The San Francisco call., 1899-06-20
THE DEMOCRACY
BEARS THE YOKE
Of GAVIN NJ NAB
At Least He Has Won
'' the Works.
NEW BOSS AND GREAT PLANS
THE ONE HUNDRED WOULD
HOLD DEPARTING POWER.
McNab Consults the New Executive
Committee, Which Will Work
Out Fine fractional
Programme.
NEW BOSS AND GREAT PLANS
THE ONE HUNDRED WOULD
HOLD DEPARTING POWER.

1t has dawned on the local Democracy
that Gavin McNab has captured ''the
works of the Committee of One Hundred
and that he is now a full-fedged boss,
working with his coat off in the basement
Mr.. McNab's primary campaign pro-
gramme will be officially announced this
week, and 1t will further interest the
Democratic party.
The meeting of the Committee of One
Hundred last week showed how well Mr.
McNab had gathered the strings In lis
own hand, and it also showed the large
extent to which hostile newspaper was
unable to dictate even to his portion Of
the party. The paper made strenuous ef-
forts to secure the appointment and elec-
ton of convention delegates by precincts,
but McNab saw that district bosses would
be weakened and that in 50 far rs the
McNab coterie might win districts their
party control would be strengthened. The
journals scheme was turned down Tor
McNab's. Then the paper demanded the
enlargement of the Committee Of One
Hundred, which McNab opposed as dan
gerOuS, and the committee was not en-
larged. Then McNabs plan of al exec
utve committee to which the whole COM
mittee should intrust the primary cam
patgn was adopted. McNab's control WAS
fully evidenced when Chairman NJ. Jas
per Mcdonald announced the following
executive committee:
Twenty eighth Assembly District. ]. D. Max
we'll; Twenty ninth. Lawrence Brennan;
ThiTtieth j. Tomalty Thrtyrst r
2. a Helms: Thirty nth John H. Grady;
William H Mead; Thirty eighth, Jeremiah h
Deasy; Thirty-ninth. w D. Farren Fortieth.
Forty-second George McGillvray; Forty third,
p. H. Mccarthy: Forty fourth. John Fay Jr. {;
Forty-ffth, M. H. Herman at large, Chairman
NJ. j Mcdonald and Secretary T. J. Walsh.
iC Of
tor Braunhart, who runs that end of the
Twenty ninth. Three committeeman are
distinctively "Phelan," but the rest of the
committee is composed of especial sup
porters of Gavin McNab, who will direct
the efforts to perpetuate through the pri-
mary the party control of the element
that gained it with q trick club.
Yesterday efforts were begun to find
permanent downtown headquarters which
will be at once opened The executive
committee will meet there soon. probably
next Thursday evening, to adopt the mas
terly programme to which Boss McNab
Is giving the finishing touches. The eX-
ecutive committee is ostensibly to stir
up interest in the primary" for that is
the best bluff that can be found to excuse
the activity of the executive committee
at a time when, under the primary law.
the central organization has nothing
further to do if merely a fair field for the
district tickets and the whole party We're
consideretd In theory the party voters
of each district arrange their own tickets
and fight it out" themselves on election
day, and the county committee lets them
alone in the scrap But now the McNab
element of the One Hundred element has
the works" and turns the county com
mittee into a machine to promote the in
terests of one faction at the polls. 1t is
all right and all natural, perhaps, for the
county committee to be used as fac
tional power; it is simply an interesting
fact that shows at last how the primary
game is to be made up.
Each executive committeeman becomes
a district boss with the power of the CEN
trail machine behind him. Each will dom
mate the McNab club of his district as
some are doing with clubs already organ
lied. The committeeman, with the Nc
Nab sanction, will virtually dictate the
nomination of the McNab ticket of his
district. This will be dubbed the "regu-
lar" ticket, that represents ''the decent