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16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1896. JUNTA MEN AND FIGHTS, Sam Braunhart Is Worried and Kicking the Traces. POPPER RESTLESS TO0O. At the Primary the “Push” Knifed Barclay Henley and Other “High Joints.” WHY PHELAN WAS SCRATCHED The Election Was Quiet Except in the Thirty-Fourth—The Vote and the Delegation. Samuel Braunhart is kicking up a civil war of his own in the Junta organization. His mutterings of discontent and his quietly made threats against McNab and Chairman Sullivan become outbursts of open war with increasing frequency. The other evening he went st Sullivan in hammer-and-tongs style at headquar- ters, ana charged McNab and Sullivan with being in a combination with Daggett and Rainey to run things. “That combination was made two weeks ago,” Braunhart declared in his wrath. He further declared that Daggett was ‘‘de- bauching the delegation.” The latter charge referred to the current efforts of that big Federal boss at the Mint to get doubtful delegates into the camp with Daggett, McNab and Rainey, gold and the adminis- tration programme. Max Popper was present taking a hand in the hot discussion, and he put in the declaration, “'If such a combination ex- ists McNab is responsible for it. He holds the key to the situation.” Popper’s friends say that he is as dis- gusted as is Braunhart with the way Me- Nab has let Daggett and Rainey secure control; that he says that be is mnot working to down Buckley that Rainey and Daggett may be built up, and that if such a combination tries to put through a programme at Sacramento he will de- nounce it in the convention. Nobody is certain whether Braunhart will kick over the traces at Sacramento or not, and Daggett, McNab and Sullivan, don’t care mucnh because they have turned nim down so completely that he can’t do much damage. He is not a aelegate him- self and the bunch of delegates he can in- fluence is small. Braunhart is a radical silver man and the organization he is 1n is so0 completely controiled by the Federal brigade that it will be nearly unanimous for what he opposes on principle. The silver votes} in the delegation are now variously estimated at from 12 to 30. Then Braunhart is at war with Daggett and Reiney. He has become suspicious of McNab’s programme. He thinks that McNab and the people with him will dump him completely after the State con- vention if they retain control of the ma- chine, and the gulf between him and Chairman Sullivan, whom Braunhart “discovered” originally, widens daily. There are many on Braunhart's side, and when the convention is over the in- ternal dissensions now rigorously sup- pressed will break out in all sorts of places. The Junta primary, between the hours of 7:30 and 10:30 o’clock last evening, was a quiet ratification in every district but the Thirty-fourth, which presented the only contest and the only hot time, Quite a little crowd could be seen about any of the polling-places, and the number of tickets that found their way-iuto the eighteen ballot-boxes by whatever process numbered about 3700. Z There Was considerable bitterness as well as heat in the contest in the Thirty-fourth, where a Daggett-Rainey ticket was run in opposition to the regular one. In this district the member of the campaign com- mittee is an anti-Dagzett man—Attorney R. L. Mann, who is in Judge Maguire’s law_office. His six nominees were: W. A. Beatty, John Heenan, Charles With- beck, R. L. Flood, Daniel Creed and D. L. Nesbit. The Daggett-Rainey people nominated Jobn T. Dowling, John Hammond, Henry T. Hastings, James Hawley and fienry C. Poetz. During tne progress of the primary one of the nominees on the ann ticket, Charles Withbeck, had his head laid open with a blackjack and he went to the Re- ceiving Hospital for repairs. 1t did not happen at the primary, and there are various opmnions as to whether it was a rrt of the district battle or not. Withbeck left the polls to make a trip up Capp street, and on that thoroughtare, some distance from °the voting place, he was suddenly struck from bebind ana left unconscious. Nothing was taken from him and the assailants are unknown. The result of the Thirty-fourth contest was not regomd at headquarters last night. 