Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-19
OUR STEVE STILL GAINING VOTES
Prominent Men Supporting the
Semi -TrOpic Statesman.
The Situation as Viewed by . San
Francisco Republican Paper.
FoOte so Far Has Little or No Strength.
White Way Ah.ad-SOme of the
Men Who Arc support
ing Him.

| The San Francisco Post OF Saturday
coptains the following article on the
senatorial fight:
There is lull in the senatorial fight
prior to the transferring of the scene Of
operations from this city to Sacramen-
| to. Meanwhile the Democrats claim
that they will control the legislature
and give figures showing that they will
have q majority of two on j,int ballot,
providing they secure the vote of those
Populists who were previously Demo
Gratis.
As the date of the meeting of the leg
islature approaches, the opinion
strengthens that the Populists will vote
as a party aud during theoper.ng weeks
Of the session refu.e to act as the ad
jnnct of either the Dsmocfaticor Repub-
lican 70 Gee. Il they assume such po-
sition it is hard to zee how q SENATOR
can be elected.
Thomas, V Gator, leader Of the Popu-
lists. is himself can idate, and it is
possible that he will hold his party to-
gether in the interests of the Republic
cans, aud ii he does go there Will be no
election by the legisla;urr, and the IL
lDS Oi tue faCnuty Will 10 lctt " Wv
ernor Msrkham.
One tning ia certain and that Ia thst
the only Democratic candidate who can
draw votes from the Popuists is Stephen
M. White. Two of the Assem- bly, mem
to White and endorsed by the Dem ,crats,
and 1t may be that they will throw their
influence to the southern Statesman.
xu,si hn itafn th h..
Democratic caucus and vote for him
there.
w. W. Foote has commenced the cir.
culation Of Campaign literature, and the
work has resulted in injecting little
life into his campaign; but hasnot, 60
far as can be learned. brought any votes
to his standard. TO etste the case ex
actly as it stapds, Mr. Foote has indeed
very few aesemblvmen and senators
pledged to him HIS campaign 10 in the
hands of William D. Eng'ish, Warren
English and Garrett w McEnerney.
The great trio are shrewd and ener-
getic and are exhausJing every expedi
ent to bolster up Foote'S fight A well
known and well-posted Democratic
friend of the AIams da man was seen
Yesterday and when asked his opinion
of the senatorial situation made the fol-
lowing statement:
"Foote'e managers have been laborng
for weeks in an tndeavor to secure
pledges from country mem hers, but go
far they have met wish very little sue
cess, for outside OF San Francisco they
have but two men upon whom they can
absolutely depend. One is Asse bly,
man limerick Of Contra Costa county
and the other is = gentleman from Ala
media.
'sThey have some. sort If claim on
Tindal of Mendocino, but he cannot be
surely counted on, as he was elected on
a White platform. and his constituency
ia strong for the man from Los Angeles
Tindal might as we'll retire from politics
if be persists in supporting Foote.
''In the San Francisco delegation the
only out aud ont Foote man is Assem-
blym Brownie, who is at present EN-
ployed in Golden Gate park.
1T is an astonishing fact, but one
none the lees true, and that is ii the
Democratic legislators Of this state were
to caucus on the senatorial proposition
today White would receive 10 votes for
every one cast for HE opponents"
Inquiry made about the hotels of
leading Democrats shows the drift of
sentiment. Senator Osirom OF Yuba
has been in town, and in conversation a
few days ago remarked that he is for
White.
Barney Murphy OF San Jose, chair
man OF the Fresno convention, was also
seen. He is taking no active part in
the fight, but fsvors White, and de-
clares that his brother is working zeal
ousl, for the Los Angeles man.
Shanahan, Matthews and Gould, the
three candidates for speaker of the as
sembly. have all gone on record as in
favor of White, and it appears that to
take any other position is equivalent to