The San Francisco call., 1896-06-10
Reorganization of the Party by
Some Plan Becomes a
Certainty.
THE JUNTA TURNS TO SILVER.
Buckleyites Are Certain That Victory
Will Follow the Hot Open
ing Battle.

tee, which they thought they had secured
few weeks ago, just before their defeat al
the last meeting of the General Committee
At that time the anti Rainey element won
the organization by securing Lanigan,
with his sixty or more votes.
Lanigan stayed on the fence between
the factions until the last minute, holding
the balance of power. Then McNab and
Sullivan made a combination with him
and an anti-Rainey constitution, anti
Rainey committees and a concentration of
anti-Rainey strength followed.
Lanigan grew sore very early. He did
not get the recognition he claimed from
McNab and Sullivan, and he grew weary
OF their ways of doing politics.
week or more ago he and Rainey
patched up their differences and became
partners again as of old, after being apart
for year and half. Lanigan is shrewd,
experienced and strong in local politics,
and the com bination is ready to do politics
as they ought to be done.
Some -Raineyites assert that they
still have a majority, but there are quiet
smiles at that on the other side. Rainey
and Daggett have been busy since the bat
tie few weeks ago and Lanigan substracts
sixty votes from one side and adds them to
the other.
AS the State Convention is the thing of
overshadowing importance and as policy
directs that family troubles be suppressed
until the convention is over there is not
much noise being made about he revolu-
ton.
The Rainey Daggett Lanigan pro-
gramme is to call meeting of the General
Committee soon after the State Conven-
tion, amend the constitution to suit and
revolutioniZe the committees, etc.
1t is freely said that when the State Con-
ventlon IS over, and time to go to work
comes, Sullivan, McNab, Braunhart,
Pepper and that crowd will be promptly
dumped"
But this revolution is not so important
as it might SEEM because there will be a
reorganization of the local party in some
way after the State Convention. This TACT
is evident on every hand. There is a
recognition on both sides of the fact that
the party must unite to have a ghost of a
show of winning anything in the munich
pal fight.
The Buckleyites have urged reorganiza-
tion and compromise from the start. Last
fall they wanted Judge Mcguire to ap-
point committee to superintend pri-
mary for the election of new General
Committee for the whole party. They
offered to let the Junta people name half
OF such committee ard they offered to
submit to primary run by the Deuprey
committee but the Junta would touch
nothing in the nature of compromise,
shouted that they were the party and
would be 10 the end.
But McNab. Sullivan ct al. on the other
side have had a reorganization scheme in
view. They recognized the heterogeneous
nature of their own organization, full of
warning elements. impossible to hold to-
gether, and the fact that their organization
represented a small minority of the party.
They declared that no compromise
with the Buckleyites would ever come but
planned new organization, which might
be recognized by the party while they still
retained control. McNab's scheme is to
have the reorganization carried out by the
new State Executive Committee, which
they expect Frank Gould to appoint when
he is elected chairman of the State Con-
vention.
Leading Buckleyites say that they will
cheerfully submit TO new General County
Committee elected at a primary for the
whole party if such a primary can be con-
Quoted under guarantees that it will be
fairly conducted and the votes honestly
counted. Some of them put forth the
plan yesterday that Congressman Mcguire,
W. w. Foote and Senator White be made
a non-factional commission to devise q
u.
Seeing that reorganization is bound to
occur before long and that both the pres
ent rival central committees will likely go
out of power many of the members of the
Junta committee are alarmed at what is
likely to occur under McNab's operations.
In a new scramble for place on even terms
with the Buckleyites district politicians
who have achieved some rank in the or
ganiZation for which they have fought so
long might find themselves on the little
end of everything.
There are plenty of people in the Junta
who declare that the organization will go
right ahead and put up ticket anyhow,
but the politically wise know that when
the time comes an overwhelming party
sentiment will demand unifcation in the
party interest, and that opposition to the
results of reorganization approved by
the weightiest party influences would be
like butting heads against stone wall
The reorganization will, of course, be ac-
com pIished with much pain and noise of
battle.
The Junta is Topping from gold to silver
Two weeks ago there were not 20 of the
161 State Convention delegates who were
not voluntarily or by force of patronage
firm for gold. But the gold forces have
abandoned the fight and silver is the pop
ular side.
Chairman Sullivan is feeling the dele
gates on the proposition of holding
another meeting and declaring for silver.
This, 1t is thought, would help them up at
the State Convention. Whether this is
done or not a majority of the delegates
will likely take a silver stand at Sacra-
mento. if they get chance to vote.
The local factions are nervously wonder
ing how the contest will come out at Sac
ramento. 1t now appears certain that the
Buckleyites will be given at least half a
vote in the interest of party success if
they are not seated as a whole, through
the merit of their cause and the fact that
they represent so many times greater an
element in the party.
This contest will afford an awful row at
Sacramento, according to indications.
The first question is, will the Junta sue
ceed in staying on the temporary roll and
voting for the temporary chairman? Nc
Nab says that is sure. The Buckleyites
say that the sun may fall, but the Junta
delegation will never vote until the con-
test is settled.
They declare with perfect confidence
that the delegates from the State gener-