The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
No BLANKET
TICKET FOR
CITY DEMOCRATS
Directions to Commit
tee of 100.
THE PRECINCT DELEGATES
THE PRECINCT DELEGATES
SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE OF THE STATE.
Preparations Made for the First Pri-
mary to Be Held in San Fran
cisco Under the New
Law.

The Committee of One Hundred which
led the Democrats of San Francisco to
overwhelming defeat in the political cam
paigr last fall is still recognized as the
Democratic governing body of San Fran
cisco. The executive committee of the
Democratic State Central Committee at a
meeting yesterday directed that the One
Hundred should not, at the approaching
primary election, deprive the voters in the
separate districts and precincts of the
right to nominate and elect their own rep
resentatives.
The session of the executive committee
at the California Hotel yesterday after
noon was not in any sense exciting. Chair
man Seth Mann addressed the assembled
party leaders and to his words Mayor Phe-
Ian. r. NJ Fitzgerald A. Caminetti, c. O.
Dunbar and ]. c. Gallagher listened. The
Mayor held the proxies of Wright and
Seawell and the chairman was reinforced
bv a proxy or two. The chairman did
not endeavor to darken wisdom with a
multitude of words. He made the point
clear to his Democratic brethren that he
recognized the Committee of One Hun
dred as the governing body of the local
Democrats He maintained that it was
important that the One Hundred should
be advised that districts and precincts
were entitled to vote for delegates under
the new primary law. He did not COM
mend the plan OF state committee inter-
ference in focal affairs and recognized the
fact that such interference did not pro-
mote party success.
Mr. Gallagher moved that committee
of three be appointed to consider the sub
iect of apportionment. When Mr.. Gala
CHER made the motion he did not under
stand that Mr.. Fitzgerald had cut and
dried set of resolutions to follow Mr..
Mann's convincing address. When he saw
that his motion was not seconded he
perceived his mistake and refrained from
axhf
Fitzgerald then introduced the following
Whereas. The Democratic party in San Fran
cisco is now entering upon municipal cam
paign of vast importance to the Democrats of
San Francisco and of the State at large: and
whereas We have upon the statute
books Of the State a primary law whose funda-
mental principle is that the will of the people
should be ascertained by primary elections
separately held in small political subdivisions
and conducted under the forms and safeguards
whereas Local government is best preserved,
the will OF the people most easily determined
and Democratic principles best maintained
when the vote of the people is registered and
cast in the smallest political divisions which
90 he expediently and conveniently made; and
Whereas The custom, of late years too preva-
lent of ruling the Democratic party of San
Francisco through the highest governing body
Of the party in the State, has not prevented
factional disruption and internecine strife: and
Whereas, Such interference is only to be
ures have failed: and
whereas. In the last campaign the methods
that were pursued eliminated in the appeal of
the Hon Francis ]. Heney denying the legality
Of the last municipal convention of 100 and
the resolution before this body of the Hon.
M F. Tarpey, denying the legal right OF the
committee of one hundred to exist; and
Whereas. 1t is commonly reported that it is
proposed to apporton at large the delegates
for the municipal convention to be voted for at
the coming primary election and to have a
small number of delegates and thus tend to de-
prive the voters in the separate districts and
precincts of the right to nominate and elect
their own representatives; and
Whereas. II such plan were liable to be
consummated IL would be the imperative duty
of the State Central Committee having at
heart the best interests of the party, 10 take