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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 1V, 1896, e R e e T o ONE CENT FOR A CITY “HELLD,” Scope of a Proposed Oppo- sition Telephone Com- pany. WILL WIRE THE STATE. Rates in San Francisco and Throughout California to Be Reduced. IMPROVED SERVICE PROMISED. Every Telephone-User Will Be Pro- vided With a Long-Distance Instrument. By the 1st of July, 1897, it 1s expected to bave in operation not only in this City but throughout the State a telephone sys- tem that will be in every sense of the word s competitor of the company now operat- ing in this field. The new company is already incorpor- ated, and on Saturday last applied for a franchise to construct and operate its pro- posed lines in this City. It is known as the People’s Mutual Telephone Company. Its directors are: James L. Crittenden, president; William H. Chapman, secre- J. T. McCrosson, F. W. Spencer and Reuben Tucker. Its capital stock is $5,- 000,000, divided into 50,000 shares of $100 each. In an intervtew yesterday President Crittenden spoke in detail of the plans of the company, which have much that is cl and enterprising to commend them he public. He said: company has been at %ork for some time obtaining contracts from peo- ple who propose to use 1ts instruments, nd has already over 1500 in this City one. Itintends to putin none butlong- distance telephones; that is, instruments that can be used for service outside the City as within the City, so that every one | who has one of our telephones will be able to communicate with any part of the State. “Every part of our system will be con- ted of only the best material obtain- and the instruments will be of the atest designs, including many im- vements not 1n use on the present sys: Our rates will be $3 a month for rental | ch, but spe. contracts will be made by which the | Jarge for switching will niot exceed 1 cent | per switch. iree telephone will be | placed in every principal City and County, | State and Federal office in and in the State Capitol at Sacramento. | **Our rates for telephoning between the | different points in tue State will be abonti 50 per cent of the rates now being charged, | and our service in all respects will be kept | up to the highest state of efficiency, with | the idea of obviating all cause com- t. One of the most in.portant features of our plan is that every effort is being made to interest in this company sll users of telephones by donating to and distribut- | ing among them shires of the capital stock free of cost, so as to make this tele- phone company not only a mutaal but a Cco-operative institution and enterprise, in managemens and control of which | ¢ telephone user will have a voice. h person who signs ontract for the of a telephone of this company will be | use entitled to from one to five shares of fully paid-up stock of the company, according to the duration of his contract for the use of one of the company’s telephones, and such stock will not be assessable. Twenty thousand shares, or $2,000,000 worth of stock, have been set aside for this part of the plan, the object being to secure per- manent subscribers, for no compromise or settlement with the Pacific Bell Telephone Company will be made by this company, and it will under no circumstances sell ¢ dispose of any of its rights or contracts and wili continne to be an active opposi- tion telephone company. “Our reason for asking intending sub- scribers to sign contracts is that this oppo- sition company has to meet one of the most powerful moneyed monopolies in the world, and we can only hope for success by making the actual users of our | telephones interested in the profits of the company, as we do by donating to them shares of the stock in the manner described. The plan cf securing contracts is the only wise and prudent one open to this company, for no business man and no man of sense would invest and expend $1,000,000 to introduce an opposition tele- phone system against the powerful Pacific Bell Telephone monopoly upoa the mere promise on the part of users. of the tele- phone that they will use his telephone after it has been introduced. “We have not yet begun construction on any part of our system, having delayea doing so until we were assured of sufficient support to warrant us in going ahead. This we consider we now almost have, and have therefore applied for the franchise in | this City.. The lines of the company throughout the State can be constructed | without any franchise, and satisfactory ar- rangements will be made with all opposi- tion telephone companies in every city and town of this State. As soon asthe jranchise is granted by the Supervisors of this City, and we secure contracts witha majority of the telephone users in this City, forty or fifty working parties will be put to work in the City and throughout the State. E “In order to encourage the use of the telephone by the press of the State we shall make special rates for newspaper dispatches, and will endeavor to give a press service that will meet all the exact- ing requiremeuts of such an undertaking. Among other