The San Francisco call., 1898-06-28
Democrats Arranged in
 Battle Array.
HARVEY FACTION ORGANIZED
THE CITY PARTY TO HAVE
 HOME RULE.
Districts That Fought for the Dem ocracy Ignored by the State Body in the County Ap-
 pointments.

Major Harney, chairman of the general committee of the Democratic party of San Francisco, has named the following working committees:
 Campaign committee Twenty-eighth Dis trict Lawrence Buckley; Twenty-nnth. Jo- Thirty-frst George A. Love; Thirty-second. Frank Lester Thirty-third. R. W. Blake; Thirtyfourth, ". D. Hynes; Thirtyffth, L. J. Dolan; Thirty-sixth Luke Tierney; Thirty seventh D. F. Ragan; Thirty-eighth. Thomas F. Clark; Thirty ninth, John A. Fenton; Fortieth. E. J. Gallagher; Forty-frst, Charles W. Hayden; Forty-second, Joseph P. Hayes; Guido Cagiiere; Forty-ffth. John Foley; ex- offcio members-P. J. Harney, chairman gen. eral committee; J. F. McGovern, secretary general committee.
 trict, Frank Sweeney; Twenty ninth. Thomas F. Blake; Thirtieth, Thomas P. Farrell. Thirty Devine Thirty-third, George Godfrey: Thirty fourth, Matt OBrien; Thirty-ffth, William Carroll; Thtrty-sixth , Charles Gagggus; g Thirty Richard O'Brien; Thrty-ninth, Louis Schmidt; Fortieth, Hugh J.. McGinniss; Forty-frst. Jo- seph A. Fitzpatrick; Forty-second, D. J. Key holds; Forty-third Henry Neebe; Forty-fourth, Otto Keeper; Forty fifth, c. W. Nevin.
 Committee on resolutions-W. l. Brobeck. Dr. W. J. Gavigan, J. c. Saulman, J. A. Spinetti, F. J. Monahan.
 Committee on f1nance-wiliiam A. Asmussen. Frank Conklin. T. 4, Burns. Peter McGlade' Chris Refs Jr., J. G. Fitzgerald
 Committee on registraton-Fred Russell. ". T. Pilkington. John o'Donnell, John Fennel,
 Committee on naturalization - Frank P. Hughes. Thomas Harrison, James K. Colbert,
 Auditing ommittee-samuel I. Kohlman. James P. Sheerin T. W. Mcfarland.
 The appointment of these committees, indicative of the fact that a war is on by the Harney faction of the local Demo- cratic party for recognition as the legal Democratic party of San Francesca; meeting of the Democratic State central committee held month ago, at which that body adopted report of sub-com- mittee of nine appointing a county com mittee of 100 members of San Francisco as the local Democratic organization, Major Harney protested against the ac- tion and announced that the San Francis co Democracy would not tolerate any such interference. In that committee or 100 the Democratic districts of the city were ignored. There are nine Democratic districts in San Francisco that have al- ways returned Democratic Assemb1ymen to the State Legislature. These nine dis McKinley for President of 3551 votes. The State central committee appointed from these nine districts only tWenty-SeVen out of the 100 members Of the county commit tee The other nine districts of the city are Republican and have always. sent Re- publican members to the Assembly as wei! a s returning Republican major1tleS TOT all other offices At the last general election these nine districts gave Mckinley a plu- rality over Bryan of 400S votes, and yet the State central committee, in apportion- ing the county committee, gave repre- sentation to these districts or seventy three members.
 'The evident intention of these attempted dictators of the Democracy Of the city, says Major Harney, "ls to disorganize the Democratic party. Their ignoring as they elusive proof of their intention in this re- gard The men who have concOcted this scheme know full well that the only way they can get hold of the Democratic ma chne is to deprive the Democrats voters of any voice in the party management. of San Francisco over which l preside proposes to go right ahead 10 call prf- maries for the election of delegates to the i State convention and later on primaries | for delegates to the municipal convention to rcminate municipal candidates.
 "The Den ocratic party of San Francis | CO.," continued the Major, lis recognized by law, and no State central committee cC1nJosed largely of country members can l interfere with it, and the Democrats of | San Francisco propose that they shall not If the State central committee has of the San Francisco Democracy then it has the same right to interfera with the I,emocracy of any other county in Cali fornia. This certainly would be a danger ous power, inasmuch as the State central committee, as a rule, Is controlled by two ing proxies from country members who do not attend the meetings. This was demonstrated at the meeting of the State central committee at which the question of the San Francisco Democracy came up. About thirty-five proxies were held by the whose offices as trustees are self-appoint- i've 'f