The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-08-20
BUCKEYES MEN
FOR LAWMAKERS,
A Legislative Ticket Will
Be Named by This Fac
ton Tonight.
FACTIONS WILL FIGHT.
Two Complete Democratic Local
Tickets Will Be Put Forth
in the Local Field.
THE COURTS WILL SETTLE IT.
Some legislative Nominees Who Will
Compose the First Local Ticket
to Be Named.
THE COURTS WILL SETTLE 1T.

| To-night the Buckleyites will make their
nominations for the Legislature at meet
| ings of the district clubs of the faction
| throughout the City. and this will be the
| first irrevocable move in the bitter fight
between the two wings of the local party.
| When rival tickets are put up between
two political factions, compromise and
| harmony are next to impossible, and these
| legislative nominations which will be
| made tonight will be a sort of clincher on
the promise that there is no possibility of
| compromise between the factions and that
the battle will be fought with long knives
| to the end.
The legislative ticket Of the Buckleyites
will thus within twenty-four hours be
pumped into the local political situation
with the rival Junta legislative ticket to
follow at some time and by some process
not vet determined.
Ii the early bird always really got the
worm and if the early worm was never run
over by the milk wagon, the Buckleyites
would seem to be certain of success. They
have several conceded advantages. They
will be first in the field; the last mothers
son of them believes that the Supreme
Court will give them the party heading,
and then their political institution -four
ishes Just now like large mber Of
green bay trees under the kind and highly
inspiring beams of Chris Buckley's con-
slant presence.
The Buckleyites will name their full
municipal ticket on September 3, and that
is only about Two weeks off, so that things
Democratic are about to become very in
teresting.
The Buckleyites are kindly hurrying
things so that the State Supreme Court
may early end the public suspense as to
whether the local Democratic party be-
longs to Chris Buckley or to the firm of
Rainey, Lanigan, McNab and Daggett.
The issue will be settled only in the courts,
and the Buckleytes will push the nasty
local mess under the noses OF the Supreme
Court Justices at the earliest possible mo-
ment.
On September 4 the municipal ticket
will be presented to Registrar Hinton,
with some sort of demand that he accept
it as the regular local Democratic ticket
Mr.. Hinton, being affiliated with the
Junta, will refuse, and writ of man
damus, praying that he be directed and so
on, will be Immediately asked of the Su-
preme Court. The Junta, which is not
looking earnestly Cor any court decisions.
will be forced to oppose the prayer, and
then the case will come before the Su-
preme Court on matters of law and fact,
one of which will be the issue as to whether
the turning out of the gas in Metropolitan
Hall constituted an adjournment sine die
of the old organization.
The Buckleyites, by Senator M. ]. Dono-
| van, chairman of the executive committee,
have appointed the committee OF attor-
news which will fight this political case III
the courts. These attorneys. who will
| mass their knowledge of constitutional
law, their perspicacity and SO forth. are:
4 Peter F. Dunno, Joseph Rotnschild, Henry
Ach, Mr.. Friedenrich of Napthaly, Erie
denrich & Alderman, Horace G.. Platt,
w. +. Humphrey, Carl 7. Spelling and
| Lincoln E. Savage.
Gavin McNab, Max Pepper, w. P. Sulli-
van and the rest of the Junta leaders
pooh-pooh at the case. but the Buckley
ties are really exuberant in their conf
dence, and the case will be very inter-
esting one as well as an important one IN
the field of political Jurisprudence.
1t is now generally conceded on both
sides that the court case Will alone settle
the issue; that the victorious faction will
become the local party regardless of the
attitude of the State Central Committee
and that the defeated faction will simply
have to quit and get in behind the other
! one on the best patronage and other terms
| that can be secured when the time for
this play gets around.
The Buckleyites will put forth their
| municipal ticket on September g. the
| Junta will hold its convention within two
| weeks thereafter, and the two rival local
| Democratic tickets will be in the field be-
| fore the decision by the Supreme Court
arrives. Then the defeated faction will
become rump independent organiza-
| ton, which every practical politician viii
| desert like certain animals do ships in the
| process of sinking. That will be very
| amusing mess. and 1t seems now certain
| to come. The way many aspirants for
| Office are now trying to be happy while
| hOtn dear Charm6rS already
| highly entertaining.
| Tonight the Buckleyites will name their
| choices for eighteen Assem- blymen and
| FIVE Senator'S who will help make the COM
| ing Legislature which is to represent
| free and enlightened people in the process
| of making and butchering laws for great
/ COD monwealth.
! 20 start in with the Twenty-eghth Dis
| trict there is not the slightest doubt that
Lawrence J. Conlan will be named for the
Assembly tonight. He is a personal IA
vorite of Mr.. Buckley's, has no opposition
that amounts to anything, is cookbook
| ing, is popular with the boys of all fac
tions down in the Twenty-eighth, is SER
| geant- alarms of the executive com mittee,
and his lustv presence has often at pri-
| mary and other elections in the Twenty
eighth preserved the political rights of the
dominant element of Democracy there.
| Over IN the Twenty-nlnth, on the other
side of Third street. James Meagher,
| Thomas Moorish and Maurice Kerwin are
asplrants. In cases like this the Judgment
of Mr.. Buckley and other wise aud patri-
| otto leaders of the party as to who would
represent the party and the people with the
most ability and dignity will mainly decide
the nominations, but these decis ions are
not apt to be announced, except by the
| final ballot at the club meeting, and so
| prophecies are as uncertain in the Twenty
| ninth as IN number of other districts
where small hordes of citizens are am
| bilious to make laws for California.
| The two districts just named make up
| the Seventeenth Senatorial District, which
is one of the five to elect this year. Thomas
Egan of the Twenty-ninth is the conceded
winner of the nomination, though Law
renee Buckley of the Twenty-eighth has
much strength and works hard. John
| Rafferty, would like the nomination, too.
| In the Thirtieth Bernard Conway is the
/ probable nominee according to political
| gossip, and in the Thirty-frst Joseph
| Heating appears to have the inside track.
The Thirty-6rst District is combined
| with the Thirty-ninth as Senatorial dis