The San Francisco call., 1896-03-19
Sam and Daggett Control and
E. P. E. Troy Denounces
the Junta.
MAGUIRE DECLARES IT AGAIN.
The Democratic Factions May Battle
Even at the National Conven.
tion at Chicago.

Gavin McNab has done the final thing
necessary to make him fuIl-fedge ged, regu-
lar and master boss.
He has given it out that he will retire
from politics, though he may advise with
friends occasionally in the interest of good
government.
Christopher A. Buckley is out of poll.
tics that way. So is Samuel Rainey
Ralney tells everybody that he is out of
politics, though some of his friends come
to him for advice, and short time ago be
told one OF the Junta leaders that the only
connection he had with John Daggett polit-
lcally resulted from Daggetts coming here
stranger to local politics and his needing
somebody to give him some pointers.
Boss McAab. who runs the Junta IN
the interest of Rainey, Daggett. Welburn
and Lanigan, by experimenting things
generally and telling Chairman Sullivan
what to do, has been fairly busy this week
refuting a startling intimation from the
Buckley side that he and Chairman Gould
carried through an A. P. A. scheme last
Saturday.
The Junta has done nothing since Satur-
day except glory in the victory achieved
when the State Central Committee de-
clared them the regular local organization.
They are highly confident now and propose
to go right ahead.
The State Central Committee meeting
having passed there is no longer so good
reason why Rainey should lie low in the
brush. Much trouble in the organization
is anticipated over the exercise OF control
which Rainey and Daggett are generally
conceded to possess.
Heretofore GAVIN McNab has shrewdly
kept to the official front the decent men in
the organization, who are sincerely inter-
ested in clean politics, but who are no
great shakes when it comes to practical
San Francisco politics. There was a
primary committee of twenty-five, largely
composed of such men, and there was
committee of twenty-five appointed to
look after the State Central Committee
An arbitration committee is about to be
appointed to straighten out the district
ta9gles.
But these committees are all appointed
by Chairman Sullivan for Gavin McNab,
and occasionally they are called upon to
ratify something that McNab and Sullivan
decide on. These committees comprise
the men who are openly at the front and
who appear to run the works. Most of
them are anti-Rainev. They include, be-
sides Messrs. McNab and Sullivan, Sam
Braunhart, Frank P. Hughes, Clitus Bar
bour, M. Q. Hassett, Captain Fitzpatrick,
James f. Butler, Max Pepper, A. A. Wat
kins, Alexander Vogelsang, T. ]. Pinder,
George T. Marye, 6. Howard Thompson,
DR.. T. A. Rottanzi.
These men would not be likely to let
Rainey, Daggett and their henchmen
get all they want and do as they please at
a primary election and otherwise. As
Daggett wants to control the San Fran
cisco delegation in the State convention,
probably with some partnership arrange
ment with o. NJ. Welburn, and as Rainey
wants a local grip, the boss element must
control the officers and committees, as
we'll as the voters OF the organization. So
if the nice people who are not politicians
try to make Rainey remain four-spot
there will be more trouble.
That Ralney controls the Junta in that
quiet way of his is believed by many who
are in the organization but opposed him.
Some of these have repudiated the organi-
cation already on this account and others
threaten to.
uuois Club. He was from the start active
in the anti-Buckley movement and con-
versant with the inside of things. Now
Mr.. Troy is out denouncing the Junta as a
Rainey-Daggett machine, run by McNab.
"I have repudiated the organization" said
Mr. Troy, "because there is not the slightest
doubt that Rainey will control it. MeNab and
sullivan deny this and at the meeting of the
rafr Lost thav
trifing fake contest, supported by sixty-seven
votes Then they pointed to the vote and
said: There's Rainey's strength I know
that by those on the inside. Rainey and Dag
gett are conceded to almost if notwholly control.
Gavin McNab has admitted to me that Rainey
and Daggett could not be kept out of control
withou lEd Lsnigan's help. L have here fig
ures given to me by Mr. McNab himself on the
composition of the general committee. Nc
Nab conceded 1877 votes to Rainey and Daggett.
This is sixty-three less than a majority. A
change of thirty-two votes to Rainey would
give it to Rainey on McNab's own showing
You know what controls people and pulls
them over in such cases. It's patronage pulls;
and who have these pulls? They cannot keep
the control away from Rainey without max
ing corrupt bargains with other and corrupt
politicians who WELD power ana who are at
present corrupting public officials.
ssThe policy of the leaders, as they have told
me many times, IS to build up boss system in
the various districts to produce so-called har-
mony To accomplish this they have to my
knowledge taken off names OF independent
and uncomfortable men and put in Rainey
men, for men who would be ready to make
trades with them. Knowing that Chairman Sui
liyan's policy would give the control to
Rainey, l told Mr. Sullivan two or three days
before the last primary to take my name off
the ticket He disobeyed my order and left
nv name on and had it scratched because he
thought I was about to denounce them. i
want to say that the estimate of Rainey's
strength given me by Mr.. McNab was lower
than that made by others in the organization
who were well informed"
The Buckieyites declare that Daggett
and Welburn, too-are keen to con-
troll the State convention, and hence the
California delegation to the National con-
vention, not only through personal ambi-
tion, but to help out the administration
that appointed them. Daggett, they say,
will do all he can in behalf of the gold
"sound-money" policy of Cleveland and
Carlisle. He wants to take to Chicago,