The San Francisco call., 1898-06-05

the Democrats against whom 1t was d1- rected entered a protest that bids fair to interfere seriously with the cut and-dried plans of the Phelan follow CTS. The leadership of Major Harney has acquired a sudden popularity. and the future is big with possibilities. It is asserted that the Mayors defection would have been received with better grace by the voters who claim they nounced prior to the charter election. It is pointed out that the Mayor stumped the district south of Market street In the interest of the charter and posed as the friend and father protec tor of the very men whom he has now deserted as being unworthy of his high CT ideals of the political environment of an aristocratic boss. He told the Workingmen and the small property owners of the district that their inter ests were his. and that in promulgating the plan of the new charter he had in mind their welfare, as against the selfish interests of the aristocrats. Some of them believed him and cast their votes in favor of the charter, and thus aided in securing its adoption The result had scarcely been an- nounced when their erstwhile friend came out with the announcement that he had done with the Democrats whose hands are soiled by daily labor, and would henceforth conf1ne his political exertions to the more aristocratic pre- cincts of the Western Addition and Mob Hill. The first result of this determina- tion is to be seen in the personnel of the Committee of One Hundred.
 Now that the Mayors position has become known to the voters who are considered by him to be outside of the pale Of the political Four Hundred, d rebellion Is In progress. It's propor- tions are such as to cause serious alarm to the newborn bosses, and 1t is reared that the State Committee will have to be called upon to undo the work It mas done at the suggestion of McNab and his colony of professional reform CTS. The Harneyites, who were entire ly overlooked when the members of the committee of One Hundred were being selected, declare their intention to fight the new governing body to the bitter eno They have been already assured or the support of the men whom the Mayor has so recently deserted, as we'll as all or the Democrats who believe that the arbitrary action of the State Central Committee. in assuming the right to take charge of local political affairs was uncalled for and undemo- cratic: Besides this, notice is being served on the high Joints who compose the committee that they need not now or ever expect to receive the support, sympathy or votes of the great ma Jor1ty Of the Democratic voters of this city If they persist in retaining their positions on a committee that is ob- noxious to all good citizens and the ex- istence of which is due to the unwar- ranted assumption of power by a body that has nothing to do with local party differences
 What the general effect of these threats will be Is still but matter of conjecture. Such political pot hunters as sammy Braunhart, E. P. E. Troy and Clitus Barbour are already begin ming to squirm under the lash, and 1t IS expected that some of those of their associates who would not object to serving the people some time in the fu- ture under the favorable provisions of the new charter will hesitate before continuing to offend the majority of Democratic voters.