The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06
Prospects That the Daggett-
McNab Combination Will
Lose.
SINGLE TAX TO THE FRONT.
T. J. CIunie Is out for Congress
Regardless and Figures With
the Populists.

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nears the Federal brigade loses some of its
fury for gold and the administration, owing
to the tide of silver sentiment in the party,
but as it figures on seating the Daggett-
Rainey- -McNab-G Gould delegation from this
City and would in that event need but 147
additional votes it is still figuring on vic
tory.
John T. Gaffey, Collector at Los Angeles
and boss of the Southern Federal brigade,
is here playing State politics, and McNab
is trying to work some of his collection of
combinations with him. Daggett is losing
no tricks, and Wise from his apparent
political seclusion is peekiug out through
the cracks and working quietly. The
Junta expects to be recognized, and
Rainey and Lanigan expect to run the
local party.
The San Francisco contest will remain
uncertain until the convention meets, but
there is an increasing prospect that Gould,
Daggett, McNab and Rainey will be turned
down, and that the big end of the local
Democracy will win recognition. The silver
| ties are largely against the Federal brigade
on everything, and then the widespread
antipathy to Daggett, who is hot after the
State machine, with ambition to be boss
of the party in this State, is going to cut
big figure In the convention.
| The leading Democrats all over the
State who are not controlled in some way
! by Federal patronage are ready to re-
pudiate Daggett and the leadership he is
trying to establish after having been
! kicked out of the party some years ago
and restored to position OF advantage by
| SC b,,0 ho
the creature while nomInally the political
! partner of Daggett, and the tricks of Gavin
| McNab have not won friends for the COM
bination, of which Sam Rainey, now hid
| ing in the brush, is the biggest local part.
| The strength of the Buckleyites among
the outside delegates is naturally con-
! cealed. Friends are not paraded as such
to give the enemy inform alton, but the
Buckley delegation is confident of victory.
The single-tax movement is going to bo
up prominently at the convention. Joseph
Leggett, Congressman Mcguire, James H.
Barry and other leading single-taxers in
the party will shove forward a resolution
in favor of submitting to the people con-
stitutional amendment allowing the Leg
islature to exempt certain kinds of per-
sonal property from taxation and to
enable towns, cities and counties to
make such exemptions from local taxa
ton if they desire to do so. The idea is
not to ask for the establishment of the
single tax at once, but merely to open the
way for the people to do with it as they
will. The much talked of exemption of
shipping from taxation, in which so much
| interest is taken, is one Of the things sim
gle-taxers want to bring about.
So far no candidate for the convention
craftsmanship except Lieutenant-Gover
nor Jeter has been prominently put for-
ward in opposition to Gould, but there is
/ TINA annnub YOnpb charm q N c n
| schemlng, and the opposition to Daggett,
/ Gould, McNab and Rainey will center on
! Jeter or SOME other candidate before the
| 10th inst. Gavin McNab is busy with all
| sorts of com binations and things intended
to be sprung suddenly, as was the sur
reptitious. Fourth District Congressional
| Convention of the Junta the other night
| Mr.. McNab thinks that ne knows
! Just exactly what the convention will do
! from start to finish, as he can see no way
! for the programme he is helping to operate
can fail. The ideas of Mr.. McNab about
the State Convention will interest many.
They were given to CALL reporter yes
terday in the following interview:
There is not the slightest question
about Mr.. Gould's election as chairman of
| the convention. He is elected already.
! Senator White would certainly not be
candidate against Mr.. Gould. He is in
| debted to Mr.. Gould for services rendered
Senatorship and Mr.. White is not in the
| habit of repaying services that way. Mr..
| Foote informed me some time ago that
| he would under no circumstances be
| candidate for the chairmanship. He is a
candidate for delegate-at-large to the Ma
tional. Convention. think that Lieu
| tenant Governor Jeter is a candidate
against his will. The Buckleyites like
drowning men. had to find victim to
! pull under with them. l am satisfied that
Mr.. Jeter's name will not be presented
and that there will be no candidate ex-
cept Mr.. Gould.
1.-THE contest from this City is so we'll
settled that it is no longer worth talking
| about.
1.-THE convention will adopt an anti
| A. P. A. plank. | am personally favorable
to woman suffrage, bur do not think that
it will be incorporated in the platform.
| The report of the committee on platform
! will not mention it. A resolution will
probably be introduced and voted down.
The attitude of the party is mainly due to
| the opposition among the German ele-
ment, which fears sumptuary legislation.
! One Of the seven or eight county conven-
tions in the State in which it has been
brought up, so far has failed to vote it
down. Kings County has favored suf-
frage, and Tulare, among those yet to hold
conventions, will likely do so.
"Both these counties will send delega-
tions with advanced ideas. think that
the ten delegates from Tulare County will
| favor the single tax; Kings will be strong
that way and the single tax will have a
scattering support from other quarters.
cit is probable that the convention will
recommend to county conventions the
pledging of legislative candidates to CO.
operate with Governor Budd in his efforts
to lower State taxation by supporting leg
islation to carry his reco commentators
into effect Governor Budd will be in
dorsed beyond any question.
"Cleveland's policy will be indorsed.
believe in general terms. There is likely
to be some friction over this owing to the
intense feeling on the financial question,
but this will be tempered by the fact that
the National Convention will be beyond
any doubt overwhelmingly for free silver
at 16 to /. This will have tendency to
make the silver men more conservative
because the responsibility of success or de-
feat is on them. Neither the silver nor
the gold men in California are as violent
as in many other States. The gold men,
though numerous in the convention, will