The San Francisco call., 1898-08-14
WARM TIMES
 AHEAD FOR
 McNAB MEN Alameda Delegates to Give Them Battle. THEY WANT FAIR PLAY
THEY WANT FAIR PLAY
RENEWED OBJECTIONS AGAINST
 THE APPoINTIVE PLAN.
The Democrats of Alameda Believe in Electlng State Delegates at Primaries When
 Possible.

| OAKLAND, Aug. 13-1he Afford | Gould McNab Democratic conspirators l will find when the State convention meets at Sacramento next Tuesday that their ! plan for depriving the San Francisco | Democrats of their rights does not meet
 with favor in Alameda County. The dele gates from Alameda County will protest against seating the delegates who were
 appointed by the Committee of One 1 Hunderd and the vote that will be cast l to unseat the appointed delegates will be l given toward seating the contesting liar | neyites.
 The Alameda County delegation met in | executive session tonight to discuss con-
 vention affairs. Among those present
 were: Nj. J. Laymance, H. C. McPtke,
 P. E. Dalton. T. c. Stoddard, William B. | White, Warren English and F. W. VoOght, l who Is also president of the Bimetallic | League Many of the delegates who | through press of other business were un- 1 able to attend the meeting, sent word l that they were unaterably opposed to any ! system of appointing delegates instead of 1 electing them at primaries. There was 1 a unanimity of opinion concerning the | bad political taste shown by the Demo- l cratic conspirators, who denied to the l Democrats of San Francisco the right of | expressing by their votes at the polls | whom they wanted to represent them In i the State convention.
 | The lead taken by Alameda County in |
 combine will undoubtedly be followed by | other counties, and there is every indica- | tion that there is a stormy time ahead | for the trio of political ConspiratorS when ! they reach Sacramento.
 | The members who attended the meet l ing tonight were all outspoken in their 1 the trio of would-be Democratic bosses. | They recognized the fact that the tactics | adopted by the Committee of One Hundred l mean loss of many hundred votes in | San Francisco unless local affairs there are strengthened out
 | It is with the intention of trying to | solve the Democratic political problem in | San Francisco that the Alameda dele i gates will fight to see that both contest ! ing delegations are given a fair hearing l and just decision. That the high hand | ed proceedings of the Committee of One 1 Hundred will be given a thorough inVes- 1 tigation is certain. It Is equally certain 1 that the Alameda delegation will place i their stamp of disapproval on the ap-
 pointive scheme of the trio. The Alameda de4egates are united on the question of the chairman of the dele
 gation It will go to NJ F. Tarpey,. Several of the Alameda delegation in- tend leaving for Sacramento tomorrow night to establish headquarters. The feeling against allowing the ap-
 pointed delegates to take seats in the con yention is steadily growing in this coun- ty, as Is well evidenced by the following interviews had yesterday with delegates who had not been previously spoken to on the subject:
 Ex-Congressman Warren B. English
 q condemnation of the gag methods Of the
 Committee of One Hundred. Tt Is the l
 r s6gb ever PerPe @ Ie
 democratic and in direct violation or eN-
 cry principle of the party. Adopted by |
 both parties and followed to a logical |
 conclusion 1t would mean the utter de-
 basement and enslavery of the whole peo-
 pie.
 racy is to get as close to the people as possible. arc while the primary system does not always accomplish that end, 1t comes the nearest to 1t of any plan yet devised. Under the machinationS CT the Gould-Alford- McNab combination, every Democrat in San Francisco is disfran- chised and the largest single delegation in the State given completely into the control of those men, It IS an outrage man in the party.
 q shall certainly fight against the seat ing of that delegation to the last, and think that every delegate from Ala meda County will do the same. for l. withI the others, believe the very existence of the Democratic party depends upon the overthrow of this self-constituted body It's recognition by the convention would be the greatest calamity that could be- fall the party and every man who has the least regard for clean politics will be found arrayed against the McNab out fit"
 c. w. Logan is another of the Alameda delegates on the side of clean politics. 'I am not familiar with the situation in San Francisco" said MT. Logan" and
 
 will take in regard to unseating those delegates. There may be some unusual circumstances that necess{tated the ap- pointment of the delegates instead of holding regular primaries but they would have to be most unusual to admit of countenancing them. 1 am of course, in favor of pure politics and if I am con vinced that the action of the committee of 100 is unwarranted 1 shall not hesitate cisco delegation"
 Patrick Mullan, delegate from the Sixth Ward. knew nothing whatever O. the sit nation In San Francisco, and, therefore, had no opinion to express He said the proper place to pass judgment the McNab delegation was in convention and he would hear both sides before he com mitted himself.
 c. D. o'Gara of the Sixth Ward was unable on account of business reasons last night to attend the meeting of Dem ocratic delegates, who are determined to unseat the McNab faction at Sacramento; but he is stronger than ever in his de- nunciation of the appontiye method of selecting delegates.
 ''The whole method was wrong from ''and it is one of the instruments which leads to the ruin and destruction of party. God knows we're bad enough off as it Is, and politics has been corrupted so much in San Francisco that this cer- tainly does not help 1t any
 ''I am sorry could not attend the meeting tonight, but 1 shall have a voice in the convention. 1 do not believe in one or fifty men ruling three or four thousand voters. It Is wrong from be- ginning to end Half those appointed delegates from San Francisco will not at tend the convention, and some manipu- lator will hold their proxies. tell you it Is detrimental to the Democratic party, and is a method that will give the Mo Nab faction ample opportunity to per petuate itself"
 Daniel Madden, delegate elected from Berkeley has been .lemocrat all his life but he does not regard the action of the Alford-Gould- -McNab faction as be- ing born of true Democratic principles.
 T have been a Democrat all my life, said MT. Madden to-day, and as Dem such ring in county management the McNab-Gould committee in San Fran cisco I always believed and believe that politics is for the people in general and not for the posses. who try to run things in their own way" He decnned to state whether or not he would vote for the unseating of the appointed dele gates. T hope, however continued MT. Madden "Jnat the chairmanship of the convention will not fall to a member of