The San Francisco call., 1896-06-12
WANTED A MAN To
BEAT GOULD WITH,
nti-Daggett Forces Cogi-
tating About the Chair
manship.
A MAN WILL BE SPRUNG
The Machine Seems Safe From
the Candidacy of Foote
or White.
FOOTE'S SEAT is CONTESTED.
The Daggett Machine Would Throw
Him Out of the Convention.
The War Outlook.
FOOTE'S SEAT IS CONTESTED.

The Observation-Disclosures alb com blnatlon,
grlmIy determined that the machine must
win at Sacramento, has given w. w.
Foote a blow which is relied upon to
effectually knock the wind out of Foote' 8
boom for the convention Craftsmanship.
They have filed contest to Foote'S seat
in the convention, and now If any
thing more is said about forcing the
Craftsmanship on Foote they will say,
"What! elect chairman whose seat is
contested and who would have the dis
position of his own contest?'
By this coup d'etat Daggett and his
friends and Foote's enemies have made
another slash for Foote'S scalp-lock, and
they think that one assault on the works
of their man Gould has been brilliantly
repulsed.
Senator White is the only other
prominent candidate whom the an til
Gould, anti-machine forces have tried
to form so far. Nobody may talk
with authority or certainty about
the possibilities of W hite reluctantly
consenting to be whooped into the
convention chair until after ne gets
home tonight, talks with John T. Gaffey
in back room and gets a good survey of
things.
White would get the Craftsmanship by
an immense majority in spite of Daggett's s
machine if the representatives of the
Democracy of the State were given a
chance to choose between him and Gould,
but there is d general feeling that White
would not consent TO run.
Those who cry out for salvation from
Daggett and Gould talk much about
its being Whites duty to sacrifice himself
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party and to save it from being given into
the hands of a machine faction, and about
the probabilities of his seeing 1t to be his
duty to become savior. But there is
general impression that White will refuse
the honor.
The ready story about Gouid's voting
for White for Senator comes rebukingly
from the lips OF McNab and those fellows
when the possibilities OF Whites chair
mansbip are mentioned. They are posi-
tive that this bars White from placing
straw in Gould's way.
White wants to be elected to the Senate
again by the next Legislature. What
course will White steer in his own inter-
est is the question. He will take a deep
interest in the convention in behalf of his
ambition, his friends and his party.
1t is certain. for one thing, that White
will not hand people into Daggett's band
wagon. They are old enemies. Whites
closest friends are not Daggett's friends,
and their common enemies are few. White
knows that if John Daggett dominates the
party machine after next Tuesday there
are only two big Democrats, Foote and
Mcguire, into whom Daggett will run his
knife with more unutterable JOY. White
was chairman of the Stockton convention
of 1884, which in its platform denounced
"Lieutenant-Governor john Daggett,
whose casting vote was ever thrown into
the scales to turn the balance against the
people," and declared that it is the
duty of party, if it is true to itself and to
the people, to expel from its ranks and de-
nounce, as unworthy of public trust and
lost to all sense of honor, traitors and
pledge breakers"
Whites portion of the responsibility for
Daggett's being thus kicked out of the
party naturally made Daggett his bitter
enemy. When the convention OF 1856, in Odd
Fellows Hall, San Francisco, arrived.
Daggett was there with one purpose, and
that was to beat White, who was candi-
date for the Craftsmanship again. He had
his knife out for "Bill'' English and
others, upon whose carcasses he would
feed. He tried to beat White with N.
Green Curtis, but didn't. If White should
now trot out to win the gavel again, ten
years later, what blessed transport OF
bliss would bubble in John Daggett's heart
II ne cOulu peat uln at last Win FRANK
Gould.
1t was at that convention, by the way,
that Daggett broke with Chris Buckley
because Buckley backed White. Daggett
pleaded in vain with Buckley to stand in
against White.
81 suppose you're going to be for that
- hog English, too, for chairman of the
State Central Committee" said Daggett,
as the story goes.
Ghric fr1ry
ing on his heel, had spoken to Buckley for
the last time.
The antl-Gould forces were at sea yester-
day and were still looking about for mag
netic party giants to take up. Jeter's
boom has apparently lost its vitality. La
Rue has been mentioned. Foote' friends,
opponents of Daggett generally, ana the
Buckleyites were yet pinning their hopes
on Foote or White and waiting to see
what the possibilities regarding then are.
They haven't got candidate; they
can't find one" the partisans of Daggett
and McNab shouted in iubilation.
Just wait, said the otLers.
That candidate will be sprung against
Gould is a moral certainty. He will prob
ably be rushed out with whoop Rbout
next Saturday night or Sunday when the
politicians begin to gather at Sacramento.
Gould's friends talk about his election by
acclamation, which would mean that Dag
gett has secured such a com plete mastery
of the party that even the opposition to
him is crushed.
And this when the State machine, the
control of San Francisco politics and for
tunes, the ambitions OF many leaders, a
governorship, a Legislature, a senator
ship and so on are more or less involved
1t is universally recognized by Demo-
crats-except by McNab and Daggett when
they talk for publication-that Gould's
election means Daggett's triumph.
"Daggett is going TO get all he wants is
the common expression among the Junta
people as they talk of the certainty of
Gould's election.
The anticipations of the Junta people are
that Gould, as temporary chairman, will
force through, as far as chairman can,
the programme of letting the Junta vote
on the temporary organization. The
Junta will cast 161 votes, and 147 more, in
cludlng many proxies, will make up
majority.
Gould is expected to name committee
on order of business, which will provide
tor the appointment by the chairman of
ten or twenty members at large of the
State Central Committee, who Will become
an executive committee.
lie is expected to name a committee on
credentials that will report in favor of
seating the Junta delegation, throwing out