The San Francisco call., 1896-01-12
Everybody Was Unanimously
Elected at the Family Pri-
mary Last Night.
THE NEW GENERAL COMMITTEE
The Boys Gayly Piled Up an Unneces-
Sarily, SuSpiciously and Harm
lessly Large Vote.

which was beld under the club plan in
the eighteen districts of the City last night,
gave the Buckleyites chance to be glad
again. for something like 5000 votes were
dropped into the eighteen ballot-boxes be-
tween the hours of 80 and 1880 P. NJ.
This is about half the number of names
enrolled month ago, and is somewhat
surprisingly heavy vote to be polled under
the circumstances, because in each district
there was but one ticket, and after the first
vote the balloting was somewhat per-
functory process OF ratification.
The election passed off quietly and
satisfactorily without any of the relish
and excitement of the Buckley pri-
maries' of the good old times back in the
SOS. The Junta people looked on
with a merely curious interest, and as the
Buckleyites had the field all 10 themselves,
and as II was a family affair, there was no
good reason why the thing should not pass
nicely.
The committee of twenty-five in charge
OF the primary, assisted at times by the
counsel OF Buckley and others, success
fully carried out their idea of having har-
mony universal.
When the primary loomed up ahead
tions for district power, but the powers
succeeded, by pleading, suggesting, re-
assuring and humping heads together, in
getting all the rival factions to agree on
compromise tickets and on divisions of the
representations in the general committee.
This was comparatively easy IN all the
districts but the Thirty-secOnd and Thirty
fifth. In the former the bitter, prolonged
and seemingly hopeless war between the
DundOn and Goecken factions was settled
10y Buckley 10y his drawing name from
Jim" O'Brien's hat, aad the settlement
hung together until the ballot-box was
closed last night.
So, instead OF the anticipated bloody war
at Fourth and Brannan streets last night,
there was simply a lively voting, spiced
with steam beer and two or three lively
scraps that didn't amount to anything at
all.
The equally bitter war between Larry
Dolan and Colonel O'Byrne and their
followers in the Thirty-hfth was settled al
the last hour by an agreement giving Do
Ian twenty and O'Byrne five out of the
twenty-five, and there, too, peace was
maintained until 10:30 P. NJ. The only
contest.was in the ThIrty-third, where two
extra names were on the ticket.
The usual rules governed the election
last night. Yesterday eighteen ballot
boxes we're borrowed OF the Registrar and
distributed and the machinery OF the cleo
ton was worked with great regard for
regularity, for the BUckleyites are very
careful now about constitutions, rules and
regularity.
In most of the districts, especially south
of Market street. the polling-places were
back rooms of corner saloons, with a win
dow opening on the sidewalk. The boys
gathered early, the crowds were quite
large and in nearly every district the Yot-
ing was lively and steady.
The heavy vote Is due to the organized
effort in every district to poll large vote
as a demonstration of facuonal strength,
to 60 along with that Of the big enroll
ment of II, 800 names. The regulars claim
to be ''the" party, and 1t was important 70
prove it. They think they have done it.
The Buckley organization is very com
plete and well managed IN a practical way,
and a special effort was made to get out a
big vote. 1t is probable that a large ma
jority of the votes were legitimate. How
ever, il was simply a question OF the size
OF the vote; there were no contests and no
chalIengers, and the number OF ballots
representing the faci0nal pride and en-
thusiasm OF the boys can only be guessed
at.
Beginning at 10 O'Clock, reports from
the districts began TO come into the head
quarters OF the primary committee at 20
Ellis street, where, in the absence of
fight with anything, the spirit of things
was simply a satisfactory business one.
The new general committee elected last
night lnCl9des over $50 of the old general
committee. majority of the old 450
elected in 1892 is still with the Buckley
faction, and wherever it was fairly satis-
factory to do so, the plan was to return old
mem bers. Many were tired of the lob and
wanted friends in their places, and many
party workers who had had no show al
the party machine since the revolution of
1892, thought 1t time they were given
chance.
The chief characteristic of the new
committee is that it is composed Of good
party workers. The Junta, in making up
its general committee, went a good deal
on the respectable sound OF the names in
II. The Buckleyltes don't scorn great and
good men, but look first TO getting in the
right places the men who can ''do politics.
and who can get and manage votes in their
districts.
James G. Mcguire is returned to the new
committee without his being consulted,
John H. Wise, DR.. Stanton. A. T. SPOTS,
James h. o Brien, Joseph Rothschild, DR..
D. f. Ragan, Sam Newman, Fleet +.
Strother, Z. T. Mills, T. Carl Spelling,
George r. b. Hayes, Reel B. Terry, Mau-
rice Schmitt, Thomas J. Glynn, Behrend
Joost, d. NJ. Gavigan. Thomas Ashworth
and z. j. CoTbett are among the new 45O
that are to rule that end of the local party.
Tie old and the new general committees
will be called together, probably at Metro
pollian Temple, some night this week.
The old committee will wind up its busi-
ness and the new committee will organize.
Talk about who viii be chairman is vet
Glow down" James H. o. Brien, who was
beaten by Watkins some time ago, is much
talked OF and appears to be the most
likely 10 be the successful candidate.
Joseph Rothschild, the present acting
chairman, is another probability, and
Thomas J. Glynn is mentioned.
The following figures show for the dis
trlcts named respectively the vote as re-
ported last night and the district enroll
ment. In some of these and in some dis
tricts unreported last night the vote is re-
markabIy close to the whole number of
names enrolled, but then nobody would
have been hurt if the boys voted every
name twenty-three times:
Twenty ninth, 335-S49; Thirty first. Oil
S41; ThiTtY-second, 4S9-926; Thirty-fourtb.
330-597; Thirty sixth, 785-1171; Thirty
seventh, 1885, Thirty eighth, lS2-338;
Fortiesh, 423-691; Forty second, 19O- -293.
Forty-third, 203-348; Fourth-fourth, 1885,
536.
The following are the district club officers
and the delegates, who, together, make up
the new Democratic general committee.