The San Francisco call., 1898-01-30

the proposed removal of committee men was a scheme concocted by cer- tain designing element in the party to ! put Senator White in hole and fur ther the plans of annexation. The Governor was ably sustained by l w. w. Foote, who declared that the l Democratic party as an organization l had pronounced against annexation He asserted that nothing but party misfortune and demoralization would ! follow if the State Central Committee 1 should declare in favor of the annexa- 1 tion scheme and seek to instruct Sen- | ator White to change his position or ] the question. Other speakers addressed l the caucus in the same spirit of resist
 ance to the Examiner Fitzgerald pro- | gramme.
 When the conspirators heard of the
 meeting and perceived that the real motive of the proposition to remove committeeman was understood by the party leaders, and would soon be made known to everybody interested, they began to hedge The pressure to re- | move members was slackened and 1 finally withdrawn. The Examiner | began to throw dust in the eyes of the public and cry "Rainey. The big list 1 of f1fty-three members slated for dis 1 placement was reduced to six follow 1 CTS of Lanigan, who were simply sus- pended and cited to show cause why | they should not be removed There is not single follower of Rainey on the | list of suspended. As a cold fact Rainey never cut any figure in the case l The mention of his name was an after thought or ruse of the Examiner to di- vert suspicion from its scheme to get possession of the works.
 The outcome is one of the Examiners beautiful victories, in which it lost ev- ] GrNfbinp in ciOht ll | control a single vote in the State Cen tral committee. The programme mapped out by Governor Budd and other Democratic leaders in the eau GUS was not deviated from in the com mittee.
 The people Of Sacramento seem to be surprised that steps were not taken by the State Central Committee of the Democratic party to designate that city as the place for holding the next State convention of the party. This is the reason the subject was deferred: It has come directly to the knowledge of leading Democrats that w. H. Mills of the Southern Pacific is making, through c. F. Montgomery and other agents. an active canvass to secure the nomi- motion of H. NJ. La Rue for Governor. Men of political sense and keen intellf- gence saw at glance that the selec- tion of Sacramento as the place for holding the convention would be a gun fired by the committee in the interest of Mills and La Rue, and so it was wise ly determined to defer the question of selection until another time. The ad- Vantages of Sacramento as a conven- ton city were appreciated by the com mittee. but the candidacy of La Rue. backed by William H. Mills, handi- capped the town.
 Frank Gould of Stockton next intro- duced a resolution authorizing the chairman to appoint a comnittee of five to look after the interests of the party in the event of the Stratton pri- mary law being upheld by the Supreme Court. There was no objection raised and the resolution was unanimously adopted.
 Gould next introduced another reso- luton, empowering the chairman 10 appoint a committee of seven to attend to the organization of the party throughout the State. He said that it was the opinion of many leading Dem Gcrats that such a committee should be appointed, so that the work of organ lZatlon would be well in hand before the meeting of the State Convention.
 w. l. Brobeck opposed the appoint ment of the committee. He said that he did not believe in attempting 10 ner- petuate a committee. When the next state convention meets" said he "a new State central committee will he elected to succeed this committee. That committee can select from it's bodv a subcommittee to look after the mat ters contemplated by the resolution. do not believe that the present com ! mlttee should adopt any such meas ure"
 Kinney of Los Angeles supported the resolution in a lengthy speech. He be heVed that the committee should be ap- pointed to look after the party inter est before the State convention. Be fore the convention meets" said he. I've can have the State thoroughly organ ized and the party in a position to at , once continue the work of the conyen- tion"
 Byron Ball of Yolo said that he fa- Vored the resolution if the members of the committee were appointed from the State central committee.
 Gould replied that he had no obiac- tion to an amendment of that nature, and the resolution, as amended. was adopted.
 EX-Congressman Caminetti then moved that the State central commit tee hereafter meet monthly
 After short debate it was decided to hold the monthly meetings. but not before the Supreme Court passes on the question the validity of the new pri- mary law.
 The committee then adjourned to meet at the call of the chair. The members not included in the res olution of reinstatement and who have been cited to show cause" are T. w Doyle, Thomas E. Scully, Charles Wit beck, E. P. Mogan, J. J. Byrne and John J. Lynch.
 Chairman Afford stated after the meeting that 1t would probably be two weeks before he would announce the committee to look after the organiza- tion of the party. 'It is a very impor- tant committee" said he "and I want to pick out the best men on the State committee and those I know will at l tend to the duty iOtrIIsfed to tbay1