The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-24
Plan to Disband the Committee of
One Hundred.
Phelan'S Followers Scheme to Hold Control by Cheat
ing the Primary Law-RyaI Candidates
for Mayor State Committee
Involved

the farce further. declared themselves
municipal convention. They were
frank to confess that they did not dare
submit themselves to their party at a
primary, as they would have been hope
lessly beaten. SO desperate was their
case and so meager their supporters
that they were forced even to take sew
eral of their municipal nominees from
their own ranks.
It was against this plan of organiza-
ton and subsequent policy that Heeney
appealed. He declared that the Com
mittee of One Hundred had usurped
power which did not belong to it. Hee-
ney insisted that the Committee of
One Hundred had been chosen simply
to create a County Committee and to
do nothing else The COMMITTEES of
/ One Hundred, therefore, says Heeney.
is an illegal body under Democratic
laws
The appeal has remained forgotten
since it was made, but now the oppo-
nents of Phelan see in it a handle with
which to WELD an ak of destruction
upon the local organization. Since the
failure of the last campaign. however
a new fractional spirit has arisen in the
State Central Committee. It is under
stood that Seth Mann is not as friendly
to the Phelanites as he might be, or at
all events he is willing, with his asso-
ciates, to discuss and consider the Hee-
ney appeal. A meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the State Central
Committee will therefore be called.
The decision of this body on the ap-
will "a IN he
outcome is, the matter must be re-
ferred to the State Central Commit
tee for settlement The action of this
committee will be watched with in
terest It will be remembered that the
organization of the Committee of One
Hundred was Endorsed by the State
Central Committee, which has not,
however, officially declared the Com
mittee of One Hundred to be a county
committee Whether it is or not will
mean much to the political ambition
of James d. Phelan.
If the Committee of One Hundred is
disbanded by the State Central Com
mittee and a new organization is or
dered there is not the slightest ques-
ton that Phelan will be forced to run
as an independent candidate for May
or if he wishes to succeed himself. The
men that are schemilg to undo the
Committee Of One Hundred are al
ready suggesting possible candidates
for Mayor. Among the names is that
of Robert Y. Hayne, who, however,
has not city residence. This is very
easy to acquire. Among the others is
John Rosenfeld, and there will be
many more before the fight is won or
lost. The shadow Of Colonel Jim
Smith has fallen even from the Phil
ippines across the path of the Mayor.
If the opponents of the Committee of
One Hundred fail to GUST that interest
ing body a new battle will have to be
planned Already the battle lines are
being fixed and the forces organized.
Chris Buckley thinks he has a chance
to turn right side up in the scramble.
and for. some time he has been laying
his plans. He began in a modest way
with the carriage shop of O. F. Wiley
for a headquarters. Then he moved
to a saloon on Bush and Montgomery
reminiscent and congenial. This rem
devious became inadequate, and
third headquarters was established at
a new resort on OFarrell and Powell
streets. There Buckley talks to all who
want to talk to him. Rainey is Skin
mishing on the outside and OCCASION
ally gives some pleader the benefit of