The San Francisco call., 1898-10-01
| BUCKLEY |S THE FRIEND IF TIE MAYOR Bound by Ties of Mu-
 tual Interest. INSIDE POLITICAL HISTORY CORDIAL RELATIONS EXISTING BETWEEN THE BOSSES. Phelan Is Under Obligations to the Sage of Ravenswooo for
 Favors Done in
 the Past.
CORDIAL RELATIONS EXISTING
 BETWEEN THE BOSSES.

Christopher A. Buckley has re-entereC
 the local political arena Ss an active
 worker in the interest of refarm. He is
 ready, nay, anxious, to do all in his
 power to further the success of the Phe-
 lans, the Pays and the committee of one i hundred. for which he has sundry times
 expressed his highest admiration.
 This personal pride on the part of Buck l ley in the achievement of the committee
 of one hundred Is excusable when the i past relations of many of it's members
 and the former Democratic leader are 1 taken into consideration. There is scarce | ly man in the organization wh0 at some
 time or other during his political career,
 was not devotee at the shrine of the
 bhnd boss when he did business at the 1 old stand on Bush street
 | There was a start of surprise among the friends of Mayor Phelan when the ruInor became prevalent that he was pleased to accept any favors that Buck ley might throw in his way But the initial shock attending the breaking of
 the news has quite worn off and now all are reconciled to march side by side with their old-time leader.
 When MT Phelan entered politics as a means Of attaining public distinction, he publicly and privately repudiated all and everything with which MT. Buckley was ln any way connected. The doings of the blind boss were held up to public scorn and ridicule and his very presence was branded as something to be feared
 Under the banner of reform and James Pheian these former Buckley lambs nerded themselves together, and after a que que process process of evolution developed into the hermetically sealed committee of one hundred" So great and good has been the influence of this body on public 4ila 4511 poiltical morals that Christopher A. Buckley, whose downfall was the cause or It's being, has repented of his past ways and means and has entered the fold or Phelan. That he favors all the reform measures suggested by the daring spirffs Who direct the course of the committee IS IS dl not believed even by his worst enc has rendered the Mayor on more than one occasion of late places him among the lne stoutest supporters of the young mil
 MT. Buckley and MT. Phelan came to- gtether ECU politically for the first time when heig6t fi haF'gT Tbe e1MNetion Maton fight was at it's needed all the assistance available to win to the day: Every office in the City Haii l ter The Police and Fire departments 1 nsI9 nt Ieagued against 1t to the death, | 9netan tdl was in a ,quandry. He was in | 3f doing. practical politics. He nude hSYS hess tame M th7ereS the Toiced fiRd 6u 6du of the @ Buckley, offering aid ana consoIation TA
 Neither MT. Buckley nor the Mayor had any great desire to meet personally. The
 
 accredited agents, namely. the Fay fam ny on behalf of the Mayor. and the Re cor9er oirce representing Buckley.
 ne entire strength and influence of tba l ihecoTdet ia ofhce, which was and is Buck ttty rom top to bottom, was guaranteed Gi@nn enS Mayer iha Tn the charter light: Thomas Glyhn, the Recorder, arranged for special Malchers and organized an Opposition Iorce sufhciently strong to counteract the GoIIan GdoI,iDIned enorts or the Police and Fire experiments, which were against the charter to unit.
 T, IL was explained to the Fay family that MT Buckley wanted to prove concius.v .va1v IisiIS to MT, Phelan that he was at outs with sam san Rainey. By crushing Rainey' Buck ley,s na agents ge explained, the Mayor and the untold degree In payment for service rendered MT. Buckley was to be there aI9 an[er 1T regarded gar Tn the light of a friend, forgotten. 'o pe Q II The Ghy Gdhay of the charter election Assist naI,oef anI Snlef of the, Fire Department 3bi ba uct,ons eb M or Rainey proceeded to defeat Lne in chhiarter. mart with the aid of the firemen, be be nsnd 11 nddsinf-nanded if manner. Force was to p9teu e[1 Sne programme of the hated Rain sy; ana with the assistance of Alex Greg eular members of the San Francisco Ath- Ireuc Ciub were enlisted in the cause of sass emeidh' reform and the charter with sue ovi1 When the fight was won the excellent I m0rK {1 or the Recorders office was ad- , LiIteeu py Hnelan and the FayS and it ( vas vas generally understood that their serv- | Ges ta would be substantially rewarded by M Mne coHm1ttee of one hundred But such a a1S las not been the case. Ordinarily Buck I ey would revolt at such treatment. but V V tar ne has not permitted his soft bland Inu ethereal smile to depart for an in s lant To all his lieutenantS he has is- ued orders to work for Phelan, no matter Ynal comes. Just why such orders are ssue1 Tn face of the programme carried ut by the committee of one hundred D Eo one one seems able to explain. The only ,. ,lauslple theory so far offered Is that buckley and PheIan have had a personal n1aerstanding since the chrater fight
 MT. Buckley naturally feels a bit hurt yer the treatment he has received at the dhos or some members of the commit Y se or one hundred Senator Sammy = raunhart, for instance, has been saving nkind things of late about his former atron. It was MT. Buckley who elevated < le senator from streetcar conductor < a political heeler shortly after his ar val here from Slavonia In those days E le senator spoke little English and had l. 1t acquired that rich dialect which has & nee added to the humor of so many noo ical gatherings. Then there is M c. Hassett. who earned .. 5 nVlng through Buckley's friendship asal soctated with Buckley in business and IS Tor years lne recipient of his favors al 1tus Barbour, another member of tha | ET was dragged from that oh urity into which he is rapdily ret1lrn 4 3 and roasted on the fat of the land for & ars by Buckley -oA E5 And so 1t is that all along the line. from .H c Fays to the Gallaghers, there is W'