things we shall endeavor to give the papers almost direct connection with theircorrespondents, so that they can communicate with them atany time of the day or night. “*After the work of construction is begun the raipidizy with which it will be carried on will depend in part on the amount of support we receive from the users of tele- VOSEMITE STAGE DOOMEL Railway Men Say the New Line From Merced Will Have ' That Effect. Apparently Insignificant Traffic That Yielded Immmense Profits to Huntingten. The effect of the proposed railway be- tween Merced and the Yosemite Valley, when competition will have been begun with the Bouthern Pacific stage routes, was discussed by some railway men on the street yesterday. From the conversation it could pe gath- ered that the railroad men regarded lhel | capture is only a question of time. project of a line along the picturesque canyon of the Merced to the Yosemite as something that should have been thought of and carried into execution years ago. One of them, who was intimate with the Southern Pacific favorite methods, gave some reasons why this road was not built in past years. “"The Southern Pacific had too good s thing in their stage route,” he said, “to tkink of introducing anything like a branch road. Just imagine what they have been making on tourists! “To begin with, the fare round trip alone has been $55, and it will be $55 till this new road is built. The stage route has been taking about 2500 tourists a year into the valiey, so you may say that the total income in round numbers has been $150,000 for this apparently insignificant business alone. As many as 4000 tourists have gone into the valley over the Southern Pacific rail and stage lines in one season. That year the receipts were $220,- 000. In addition to all that the tourist has to pay jora sleeper to Berenda, and for meals on the way. In fact the general public has no idea of the amount of money that has been in this business. 4 “I believe that when tbis new road is finished, travel to the Yosemite will in- crease tenfold. Then the Southern Pa- cific may close its Berenda branch, sell its stages, and quit selling tickets to the val- ley, and Sam Miller will have to mourn an occupation gone. It will be like the passenger business to Portland nowadays; people will travel on the Merced River Railroad as they are now going north by the steamers.” Mr. Wulkop, the promoter of the new line and a member of its board of direct- ors, corroborated the railway agent, saying: *“We have gone into this question carefully, and I can say that the number of yearly visitors to the Yosemite by the stage route exclusively averages between 2500 and 4000. We intend to have all that number for a certainty and thou- sands more at a greatly reduced cost. They can leave San Francisco late in the evening and awake next morning amid the beautiful mountain scenery of the Merced Canyon, which 1s analogous to that of the valley itself.” BURGLARS STILL BUSY, Several More Residences in the * Western Addition Are Entered. The Police Suspect Two Ex-Convicts Who Are Working as Potato Peddlers. Two burglars who are operating 1n the Western Addition are giving the police considerable trouble. Men have been spec detailed to capture them, but so far they have been unsuccessful, and re- ports of burglaries keep coming in to | police headquarters. Yesterday morning Joseph Arriheim, 1227 Ellis street, reported to the police that his house had been entered on Saturday t and a gold wateh and varions | articles of jewelry and silverware had been tolen, including most of their marriage presents. The family left the houseat 6 o’clock, and did not return until shortly before midnight. The rear door had been forced open with a “jimmy” and every room had been ransacked for money or jewelry. The bureau arawers in _all the bedrooms had been searched, and the burglars did not take time to replace the contents but left them scattered about on the floors. About 7 o'clock two men were seen loitering in front of the house. One rang the doorbell two or three times and then they were seen to go away. The pre- sumption is they had returned in a few moments and broke into the house from the rear. The police believe they are the same two potato peddlers who broke into the house of Mrs. Miller, 715 O'Farrell street, on Saturday morning while she was at church and stole several hundred dollars’ worth of jewelry. - The police have been furnished with a good description of the two men, and their They are supposed to be two crooks who have recently been discharged from San Quen- tin_and are commitiing the burglaries under the guise of potato peddlers. Among the other burglaries reported to the police within the past few days besides the two referred to was one at the house 1036 Sacramento street and another at the residence of J. Russ on Mason street, near Jackson. Both of these places were entered while the families were temporarily ab- sent, and valuable jewelry was carried off. The lady at 1036 Sacramento street was so frightened by another probable visit from the burglars that in two - days afterward she removed to another