Nealon, NJ. j. Failon and many other:
made speeches.
| 1t was decided that DR.. James 1. Stanton
Railroad Commissioner, should be the
delegate-at-large to the State Convention
| which the local apportionment provides
for.
From all the districts came reports tha
many more were anxious to 60 as delegates
than the apportionment allows.
1t was reported that a lively correspond
ence with Democrats throughout the STATE
was going on, and that it was found tina
State Convention were not predisposed il
favor of McNab, Daggett and the rest o
the Junta.
The Junta, it was said, was making falls
pretenses to boom itself and that the IN
terror delegates would listen to evIdenc
and do what was fair and for the interest
, of the party.
Nominations for delegates to the Stat
Convention will be made by the Buckle
district clubs on Saturday, the 10Th inst
at the following places:
Twenty-eighth District-Drews Hall, ne
Montgomery and Howard.
ty-ninth-Irish- h-American Hall.
Thirtieth-Musie Hail, 927 Mission.
Thirty-frst-Phenix Hall, Eighth and Fo
= | som.
! Observation-Disclosures corner of Branna
: | and Zoe.
' Thirty ty-third-Maennerbund Hall, Twenty
fourth and Potrero avenue.
' hirty-fourth-Harmony Hall, Mission an
Erie.
1 Thirty ty-fifth-silk's Hall, Precita avenue an
Mission.
irty-sixth-Seventeenth and Noe.
rty-seventh-Mowry's Hail. corner Lagun
and Ivy avenue.
! Thirty-eighth-Powers Hall corner Turk an
|. | Pierce.