The San Francisco call., 1898-01-30
A Designing Bourbon Element Sought to Put
 White in a Hole.
Plain Talk From Governor Budd and w. w. Foote in
 a Caucus of the Party.
SACRAMENTO HANDICAP.
w H. Mills Is Making Fl. M. La Rue's Fiqht for Governor to the Ad-
 vantage of Capital.

The Democratic State Central Com mittee met at the California Hotel yes terday morning, and those who expect ed to see a big y were disappointed. Some thought that all of the members who did not pay the $50 assessment levied during the last campaign would be dropped from the roll for good, but more pacific measures were adopted. Out of the list of fifty-three delin. Quents, forty-seven were reinstated, and the shining six, who reside here and are generally found rallying around the standard of sub boss Lanigan, were given until the next meeting to repent or, in the words of the resolutions adopted show cause" why they failed to contribute toward the cause of Bryan and silver.
 When Chairman Afford called the meeting to order, he said that it would be the duty of the committee to fill fifty-three vacancies caused by the dropping of that number of members, because of their neglect to respond to a call for financial aid during the last campaign. We found ourselves with out money to make a fight" said AL 4O4 As elA4h IL " cio ohSS SColCO OS lIlC CA- ecutive committee that each member of the State Central Committee be as sessed $50 to defray the expenses of battle. The members were not asked to contribute that sum from their own purses. The right was given them to collect the money from the districts they represented. Fifty-three of them failed to respond, and they were noti- fled that unless they did so their names would be dropped from the roll. It is for the purpose of filling the vacancies so created that the meeting was called to-day"
 Gavin McNab, in reply to the state ment of the chairman, said that he had set of resolutions to introduce that would, in his opinion, satisfy every member of the committee. He then read a set of resolutions providing for the reinstatement of forty seven of the de- Hnquent members, because of the ser vice rendered by them to the party dur ing the campaign.
 W. w. Foote moved the adoption of the resolutions, and they were carried without a dissenting vote.
 The instant adoption of this resolu- tion marked the defeat of the Exam 1ner and E. L. Fitzgerald. Labor Com missioner, but it is in place now to state the inside facts concerning b4IC Nollopli dCy lIidL was ndtChed by Which the Examiner hoped to get con- trol of the Democratic State organiza- ton and use it to punish Senator White and help annexation
 The whole plan to drop fifty-three members from the committee was put up by the Examiner and Fitzgerald. They thought the committee, with the vacancies filled by appointment of their own suggestion, would readily adopt a resolution favoring annexation Of Hawaii Leading Democrats of the State got an inkling of what was going on and therefore decided to checkmate the game. Friday morn ing last caucus of some of the lead CTS, among them Governor Budd. w. w. Foote, W. H. Afford, Frank Gould and A Caminetti, was held to consider the subject. At this meeting Cover nor Budd let daylight into the conspir- acy and put down his foot firmly against the scheme to drop the delin- quent members. In stating the facts he did not mince words, but went straight to the mark, declaring that