locality. SALVATIONISTS ~ SERENE. Are Not Disturbed by the Recent Demonstration in New York City. The Monster Welcome Meeting to General Booth in the Crystal Palace, London. The demonstration in honor of ex-Com- mander and Mrs. Booth in Cooper Union on Sunday night does not appear to have had any effect on the officers and soldiers of the Salvation Army in this City. They are all at their several posts, and do not seem to manifest any desire to want to join the new movement. “I have no idea what the extent of the new movement will be,” said Major Halpin, editor of the War Cry, last even- ing, *‘and up to a iate hour we have not re- ceived any advices from New York. I do not understand how ex-Commander Booth car be anything but a Salvation Army warrior; born and raised in the army, he is full of its teachings, ana it seems im- possible for him to be anything but one of the Salvation Army. “Through his private secretary came the announcement that he and his wife would retire from the army and devote them- selves to evangelical work, but I do not think they will do that. ‘“The great struggle for supremacy will take place in New York City, and the ad- vance of any movement looking toward organization of a- separate body can be checked there. The forces.in the United States will bs guided by that. “*On the 16th General Booth, who was absent in India at the time of the trouble, will be present in the Crystal Palace, where a monster welcome meeting will be held, and it is probabie that a commission of inquiry will be appointed to hear the statements of both sides and make a re- port. There has been a request that we suspend juagment on this matter for.a while, and our people here are doing so. “Itisa little strange,” said the major, after going over the recent troubles, “‘that ex-Commander Booth and his wife should have said, as the published reports have it, that they continued jn the army untii the Lord told them to discontinue, and that warning from the Lord should come just at the time the ex-commander re- ceived notice ‘to farewell.’ He ought to have obeyed the farewell request and shown obedience to his superiors, as he expected us to obey him when he was in command.” —————— There are now in the diocese of Liver- pool 17 Sunday-school associations, 308 scuools, 6634 teachers and 103,324 scholars. ANOTHER FORGERY N THE FIFTH, More History of Mahoney's Snap Saturday Night Meeting,. VOTED FOR JOHN MARTIN Another Meeting of the State Central Committee Seems Certain. MUCH REMAINS TO BE DONE. Leading Republicans See the Only Wise and Certain Way to Har- mony and Success. . H. Mahoney. W. S. Russell. John G. Tyrrell, Worth. Gustav Melsing, proxy forged. John Martin, proxy forged. proxy to Frank These were the five votes by whicha Congressional committee for the Fourth District was alleged to have been created a week ago iast Saturday at the snap meet- ing held in Senator Mahoney’s rooms in the Baldwin Hotel. The list now contains two forged proxies, John Martin, the member of the State Central Committee from the Forty-fifth Assembly District, was not at the meeting, and the voting of bis proxy was simply another shameless political trick of the sort familiar to Jerry Mahoney and Martin Kelly, who have had'the practical working of things locally in behalf of the railroad interests. Last evening John Martin made oath to the following affidavit: State of California, City and County of San Francisco.§ 5% John Mertin, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is a duly accredited, regular and acting member of the Republican State Central Committee from the Forty-fifth Assembly Dis- trict, which said district is within and forms a part of the Fourth Congressional District of the State of California, and that he was such committeeman frior to and on the 29th day of February, 1896, That on ihe evening of said last-mentioned day certain members of the said Stat> Central Commiitee from the said Fourth Congressional District met, as affiant is informed, in a room in the Baldwin Hotel, in the City of San Fran- cisco; that affiant was not piesent at said meeting in said room,either in person or by v; that affiant is informed thatat said g some person claimed and assumed to act, speak and vote for and on behalf of affiant, and did vote, act and speak for said afliant, claiming written authority from affiant so 0 do; that affiant never at any time or times gave his proxy in writing or otherwise to any person or persons to vote his name or 1o speak oract for him, said affiant,at said meeting; that if any writing or paper was presented by of & 3 signature to said paper was forged. JoHN Subseribed and sworn to before day of March, 1896. JUSTIN GATES, Notary public to and for the City and County of San Francisco, State of California. At the snap meeting in question there were present in person the following mem- bers of the State Central Committee from the ¥ourth District: Twenty-eighth Assem- bly District, W. S. Russell; thirtieth, I 8. Cohn; Thirty-first, William Smadeke; Thirty-second, Thomas C. Duff; Forty- third, J. H. Mahoney; Forty-fourth, A. Ruef. E. C. Hughes, representing