The morning call., 1893-01-05
HOLDS THE FIELD.
Stephen White Without
an Opponent.
JERE LYNCH WITHDRAWS
The San Franciscan Has a Conference
With the AngeIeno and Ac-
cepts the Inevitable.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

end, and every one is ready TO concede that
Steve White will be the next United States
Senator. This change from the belief that
there would surely be deadlock TO the
certainty that White has the fight won has
occurred within the last twenty-four hours.
Although Lynch has never been consid-
cred to be N the contest with even shadow
of chance of winning, still the fact that lie
had headquarters at the Golden Eagle
Hotel, and gave out that he proposed TO
make battle for the senatOrship, has led
many to belieye that ne really was a for
midable opponent
That is all over now, for Lynch has vir-
tually withdrawn. He was cl0seted with
White for two hours yesterday, and it is now
known that Lynch told White that he was
no longer in the fight. and the latter ex-
tended to him his friendship. Everything
was thus happily arranged, and the Los
Angelan's pathway to Washington seems to
have been relieved OF its last obstruction.
Lynch denies that this harmonious state of
affairs exists. but his manager and sole sup
porter, Senator Arnes, admits that his man
is no longer in the fight. and says that
White has got the battle won. Armes has
signed the call for caucus tomorrow
evening, and that really pledges him to vote
for White.
The call now only lacks four signatures,
and those are Senators Dunn and Mitchell
and Assemblymen Cusick and B9yce. all of
San Francisco. These men are not holding.
out because they are particularly opposed to
White. The true reason of their hesitancy
springs from the fact that they are nettled
at the manner in which the patronage was
distributed in San Francisco. They do not
feel that they have been treated rightly, and
it makes their Democratic blood boil to
think that the San Francisco bosses will
have the credit with White of having fur
Dished him with their four votes. THIS is
why they are rebelling.
There is no doubt, however, that when
the time comes these men viii walk to the
caucus like good Democrats and vote for
Steve White. Ii means political ostracism
to pursue any other course, and these four
men are not likely to take any such chances.
Senator ATmes went to the city yesterday
to look out for his division of the patronage
there but he got none and returned here
this morning, smiling like a philosopher.
He had barely set his foot inside the Golden
Eagle Hotel before the caucus call was pre-
sented to him. He signed it without MUIR
muir, and the dissatisfied four are expected
to follow his example before tomorrow
evening,
1t is now clear enough where White ex-
poets to get his votes from. He has sixty
votes with Burke. the Non-Partisan, who is
confidently relied upon to stand in when
the time comes, and Carlson, after giving
friend a complimentary vote, will. no doubt,
make up the sixty-one votes necessary TO
election.
This leaves the PopuIists in the unen-
viable position Of not being sought after.
Although they had firmly determined never
to yield to White, still it was pleasant for
them to know that they were wanted. The
sudden change of affairs has not heightened
their spirits, nor those of Gator. who cher
ished the hope at one time that some deal
could be made with the Republicans
whereby they would choose him for the
Senate in preference to White.
A rumor has been circulated OF late to
the effect that if ii became necessary the
southern Republicans would assist White
by absentng themselves from the conven-
ton rather than see any dicker made
whereby Mike de Young could win. One
or two of them have admitted that this Is
true. and even go so far as 10 say that they
would vote for White in preference to the
man who has done so much to wreck the
Republican party in this State.
Now that the Senatorial question Is vir-
tually settled, or will be after the caucus
tomorrow evening, the attention of both
houses will turn to matters Of legislation.
The complete serenity of affairs in the
House is marred, however, by the fact that
serious breach exists between the San
Francisco delegation and the country men,
bers. The city people feel very angry over
the very unequal distribution of patronage.
All of the choice places were given the
country and there is war ON account of 1t.
OF course the San Franciscans could have
saved themselves this loss as we'll as humi-
iation if they had gone about it right. They
are seventeen men strong, and that is
great power if it had been worked right,
but they were without capable manager
and as result those men. who are looked
upon by them as "hayseeds" outwitted and
outgeneraled them all around.
The Democrats in the House have made q
bad beginning by creating lot of new
positions in order to give places for their
needed friends. There are two extra as
sistant engrossing clerks. two assistant en-
rolling clerks, two assistant journal clerks
and one assistant sergeant-at-arms-more
than have ever been employed before. They
are employed at a cost of S54 day, or
1920 for the session.
Speaker Gould evidently had no hand in
this scheme to pilfer the public treasury,
for he has instructed the chairman ON the
Committee on Rules and Regulations to con-
solidate large number of the unimportant
committees. This action has already made
Gould unpopular In the lobby, and he is
scorched in very lively manner by the
gentry who had hoped for these extra
clerkships.
This action of the Democrats in the
House is in strange contrast with that of
the minority members Of that party in the
Senate. There the Democrats opposed
nearly every appointment that was made by
the Republicans as being entirely unneces-
sary. The Republicans of the Senate held
caucus this aftefnoon and determined
that no other positions should be created in
the Senate.
Dr. Noble Martin, who occupies seat in
the Senate, was in the Assembly twoyears
ago. he halls from Dutch Flat, and is
probably one of the most enthusiastic be-
levers in the glory of hydraulic mining that
ever lived. Senator Ostrom is farmer
and Is Of course opposed to slickens,
and for the past thirty years these
men, although of the same political
faith, have hated each other most cordially.
Since they have come together in the Sem
ate this time they have shaken hands,, and
unless OstIom says something derogatory
to hydraulic mining they will remain
friends.
DR.. Martin remarked to-day that two
years ago, when the Democratic minority
gave Ostrom the complimentary nomna-
tion for United States Senator, he hated
him SO he had to get up and 90 out of the
convention. He could not stomach the
idea Of voting for him. II was told after
returned home," he said, "that If had they
would have thrown my carcass into Bear
River to Join the sNckens that was covering