The San Francisco call., 1896-08-15
The BuckIeyites Making Aggres
sive Preparations for Courts
and Conventions.
NO PRIMARY FOR THE JUNTA
McNab, Pepper and Sullivan Plan t
Name a Decent Local Conven-
tion Themselves.

The outright clash of arms between the
local Democratic factions is about to be
heard amid the trumpeting OF bosses and
the noise of war.
The BuckIeyites are going aggressively
ahead in their preparations for a munlci-
pal convention, while strengthening their
position under the mastery advice of
Chris Buckley. The Junta is about to
spring scheme for an appointed munich
pal convention, and all the tangible pros
poets of party harmony that have been
appearing from time to time seem to have
faded.
The factions will have battle in the
courts as to which has the right to put its
municipal and legislative tickets on the
Official ballot under the heading Demo
cratic, and the Buckleyites are fastening
that issue as fast as possible. The faction
that is defeated Will simply have to quit,
but there will be plenty of fun before the
Supreme Court hands down decision sew
erai weeks hence.
There is the interesting certainty that
whichever ticket wins legal Endorsement
will be extensively knitted by the defeated
faction at the polls.
The Buckleyites are just now endeavor-
ing to make an interesting and mastery
move by making q coalition with the sill
verites-the American Bimetallic party
of which George w. Baker, the chairman
of the State Central Committee, is the
leader and the boss.
The plan is now in a promising process
of evolution, and according to reports Mr..
Baker has discussed the operation with
Buckley himself, as we'll as with leaders of
the Buckley faction and with mem bers of
his own State com mittee whose sym pa
thies are with the Buckleyites In the local
tangle.
While the Buckleyites have always been
able to display several times the numeri-
cal strength which the Junta could m uster
they wish to lose no chance of adding to
their prestige and political momentum by
getting big array of voters and influence
behind them to back their claim that they
are the real representatives of the party in
spite of the fact that they were turned
down by q preiudiced State Central Com
mittee and prejudiceG State Convention.
1t is worth everything to them TO be able
to mean a whole lot of votes irrespective
OF their claims to be the Democratic party
of this City, which must be recognized
under the provisions OF the Australian
ballot law.
So the plan of getting the American BIZ
metallic party in behind them has been
evolved. The plan of organizing general
campaign clubs in the ostensible interest
of the National ticket was elaborated by
able and experienced heads and it was
adopted and promptly set in motion at
the meeting of the general committee last
Monday night.
The plan called for the organization of
a club in every precinct, but the indica-
tions are that the clubs will number from
one to four in the various Assembly dis
tricts. Some have already been organized
and mum Der will be organized tomorrow
night.
oil he h. fro1
'silyer" clubs rather than as distinctively
Democratic clubs, and are to be com bined
into an association of silver clubs"
The rolls of these clubs are to be open to
every friend of silver. whether Democrat,
Republican or Populist. These clubs are
supposed to be wholly independent of the
Buckley general committee and its iuris-
diction, but they are, however. to be SO
controlled and manipulated that they will
be used in backing the Buckleyites and
the programme IN their municipal con-
vention.
Now the present plan is that the Silver
party shall adopt these clubs as its local
clubs and stand in with the Buckleyites
in municipal and especially in legislative
politics. The Silver party has yet no or
ganlzation beyond the State Central Com
mittee appointed night before last, but
Mr.. Baker announces that the party will
organize vigorous independent cam
paign in behalf of Bryan and Sewall and
the silver cause generally, and that it Will
extend to the legislative campaign.
The committee on local fusion in all
possible directions, appointed by the
Buckleyites, of which Railroad Commits
s1oner Stanton Is chairman, has the pro-
crossing deal in hama, and Messfs. Buckley
and Baker, are by many politicians who
are on the inside of things, expected 10
take a lively interest with their Joint
forces in local Democratic politics and
especially in the election of members of
the Legislature. All of this is apart from
the possible combination of Democrats
and silverites in the State campaign.
The Junta has just taken some half
hearted steps TO organize district Demo-
cratic clubs. They will be called Bryan
and Sewall clubs, will be rivals to the sill
yer clubs of the Buckleyites and will be
wholly under the jurisdiction of the Junta
campaign committee.
These two club organization schemes
are about the full measure of what's being
. done in San Francisco IN the line of party
club organization. They present a strik-
thusiastic Republican clubs, which are
rapidly increasing.
The Buckleyites have decided to again
change the date of their municipal con-
vention to an earlier one. and will hold it
on or about the first day of Septem ber
his Is QOne as q war measure. so that
their municipal ticket may be nominated
in time to get test case decided by the
Supreme Court.
1--WE are going right ahead to nominate
our ticket, +" said Joseph Rothschild, chair
man of the Buckley general committee
yesterday, land we will hold our munich
pal convention at an earlier date than was
planned, SO that our case may be taken to
the Supreme Court in time.
Several able lawyers have carefully ex-
amined the merits of our case and their
opinion is that the Supreme Court cannot
do otherwise than give us the party desig-
nation. Our proceeding will be to apply
directly to the Supreme Court for writ
OF mandamus, directing the Registrar to
place our municipal ticket on the official
pa4ot under the party name. We are
packed up by decision of the New York
court OF Appeals in an almost exactly
similar case"
While the Buckleyites have fully eIab-
GRATED their plans for the cam paign and
for municipal convention but a little
more than two weeks hence the Junta
doesn't know what it is going to do about
a convention except thar one will be ap-
pointed somehow.
Gavin McNab, Chairman Sullivan, Max