The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-27
WAR BREAKS
OUT AMONG
THE FUS|ON|STS
Smarting Under the
Humiliation.
EVERY FACTION is MAD
FITZGERALD WAS BEATEN IN
THE CONVENTION.
EVERY FACTION is MAD
Never Was the Prospect for the Re
publican Ticket so Bright
as at Present.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
Q0S Broadway Sent 26.


The Silver Republicans are mad. The
Populists are madden and the Democrats
are the maddest of all. And all their an
ger is directed at the humiliating condi-
tons which prevailed at Saturdays con-
vention. Judging from the expressions of
the fusionists to-day, the Republican
ticket should go through in November
without let or hindrance. The Demo-
cratic portion of the ticket is objection
able to the Popuists, the Populists' tail
is Objectionable to the Democratic dog
which refuses to be wagged by 1t, and
the Silver Republicans, with the excep-
ton of those on the inside, are wondering
why they were brought into prominence
at all.
In the Democracy the old fight has
broken out with more vigor than ever.
The Fitzgerald and Laymance factions
went into the convention feeling bitter
toward each other and came out feeling
more bitter. The favorite of the Fitzger-
closeness of the vote by which he was
defeated by the Laymance candidate,
Landregan, shows how thoroughly the
party is disrupted.
Now all are quarreling. The English
Laymance faction declare that they
were iobbed by the Fitzgerald people in
the matter of conceding the nomination
of Assessor to the Silver Republicans.
They openly assert that this nomination
was given to the Silver Republicans with
the full understanding that Silver Re
or else, they argue, why were the Silver
Republicans recognized at all. The Sill
yer Republicans nominated, or rather in
dorSed, the Republican nominee, Henry
Dalton, and the anti-FitZgerald folks de-
clare that this was the result of secret
deal made in the interest of Edward Fitz-
gerald, recently nominated in San Fran
cisco for Public Administrator. 1t is
claimed that Robert Fitzgerald entered
into deal by which Daltons friends Sc
cured his Endorsement by the allied con-
vention in return for certain support
across the bay for his brother Edward.
This has so antagonized the English-Lay
nance wing of the Democracy that they
positively declared to-day an independ-
ent candidate for Assessor would GER
tainly be placed upon the ticket.
The PopuliStS are dissatisfied because
they We're anxious to nominate Sheriff
White to succeed himself, and were
forced to give this office to the Democrats.
AS the Populists were already split before
fusion was preached, and are now divided
again into the Dutton and White wings
of the party, their vote may safely be
classified al this time as scattering.
Many Silver Republicans declare that
they were not consulted regarding the d.
vision of the spoils, or If they had been
they would have demanded that they be
wanted for A. X. Grim, who is a Silver
Republican. They declare that the NOM
ination of a Republican by the Silver Re-
publcans is simply a farce and that they
were jobbed.
The Republicans are highly elated at
the turn that fusion politics has taken
There is more confusion in the allied
ranks than there was two years ago when
every fusion candidate on the ticket was
beaten