The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05
DEMOCRATIC WAR CRIES,
They Grow Louder as the State
Central Committee Meet.
ing Nears.
Raleigh Barcar and Gavin McNab
Give Country and Junta View
of the Battle.

Tive country and a Junta view
of the Battle.
The meeting of the Democratic State
| Central Committee at the California Hotel
on the 14th inst, week from next Satur-
| day, has drawn so near that the leaders of
| the local factions are making defnit. plans
| for the fight between the Buckleyites and
| the Junta that is sure to be the chief fea-
| ture of the meeting.
| The meeting promises to be well at
tended, and no possible proxies will be left
| lying loose Ground the State. The regular
| business of the meeting will probably be
| soon attended to. 1t will include call for
| State Convention. an apportionment of
| delegates and the fixing OF the place where
| the convention shall meet.
| 1t is yet uncertain whether the vote for
| Cleveland or for Budd Will be taken as the
| basis of apportionment, and neither has
| any keen champions. Stockton is already
making vigorous campaign for the con-
vention, and so far is the only city that is
doing so. Santa Cruz is expected to go
after it, and there is possibility that Sac
ramento will, but no other cities are yet
mentioned.
| The chief interest in the convention con-
| Germs the local squabble. 1t is asserted by
a large proportion OF the leading Demo-
Gratis that it is practically certain the State
| com mittee will not take any action recog-
nIzing the Junta as the regular local or
| ganization but will instead order a prm-
ary election for delegates to the State Con-
| vention, which shall be open to the whole
party and conducted by special commit
| tee appointed by the State Central Com
mittee. The Junta will ask to be officially
| declared the regular party organization,
and the Buckleyites will vigorously com
! bat the Junta's claims, while quietly back
| ing up com promise proposition that an
| independent committee shall conduct a
| primary. The ginger and the venom
attendant on the combat promise to
| break the record of Democratic fights.
| Gavin McNab is still the active manager
of Junta affairs and he and those with him
! scout the possibility of there being any
compromise with Buckley. 1t is CLAIMED
| that ninety five of the 103 members of the
| State Central Committee throughout the
| State have declared themselves hostile to
| Buckleyism in any form. But several in
| terror mem bers OF the committee in dis
| cussing the situation with others have re-
mained doubtful about what should be
done. They have no use for Buckley, but
they have as little for Sam Rainey, and
some have as little for John Daggett. The
| BuckIeyites will point to the Junta and
| ask if Sam Rainey doesn't smell as bad as
| Buckley, and they may affect to hold their
| noses at Daggett. They think there will
| be nothing for the State Central Commit
tee to do but to say, ga plague on all your
show for every body.
Raleigh Barcar of Vacaville, grand
| sachem of the State League of Iroouois
clubs, is one Of the leading country men,
bers of the committee, and his attitude is
| typical of that OF majority of the COM
mittee. In discussing the local situation
| the other day he said:
The politicians down here have queer ways
that we OF the interior can hardly
understand. / will come down here and
! find lot OF leaders fighting and damnIng GER
| tain people, and the next time l come down I
lind them working together like brothers.
When we have fight it lasts.
| AS will be one OF the jurors in this case l
| can't judge 1t in ADVANCE, but can say that
we in the country have use for Buckley.
| He makes merchandise of politics and his
motives are entirely selfish. We have no use
| for bosses. AS understand the situation the
| Junta, as they are called, claim to be the regu-
| lar organization, and if there is question of
| fact involved in that it VIII have to be consid-
| cred. They say Rainey is in the Junta. Well,
| such cattle are marked and spotted, and, of
! course. wherever they work they are after
| what they can get.
We have no more use for Kearney than we
a nice enough fellow personally, but he mustn't
/ think that he owns everything and can use it
| for himself. Daggett got what he didn't merit
| He didn't make speech during the campaign
| of 1892; he didn't attend the Fresno conven-
/ ton, and know that he didn't give cent to
| the State Central Committee. But he got the
! Mint. Well, that's all right, suppose, but
| don't see that that gives him q right to run
things. don't see that Welburn has any par
! ticular right to run things, either.
| It's my opinion that it's more than an even
chance that the Supreme Court will uphold the
new primary law, and if ii does the problem is
settled. If it doesn't it is hard to say what the
State Central Committee will do. Likely it
will take things into its own hands and order
primary open to the whole party, as was done
in 1892, when the reorganizers came before us.
That would be in accordance with party pre-
| cedents.
| If the Junta can show a good title to the
| local organization it will likely be recognized
My personal inclination would be to recog-
nize any set of men who could show that they
were working in the interest OF decency and
clean politics-even if they could show but
| little more than belligerent rights. But the
! local situation will need careful investigation
/ / suppose We will have two or three days
j session over it as we had in 1892.
/ Gavin McNab has long been hustling
| among the mem bers of the State Central
| Committee and he will undoubtedly have
as much to say as anybody on the floor at
the meeting and will lead the anti
Buckley fight. Mr.. McNap was asked
yesterday to give his estimate of the stu
| alton that will confront the committee
men, and this is what he said:
| / can foreshadow the action OF the State
| Central Committee only because l am ac-
the members. am sure the Democracy need