The San Francisco call., 1896-05-17
Wants the State Central Com.
mittee and Then a New Ma.
chine Through 1t.
DIR. GAvIGAN OPENS ON M'NAB.
The New Civil War-Both Factions
of the Party Nominate Conven.
tion Delegates.


trict club meetings throughout the City.
All in harmony with the Buckleyites
and the nominations made last night will
be ratified with enthusiasm at the pri-
mary.
Most of those nominated last night on
the Junta side will be State Convention
delegates too, as these nominations will
constitute the regular tickets which will
be supported by the inside" There will
likely be several contests at the Junta pri-
mary, but the contestants will not have
the election officers. The Junta clubs
nominated only the district delegates. The
fifty-thlee delegates-at-lar which Boss
McNab has arranged for will be nominated
by the executive committee next week.
But the thing of chief interest in the
Junta is the fierce war about Gavin Nc
Nab, his dom ination and his programme,
which has broken out in the executive
committee and which daily increases its
terrors.
That executive committee is split wide
open. The new struggle promises to
eclipse any OF the preceding ones in the
Democratic machine in bitterness.
The battle has but fairly opened, but 1t
appears already certain that McNab and
his chief lieuten ant, Chairman Sullivan,
are beaten out of the absolute control they
have enjoyed.
McNab and Sullivan have received a
rude shock and they have received it In
the surprisingly brief space of me of two
which they had carefully selected, of the
control of which they were sure and to
which they had given absolute power over
the affairs OF the faction.
The rebellion came quickly, as McNab
raised his No. II foot to step on the execu-
tive committee to climb high to the
pedestal of the party boss. McNab
convention delegates himself, to have
the executive committee carry out
his individual political contracts with
Daggett and to generally run things so
that he would be on top. A lot of the
mem bers of the executive committee pro-
posed TO have something to say them
selves, at least in their own districts.
Then they became scared at McNab's
ambitious programme. which the other
leading spirits in the Junta have not been
able to fathom until within a few days.
! Now the ultimate programme is known to
! quite number.
| McNab proposes to control the new
| State Central Committee and its executive
! committee and then through it secure a
/ committee on the reorganization of the
! local party, which would give him control
| of the local machine.
| His programme is to create another
! Deuprey committee, which would ostensi-
| bly, proceed to reorganiZe, harmonize and
/ unite the local Democracy, but which
would effect that operation through Mr..
McNab and. departing, leave him the
pure and noble leader of the Democracy,
| posing with one foot on Buekley's neck
and its adjoining region, while all the am
bilious Democrats of the City knelt about
! sup plant for nominations.
McNab has the present great tactical ad
vantage of controlling two chairmen-
| Chairman Sullivan of the Junta and Chair
man Frank Gould of the State Central
| Committee. Chairman Gould seems likely
now to become the chairman of the con-
vention and McNab will do all in his
! power to elect Gould. Gould will help
McNab's programme through at the con-
vention as effectively and arbitrarily as he
did at the meeting of the State Central
Committee, when w. w. Foote told him
that he was disgrace to his party.
McNab's programme proposes that
! Gould, as chairman OF the convention,
shall name the executive committee of the
State Central Committee. Gould would
appoint the committee, but McNab would
name it.
Then the convention, or the State Gen.
| trail Committee, as may seem expedient,
Is to adopt a resolution recognizing the
| deplorable split in the local party, deci ar
ing that the interests of the Democracy
demand united party in San Francisco,
the party's stronghold, and providing
that a commission of independent Demo-
| Gratis be empowered and directed to pro-
ceed to create new party organization in
this City.
McNab and the rest of the Junta leaders
declare as vigorously as ever that there
mil hn .rna n I'm
! Buckleyites. OF course not. There ls to
be Reorganization" fair to see and well
spoken of, which will bar from any voice
In party control all but the decent" peo-
| pie OF which McNab is ready to furnish a
| list. This would be counted on to take the
wind out of Buckley's sails.
But this scheme would annihilatc the
Junta organization as we'll, and the politi-
| cally am mbltious ones in the Jun'a organl-
cation who have not McNab's favor would
be out in the cold like the Buckleyites.
There are members of the executive COM
| mlttee who see all this and more and they
are not going to hand the works over to
| McNab.
In the furtherance of this great pro-
gramme. by which McNab proposes to be a
| Moses to the Democracy and then its king,
McNab IS after State Central COMMITTEES
men. The delegates to the State Conven-
ton from the various Assembly Districts
| VIII choose tnelr representatives. III that
committee. Hence McNabs present
labors are chiefly directed to get
ting nominated and elected delegates who
will elect State Central Committeeman TO
the liking of himself or his political part
ner Daggett.
There will be mess OF trouble over thi:
during the next two weeks in various direc
tions, but the chief trouble now concerns
the Thirty ninth District, and thai
trouble is red hot with rising tempera'
ture.
This district is represented in the execu
tive committee by DR.. J. w. Gavigan. HI
Is yet young man, but has been active il
Democratic politics since bovhood and ha
always, even in the height of Buckley
power. opposed both Buckley and Rainey
He was the only anti-Buckley membe .
the State Central Committee In 1884, TIN
year of the Stockton convention, and ha
never affiliated with either one OF thes,
bosses. In the Junta General Committe