Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-20
STANFORD ON ASSASSINATION.
What He Says About the Alleged Con-
spiracy.
From ire Ne,s York World.

Seated in his cosy apartment, the cheer
fulness Of which was enhanced by an
open CRATE fire, Senator Leland Stanford,
of California, looked anything but an OBJ
ject for band of assassins. Yet, accord
ing to a dispatch from San Francisco, he
was marked man by the "Socialistic
Revolutionary Association" whO,e
haunts were recently broken up by the
police of that city.
When asked by a reporter last night
what he knew OF the association and its
threats, Senator Stanford replied that his
only information was what he had CLEAN
ed from the newspapers. or course be
knew Of the existence of a band of Com
| munists in San Francisco, he be Was not
at all afraid Of them. Given a stout
walking stick, he would not hesitate TO
go about San Francisco at any time, in
the night or day. He had heard nothing
whatever beyond the dispatches in the at
ternoOn papers and did not suppose that
his friends at home would have
| any fears for his safety, for he was able
! to take care Of himself, IL necessary,
and be should pay no attention TO the So
| cialists. .5c
Congressman Morrow was seated in the
theatre last night with some friends when
he received from reporter his first init
nation that the assassins had him on
! their list.
He was not frightened in the least, but
rather amused. He did not know of the
| existence of the SocIalistic Revolutionary
Society and does not believe that their
designs are really very terrible. He is in
clined to believe that If the Socialists
mean to kill, 1t is everybody else they
mean to kill, and that the names on the
| prOscriptive list are the names of those
that are to be spared. He cannot see that
any one common charge could be made
| against all the gentlemen named, except
perhaps that they are all tOlerably re-
| spectacle people and love law and order.
/ They include both Democrats and Repub-
! licans, both mOnop0lists and anti-mOnOp-
! olisJs. Coleman is leading merchant.
He was at the head of the vigilance COM
| mittee, organized in 1855, to drive the
roughs from San Francisco. Gen. Barnes
is the distinguished lawyer who was Sem
ator Sharon's counsel in the divorce pro-
ceedings. Leland Stanford and Charles
Croker are railroad magnates and mil
liOnaires, and Gov. Stoneman is a Demo-
crat and an anti-monOpOlist.
Mr.. Morrow remembers that before be
| left San Francisco on Nov. "a, the Knights
of La Dor had Issued a notice inviting all
| reputable labor and trade organizations
| to send delegates to a convention to be
held on Nov. 30, to consider the best
/ means 10 mitigate the Chinese nuisance.
| The call stipulated that the delegates sent
1 should not he cranks or unreasonable adj
vOcates Of violence. The convention
was beld, but Mr.. Morrow had left for
| Washington and WAS not present. Mel
Their did any OF the other gentlemen
whose names are on the proscriptiye list
attend.
The advocates Of violence captured the
| convention and the men who are satisfied
TO have the Chinese trouble settled by
| legislation left. Mr. Warren suppOses
that this episode may have irriUated the
| Socialist Rev0lutlonists and Inspired
them with notions of killing, bnt why he
or any Of the gentlemen named should
have been marked he does not know. He
is inclined 10 believe that the society is q
harmless one. addicted only to discussing
assassination as purely academic ques-
tIon. lie believes that they, like a great
many other harmless terrorists, are more
deliberatlve than executive, and be does
not imagine that he will be assassinated,
although he has prepared bill and will
introduce IL in the House of Representa-
tives at the earliest opportunity, 10 ex-
clude the Chinese from this country
more thoroug hly than they are excluded
by the laws now in existence, but only
partially in force.