'he Twenty-eighth had promised a fierce contest, but the strong power oi the campaign committee squeiched it. The anti-Rainey element controlled the inside through Secretary John T. McGovern and Campaign Committeeman Tierney., The Rainey faction, led by Jack Welch and the Hayes ogle, intended to give battle, They held the rolls, which were known to be greatly stuffed in their interest, and de- fiantly disobeyed the order of the cam- paign committee to turn them in for purg- ing. %‘hln the campaign committee settied them by refusing to allow their nominees on the ticket and to count them if voted for. The Ralneyites took their medicine and quit and an old-time primary was avoided. One notable and interesting feature of this primary in the interest of pure poli- tics was the way the “high joints,” as the highly respectable leading men among those fifty-three delegates-at-large are termed. The “push” knifed the *“high NEW TO-DAY. For Children’s Skin scalp, and hair, nothing in the whole world is so cleansing, purifying, and beautifying as CUTICURA SOAP rest and sweetest for tollet, bath, and nursery. WFGI distresei 1s eru) , irritations of the scalp, dry, thin. and felling hair, red, rough bands, , joflammations, and simple baby Tashes and blemisbes, it is wonderful. the world. Sold. Sale than the com- all other ski Porrex D) "8~ * How to Purify and Besutify. Baby's Skin,” free. joints.” The way Barclay Henley got it was terrific. He was scratched more than any of the others in every district, and in the Thirty- second District, where 215 ballots went into the box, he was scratched on 214 of them. Of course this scratching was merely an expression of dislike. There being but one set of delegates, all were elected anyway. In the Thirty-nintb an old German pro- ceeded to inspect the ticket as he came up D. Phelan—a capitalist,” he said, with indigl:utiun, as his pencil made a vicious scratch. 2 “E. B. Pond—another—capitalist,” and there was another vigorous scratch. The voter didn’t get further than ‘‘james V. Coleman” and *‘George T. Marye’ until he scratched the wholedelegation at large for being in bad company anyway. The delegates and the number of votes cast by districts, as reported last evening, are as follows: Delegates-at-large—James D. Phelan, E. B. Pond, Barclay Henley, George T.Marye Jr., James V. Coleman, Eugene N Denman, M. Greenblatt, John ¥, W Biggy, Clitus Barbour; Jeremiah Lync! Richet, John Foley, Henry Fortmann, P. B. Boland, H. W. Rea, J. Donahue, Chris Reis, John J. Maguire, C. M. Chase, Marion Biggs, John Brickwedel, Jasper McDonald, W. J. Gleason, Osgood Putnam,.H. Brandenstein, G. Howard Thompson, Charles W. Reed. A. A. Watkins, Frank P. Hughes, T. J. Walsh, Dr. D. F Peul F.Kingston, Joseph M. Nou- Bourne, Michael Meagher, Isadore n, George B. McAllister, J.J. Mehegan, J. B. Kearney, T. M. Searey, P. J. Tomaity, Captain P, M. Delaney, L J. Hurley, John Mannix, M. J. McBrearty, P. H. McKenna, Joseph K. Hawkins. Twenty-eighth District—John F. McGovern, Jobn Jennings, John Murphy, Eugene Lacey. L. Hoey, M, Rodgers—233 votes. Twenty-ninth—Aug Tillmen, John _Allen, Paul E. Struck, Henry Sheehan, J. M. Strauss, J. Flannagan—389 votes. Thirtieth—George Fitzgerald, Charles Goet- gen, William H. Sullivan, John Heaney, Thomas McCreagh, E. J. Hannon—244 votes. Thirty-first—D. J. McCarthy, Bernard Me- Ardle, James Sharkey, J. B. Henrionelle, Chris Hilliard, Daniel R. Sullivan—247 votes: Thirty-second—T. Donovan, W. Aitken, I. W. | Cook, George McCall, T. Murphy, J. Leary—215 | votes. Tairty-third—John 0O’Donnell, Thomas E. Scully, J. Lehaney, H. M. Breen, Thomas F. Mitchell, John Holland. Thirty-fifth—F. J. O’Reilly, John Massey, N. Scheeline, John ady, Michael Curran, Thomas Brenuan—223 votes. Thirty-sixth—T. J. Lyons, B. H. Wieners, Hugh Jones, J. J. Riordan, Max Popper, James H. Carroll—226 votes. Thirty-seventh — Thomas J. Burke, W. J. Williams, R. G. Nunan, Edward Deady, James | Byroe, William Hanley—92 votes. Thirty-eighth—Thomas F. Clark, Thomas F. O'Brien, John P. Cully, Hugo Asher, C. A. Revnolds, E. A, Wettig—92 votes. Thirty-ninth—J. H. Doolittle, A. T. Vogel- | sang, Dr. J. W. O’Rourke, J. C. Bunner, Thomes