The San Francisco call., 1896-06-10
A GROWING BOOM
FOR ". v. FOOTE,
His Friends Hustling to
Force the Craftsmanship
on Him.
LOS ANGELES FOR HIM
Daggett'S Enemies Are Gould's
and the Fight Acquires
the Proper Bitterness.
SENATOR WHITE IS COMING.
The Gold Forces Surrender and Hep.
Only to Save a Little for the
miniStration.

As the Democrats advance to the field
where the battle over the State Convention
chairmanship is to be fought, the prospect
that shillalehs viii be freely used and that
gore will lay the dust become stronger.
The Craftsmanship was much talked
about yesterday. The opposition to Gould
appeared palmer and stronger. The latent
sentiment OF the party became more ac-
tive. The craftsmanship has become for
the time the leading issue because the
outcome of the convention ard the course
of its events depend so largely on it,
The boom FOR Foote waxed stronger.
He repeated during the day that he was
neither candidate nor a hog, ana that
any way his health was not adapted TO a
Democratic convention, but his friends
talked with increased confidence and in
increased numbers about running him re-
gardless OF his own wishes; about the
rising demand for him, which they assert
comes from all quarters of the State, and
the grease spot which they say would be
left OF Frank Gould after the vote.
III Foote's name is presented in the
convention" said one of his friends yes
terday, "he would be elected with a whirl
and a whoop. Los Angeles would go to
him almost to a man, Alameda would give
him nearly thirty votes, as some Fitzger-
aid delegates would 20 to him, and so it
would go down the list of delegations
Foote will be forced into it."
White IS regarded everywhere as also a
man who could have the Craftsmanship
against Gould on the slightest hint that he
would accept it. White and his friends
have not expressed themselves openly
and the possibilities of his cand idacy will
not be apt to be definitely settled until
about the end of the week, when ne is eX-
pected home. White will be at the con-
vention.
Daggett and McNab. it is said, will in
the hard efforts they will make to keep
White out of the fight urge the wisdom of
not imperiling his Sena torial chances in
the next Legislature by getting into fights
unnecessarily.
TIL opponents of Daggett and his we'll
known ambition to secure 8 controlling
interest in the State machine are generally
opponents of Gould, for the reason that
Gould personifies the Daggett-McNab pro-
gramme. Gould is an absolute necessity
TO Daggett and McNab, for the chairman
will appoint the committees on credentials
and on platform and resolutions, and viii
undoubtedly appoint the State Executive
Committee.
The anti-Gould people are recounting
some OF the evidences of Gould's political
which is generally said to have included
an agreement that Gould should be made
chairman of the next State Convention
and Speaker OF the next Assem- bly, and
that otherwise the machinery to be cap
tured sh uld grind a grist for him as well
as for his partners. And Gould is said to
have an eye on the Governorshlp.
Gould called a meeting of the State Cen
tral Committee last April in accordance
with arrangements, and cracked through
the JuDta programme with such virulent
partizanship, it is recalled that w. w.
Foote told him during the session that he
was a disgrace TO the party.
Before this meeting and after the reso-
luton recognizing the Junta was adopted
McNab and other Junta leaders jubi-
lantIy proclaimed that victory was sure,
because Gould would put their 161 dele
gates on the temporary roll and see that
they voted for a chairman who would APP
point fr iendly committee on credentials.
The Daggett- Men alb Rainey people de-
clared freely those days that they "had
Gould" At that meeting of the State
Central Com mittee McNab sat close to
the chairman, giving suggestions that
were followed and opponents of the Junta
were vigorously declared out of order
When Joseph Rothschild, while speaking,
tried TO proceed after an interruption de-
claring that he had not finished Chairman
1.-The chair rules that yon had finished"
The anti-Gould people ask if this is the
sort of man to rule a Democratic State
Convention, especially when a continue
ton of the programme he is interested in
is one of the chief convention issues.
Gould was first put forth as candidate
for the cheIrmanship by McNab and Dag
gett. Both Landed him at once, and his
election has been one of the chief aims of
Daggett and McNab, as they have secured
the State in their political labors, pledg-
ing delegates and engaging proxies.
Gould has been given Mint patronage,
and the anti-Daggett people say that he is
especially close to Dapgett, and is in
fuenced by him more than by McNabb.
Not long ago one feature of the Daggett-
McNab programme came out. 1t was that
the local party was to be reorganized under
the direction OF the State executive COM
mittee which Gould was to appoint when
he became chairman. 1t was to be named
largely by Daggett and McNab, and thus
was McNab to secure a controlling in
f1uence in the new local machine.
Ever since last fall, when Daggett threw
all his political energy and all his Mint
patronage power into the fight for the local
machine, Daggett has been declaring that
he was interested in nothing lower than
State politics. He has taken keen per-
sonal interest in the Assembly District
all along explained that what he was after
was the convention delegations, and the
State Central Committee men the district
delegates would elect.
One district, the Thirty-nlnth, serves to
show Daggett's play. When the campaign
committee OF the Junta was appointed
some weeks ago it was generally known
that Daggett made an especially hard fight
to have J. A. Fenton OF the Mint appointed
as tie representative of that distrlctin the
For some reason DR.. w. J.
Gavigan was named. Then as the nomi-
nation of delegates came up McNab took
up the cause of Dageett and proposed to
the Fenton faction nominees and
to turn down Gavigan.
II was well understood that McNab was
carrying out a contract with Daggett, and |
what Daggett was after was the State Cen
tral Committeeman from that district, I
and that he wanted Fenton reelected. |
Daggett's programme won out.
With other districts it has been SINH
arly well understood among the Junta
people that Daggett wanted the State Con-
vention votes and the State Central Com
mitteemen, and that Rainey was to have
The purely local power.
Daggetts ambition to rise n triumph
above his enemies from the political obliv-