The San Francisco call., 1898-07-12
BUCKLEY BACK OF
 JUDGE MAGUIRE
'Bopjo Eyed Kid" Is One of the CoDgressmon's
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SACRAMENTO, July 1.-Lounging about the office of the State House, ap- parently taking little or no interest in the tumult surrounding him, yet never theless keeping watchful eye on Ma guire's reconcentrados and the middle of-the-road insurgents is a fairly well groomed man with close cropped, red dish beard. Though he seldom engages in conversation with the busy states men, when he does single one out for his attention he gets right down to the kernel without any backing and filling
 This unassuming individual is none other than the more or less notorious "Banjo-eyed Kid" who has served and is serving his master, Christopher A. Buckley, well and faithfully, and to whom has been delegated the difficult task of capturing the Populist State Convention for James G. Mcguire. The duty is naturally compliment to the Kid" but of necessity fell to him, for who better than he Is fitted to carry out the plan of campaign so familiar to those who know of Buckley's past work?
 It will be painful surprise to those
 
 of the Fourth District to learn that he has irrevocably allied himself to Buck ley and delivered himself into the hands of the "Banjo-eyed Kid" Time was when Mcguire spurned Buckley. his methods and his henchmen. but that was when he was just beginning to mount the ladder of political fame | and before his ambition scared to the gubernatorial chair. But his growing ambition has smothered all sense of propriety and even decency, and to-day finds him ready to enter into any com- bine. ratifying all the sand-bagglng methods known to the most deprayei of political bosses to further his aspira- tions.
 The delegates from the south came in this morning fairly well organized and shouting for fusion. Their arrival created somewhat of a stampede and for a time the anti-fusionists. who last night had matters all their own way. were engulfed in the maelstrom of union sentiment. However, they man. aged soon to get their heads above water and later in the day there was a turn in the tide. Men who in the morn ing would listen to no argument against fusion became less boisterous. Maguire's political record, which was consistently Haunted in their faces. could no longer be ignored and as they studied it the more closely their fusion ardor chilled.
 The Fresno delegation, which was counted on to lead the fight, became less enamored of their task and finally they admitted that 1t was going to be pretty fight in the convention" and guessed" they would not take a hand in it just yet.
 When one sees George w. Baker, cor poration lawyer and Silver Republican, laboring in behalf of fusion and in cidentally the indorsement of himself for the Supreme bench, one asks him. self all sorts of unanswerable questions about Maguire's anti-railroad anti-cor- poration pastures, and the more such questioner finds himself marveling at the celerity with which the Congress man can get under the same political blanket with those he has publicly de- nounced and secretly aided.
 The middle of e-roadsters are la- boring increasingly and their work is telling, but what the situation will be to- morrow no man will venture to pre- dict T. w. H. Shanahan, on whom they have concentrated their hopes, has any number of warm personal friends among the delegates who have hereto fore announced themselves as favoring fusion without considering its conse- quences, and when they fully compre- hend that on the action of this conven- tion depends the very life of their party in this State 1t is more than like 1 ly they will turn from fusion to the tall Sycamore of Shasta
 1 When 1t is said the life of Populism