the Forty- second district, was absent and sent no roxy. Jake Shaen was called in by Mahoney, given a piece of paper, which he was told was Melsing’s proxy, and he pro- ceeded to vote the programme according to orders. On Monday he discovered the situation and vigorously declared he was the 1nnocent victim of a trick. County Clerk Curry held the proxy of H. Sum- mers of the Thirty-third, who was ill in bed. Frank D. Worth represented John G. Tyrrell of the Thirty-ninth, and an alleged proxy of John Martin of the Forty- fiith was in Jerry Mahoney’s possession. The meeting hurriedly called at night went in spite of vigorous protests by Messrs. Duff, Curry and one or two others that the meeting was a snap proceeding; that no due notice had been given, and that a programme was sought to be :ushed through without necessity for hasty action and without due opportunity for deliberation. Ten districts were represented. Six only of the eleven districts were represented by members of the State committee them- selves. The notice to Thomas C. Duff had been sent to his house at9:30 p. m., and it was by accident that he heard of the meet. ing. With two forged proxies and with one legitimate one Mahoney and Kelly were sure of controlling the meeting. Mahoney had his list of committeemen ready. The committee was created by the votes of two of the eleven members of the State Cen- tral Committee, Messrs. Mahoney and Russell, aided by the proxy held by Frank Worth, and the two proxies forged for the occasion. A. Ruef, who was unanimously electea chairman, did not vote. The votes against the appointment of Senator Mahoney’s commitiee were those of I. 8. Cohn, Wil- liam Smadeke and_Thomas C. Duff, mem- bers of {he State Central Committee, and of C. F. Curry, representing H. Summers. That is the history of the snap Saturday night meeting held at 11 p. M. in Senator Mahoney’s rooms, at which Mahoney and Kelly sought to grab the control of ihe State and National interests of the Repub- lican party in the Fourth Congressional Dis(llncn and slip the victory to the rail- road. i The regular Congressional committee ap- pointed on Wednesday evening by seven affirmative votes stands in marked con- trast to the one created on the previous Saturday night. Itslegality and author- ity have been recognized by a majority of the Republicans interested in fairness and decency and in the suecess of the part; This committee proposes to act in h ‘mony with the principles and method bebalf of which John D. Spreckels has taken a bold and vigorousstand. It stands for regularity and fairness of method, the recognition of all elements of the party and the barmony and success of the party. The end of the present conflict between the two committees in the Fourth District as well as ot other conflicts presented by the local Republican situation did not ap- pear yeste: with clearness. There have been indications that several members of the committee created at Sena- tor Mahoney’s meeting would decline to have anything to do with a job so tainted with indecency. From the first General W. H. Dimond, who was willing to serve the party in any dignified, broad ana honest way, has declined to have anything to do with that committee. Other mem- bers are said to have about reached a similar decision since the methods of Ma- honey and Kelly have been exposed. How small the Mahoney Congressional com- mittee of seven will become through the conscience and sense of respectability resi- dent in its members, and how active Ma- honev and Keily will be in_ filling va- cancies thus caused, cannot just now be foretold. ‘The solution of this and all other per- plexing Republican difficulties appeared yesterday nowhere put in the proposition that the State Central Committee should bold another meeting, dg important things that it left undone and fake such authori- tative action in the interest of party har- mony as the independent and fair-minded judgment of the members might dictate. This was the most important topic of discussion among leading Republicans yesterday. Itdid not appearas afactional proposition. The good sense, if not the absolute necessity, of the step was recog- nized by a great number of leading Repub- licans of a variety of interests and affilia- tions. There were those who opposed it and those who doubtfully leane& either toward favor or opposition to the proposi- tion. However, the impetus which the idea had gaired since last Saturday seemed yesterday to give strong promise that this road to a settlement of the general tangle of affairs will be taken this week. There are many considerations in favor of another meeting of the State Central Committee. Important preliminary cam- paign work was left undone at the one- hour meeting of a week ago Saturday in Pioneer Hall. The Estee vote was declared the basis for the apportionment of dele- gates to the Congressioral conventions and to the State Convention, but no ap- portionment of delegates to the various counties was made, as has always been done and as it is proper to do to avoid mistakes and contentions. The call made no provisions for the nomination