The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-20
SHANAHAN IS
READY FOR
THE BATTLE
The Peoples Party
Fight Begins.
FUSION WILL BE KNITTED
HISTORY OF MAGUIRE AND RE-
CENT POLITICS.
Loyal Populists Recognizing Every
where by Direction of the State
Committee-A Local Ticket
Promised.
FUSION WILL BE KNITTED
HISTORY OF MAGUIRE AND RE-
CENT POLITICS.

The decision of Secretary of State
Brown that the Peoples party and not
the hybrid organization known as fusion
lists is entitled to the use of the party
name, has started the regular Populist
organization into vigorous activity. All
their campaign plans had awaited this de-
cision.
Now the State Central Committee, of
which D. T. Fowler, the candidate for
Lieutenant Governor, is chairman, and
Carleton H. Johnson secretary, is hasten
Ing arrangements for opening the cam
paign.
The most prominent and vigorous ele-
ment in 1t will be Mr.. Shanahan himself.
He will begin operations next week, prob
ably at Redding. and proposes to keep
hustling thereafter until the close of the
campaign. speaking as far as possible In
every town in the State. Maguireism
Will find him a thorn in its side after he
gets started.
All candidates on the State ticket and
on local tickets will work more or less on
the stump, and some who are not can
didates, including Thomas v. Gator, will
be heard in the hustings. However, the
campaign will be largely conducted by
means of political literature, which will
be literally distributed. One document
soon to be issued will give a history and
exposition Of the fusion arrangement into
which a portion of the party was
treacherously inveigled 1t will include
cation was elected by fraud and how 1t
acted contrary to its express instructions
and the events and influences attending
the contamination of the fusion pro-
gramme at Sacramento will be set forth,
together with the considerations which
appeal to members of the party who are
loyal to their PRINCIPLES.
A great deal of attention will be given
to James G. Mcguire and his varied po-
litical career, in which there figures his
campaigns against the Populist party, his
refusal in 1892 to subscribe to the free
silver plank in the Populist platform
when that nomination for Congress was
offered him, his opposition to an income
tax in Congress. and his vote to deprive
Tom Watson of Georgia of his seat in
Congress. These and some other fea-
lures of MaguireS career as trimmer
have already been set forth by Carleton
Johnson.
A circular has just been sent to party
leaders throughout the State from the
State headquarters announcing Secretary
Browns decision, and that the campaign
is now open. The circular includes the
following Instructions:
Wherever your county committee adheres to
the Democratic fusion State ticket, withdraw
tee in the name of the Peoples party to sup
port the State ticket OF the party.
which is Being run on the condition that the
Democratic State ticket be supported in con-
ton of your new county committee. call a
county convention and nominate a straight
Peoples party county ticket State Senators
and Assemblymen should be nominated in
every district.
Pay no attention to communications ernanat-
ing from fusion sources signed by Wardall or
Gillespie in the name of the Peoples party, as
such use of the party name is fraudulent and
intended to deceive voters.
Many county organizations have been
waiting for the decision now in force, and
will now proceed actively to the business
of the campaign.
The San Francisco County Committee,
which was recently organized, will be
called together this week to fix date
for county convention. 1t is now pro-
posed to put in the field complete gen
the probable exception of the judiciary
nominees. The decision as to the party
name is regarded as giving the right
to the party designation in this city to
the middle-of- the-roadsters, as the local
committee was organized under the direc-
ton of the regular State committee. This
precipitates a secondary local sQuabble
between the factions, and If Secretary
Browns decision is sustained by the Su-
preme Court the local Gillespie crowd
will likewise be out in the cold.