P. Fenton, Jeremiah V. Coffey—183 | votes. Fortieth—M. C. Hassett, C.J. Sullivan, T. P. Riordan, Sydney Van Wyck, P.J. White, J.L. Franklin—167 votes. Forty-first—John F. Fitzpatrick, I W. Davis, Charles E. Mooser, Walter H. Levy, Sol H. Jacobs, John N. Mueh—453 votes. Forty-second—John D. O'Leary, Frank Con- lin, Frank McElrath. Martin Flaherty, John Murphy, George Brown—145 votes. Forty-third—0C. Luhn, William Abbott, H. A. Conrad, Samutl Pollock, H. R. Williar, S. B. Carleton—76 votes. Forty-fourth—C. J. Mogan, G. H.. Kendall, James Riley, John Lynch, John Feeney, Albert | Bear—275 votes. Forty-fifth—Gavin McNab, H. Sutliff, Peter McMahon, Isadore Townsend, J. H. M. Shet- terley, P. A, Finegan—228 votes. APUTHECARIES IN UNITY Annual Meeting of the Califor- nia College of Phar- mazy. To Inculcate a Spixit of Good Fellow- ship Among Its Members Its Object. The annual convocation of the Califor- nia Pharmacentical Society held its meet- ing at 113 Fulton street yesterday, with the following ofticers: S. Oberdeener, pres- ident; G. E. Bacon, first vice-president; | E. A. Bagot, second vice-president; G. J. Harvey, secretary, and C. A. Bayly, treas- urer. In addition to the regular members of the society & general invitation had been extended to all chémists who choose to at- tend. This had the effect of gathering to the meeting quite a large assembly of the representative men engaged in the drug business. | in consequence of the action taken at the last annual meeting one year ago, whereby the present officers were elected for a period of eighteen months instead of the customary one year, there was little im- portant business transacted other than a general discussion over the trade theme and the best way to protect the individ- uals who conduct small as well as large stores against capital encroachments on the part of persons engaged in the busi- ness who have cut prices, with no other object in view than to injure their less fortunate rivals who have to struggle against dull times and active competition. The object of the College of Pharmacy as set out in the constitution clearly de- ?nu what the society is organized for. t is: We regard the profession of pharmac: that demands kpnowledge, lki‘l’l and 1313':;&':: on the part of those engaged. in it. We desire to see & high standard of t}ul"flclflfln mein- tained among us, and believe that this can best be secured by the free communication ‘of such knowledge as each possesses, by associat- ing together for mutual improvement in our art, and by frequent conierences on matters pertaining thereto. We deem it eminently de- sirable that a fraternal feeling should always be manifested between our members, and that the most cordiel relations should exist be- tween the medical prozession and ourseives. To confer together at stated periods for & general gupervision of the drug business, for social and scientific culture, and for the pro- motion of harmony and friendliness among the members. To stimulate the younger members and ap- rrenneu 10 npmgex course of study, by giv- ing {ostructions by a series of lectures and praci demonstrations. This, if fulty carried out by all who are engaged in the apothecary business would, it 1s claimed by the members of the coliege, elevate the profession and be the means of securing a fair and legitimate line of busi- ness with the public. WILLIAM WASHINGTON MAIN. The Last Ceremonies Over a Worthy and Respected Pioneer. Laurel Hill Cemetery witnessed last Wednesday afternoon the interment of a respected pioneer and leading spirit in our mercantile community for the past forty-five years — William ‘Washington Main, The deceased, it will be remem- bered, met with a fatal accident in the store of Main & Winchester early last March, but the body has since then been lying in the cemetery receiving-vault, awaiting the arrival of one of the daugh- ters, Miss Alice L. Main, wno only reached the City last Monday after an extended visit to friends in Guatemala. The interment was of a strictly private nature, the ceremonies being perfornied by Rev. Dr. Elliott. Ex-Supervisor James . Burling and J. C. Fitzgeraid, publisher of the Silver Advocate, a