of Con- gressmen or electors. A new State Central Committee and other things were aban- doned to the future State convention to take voluntary action on. Tie recent meeting of the Kepublican State Central Committee was an unusual one in the brevity of its session, the single- ness of its work and, chiefly, in the fact that a programme constituting a complete innovation of the methods of Republican State politics was flashed unexpectedly on the meeting by the executive committee and accepted without discussion or clear understanding. Hardly a_dozen of the seventy-five members of the committee present had received any intimation of the nature of the call to be reported. An ad- journment was taken within a few minutes of the reading of the call. Misunderstand- ings as to what was to be the course of affairsin some particulars began in the hall and lasted there for a half hour, and they have increased since. The holding of an aggregation of Congressional conven- tions in this manner is a new thing and the way of doing was not well prepared peforehand in the Republican political system. The sending of delegates by elec- tion, appointment or otherwise was left to Congressional commitiees. Such things didn’t hap][)en to be in existence in_many districts. It was left to the State Central Committeemen from each district to create them, and to them supreme power was given. These State Central Com- mitteemen have found much troubie in performing this duty. It is a disputed and important question whether or not the members of the executive committee at large, appointed by M. M. Estee, have the right to participate in the election of Con- gressional committees. There are im- ortant tangles in the Third, Fourth and Pifth districts, and smaller ones elsewhere throughout the State. In this condition of affairs many leading Republicans see that the easiest, wisest surest way of straightening out things, effectinz harmonv in the party and crea- ting a situation that will insure party suc- cess, is to have the State Central Commit- tee meet again, do what it left undone in its one-hour session, and taking such fur- ther steps as the good sense and fair judg- ment of the majority may dictate. It is recognized that the State Central Commit- tee is now the supreme power. It 1sthe power that will be obeyed and the natural one to act at this juncture. The affairs of the Fifth District also await futuredevelopments. Thedelegates from Santa Clara County, 8. F. Ayerand J. B. O’Keefe, and George C. Ross of San Mateo County, now constitute a third fac- tion among the State Central Committee- men of the Fifth District. This faction shows a slight disposition to hold the bal- ance of power in the interest of the nomi- nation of a Congressman from down that way. Jim Rea of San Jose is credited with joining interests with them. The claim of Chairman P. B. Cornwall of aright to participate in the appoint- ment of the Congressional Committee is another element of uncerrainty in the situation. Whether or not the meeting at Redwood City next Thursday will beheld according to the adjournment of three mistaken members last Saturday also awaits the future. Other arrangements for the meeting will likely be effected. THEFE-ALIRM SYSTEM Changes to Be Made When the Central Station Is Moved to the City Hall. Dynamo Force Will Replace the Cell Batteries—A Special Telephone Line—The Old Bell. “It is Impossible to say at this time when this department will be told that the new quarters in the tall tower of the City Hall will be ready for us,’” said W. R. Hewitt, superintendent of the fire alarm and police telegraph system, yesterday, ‘‘but as soon as such notice is given I shall be ready to state what will be needed. “This year Ishall apply to the Super- visors for an appropriation of $25,000 for the expenses of the changes that will be made in the system, changes that the growth of the City demand for the better protection of property. In the new place, which will be Iitted up very much on the same lines as the present office, the battery of cells will be done away with and a dyn- amo will be used instead. There will be a change in the arrangement of circuits, some of which at this time are over- crowded. On some circuits there are thirty fire alarm stations, and there ought not to be more than ten or twelve. This great number of stations on one line has the effect of creating confusion with the tapper lines, which are indirectly con- nected with the stations. “The tappers, you understand, are the little instruments that give notice in the engine-houses that an alarm is being sent in, and they also give the number of the station. When two or more alarms are turned in at the same time from stations on one circuit there is & mixing of num- bers and loss of valuable time. By the use of a tapper an alarm is received at the engine-house a considerable time ahead of that Exven on the gongs and bells, *In the new office there wili be an inde- pendent telephone system in addition to the general system. Everything that can be will be done to improve the method of receiving and sending out alarms. The old