The San Francisco call., 1898-08-27
MCLAUGHLIN
 WILL bE THE
 CHAIRMAN To Guide the New State Committee.
OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN
RALLY OF THE YOUNG MEMS
 REPUBLICAN CLUB.
Judge Mcguire Will Name Seth Mann as Chairman of the Democratic Central
 Committee.

| Now that both the Democratic and Re publican State Conventions have com- pleted their work the political managers ! of both parties are beginning to arrange
 the details of the coming campaign. Con- ditionS are such that the campaign will probably be one of the liveliest in the
 history of the State, and it is certain l that from now until the eve of election
 the State will ring with oratory Of the | kind that is presumed to carry conyic- | ton to the hearts of voters and terror | to the souls of political opponents. Spell | binders of high and low degree are oiling their voices for the coming fray, and | the song of the candidate is heard in the 1 land.
 It is partly because of the hurricane
 nature of the brief campaign that is now at hand that more than ordinary inter- est attaches to the personnel of the gov erning bodies of the two parties, as it is understood that it will rest with the
 State Central Committees to make a sue cess or failure of the work of the next two months.
 Among Republicans there is the utmost satisfaction over the announcement that Major Frank Mclaughlin will again be at the head of the State Committee. The work he has accomplished during the 1 past two years in cementlng any differ | ences that may have existed in the par l ty, as well as in directing the organlza- l ton of the Republican forces through
 out the State, has been invaluable ana will lend no inconstderable weight to the
 measure of the partys success at the | polls.
 Major Mclaughlin had planned to make an extended visit to Japan With hls family as soon as the new State Central Committee was organized, but he is not ] to be permitted to resign his steward | ship Party leaders have joined in re- | head 1 the State governing body for another
 term, il beng urged that for him to re-
 sign the helm to less experienced mana
 at this time might JeopardlZe the success | of the party. These counsels, II IS assert ed, have prevailed, and the Japan trip
 has been indefinitely postponed.
 The exact date for the organization or 1 the new Republican State Central Com mittee has not yet been 0tnnltely nXed, but it will probably occur some time dur- i ing the coming week. Henry T. cage l the Republican candidate for Governor,
 will name the members of the Executive | Committee of the State Committee prior | to his return to his home in Los Angeles I-probably Monday or Tuesday. The state 1 Committee will then be called together ] and organization will be effected. In the meantime Major Mclaughlin is actively engaged in mapping out the plan for the cam paign which will begin at once.
 The reception that is to be rendered to
 Mir Gage in Oakland tonight is not looked upon as the opening of the cam paign, but rather as a reunion of the forces of the men who were opposed to each other in the contest for the nomina- ton for Governor. It will be a grand good fellowship meeting at which all will join hands and pledge their support to the common cause. IL will be on a scale proportionate to the occasion and will be graced With the presence Of pr. George C. Pardee, United States Senator Perkins, William k. Davis, Frank F. Davis, Vic tor H. Metcalf and many other notables. The campaign will be opened in this city on Monday evening by grand rally or the Young Mems Republican Club at 12l2 Polk street. C. ". Kyle and J. H. Rob erts are announced as the orators Of the evening.
 Nothing definite has been fixed upon re- garding the itinerary Of MT. Cages trip from this city to his home in Los Angeles. Nothing more is known at present than that he will probably go direct to the l Southern metropolis without a stop. Ar engagements are now being made for a monster demonstration to celebrate his homecoming.
 On the Democratic side of the political fence there seems to be the same lack of enthusiasm that marked the proceed ings Of the Democratic State convention. | Judge Maeuire has not yet named the
 members of his executive committee, aRd it is not probable that he will do so be- 1 fore his return from Los Angeles, where ! he is now in attendance at the State con l vention of the Silver Republican branch ! of the Populist-Democr2ttc party. Seth | Mann will be the chairman or the State l Central Committee, and will have charge, under the direction of James Gallagher, l chief of the Clan Gallagher, of Mcguire | campaign. It is given out that Mcguire
 will stump the State in the interests of | himself and the Populists, Silver Repub- | icans and Democrats, whose names ap-
 pear on the fusion ticket. This announce
 ment has given rise to much speculation l as to the manner in which he will" pre-
 sent the claims of Walter Van Dyke,
 for instance, the fusion candidate for
 Justice of the Supreme Court, who | has been a Republican all his life, and who has from year to year added to political history by giving
 vent to his belief in the unworth of all Democrats washed and unwashed alike.
 It is said that whispering Gavin Me
 Nab has demanded that he be allowed to 1 name a majority of the executive com
 mittee of the new Democratic State Cen
 tral Committee. The demand, which was
 made immediately after the adjournment
 of the Democratic State convention, was
 mentally pigeon-holed by Judge Mcguire. The influence that the whispering boss
 has exercised in local and State politics
 is not of the kind that conforms to Ma
 guire's ideas of party harmony. and as
 a consequence McNab Is not to be allowed l to jeopardiZe the chances of the Demo-
 cratic candidate for Governor by being
 permitted to influence the acts of the State Committee. It is predicted that Me 1 Nab will find more difficulty in breaking through the hedge of Gallaghers than he l did in reforming local politics