The morning call., 1894-06-19

. great sprucing up and Furnishing going
: on, and to-day, with well-paVed streets
Under foot and gay flags overhead, Sacra-
: mento is in great feather. The 5000 poll
:ticians who have flooded the city have
spent a sweltering day in standing around
tile lobbies and bars of the principal
hotels, guessing and grumbling. The
;. grum blers are not found among the dele
gates, but are confined to those who do not
@"berieye in inactive politics and do not hesi-
tate.to say So Many of them declare that
: sven old Bill Higgins never did anything
@quite*so raw as has been the work of
!: Burns, and no epitaph has ever been
: written credisiBg that departed boss with
! any great amount of delicacy when it came
to handling the machinery of a State con-
Yentton.
- The idea of making Governor and an
N ouucing him a week before the conven-
:: ton meets is not received with any great
amount Of cheerfulness by many of the
interior delegations, but notwithstanding
:tAe .murmur Of disapproval and the evil
=<depces Of discomfort it looks very much as
j. If -Estee would be nominated for Governor
= the first ballot. One strong reason for
: this belief is that there is no one man who
has :been mentioned who carries sufficient
weight to lead a formidable opposition.
While all the stories of discomfort are be-
ing carried about, Burns and his confiden-
:Itial men are calmly looking upon Estee's
fight as already won. They have figured
1T all out, they say, and the total comes out
,al right.
: There was enersl Burns hurrah all day,
and the men who advocate Estee for the
first place on the ticket certainly had the
:: best of the noise of the campaign. They
worked indefatigably, and they made a
:: shout that would have carried a general
: election that was based on sound. But it
will take more than sound to put through
this nomination. Esee is claimed to be
"a good man for the place, and D. NJ. Burns
:;seems confident that he will be nominated,
::but there Is dissatifed element which is
: likely to make trouble. 1t was first a
: :Cooinbs disaffection, then it was a Hart
kick, and then came the most obtrusive
obstacle of ALL the Barnes insurrection.
What the strength of all these conflicting
interests was could not be closely esti-
mated early in the day, because everybody
was figuring from different standpoint.
Mr.. Burns, for instance, WAS relying on
the statements be had received from men,
:. bersUf delegations. Early yesterday morn
ing ne stood in the Golden Eagle Hotel and
heard the counties read off to him by one
OIL his closest adherents. The colonel
: would say, THAT county is for Mr.. Estee,
because Mr. SO and so is a friend Of mine
: and he said that the delegation would be
solid for Estee." And so it went all down
the line. Colonel Burns had been told by
: some friend or some member of delega-
:. tion that it would go solidly for his man
and he seemed content TO rest on the as
= suraAce he had received in that desultory
! way. Some of the delegations he said he
;; was sure Of, Others he thought there would
<.be no trouble about, but it was evident
that up to yesterday afternoon there was
! no positive arrangement with many of the
counties which have been counted upon as
solid Es:ee delegations.
:: But all this did not change the colone's
con fdence. He said that he saw no rea-
son TO change his opinion, that he had 600
Votes for Estee to enter the convention
with, aAd that the nomination of his man
: " Guild be effected on the first ballot. But