station on Brenham place will be abane doned, but what will be done with the old bell on the tower I am unable to tell. If the Fire Department shouid be changed into a full paid one there would not be any further use for the big bells.” = . This old bell was imported from the East in the fifties for the Volunteer Fire De- partment.and placed on the top of the old City Hall, and for many years was struck by hand, the alarms_in.'those days being given by districts. The City was divided into twelye districts. and the bell-ringers stood watch in the tower, watching for strange smokes and unusual bright Hggln.s Wien these were located the bell-ringers, with a heavy sledgehammer, would an- niounce the district in which it was seen and the firemen would leave their houses and start off in search of the fire. When the telegraph alarm was introduced the bell-ringers were discontinued and the bell was struck b, electricity. The bell remained on the City Hall until the earth- quake of October, 1868, shook the old structure so badly that it had to be razed one story. ‘The central fire alarm station, which was in the upper story, Was re- moved to a mansard story built on the hall of the Exempts on Brenham place, and the bell was placed in a tower specially built for it and has been there ever since. m e (THE JUNTA' SEES THE SALT RIVER It Is Bumping on Rainey Rocks and the Danger Is Great. BUCKLEY IN WAR PAINT Vigorous Preparations for a Great Donnybrook Fair on Saturday. STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. A Practical Certainty of a Harmony Committee and an Open Primary. That the anti-Buckley Democratic Junta, now headed by Gavin McNab and W. P. Sullivan, is on the verge of complete disas- ter is plainly shown by the trend of Demo- cratic events and sentiment. For a long time after the split with Buckley in the old general committee Messrs. McNab, Popper, Sullivan and Braunhart proclaimed the certainty of the State Central Committee’s recognizing their organization as the regular party machine. Now that the meeting of the Democratic State Central Copmiftee next Saturday has drawn near it appeats certuin that the State Central Committee will do no such thing. It will not recognize the Buckley general committee as the regular machine either. It will clear the Democratic decks, as far as State politics are concerned, of Buckley, Ralney, Daggett, McNab and all the other ambi- tious factional elements now variously piaying their power against each other and against the middle and will order an oven primary for the whole party and ap- point a committee to boss it. That may in the end turn out to be a victory for the Ruckleyites, as they are strong, ably and completely organized under Buckley’s masterly direction, and they don’t want anything better to tackle than another good old-fashioned, rousing primary. The members of the State Central Com- mittee from the interior have very few of them any use for Chris Buckley, and they would go a good ways to keep him out of control and recognize a decent element worthy of recognition. But Sam Rainey is the one real great power in the Juntaand they don’t like the odor of him any better than that of his old partner. So what can a poor State Central Commit- tee do? The interests of the party must be looked after. If the Junta was composed entirely of good men like Gavin McNab it might get the works from the State Central Commit- tee. But the Junta isalready on the rocks and it may even go to picces at the first meeting of its new general committee called for Thursday evening. That depenas upon two questions. Has Sam Rainey general control of the organ- ization, and, if he has, will he consider it a wise political move to show his hand at that meeting by seating his friends in onel W, P. Sullivan for chairman? Back of Sam Rainey and associated with him is the Daggett strength. The Rainey-' Daggett strength is conceded to be danger- ously near a majority. Ed Lanigan con- trols forty or fifty votes in the new com- mittee and if he votes with Rainey the three elements will have their pleasure. Lanigan has lain low and nobody vet is certain where he stands. He is dickering and waiting. So the Thursday night meeting is fraugnt with fate for the Junta. There is s0 much factional feeling in the aggrega- tion of discordant elements that the meet- ing may develop a merry row. Every ef- fort is being made by McNab to avoid this and present a smooth front. 