son-in-law of the deceased, were among the principal mourners. —_—————— Tired of Politics. James J. Geary, who has efficiently filled the vosition of deputy clerk of the Justices’ Court ever since Clerk Williams was elected by the Justices, will no longer be scen behind the desk in the office, as his resignation to take effect on Monday next was placed in the hands of Mr. Williams several days ago, Mr. Geary leaves his present berth to accept a lucrative position in & prominent mercantile house. —————— ‘When Germany warred against France in 1880-71 she put 1,003,000 troops in the field. In the eame war the French em- ployed 710,000 men. FITZGERALD TO DAGGETT'S AID Denies That the Mint Fig- ures in Alameda County. W.W. FOOTE ON MEMORY Says the Prison Director Has Forgotten the Stockton Convention. F. J. MOFFITT IN THE RING Simply Support:mz His Friend to Down the M:m From Siskiyou. OARLAND OFFICE SAN FrANCISCO CALL, 908 Broadway, May 29. | More fuel was added to the Democratic fire to-night. Prison Director Fitzgerald took the field against W. W. Foote, and having read the latter’s opinion, expressed | himself in print in the following forcible language: “I have read Mr. Foote's red-eyed state- ment in régard to Mr. Laymance’s fight,” said Mr. Fitzgerald, *‘and it has interested me. I have never had any doubt of where Mr. Foote stood in this matter and never have had any doubt where he stood in anything in which Frank Moflitt took an active 1interest politically. This is the third or fourth time that Mr. Foote has seen fit to come to the rescue of Mr. Moffitt and those who are supporting him in politics in this county. “I notice that Mr, Foote, if correctly re- ported, frequently ‘antis’ 1 politics as in other things. If he will ‘anti’ just once more and say in sincerity that he is ‘anti- Moffitt,’ I will not call him, but as the case now stands with the record of the pastin Alameda County politics I am compelled to ask him to show his hand. Way did Mr. Foote come into this fizht at this time ‘red-eved?’ Merely to help Moffitt and English. I hav e never once stated to any person in the county or elsewhere that I wanted or desired amything further in this fight than to succeed over the Moffitt fac- tion. 1 siated to Mr. Foote that if he was a candidate to the National Convention I would help kim in any way that I could, providing he let Mr. Laymance and my- self fight this matter out in this county. “He has seen fit to refuse this and has declined to remain neutral on the flimsy excuse that Mr. Daggett is in this fight so far as Alameda County is concerned. I desire to say that directly or indirectly I have no combination whatever with Mr. Daggett; and I repeat what I have said before, that while he would be willing to do anythin feat Mr. Moffitt, that is as far as his in- terest goes. “Mr. Foote in past years has never missed an_opportunity to vote for Mr. Moffitt and against me in all political battles which nave been waged. On the other hand 1 have never failed under any circumstanc:s up to the present moment to vote for Mr. Foote when his interests were at stake. If the Democrats of Ala- | meda County do not desire to have Mofitt and the faction which has run the politics of this county for the last fifteen years re- main in contrel, now is their time to ex- press it. [ am merely carrying out the fight which I began some years ago, long before Mr. Daggett’s name was familiar to many in Alameda County. It issimply ridiculous and flimsy to give as an exam- ple that Mr. Daggett desires to control anything in this county. He does not, and if he does he cannot do so through me. *“1 had sincerely hoped in this matter that if Mr. Foote got into itat all he would with sincerity and honesty admit all the facts and state that he was with Mr. Moffitt and helping him to pull his chestnuts out of the fire. 1 have heard of no one who is opposed to Mr. Foote for the National Convention. He has found imaginary op- position in every direction and 1t appar- ently has made him ‘red-eyed.” I cannot help him being afraid of the ‘bogy man,’ but the truth about it is that he isin this fight because Moffitt and his faction saw absolute defeat unless Mr. Foote could %ull