The San Francisco call., 1898-09-29
To Knife the Phelan
 Nominees.
HACK" BONNET IS EXCEPTED
THE BOYS WILL GIVE HIM HEARTY SUPPORT.
The Century Gang Propose to Gobble the Patronage, and Therefore the Democratic Tax-Eat-
 CTS Will Bolt.

The latest story In Democratic political circles is that all the candidates of the Fay-Phelan committee of one hundred, with the exception of one; are to be knifed at the polls by the City Hall push The lone candidate who has escaped the wrath of the practical poll ticians is Theodore F. Bonnet, the nomi- nee for Sheriff. His personal popularity and the opposition from certain quarters to his name going before the committee have endeared him to the gang"
 The young men in the hall openly de- clare that it is a case of war to the knife, and say they will spare neither pains, time nor expense to bring MT. Phe- Ian and his troop of marionettes to proper sense of their actual non-import- ance. And there is little chance of the young men who live off the taxpayers being whipped into line. The general row has been taken up by each and every one of them as personal matter, and there Is no end or limit to the vengeance they are calling down on the Mayor and his committed
 The feeling of resentment against the Phelan slate by the employees of the City Hall Is practically unanimous. There is but one office that will even make bluff al supporting the ticket. That Is the tax office. The renomination of Block, as the result of a promise wrung from Phe!an when Block sided with his charter fight in the Election Commission, has to a certain extent appeased his deputies. But 1t is a question if the men in the tax of flee will go out of their way to help the ticket other than the immediate fight of their own candidate.
 It is generally understood that the dis tribution of patronage in case of success will go to the personal friends and rela- lives of the century committee and the advisers of the Mayor. No one for mo- ment suspects that actual service In be- other than scorn of MT. Fay and his henchmen, who are now in full control Of the works. And not wishing to be hgu-a- lively spat upon the young men who toll for the peoples money have joined lands with a determination to knife the ticket on November without quarter.
 By defeating the selections of the Phelan-F'ay family gathering that has been held under the name of the commit tee of 100, the push believe that the Mayor and his exclusive circle of ultra-reformers least for the time being. The defeat of the ticket named by the committee of 100, the old liners believe, would gain them at least a voice in the general management of affairs in 1900.
 Many of the practical politicians have announced their determination to pass up the reformers and mix up in Republican fights. They say 1t is useless to become identified with any one on the Phelan ticket because the entire distribution of the patronage in the event Of success Is
 
 engineering the committee Of one hun dred.
 No man was nominated by this self Styled Democratic party until he forfeit ed all claims to the patronage of his of fee in case of election.
 Even the head deputyships are to be at Gavid, Braunhart and the Fay family. Actual work in the interest of the party will receive no recognition whatever. The jobs are to be distributed as the result of nerEOnal frian6SbtOS the plapa of irfb in Scotland or for reasons more substantial than these.
 Then again, the City Hall boys figure that the committee of one hundred has named losing ticket with the exception of one or two candidates. Many of the nominees are practically unknown. That Is said to be mark in their favor. The more they become known the less their chances of election.
 A truly tragic phase of the row that is now under way among the Democratic party and the committee of one hundred Is the passing of the Clan Gallagher as a potent power in local politics. Up to week ago the Gallaghers were regarded as invincible. Numerically they are without a peer In this or any other country. Their capabilities as voters are said to be sim- ply astounding. The Gallagher vote is al- most large enough to elect a candidate with the world leagued against him. 1t is now whispered among the decemi- nators of the low down that the Clan Gallagher Is about to amalgamate with or annex the legion of dissatisfied "pollies" beyond hope or question, and turn the tables on the committee of one hundred ideas of MT. Heaiy Davis: "-'- '--'
 .Phelan has trampled on the worm that will turn and sting him."
 Probably the most unsatisfactory nom- ination so far as the push Is concerned is John A. Brown, who has been placed County Clerkship. In the vicinity of Sixth and Minna streets, MT. Brown IS known as 'Growler" Brown, owing to rolling the rock or taking wiliie for a walk" The same being familiar terms applied to the act of procuring the festive steam beer in can or jug at neighbor- ing saloons.
 MT. Brown was discovered by D. J. Tomalty of the committee of one hum beer emporium in the vicinity of Browns residence. For number of years Brown has been the star performer in and about malty's .whiskers he was brushed into the good graces of whispering Gavin who fathered his nomination for Count, ClerA.
 The turning down of Ambrose, who sought renomination as Superintendent of the Streets, was also a sad blow to the drawing large salaries from the Street Department for the last two years. In the Recorders office everybody has a afe ee out ut for the RT99teges or the com labor Commissioner who has been named TOT Public Administrator, Is notoriously known as the most cordially hated man among the laboring classes. The substi- tutlon Of Barclay Henley, the grand old her of innumerable defeats, for J. J. Barrett, for District Attorney, is looked upon as an absolute indication of defeat.
 The downfall of the Gallaghers was torney, James Gallager, failed to secure the nomlnation of his chief clerk, Stoney, 10 t succeed 1e s,n him The nomination of Lane TOT Ine once or City and County Attor- clan.