1f the Junta does not go to pieces in a general smash on Thursday evening, as it is in danger of doing unless concessions are made to the Rainey element, it will at least appear before the State Central Com- mittee on Saturday trying to cover up the Rainey-Daggett part of itself, and denying Sam Rainey with every breath. Thisis what is believed by a large number of leading Democrats to_be the thing that makesa recognition of the Junta machine by the State committee an impossibility. The State committee will not take power from Chris Buckley to feed Sam Rainey, and besides that a large element in the party i is opposed to John Daggett. Some oppose bim anvhow, and some because of his efforts to gain control in San Francisco politics through the useof Mint patronage. But on top of all this there are those who were long with the Junta whoare now repudiating it, because of the strength that Rainey has secured. Max Popper is in Los Angeles and will not return until Friday. He is intensely opposed to Rainey and before the primary declared that he would drop the move- ment of Rainey because too strong. It is will appear at the meeting of the State Central Committee and openly declare war on Ruiney. E. P. E. Troy of the Iroquois Club is another one of the Junta element that has repudiated it on Rainey’saccount. . The Buckleyites are piling up ammuai- tion and gefting ready for a vigorous fight. Judge Rober: Ferral 1s out hust- ling through the State, secing committee- men in favor of the harmony proposition mentioned. The State Central com- mitteemen are gettin, loaded up with pointers fram bogh sides. The Buckleyites take the stand that the Btate Central Committee has A nothing to do with the local situation, and that they wili make no appearance unless they are invited to come forward and be heard. But then the invitation will come early and they will early land in the middle of the fray with attoreeys like Judge Ferral, Peter ¥. Dunne, A.J.Clunie and other Democrats of party fame and prestige. Gavin McNab will’ make the sgeech of his life in “roasting” uckley, and as likely as not somebody will say something about Mr. McNab. The history of that adjournment sine die by Watkins and other events will be told, and there will be stacks of affidavits on local political bistory. The Buckleyites still declare that if the Junta should be officially recognized they will simply go right ahead and send their own delegation to the State Convention. Altogether the coming meeting of the State Central Com- mittee promises to become historic. The club presidents of the Buckley Gen- eral Committee held a meeting at the Occl- dental Club last evening in preparation for the meeting of the general committee which Chairman Joseph Rothschild has called for Wednesday evening at Odd Fel- lows’ Hall. At that meeting some action will be taken in anticipation of the State Central Committeo meeting. The Buckleyites will to-day open nent downtown quarters at 935 street. ————— .IN THE FORTY-FOURTH. The Maxwell Faction Declared War Last Night. The Maxwell faction of the; Forty-fourth District met as the District Club last even- ing and received an emphatic refusal from TMa- arket contesting delegations or by defeating Col- | said by some of Popper’s friends that he | Chairman Sullivan to accept their propo- sition for another open primary at which the ticket elected should be recognized. The club then finally declared war. The twenty-five delegates to the general com- mittee elected at the primary organized as follows: President, J. J. Degan vice-gruidem, Ry T Acres; recording secretary, T. J. Maxwell; cor- responding secretary, Albert Bear; treasurer, . Pilkington, Canvassing committee—Ed. Feeney, Thomas Foley, William Ortelli, George Ryan, J. W. Davids. General committee—G. Iaccheri, J.Fay Sr.. J. Bowen, J. J. Kitterman, M. Murphy, William Raubinger, S. Antonio, J. A. Spinetti, P. Mes- sini, J. Creber, Josegn Cassidy, William J. J.. t‘l\‘eek!. Frank Ormsby, James Riley, Louis Po- esta. This delegation will demand recognition of the general committee Thursday even- ing, and over the question the great fight of the meeting will oceur. The club adopted the following resolutions: WHEREAS, At & meeting of this club on Saturday evening, March 7, 1896, a resolution was adopted wmposmF to hold another pri- mary election for dele; committee from this district; and whereas, in & communication in writing from William P. Sullivan, chairman of the general committee, the proposal was rejected, thereby denying to the Democrats of the district their right to select their own representatives in the organi- zation of the party; now therefore be it Resolved, That we denounce the arbitrary conduct of William P.Suliivan as unfair, un- just and undemocratic; that he is assuming & Bowcr not vested in him by rule or law in the emocratic party ; and be it further Resolved, That we having exhausted every effort upon our part to harmonize the existing differences, we now appeal to the general committee of the Democeratic party to seat onur representatives, who were fairly and honestly elected on the evening of the 24th day of February, 1896, in which election both factions in the district were equally repre- sented in the appointment of election officers, Resolved, That this club, the regular Demo- cratic Club of the Forty-fourth Assembly Dis- trict, is opposed to bossism in all its forms, and will exercise every effort in our power to Pprevent any boss or set of bosses from gaining control of the Democratic varty of this City and County; and be it further Resolved, That our representatives elected to the general committee be and are hereby directed and instructed to carry out the said v:lshes and desires of this club in every in- | stance. 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