The San Francisco call., 1898-08-06

Consressnan Mcguire is scheduled to arrive in this city Tuesday evening. his business being to attach the Demo- cratic party as a tail to his Populist kite. He will be honored with rous- fne reception upon his arrival and an- other rousing reception when he at tenlpts to make connections between the tail and the kite at Sacramento on the opening day of the Democratic State convention.
 It is this second reception that IS worrying the friends of the Congress man. They have been so foolish as to place their fortunes and that of their standard bearer in the hands of Nc Nab. Afford and Gould, the handmade bosses and evergreen reformers of the Democratic party, and they now find that the trio are not on speaking terms with the honest members of the party, hence the anticipated reception to which reference has been made.
 .. The published statements of W. w.. Foote, NJ. r. Tarpey, H. T. Fortman, Francis J. Heney and other prominent gentlemen who are recognized as the representatives of the best elements in the Democratic party have had the eff feet of swelling the rising tide of indig- nation against the men who stole con- trol of the local Democracy and are now attempting to deliver the party in the State into the hands of the Popu- lists. The methods that have been adopted to effect this transfer are such as to bring disgrace to the party. Those who have taken up arms against this corrupt use of stolen power have been surprised to learn that Afford and Gould and McNab have not only met the Populists and divided the places on the State ticket but they have ar ranged to perfect their title to their share of the spells by calling a con ,vention for which they have selected a chairman, named committees and made such other settlements as will in sure the adoption of their cut-and- dried programme, as we'll as the nam ing of twenty members of the new State Central Committee, who will be useful in perfecting their title in fee simple to the Democratic party in this State for all time to come. It is be- cause of the discovery of these things that Mir. Foote and MT. Tarpey and few hundred other old-line Democrats who are of their way of thinking will attend the convention in body and inaugurate a demonstration that will make Congressman Maguire's recep- ton next Tuesday night look like ten cents in Confederate script. In doing so they have been assured of the moral support of three-fourths of the Demo- cratic voters in the State outside of San Francisco, and ninety-nine one hundredths of the Democratic voters In this city.
 The facts concerning the manner in which the control of the local Democ- racy was stolen by the ruling power in'the State Committee, of which Me Nab, Gould and Afford are the guiding spirits, have leaked out in spite of the path of secrecy that bound all of the members of the committee of nine ap- pointed to carry out the wishes of the Whispering Boss and his associates. It was this committee that appointed the committee of one hundred and set It up as the governing body of the Democratic party of San Francisco. The existence of the committee of one hundred is a self evident fact, but it may be of interest to the men who were robbed of their birthrights to know the proceedings by which the transfer was made. It will at least throw some light on the methods of the Whispering Boss, who has ordered that the voters of his party shall have tio voice in the selection of the men who are to represent them at the State convention.
 All of the sessions of the committee of nine were executive. and the mem-