The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-10-13
The Lawyer Joins the Budd
Forces, Leaving Max
in the Rain.
The Latter Forsakes the 0coi-
dental and RetireS to
Lake Tahoe.
State Chairman Afford Also MAKING
Preparations for the Light
ming.

Max Pepper has given Gavin McNab the
klondike hand, and in return the LAWYER
burrows his brow when tie mail con-
tractors name is mentioned in his pres
eDce. n o more the two reformers discuss
the viciousness of modern political doings
in the lobby of the Occidental Hotel for
the benefit Of select few members of the
Iroquois Club. The two have parted ways
for good, so it is rumored in the reform
camp OF the Democracy.
What is it all about anyway? Well, "a
begin with, Governor Budd might tell the
story if he would, but the man from
Stockton is too busy building fences Tor
the next campaign 10 discuss such a small
matter. For years Pepper and McNab
have been supposed to possess but one
political soul, and the curious ones are
asking who severed these Siamese twins.
The first symptoms of the frost mani
tested itself few days before the arrival
of Governor Budd to assist Mayor Phelan
in compiling the personnel of the now
historic new Board of Supervisors. Sam
MY Braunhart was formerly a member of
the Occidental Hotel councils bu. Pepper.
who thoroughly djslikes Bud, got it into
his head that the Port Warden was spend
ing too much time in the Office of Fire
Commissioner Boyd and, as a result,
Sammy was given the back of the hand.
McNab and Braunhart are close friends
and possibly the latter weaned the law
yer from his former love- for a few davs
later McNab's brother-in-Iaw Lsmuel F.
Long, was made Superintendent of Re-
pairs for the Harbor Commissioners.
Ii this were not enough 10 win the
heart OF McNab to the Budd camp it re-
manned for Frank Gou,d to do the rest
Now, Gould at one time believed the Gov
ernor guilty OF every sin in the calendar,
but when the appointment on the Board
of Building and Loan Examiners was pre-
sented him his heart softened and he pre-
pared to bury the Ratchet. A few days
later additional honors were showered
upon Gould in the way of job as one of
the Stockton Asylum board, position, it
is said, the lawyer has coveted these many
years. McNab and Gould are associated
together in defense OF o. NJ. WeIburn, the
ex-Collector of Internal Revenue, and
possibly McNab began to see things from
another standpoint as far as Democratic
politics are concerned. At any rate, be is
now warm admIrer of the Governor at
the cost of the friendship of Pepper
But this is not the only sorrow that
awaits Pepper. 1t was bad enough to see
McNab desert to the enemy, but when hag
heard that Chairman Afford of the Demo b
cratic State Central Com mittee was pre- u
pairing to make his peace at the throne he3
declared the jig was up. Afford is await
ing gubernatorial lightning in the way OF
the appointment as the attorney for the
Harbor commissioners, and it would seem
that the works have been all captured by
the Budd machine, or, at least, all worth
striving after.
And Pepper, like Achilles, is suIking in
his tent, or, rather. at Lake Tahoe, whittier
he went three days ago to ponder upon 4
the vicissitudes of politics.