The San Francisco call., 1896-04-09
The New Lanigan Combination
IN the Junta Locks Sick
for a Minute.
THICKENING PULLS AND PLANS
The Buckleyites Are Getting Ready
10 Break Out Again and Whoop
Up Their Eni.

eilp Oh luc Juulh Dy taxing collector
John II. Wise into their camp.
There has been for some time little if
any question of Rainey's mastery OF the
Junta, but two weeks ago the anti-Rainey-
ties, which same are Gavin McNab and
Chairman w. P. Sullivan for all practical
purposes, thought they had made a ten
strike and beaten Rainey out by making a
combination with Ed Lanigan in the in
terest of pure politics. Lanigan, with his
sixty votes in the general committee
had waited for bids and when it was an
absolute certainty that without Lanigau
the McNab-Sullivan side was gone, they
made terms with him by agreeing TO give
him a show 10 become the local Demo-
cratic boss and TO run local Democratic
politics.
That was the last move in the hard
game for mastery being played in the
Junta. Then it was Rainey's move. Now
he has moved, and now it's the turn of
''the inside" to get excited and make an
other play
When Lanigan lined up with McNab
and Sullivan the anti-Raineyites took part
and the Raineyites saw that they would
need few more votes to save their necks.
They hustled, figured and connubiated
They looked longingly at John H. Wise.
The political friends of the Collector and
his own sympathies are mainly with
the Buckleyites, but he has quite number
OF friends in the Junta organization and
he can swing there bunch of votes of un-
certain size.
His friends" are of course mainly those
bread-and- butter friends-job- -holders-on
rrb ;nh
can most safely rely. a. P. Rhoades,
member of the general committee from
the Thirty-hfth District, has job in the
Custom-house, and is a sort of political
manager for Wise. In the Thirty-second
are W. II. Harrison, who works in the
Custom house, and Timothy Donovan,
whose son does. These two named the
twenty-five delegates from that district.
In the Thirty first is George Love, who is
in the> >Custom-hous under Surveyor w.
d. English. There are other Wise men
scattered through the districts. These
men and their friends in the committee,
who are supposed to be largely controlled
by them, number thirty or thirty-five.
Not all of this number could be pulled
over to the Ralney-Daggett side, but Wise
could undoubtedly throw or help throw
very large majority OF them, through the
all powerful patronage power of a man
VINO can give jobs. If Wise sticks by the
arrangement just effected, the Rainey
Daggett side is a sure victor.
Wise has not consented to the deal be-
cause he loves John Daggett. These two
Democrats give each other the green eye.
One thing that paves the way is the fact
that all of Carlisle's servants out here
must stand together for Carlisle and gold.
Then, Wise likes recognition, even in a
Junta delegation to State convention.
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him to take it and he has lined up with
the rest OF the Federal brigade. and at the
big end.
The fact that Wise is a member of the
Buckley general committee along with
Harry doesn't cut any figure. He is not
narrow minded politically, and he, can as
well get in and ride few miles with the
Junta too in the interest of the party.
But then the capture of Wise is not all
that the Rainey-Daggett people have been
doing by long ways. They have been
quietly working and reaching with the
snrewdness that comes with long political
experience and with an industry that
knows no WEAKNESS.
They have kept books on everybody and
kept cases on every move of the inside"
They know the pedigree of every member
OF the general committee-who are his un-
cles, cousins and aunts; who their friends
are, his business interests. his ambitions,
and every possible way in which a strong
and quiet pull can be brought to bear on
him. They have thus quietly captured
many committeeman, whose conversion is
yet unsuspected by the anti Raineyites.
Some captures already known have
paralyZed McNab and Sullivan. One was
that OF George Gallagher of the Thirty
fourth, who has just gone over the fence.
Gallagher was in the Deuprey committee,
and when at the time of the primary he
was found in a minority and the ma
tority nominated a ticket that left him off.
Chairman Sullivan valiantly stood by him
and made UP a ticket which he forced
through arbitrarily and for which he let
Gallagher name seven delegates. Sullivan
was heartsick when the news was borne to
him.
Jack Weleh and his friends OF the
Twenty-eigbth have been counted on
surely by McNab and Sullivan, especially
since the deal with Lanigan, because We'll
burn was counted on to hold his deputy
in place. But Welch was appointed by
Welburn for Mcguire, in pursuance of an
agreement between Welburn and Mcguire
that the latter should have some patron
age. Welch was recommended to Mcguire
by people now with the Rainey-Daggett
side. WEIGH is said TO be ready to jump
the traces if Welburn should put on the
screws, and Welburn seems to be fighting
mighty shy of having anything to do with
personally an old friend Of Rainey's, and
1t is said tn at Welch will go with the
Rainey crowd.
So 1t goes. At headquarters everybody
is suspicious of everybody else. The
Rainey, ,Daggett people are piling up their
strength and are confident.
Unless McNab and Sullivan see that
they are beaten and work things around
In some new way mighty battle for
which both sides are preparing will break
at the first meeting OF the general commit
tee, and when it Is over Rainey will be
master OF the field. Confident of a major
ity since Lanigan's arrival, Chairman
Sullivan has figured on calling meeting
for next week and cracking through a
programme that will bury Rainey
That meeting has many interesting pos
sibilities. There being yet no representa-
tion from the Forty-fourth District there
are 4Z5 members of the general commit
tee. 1t would b. an exceptionally large