The San Francisco call., 1896-05-12
Little Bosses Jealous of McNab,
Who Might Become
a Big One.
HE CAN'T RUN THE COMMITTEE
An Effort TO Deliver Goods to Daggett
Will Likely Be Foiled To-
morrow Night.

night if they don't come to terms.
The trouble amounts to rebellion
against the bossism of McNab and Sulli-
van. McNab wants to name about fifty or
seventy-tive of the delegates to the State
Convention. That is one thing. Then he
wants to name them. or at least lot of
them, for Daggett. That is another
thing. Chairman Sullivan is understood
by every body to be backing McNab's pro-
gramme.
All this and a lot more has become
known in the campaign committee of
twenty. The members of the committee
who have howled and then formed COM
bination to sit down on McNab and Sui
livan are reliably reported to constitute
majority.
This centering of all power in a small
campaign com mittee was mainly the bril-
liant scheme of McNab and Sullivan. Sui
livan appointed recently the committee of
twenty which has full and absolute con-
troll OF affairs and he was We ry careful to
appoint men who were his own friends
ana who could be relied upon to stand out
to the end against Rainey and also against
Daggett as far as local politics are con-
cerned.
McNab and Sullivan were supposed to
have control of the committee along with
Ed Lanigap, who was given three or four
mem bers for coming over and helping
beat Ralnev out. Now Lanigan and
others have turned on McNab and Sulli-
van and propose to run things themselves.
Different motives have brought about
the rebelllous and apparently victorious
combination. Lanlgan was not given by
Sullivan as many places on the campaign
committee as he and others thought he
was fairly entitled to in the first place.
Then, when McNab proposed to name
fifty or so delegates and be the high-muck-
a-muck generally, Lanigan put on war
paint. He might have agreed to McNab
naming bunch of delegates If he could
have named as many.
Others focked to Lanigan on this prope-
sition, McNab, the great anti-boss
prophet, was trying to be the boss. Buck
ley could be boss under such circum-
There are lot of little bosses, and each
one wants his power, so some were ready
to save Mr.. McNab from being hog
There was another reason something
like this with some. The plan of McNab
and Sullivan was that the committee as a
whole should name all the district and at
large delegates and the election officers
they expecting to easily manage majority
OF the executive committee.
The committeeman from some of the
districts realized the power of their posi-
tons and thought they ought to be al
lowed to swing it by naming election
officers and district delegates them selves.
A district is worth something to a poll
tician. Why should he supinely let Nc
Nab grow big and fat on it2
With two or three if not more was
added to this the well-grounded idea that
McNab proposed to do whole lot for
Daggett. McNab has been running things
from tho RI nd ha hos ot
one that has conducted negotiations with
Daggett.
His position has always been mystery
to those on the inside of Junta affairs. He
is given credit for being sincerely opposed
to Rainey, while being a close friend of
Chief Sullivan. He has been close to Dag
gett, received patronage from him, it Is
said, and yet has appeared to firmly but
gently oppose Daggett's efforts to control.
HE has tried to play two hands," is the
way many put it. As the real boss in
power he is believed by all the Junta out
mt to have made promises to Daggett
which he wants to fulfill through the
executive committee. He wants to name
lot of delegates for Daggett for one thing,
Daggett having been shut out of any
chance to name any himself.
Now why should we get in and carry
out McNab's contract with Daggett2' is
what some of the committee are asking.
the Thirty-ninth District. DR.. ]. w. Gavi-
gan, friend to Lanigan and to himself, was
appointed 10 the executive committee by
Sullivan. Daggett made fierce and per-
sistent fight to get his lieutenant, J. A.
Fenton, appointed, but not this or any
other appointment would Sullivan give
Daggett.
Now McNab wants to deliver some
thing to Daggett that Daggett wants ex-
ceedingly. He wants Fenton reelected to
the State Central Committee from that
district.
To do that a Fenton delegation must be
appointed. McNab wants to give Fenton
q majority of the delegates from that dis
trict and Gavigan the minority. That is
enough to make bloody war itself. Gavi-
gan probably would be willing that his
delegation should vote for Daggett's ad-
ministration interests, but he naturally
wants to deliver the goods himself instead
OF letting McNab do it.
Another feature of the McNab pro-
gramme concerns those delegates at
large. As has become known, the Nc
Nab- sullivan proposition is to appoint
about third of the 1877 delegates at large
Now, it is said, McNab proposes that
when 1t comes to the naming of State
central committeeman the delegates ct
large shall vote with the district to which
they belong. There may be no delegates
at large from one district and ten from
another. so that these delegates might de-
termine several State Central Committee
men. That is another reason why McNab
wants to name delegates at large and an
other reason why there is rebellion,
Some want the members of the commit
tee to be given the naming of delegates
and primary election officers from their
districts.
They will, at least, demand the naming
of election officers, as that would mean the
naming of the delegates if they wan ted to
run an opposition ticket. The issue of
how much recognition shall be given to
the Rainey-Daggett minority exists in
other districts than the Thirty ninth, but
in less degree.
Daggett is still struggling for power as
fercely as ever. BE is reported to have
just captured two members OF the cam
paign committee with places in the Mint.
They are Fitzpatrick and Donovan. He
was not given single place on the cam