The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-29
DE YOUNG.
His Fight for the Senate BE.
gun.
He Calls on Stow, Burns and
Colonel Croker.
His Neck Would Gladly Bend to Receive the
Railroad Collar,

From the San Francisco Evening Post. January 81.
Mr.. M. a. de Young was very active yes
terday. On Saturday evening he arrived
from the East, where he basked in the
bright light of New York society. On
Sunday he took spin through the park to
take the sea air, to brace him for the work
of yesterday.
His first business was with w. w. Stow.
II has been reported that that fine old man,
Senator Hearst, is at the point OF death, and
the prospective vacant Senatorship is in
sight. For many years..Mr. de Young has
thrived upon abusing the railroad. and his
special object of attack has been w. ".
Stow, who, the public thinks, has something
to do with that organization. Time brings
sweet revenge. So when Mr.. de Young
climbed the steps to pay his respects and
solicit the aid of Mr.. Stow yesterday the
eyes of that elderly gentleman must have
twinkled with pleasure and his generous
heart must have beat a trifie faster.
But Mr.. de Young is man OF business
and affairs, and he allows no "reminiscences
to deter him from his purpose, and his fine
sense of humor does not pause to enjoy the
joke he makes of himself when there is an
affair Of moment on hand. So he came at
once to the point and asked Mr.. Stow
whether he, Mr.. de Young. could be elected
to the United States Senate in the event of
Hearsts death.
Il don't think you can" said Mr.. Stow,
with the blunt honesty with which he deals
with men.
why not?" Queried Mr.. de Young.
Mr. Stow tban 4,ia IN fo hie
caller the many reasons why he thought
it impossible for the proprietor of the
Chronicle to get himself elected to the
United States Senate. Mr.. Stow is said to
have deep regard for Senator Stanford,
and he must have remembered how Mr.
de Young jabbed Stanford in his paper
during the entire campaign OF last autumn
Mr.. Stow, too, has been accused of man.
aging politics for the railroad and putting
railroad men into offices-at least, the
paper Mr.. de Young owns says so-and
could it be possible that Mr.. de Young
would bend his neck gladly and permit
Mr.. Stow to buck lie the railroad collar
there? What grim humor Mr.. de Young
put him self in the position of being willing
to wear the railroad collar, but Stow re-
fused to buckle ii on.
Mr.. de Young left Mr.. Stow and sought
out the presence of the other political mag
nate. Colonel ID. NJ. Burns. He climbed the
steps TO Mr.. Burns Office and asked him to
support him for the United States Senate.
Now Mr.. Burns is one of the cleyereSt men
in California He is suave, reticent aud
diplomatic; but he is true as steel and had
given his pledge to another for the United
States Senatorship in the sad event OF Sena-
tor Hearsts death. So he had TO evade or
decline the honor of falling in the procession
behind Mr.. de Young's banner.
And fhpn what bannpna1 9 Tho nnhlin
will hardly believe it, but it is true. Mt.
de Young dispatched a note to Colonel G.
f. Croker, begging for an audience late in
the afternoon. MIR. Croker consented to
meet Mr.. de Young, and in the afternoon
the two came together. And what could
the two gentlemen say? MIR. de Young
went there to ask favor-that the railroad
support him for the United States Senate
| and on what terms? None other than
that his journals influence should be neu-
trail and that he should be neutral in rail-
road matters. In other words, he wanted
! the railroad collir buckled On his neck,
and he wanted to trot in the railroad
| procession to Washington. But strange to
| say, his request to be a railroad mon had to
| be refused by Colonel Croker, who is
| man who has high sease of political honor
| aud rectitude, and who had already made
! up his mind that in the deplorable event OF
Senator Hearst's death lie would favor an
other gentleman for the Office.
Although Mr.. de Young spent an active
day yesterday he did not accomplish much
in the line of his aspirations. He did hold
out the olive branch Of peace, however. to
the corporation he has SO thriftily abused
for years. But he is man of Infinite re-
sources, and who in this beautiful city will
say that he will net yet realize his ambition?