through. I do not think that Mr., oote is so big or so great that hecan afford to much longer carry Frank Moflitt in Alameda County.'” W. W. Foote was shown Mr. Fitzger- ald’s remarks just as he was registerin on the Democratic club roll in the Thi Ward. He madea few off-hand remarks to Frank J. Moffitt, and then suggested that e would like to answer it in his li- brary, “where he could tbink.” “When Mr. Fitzgerald says that I am in this fight for the purpose of helping Mr. Mofhitt to pull his chestnuts out of the fire he says that which is unquali- fiedly false, and he knows it,” said Mr. Foote. **Anybody who has a particle of an idea of the condition of affairs in this county knows that Fitzgerald cannot be sincere in a political fight, and he is not sincere now. Mr. Moffitt is not a candi- date, and he is in this_fight to help me and Mr. Laymance. Laymance has al- ways been loyal vo the party, has never received any reward, and I &m for him unequivocally, and Mr. Moffitt is with me. *I will pass over Mr. Fitzgerald’s ele- phantine aitempt to be funny, which is sunply a weakness and get down to facts. He says:*‘l have never failed under any circumstance up to the present time to vote for Mr. Foote when his interests were at stake.” He has evidently forgotten that two years ago when I was a candidate for the United States Senate he tendered me his support. As soon, however, asStephen M. WHite appeared on the scene, Fu:fiox- ald transferred his support and refused to 0 to Sacramento at all. “All the talk about Mr, Moffitt is simply a transparent attempt to bolster up a very weak case. Everybody knows and I know, because Daggett's secretary told me so, that Daggett and every employe ot the Mint that can be set to work is in the field against Laymance for the purpose of baving his defeat react on me. Fitzgerald knows this, and when he says that Dug- gett is not in the fight he says what any- body knows is false. Mr, Fitzgerald must be very short-sighted or else be a kinder- garten politician when he says ‘I am merely carrying out the fight which I be- gan some years ago, long before Mr. Dag- gett’s name was familiar to many in Ala- meda County.” “Mr. Fitzgerald has probably never heard of a certain Stockton Democratic Convention at which Mr. Daggett, then Lieutenant-Governor of this State, was read out of hLis party by a vote that was practically unanimous, and at which a Jarge majority of the Alameda delegation voted in favor of the resolution. Does that look as if Daggett's name was little known in this county ten years'ago? This is a struggle to see whether Daggett, through gerald, or Laymance shall control Democratic politics in Alameda County. Personally I nave no interest in this affair and would rather retire from E:lifie- entirely, but I do not propose to dictated to or misrepresented. Mr, Fitzgerald says he is not making the fight in conjunction with Daggett., This is false, for Mr. Daggett's secretary has he couid to assist me to de- | told me that Fitzgerald is one of the most frequent visitors to the Mint. “At a recent meeting of the County Committee Fitzgerald undertook to pre- vent my election 2s a delegate-at-large. Certainly that does not look as if he were for me. {Vhether 1am bigor great or any- thing else is not matter for discussion. We have facs to face. ‘“‘Mr. English and Mr. Moffitt have sup- Ki’“”" me loyally at all times, and so has Mr. Laymance, and I should be recreant in my friendship did I allow them to be dragged into the mire for Fitzgerald’s benefit. Without baving entered into an unholy alliance with Daegett and his Mint employes, without the aid of his Pprecious brother, also a State official, and without the help of that man Dam, who |* 'y the way owes me $254, for which 1 hold his note, his brother’s assistant, Robert Fitzgerald would not be a long-shot possi- bility, and would not be heard from. “1f he has ever tried to advance my in- terests I have failed to aiscover it. I deprecate a controversy, but I do not pro- pose that Fitzgerald shall makea state- ment intended to deceive without tearing the mask from it. He may consider m language ‘red-eyed,’ but when he says ‘it is simply ridiculous and flimsy to give