The San Francisco call., 1896-06-05
The General Committee Orders
Headquarters at Sacra.
mento.
AN ANITA. P. A. RESOLUTION
A. J. Clunie Paid His Respects to Nc.
Nab, Daggett and Gould in
Pointed Words.

B'nai Birth Hall last evening with its
big but brief meeting.
more important meeting will. be that
of the l6l State Convention delegates at
Pythian Castle this evening. The meet
ing last night heard and approved the re-
port Of the executive committee, and
heard brief and pointed speech by An
drew j. Clunie.
AS the primary is over and there's moth
ing else to do until the State Convention
does it's work with local politics, the inter
est and fortunes of the faction are mainly
bound up with the convention delegation.
In effect the meeting of last night con-
sisted of respectful bow of the executive
committee to the general committee,
acknowledging and emphasizing the
theory that the former body is the SER
want of the latter and that no boss or
little Junta of bosses is seeking to run
| things to the exclusion of the sovereign
people.
When Chairman Rothschild had made
the proper parliamentary passes and Sec
retary Daniel Mcguire Gavigan had con-
sumed much time reading the minutes OF
the last meeting, when so much was done
and so many resolutions adopted, ex-Sen-
ator M. J. Donovan, chairman OF the
executive committee, proceeded with his
report.
The report recited the organization of
the committee April 81, the carrying out
of the details OF the primary election
ordered by the general committee, at
which 161 delegates to the State Conven-
| ton were elected.
| 1t also told of the order that all delegates
must pledge themselves to carry out
| policy in support of free silver, in opposl-
ton TO the funding bill and in opposition
to the A. P. A. The resolution about the
A. P. A. adopted by the executive commit
! tee was as follows:
Resolued That we oppose any union of church
! ana state, and we recognize loyalty, intelli-
gence and honesty as the main requirements
of good citizenship, and we denounce any
attempt to create a religious qualification for
| office as unjust and unconstitutional.
Resolved That we are uualterably opposed to
the principles announced by the American
| Protective Association ana denounce the same
as un-American ana opposed to the principles
OF the constitution of the United states.
The report recommended that these
resolutions be adopted by the general
committee as part of the political creed Of
the local Democratic party.
The report was adopted with applause.
| Mr.. Donovan announced that he had
| gone to Sacramento and filed with John
Markley, secretary of the State Central
Committee, the credentials OF the delega-
| ton as required by the State Convention
call and received receipt therefore.
He expressed the satisfaction of the
| executive committee at the big turnout
OF voters at the primary. He further
stated that while in Sacramento he had
looked about for headquarters, and found
one or two desirable ones, and said that
| the matter ought to be attended to.
Mr.. Donovan was cheered, the executive
| com mittee was ordered to attend to the
headquarters business, and the Buckley
ties will have big delegation home when
the roar of the convention begins at Sac
! ramento.
The audience began calling, calling for
"Clunier' Andy got up anu volleys of
Platform !" drove him to the stage. There
be said few things pointedly and the
first one was in favor OF the executive COM
mittee.
"I believe that the executive committee
of this body Is the best one the party has
| ever had, he said, "and Senator Dono-
van as chairman has added a great deal to
the weight of the body before the people
of San Francisco.
He has not desire to usurp power as
some chairmen and some executive COM
mittees have had, and understands that
you are the governing body of the party
| If you give way to the principle that the
executive committe should run the party
| it will go back to the condition it was in
| under the reol ganiZers, when a few men
| took all power into their own hands.
"The condition of. the party in San Fran
cisco is not one that now promises success
| in November. / don't want 10 see any Junta
and anti-Junta business; want to see a
united party"
Then Clunie denied that Buckley con-
| trolled the organization and talked about
| Daggett, McNab and Gould.
1.-The so-called Junta has sent out circu-
! lars saying that Mr. Buckley dominates
this organization. l want to repudiate
! that statement, and / think that every
member of this committee will repudiate
| 1t. believe that we are all opposed to one
man power. This committee is not domi-
mated by any one man, but the other
organization is dominated by three or four
men as bad as Mr.. Buckley.
Il do not desire to go into personalities,
but when it is known that the man who
chiefly controls the other side is John
Daggett, who was read out of the party
few years ago. we will receive fair con-
sideration.
Another leader on the other side is Mr..
McNab, who does not appear to be one of
| the men whom the Democracy of the State
wants as a leader. The record of the re-
organizers shows that McNab was read
out of the party by the votes of jeremiah
Sullivan, Samuel Braunhart and almost
every representative man who claims to
affiliate with the Junta of San Francisco.
Both OF these men have been read out
of the party as traitors to the party and
the principle, and it is these men who are
saying that you and cannot sit in Demo-
cratic convention"
Frank Gould, Clunie said was mixed
up with the local trouble, was identified
with one faction in favor of which he was
prejudiced and pledged, and he was not
tit person to preside over the convention
which was to decide the contest.
He was unfair biased and under the
control of Gavin McNab, who was not
leader of the Democracy in San Francisco
or In any part of the State. Mr.. Clunie
mentioned Senator White and Lieutenant
Governor Jeter as candidates for the con-
vention chairmanship
Nobody in the party doubts my De-
mocracy. l have placed myself in this
organization because l see in it the men
who have done the work of the party for
years, and tell you the party cannot af-
ford TO ignore such men.
"These statements about Buckley's con-
troll ere wholly false, and the members of
this committee ought to go about among
| Its friends and say that no m altar hot