The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27

| fight will occur at the outset, over the
| seating of the twenty-five delegates from
| the Forty-fourth, nominated by George
| Maxwell, secretary of the Fire Commission,
| in defiance of Chairman Sullivan, and
unanimously elected. The primary coru-
mittee strongly supports Chairman Sqill-
/ van and Gavin McNab in their refusal to
give the Rainey element i'll that district
| more than eleven of the twenty-five dele
gates, irrespective of the results OF a
| primary election. 1t has ordered new
| election in that district and left its time
and management to Chairman Sullivan
1t will likely be held this week, and an
other ticket will be sent from headquar-
ters, with committee of election officers.
Whether Maxwell and his people will
have anything to do with the new election
is doubtful. Maxwell says that he Will not.
The feeling is very bitter with the
Rainey people over the Forty-fourth Dis
trict affair. Maxwell yesterday cleared
his decks and went for Chairman Sulli-,
Samuel Braunhart in this fashion:
The members of the party apparently have
no rights that these people are bound to re-
spect. Colonel Sullivan assured me that every
body would get fairly treated and on that
assumption went into the movement against
Buckley in the interest of the Fire Department
and did all l could to get people into the
organization. had the assurances OF Suili-
mated by the club whose dollar was paid would
go on the ticket. Our club nominated ticket
OF twenty-five in regular way and complied
with every rule. Then they said we couldn't
nominate but eleven, and fourteen would be
arbitrarily selected at headquarters for the
ticket.
made. but we were entitled to nominations at
least. and let the election settle who should
represent the district. This was all done TO
discipline me because was friend OF Rainey.
Sullivan at first said that l would not only
have eleven solid, but the best OF the fourteen.
refused anything on that basis.
Now see what Sullivan could do. Two nights
later he said to my brother, whats the mat
ter with George?" and proposed that he would
name fourteen of my friends. but that 1 should
get out and kick and pretend to be dissatisfied
because 1 didn't have a majority. He said
something OF that sort was necessary TO make
1t appear 70 the public that Rainey was not in
control. l laughed at the proposition and
didn't go TO see Sullivan about it.
Then ex-Supervisor John Foley of the Forty
hith, VINO is out for Senator, came to me and
wanted TO tie me up in his Senatorial fight. I
refused and week later he came and urged
me to settle the thing. He told me that
Samuel Braunhart had been TO William
Raubinger in that district and asked for the
names of some good Democrats in that district
TO be appointed on the ticket. Raubinger goes
to Foley and Foley comes to me. would not
name any men 10 be put in at headquarters
and told Foley that was fighting for prin-
clple and our rights.
The joker in all this was that if they could
could go TO kickers in other districts and say:
See here, Maxwell has been called down and
he's had to quit, and now you've got to-" Now
they can have a new election l won't go near
It, Our twenty-five are entitled to seats if
anybody ever was.
The result of ali this will be that the Junta
will go to pieces. There is dissatisfaction with
these dlctators everywhere. tried 10 get
constitution and bylaws adopted and told
Sullivan and McNab that it was nothing but
disor ganized political mob, but they wanted
TO be the law, as they are.
McNab is one of the most unreliable and de-
ceitful men l ever met. 1 said TO a friend OF
his some time ago, what sort of fellow is
this McNab that you've got me tied up with? ?'
He laughed and said, "Well, he's like that dog
in ireland that would go part of the road with
everybody" Pepper is unreliable, Sullivan
beciie, and so excusable for anything he NAV
do. They are the most unsatisfactory men to
do politics with ever saw, and Pm sorry
ever had anything to do with them. There
isn't one OF them who could GO up against a.
fair primary and carry his own district.