The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

Sullivan said: aft is fact that the Raj
ney crowd called the meeting in Judg ge
Daingcrfeld's courtroom, but there is no
question that The whole matter was Illegal
from start to finish / am chairman, an
there is no law providing for my decapi-
tation in such way. l would have called
the meeting had 1t been legal to do so and
had they approached me, but they fully
realized that they had not the requisite
fourteen to carry on their schemes, so, of
course, was not called in. l think the
political bosses are back of the W hole III at
ter, and Gayigan is the leader of the re-
belliOus element"
Sam Braunhart was m ore exercised than
any of the crowd of the Democratic crew
that opposed the machine. He did not
hesitate to give his views of the matter
with reference 10 the working of the
bosses to defeat the charter. He said:
"It is ali scheme 10 defeat the charter
Wbyp Because there are many provi-
sions IN the document that go toward the
final ownership OF public utilities, and
these provisions are OF such character
as TO arouse the enmity of the bosses.
You never saw crowd of bosses that
would stand for anything that is calcu-
lated 10 rob them of their power. The re-
forms advocated are such as conservative
men have Endorsed - mon like Horace
Davis. l.. K. Eilert Irving N. Scott and
Stuart MeGZies. Now, it is a fact that
these plans have greatly exercised the cor
poratlons, ana they can we'll afford TO hire
such men as Kelly, Rainey, and the bosses
IN general, 10 do their work. A matter
has already passed the Legislature which
will simplify the work of other corpora
tions than the Southern Pacific in street
railway questions. All this lnfiames the
corporations and makes Them eager 10 do
anything TO defeat such thing as
charter that in any way curta:ls their
rights. i do not mean TO say a word
against Ma jor Hsrney personally, for he
is ali old friend OF mine, but he mas been
made a .ool of IN the meeting he called"
In furtherance OF the idea that a great
political conspiracy has bsen concocted.
by which the DO, ,ses seek to undo the
tried and true Democracy, Mr.. Braunhart
has filed the following protest, by which
he seeks TO make an official DENIAL of his
approval of what has been done by the
Rainey faction:
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Oct 10, 1897.
John f. McGorern, Esq, Secretary Democratic
Campaign Comm mittee-DEAB SIR: / hereby enter
my prolcst against the proceedings held at the
alleged meeting OF the campaign committee of
the general committee of the Democratic party
OF the city and county of San francisco on the
evening Of October Is, 1897 upon the follow
ing grounds:
i. la That the alleged meeting called bv the
secretary was unauthorized by The duly elect
ed chairman OF the campaign committee as
the constitution nowhere vests the authority
in the secretary to cali either a regular or a
special mee ting, section 2 of article ii of the
constitution delegating that power to the
chairman alone.
(b) That no regular meeting could be called
at tnis time, and that the meeting alleged to
have been called, had it been properly called
would have been special.
(c) That The Chairman had not been re-
quesie1 TO call said meeting by any mem Der
or majority OF members OF the campaign
committee.
(d) That the minutes of the campaign com
mlltee should show that w. p. Sullivan Jr
was duly elected chairman OF said cam
paign committee at its first regular meeting:
that at said meeting the rules of the general
committee were adopted as the rules govern