as an example that Mr. Daggett desires to control anything in this county’ he but adds another ridiculous statement to the others that precede it. Whether having lost his memory or whether of the kinder- garten nature of politicians, he certainly does not know enough to teil the truth.” ‘‘Fitzgerald’s remarks do not surprise me.” said Frank J. Moffitt to-night. *“Their comparison with the truth is about the same as other statements Fitzgerald has made in the past. Iam nota candi- date and want nothing except the triumph of Mr. Foote. I am working for him be- cause I know how thoroughly Daggett’s employes are hustling in this county. This fight is twelve years old, and but for the help of Daggett at this time Fitzgerald would probably withdraw. All these sub- terfuges, such as the innendo that it is a fight between me and Fitzgerald, is too fihuzy to deceive anybody and does not, ut it shows the desperation into which their weakness has driven them. ““The struggle is between Foote and Dag- gett. Mr. Foote is backed by the com- munity and Daggett of Siskiyou by his lifetime ally, the railroad. 'If Senator Stanford had not rescued the Siskiyou miner from his political disgrace he would never again have been Leard from. Out of regard for the power that saved him he is now and has been since his resurrection trying to show his gratitude by attempting the defeat of the railroad’s old-time enemy, W. W. Foote.” \ BECEPTION 10 FOL Members ot the Press Club Meet the Famous Opera Singer. He Sings Several Songs and Greets Ugo Talbot—Many Prominent Persons Present. Signor A. J. Foli, the great opera-singer of London, who is known over the world as probably the greatest basso of his time, was given an informal reception at the Press Club last night. The signor re- mained two hours and a half. There was & large attendance, and the evening was a signally enjoyable one. The signor told stories for a time, giving strange experi- ences on the operatic stage in different countries. Among those present were: Barclay Henley, Otto Dobbertin, the sculptor, Superior Jud ge Sanderson, James Hamil- ton, Ugo Talbot and other notable peo- ple, members of the club and invited guests. Mr. Tatbot formerly sang in Europe in the same opera company with Signor Foli. He had not met him for seventeen years, when he said good-by to him in London. It was an occasion for rejoicing, and they reconnted such reminiscences as the time would permit. Signor Foli was pervailed on to sing. He had just come from a dinner, and saia be did ‘not feel in voice. Moreover, he said he had made it a rule of his life never to sing where there was smoke, and there was a good deal of smoke in the rooms. Why, the Duke of Edinburgh once asked me to sing at a smoker,”’ he said, “and 1 refused nim. It was a rule I felt that I must stick to.” Nevertheless the signor at length made an exception of it. He sang the “Bedounin Love Song,” receiving many enccres. Among the songs were ‘‘Over the Hills ‘Wher: the Sun is Low,” and applause deep and prolonged greeted him. Then Ugo Talbot sang, at the request of the signor and others, “La Donnae Mobile,”” from “Rigoletto.”” He also was repeatedly applaunded. R. Fletcher Til- ton of the Press Club Quartet was the ac- companist on the piano for both singers. The reception, though in every way infor- mal, was very enjoyablie to all present. e e e SUING FOR TIMBER. The Goverment Ch-r‘.l‘sullnvlllc Lumber Firms With Extensive Thefts of Yellow Pine. Assistant United States District Attor- ney Schlessinger filed a suit in the Circuit Court yesterday, in which the Government is made the plaintiff against the following ersons: Charies E, Bremner, William remner. Benjamin H. Leavitt, William Greehn, A. F. Dixon, Morris Asher, J. D. Asher, V. B. Woodsum and Charies H. Lawrence. The amount asked .for is $23,770 50. : The defendants in the action are mem- bers of the Bremner’s Mill Compsny of Susanviile, Lassen County, and they are charged with extensive timber frauds. It is alleged by the Government that the defendants unlawfully entered certain Gov- ernment lands, cutting therefrom 1654 yel- Jow pine trees, which were converted into lumber and sold as their property. The alleged