The San Francisco call., 1896-05-30
JUN IA MEN
AND FIGHTS.
Sam Braunhart Is Worried
and Kicking the
Traces.
PoPPER RESTLESS TOO.
At the Primary the Push"
KniTad Rorc1av Henley and
At the Primary the Push
Knitted Barclay Henley and
Other High Joints"
WHY PHELAN WAS SCRATCHED
The Election Was Quiet Except in
the Thirty.Fourth-The Vote
and the Delegation.

Samuel Braunhart is kicking up a civil
war of his own in the Junta organization.
His mutterings of discomfort and his
quietly made threats against McNab and
Chairman Sullivan become outbursts of
open war with increasing frequency.
The other evening he went at Sullivan
in hammer-and-tongs style at headquar-
ters, ana charged McNab and Sullivan
with being in combination with Daggett
and Rainey to run things.
THAT combination was made two weeks
ago." Braunhart declared in his wrath.
He further declared that Daggett was 'de-
bauching the delegation" The latter
charge referred to the current efforts of that
big Federal boss at the Mint to get doubtful
delegates into the camp with Daggett,
McNab and Rainey, gold and the admins
tration programme.
Max Pepper was present taking hand
in the hot discussion, and he put in the
declaration, "n such a combination ex-
lists McNab is responsible for it. He
holds the key to the situation"
Peppers friends say that he is as dis
gusted as is Braunhart with the way Nc
Nab has let Daggett and Rainey secure
control; that he says that ne is not
working TO down Buckley that Rainey
and Daggett may be built up, and that if
such combination tries to put through a
programme at Sacramento he will de-
nounce it in the convention.
Nobody is certain whether Braunhart
will kick over the traces at Sacramento or
not, and Daggett, McNab and Sullivan,
don't care mucn because they have turned
him down so completely that he can't do
much damage. He is not delegate him
self and the bunch of delegates he can in
l.
silver man and the organization he is In is
so completely controlled by the Federal
brigade that it will be nearly unanimous
for what he opposes on principle. The
silver votesE in the delegation are now
variously estimated at from IL to 80.
Then Braunhart is at war with Daggett
and Reiney. He has become suspicious
of McNab's programme. He thinks that
McNab and the people with him will
dump him completely after the State con-
vention if they retain control OF the ma
chine, and the gulf between him and
Chairman Sullivan, whom Braunhart
discovered" originally, widens daily.
There are many on Braunhart's side,
and when the convention is over the in
ternal dissensions now vigorously sup
pressed will break out IN all sorts of places.
The Junta primary, between the hours
of 7:30 and 10:30 o'clock last evening, was
a quiet ratification in every district but
the Thirty-fourth, which presented the
only contest and the only hot time.
Quite little crowd could be seen about
any of the polling places, and the number
of tickets that found their way iuto the
eighteen ballot-boxes by whatever process
numbered about 300.
There was considerable bitterness as we'll
as heat in the contest in the Thirty-fourth, b,
where Daggett- Rainey ticket was run in
opposition to the regular one. In this
district the member of the campaign COM
mittee is an anti-Daggett man-Attorney
r. L. Mann, who is in Judge Mcguire 8
law Office. His six nominees were: w.
A. Beatty, John Heenan, Charles With
beck, &. L. Flood, Daniel Creed and D. L.
Nesbit.
The ggett-Rainey people nominated
John 7. Bowling, John Hammond, Henry
T. Hastings, James Hawley and Henry G.
Poetz.
During the progress of the primary one
of the nominees on the Mann ticket
Charles Withbeck, had his head laid ope n
with blackjack and he went to the Re-
ce1ving Hospital for repairs.
1t did not happen at the primary, and
there are various opinions as to whether
it was part of the district battle or not
Withbeck left the polls to make a trip up
Capp street, and on that thoroughfare
some distance from the voting place,
he was suddenly struck from behind and
left unconscious Nothing was taken from
him and the asSailants are unknown. The
result of the Thirty-fourth contest was not
reported at headquarters last night.
The Twenty-eighth had promised a
fierce contest, but the strong power OF the
campaign committee squelched it. The
anti Rainey element controlled the inside
through Secretary John T. McGovern and
Campaign Committeeman Tierney. The
Rainey faction, led by Jack Welch and the
Hayes people, intended to give battle.
They held the rolls, which were known to
be greatly stuffed in their interest and de-
family disobeyed the order of the cam
paign committee to turn them in for purg-
ing.
Then the campaign committee settled
them by refusing to allow their nominees
on the ticket and to count them if voted
for. The Ralneyites took their medicine
and quit and an old-time primary was
avoided.
One notable and interesting feature OF
this primary in the interest of pure poll.
tics was the way the "high joints" as the
highly respectable leading men among
those fifty-three delegstes-at-large are
termed. The push" knitted the "high