The San Francisco call., 1898-08-17
Gavin SCorChed and Roasted by Old-
 Time Democrats.
He Now Grimly Views the Wrecks of the Projects He
 Had Planned.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, Sacra- mento, Aug Ex-Governor James Il. Budd holds the balance of power in the Democratic State Convention and whispering Gavin McNab has gone down to defeat.
 The man who has for the past few months held the reins of the Demo- cratic party and who has placed the whip with a fine disregard Of future results. provided he could compass the span of his political ambitions, has been unhorsed in mid career. This was the day of his Waterloo, and from this time forward the name of McNab will cease to be a bugaboo to Democratic politicians.
 The details of McNab's undoing will not require long in the telling. He came to Sacramento twenty-four hours ago armed with a pocketful of proxies and the prestige of success in stealing the control of the Democratic party of San Francisco. With the aid of his friends in the camp of the reformers. together with his proxies and the weight of the fusion agreement he has succeeded in forcing upon the Demo cratic party, he boasted of his ability
 
 yention and run things to suit him self Tonight he can look back on the events of the day, marked at every step bv the wrecks of the projects he had planned. He was forced to surrender to the man who represents the better element in the Democratic party, and | his was not the hand that prepared the plan of the temporary organization. He was forced to surrender one after an other every point that he had claimed for himself and his friends and to-mor- row he will sit in his seat in the con- vention hall a man practically without power.
 The exact method of his banishment, and banishmnt 1t is to be, will not be decided until tomorrow. But the main fact cannot be changed by anything within the power of the convention to do. McNab's downfall began last night when he failed to induce a majority of the Los Angeles delegation to name George s. Patton as the choice of the southern delegation for the temporary chairmanship, it having been previ- ously agreed that the choice of the del- eeation would be considered the choice of the convention. Patton is McNab n. dictates of the whispering boss in all things where 1t would be necessary to perfect the latter's title as sole owner and dictator in chief of the California Democracy.
 Patton was opposed by Isidore Dock weller, a man opposed to the methods of the handmade reformer from San Francisco. The fight was a bitter one and was long drawn out, but at the end Dockweiler secured the votes of the majority of the delegates and thus fur nished the first setback to the McNab forces-a setback that was to-day turned into a rout.
 The McNab forces having agreed to abide by the decision of the majority of the delegation-an agreement made at time when they were confi- dent that they held control of that body-were placed in a position that would have been awkward for honest men. But with the reformers the so- lution appears to be an easy one. This morning they informed MT Dockweiler that they would not abide by the terms of the agreement, and they in sisted that he resign his claims to the right of being appointed temporary chairman of the convention.
 McNab further insisted that MT.