peculations cover a period of time from December 24, 1887, to August, 1894. . THISTLE CLUB PICNIC. The Bcottish Soclety Arranges for an Outing on July 4. A meeting of the games committee of the San Francisco Scottish Thistle Club was held last evening, with W. Dawson in the chairand George W. Paterson recorder. It was decided that special invitations be issued to every arganization in the City. The committee desired that representa- tives from San Francisco and surrounding towns be present on the Fourth, as the wish the picnic this year to eclipse all former event«. The printing committee was instructed to lxet 10,000 programmes printed. t was uecidecf to hold two bicycle races for men, for which cash prizes will be given. There will be a two-mile and a one- mile scratch race, open to all comers. Professor McCarthy has been speciall: engaged to furnish the music for the Iris] j'g and reel Jdancing. Another exciting event will be the football dribbling race, for which valuable prizes will also be awarded. There will be a grand exhibi- tion of hornpipe dancing, open to all comers. The mile race and the obstruction race will be open to all co! this year. ————— A Lecture on Mexico. “In Mexico” is the subject of a lecture to be delivered at Mission Parlor Hall, Seventeenth street, next Friday evening, under the au- spices of Borromean Council No. 129, Y. M. L e lecturer, Paul B. Hay, is familiar with his subject, and 'will treat of the habits and condi- tion of the people. The discourse will be il- l'lilrr:ud with a large number of stereopticon W J. P, IRISH, T00, BLAZES AWAY, Says the War Issue Is Between Filth and Decency. “PRETENSES” OF FOOTE. Laymance Is Eloquently Roasted as a Perpetrator of Frauds, NO FEDERAL BRIGADE IN IT, “The Same Gang Has Bcbbed Up Every Year With the Appetite of a Cormorant.” The fiercest of the many battles that are keeping the Democratic party doubled up with the colic is the one being waged in Alameda County between the old factions which divided at the Stockton convention twelve years ago. The ambitions of W. W. Foote, M. J. Laymance and Prison Director ¥itzgerald, the control of the county machine, yearnings for revenge and hatreds are leading causes of the struggle. John P, Irish is one of the strongest forces at play. This is his ex- position of the situation as he gaveit toa CaLL reporter yesterday : “The party issue in Alameda County is not between Mr. Daggett and Mr. Foote. Foote and the special-contract Examiner sc pretend, but the pretense is false. The same issue would be there if Koote and Daggett were dead. “Mr. Foote's friends are bugling the sil- ver men to their side on the pretense that his defeat will be a disaster to silver, and I observe that Mr. Foote himself an- nounces that he must go to the State Con- vention in order to introduce anti-funding and anti-A. P. A. resolutions, as if the arty were in imminent danger of indors- ing the funding bill and the A. P. A, if Mr. Foote does not arrive 1n time! “All of these pretenses are made to cover the real issue in that county, which exists now and will next year and the pext, to infinity. It is an issue between fraud and fairness, between trickery and honesty, between filth and cleanness in politics, Mr. Fitzgerald represents fair- ness, honesty and cleannes, let who may represent their opposites. “Mr. Laymance’s honors have been self- procreative. Asa politician heis bi-sexual, and like the Egyvptian beetle, creates him- self out of himself. He 1s usually on the City, County and State committee, and has been the active promoter of every offense against fair play and decency that men dare commit 1n primary politics. One need not go back to the frands and crimes at his primaries in 1892, which began in a secret conspiracy and ended In a wide- jawed drunk to celebrate its victory, for his operations now are sufficiently in- structive. He desires to be a_ delegate to the National Convention, and is not re- strained by any motives of delicacy from working his candidacy from his vantage ground as chairman of the County Com- mittee. “There is good evidence that his first plan was to have the executive commitee of the County Committee, which he con- trols, appoint the county delegation 1o the State Convention. , The recent Republican revolution in the county against such busi- ness warned him and he called the whole committee to mest, ‘to select one delecate at large’ and to provide a primary for choosing the other thirty-four. Now, challenge his right to conclude in his call the activn of that committee. I defy Mr. Foote to show any autbority in Mr. Lay- mance to name the election of a delegate at large as a proper function of that com- mittee. Mr. Foote is himself the bene- ficiary of *this rascally usurpation. Not content with this, which wasaccomplished by the use of proxies, which are more than suspected to have been fraudulent, Mr. Laymance proceeded to subtract Mr. Koote from the quota of delegates allowed to the Third Ward, where he lives. I chal- lenge the record of the Rockrollers and thugs for an egnul outrage upon a constit- uency. Mr. Laymance without a shadow of right or authority arbitrarily denied to the Third Ward Democrats the right to elect one-half the deiegation, to which they are entitled! So raw isitthat [ am certain if it were contested the State Con- vention would restore its rights to that constituency and rebuke the impudent trick by which they were taken away. ‘‘Against these and a much longer cata- ]o%ue of frauds, offenses, usurpauons and indecencies Mr. Fitzgerald leads the party of my county, and I follow him. If Mr. Foote had chosen to lead in the same cause I would have as cheerfully followed him, but he did not. 3 “The injury done to the party there by the Lu{mnnce management is immeasur- able. Its aim has been to keep the party control small. without making it select. When the people got disgusted with Re- publican maladministration in the city and county the- Democracy should have been the beneficiary of the revolt, but Lay- mance and his abettors had deprived the party of public respect, to change to them was running from Fagin to fall into the hands of Bill Sykes, so the Populists and Non-Partisans became the beneficiaries of Republican revolt. We have in the county a Populist Treasurer, Sheriff and Assessor; in the city, a Populist Mayorand City At- torney and a Non-Partisan Council. That these officers are not all good Democrats is due solely to Mr. Laymance and the gang that supports him. “These elements make up the issue and none other. Mr. Foote’s anxiety about the railroad and the A. P. A. is unneces- sary and . pretentious. When the Enfi- lishes and Moffitt are put forward as ant: railroad men one has to_smile. When I ran for Congress the Examiner and the railroad Lolned hands to oppose me. When ‘Warren English ran Mr. Foote, the Exam- iner and the railrrod joined hands to sup- port him, ‘‘Since the vice-president of the South- ern Pacific is running for eléctor on an anti-funding platform Mr. Foote’s fear that the Democracy may indorse funding unless Laymance sets up a delegation as the fruit of unblushing chicanery is lu- dicrous. ‘‘Now, you will observe that there is no Federal brigade element in the fight on mance. A majority of the KFederal o hoiders in the county are against Fitzgerald and also against the President whose commission they carry. Country ostmasters have held back letters to Mr. itzgerald inclosing committee proxies which if delivered wouid nave likely pre- vented the insulting disfranchisement of the Third Ward to make Mr. Foore a del- egate, and I believe the rosul inspectors have some of these cases in hand. “‘The same gang has bobbed up every year with the appetite of a cormorant for every honorable place in the party and have ROt it by dishonorable means. ~ We want change, we want the groper ambitions of yourg men to have a chance, and we want all men inclined our way to feel that they may sit in a Democratic orgsnization panoplied in all their rights.” Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. NEW TO-DAY You Won’t Think, when you see the new policy issued by the Equitable Life Assurance Society, that it’s the best ever issued, You’ll Know ‘ It. % SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE: Crocker Building, Market, Montgomery | and Post Streets. | Outing Shirts. 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