The herald., 1894-10-28
Mr., MASTERS AGAIN IN TOWN,
Colonel Burns Heeler Imparts
Some Information.
He Brings Orders to an Old Time
Politician.
He Discourses on Boss Burns' Efforts
to Beat the Australian Ballot.
His Plan to Do Up
Patton.


rounded by crowd OF local statesmen
in the back room OF North Main
street resort for gentlemen. Mr..
Masters had a lively jag on and
talked freely. The reporter joined
the group and was we'll repaid for
his time, as is evidenced by thu follow
ing gems of thought and scraps OF
political wisdom and late information
from Col. Dan Burns headquarters:
"Yer see." said Mr.. Master, Gas he
ordered the waiter to bring the gentle
men something to drink II was ex-
pectin' to do me work up in de city on
election day, but that letter de Examiner
got hold OF from de kernel to old man
Estee has just raised - in de executive
committee. When de kernel wants to
seEd some confidential word to de man
ayers in de country, he sends one of de
gang with typs-written letter, and no
signature to it. Dan is ratified for sure
and amt de same man he was
month ago. He has lost his head, and
do rest OF de committee knows it, but
de kernel puts up de dough and they
don't dare to open their yap.
when reported to Higgins at de
committee rooms he ordered me to tend
door. as they was agoing to have q
zecutive session, and de regular door
keeper being away with q message to
jim Campbell in Stockton, l fell in Just
at de nick of time to watch de door and
keep de newspaper sharpers away from de
keyhole. Say, you talk about being leary
when you've got the snakes. Why that
feeling is paradise to de way de kernel
feels about reporters. De gang Gays that
Dan will walk mile out of his way
rather than pass the Examiner Office.
King McManus told me that de kernel
was in his place fxin' up some business
about stuftin' de great register, when Al
Murphy came in to get drink, and Dan
nearly fell in a fit. 1t took two small
bottles to bring de color back to his face
and steady his nerves. You see, Al is
on to every deal in politics in de city
and has full swing i'll the Examiner.
But that executive meeting was
corker. De kernel he had de floor most
OF de time and was just giving de whole
crowd Hail Columbia for de way de cam
pain was agoin'. He WAS as ugly as
hell and played no favorites.
Yer see the transom was open l
could catch on to every word they said.
and it would fill book if could have
gut it all down. Higgins (de gang all
call him "Olly" Higgins) was explainin
to Dan dat The Estee letter DID not
amount to much and was letting the
kernel down easy when Mike de Young
Clipped in with de statement that Hig-
gins las a dummy if he thought so.
''Thst made Dan wild and he jumped
all over Mike and told him all that wor-
ried him wac de effect it might have on
his (Mike'e) scheme to double cross
Senator Perkins for de nomination for
de senate. He accused Mike OF being a
traitor for refusin to publish de Budd
letters fret. and forcing old man Mills
to write it up for de Post, which put
eveay body on to where it came from.
Dan said that it would have had 20
times de effect il de Chronicle had pub
lished it first, and that de committee
would have had dollars, as all de paper
would have run it as news and not forced
him to pay fer it by de line. De Post
killed it.
Then do circus opened in full
blast. Mike said de Chronicle was
a family paper and could not produce as
fact an article printed in a blackmailing
sheet like the Portland Mercury; de
editor had been arrested 20 times and
de paper fully killed. If de Post saw tit
to publish it he could reproduce it and
credit it to that paper, and the people
could draw their own conclusions.
Everybody got to talking at once, but
Dams voice was loudeBt, and he said
that De Young was a dandy to talk
about family journals with de record de
Chronicle had. Mike started to quit
de gang. but Oily Higgins grabbed him
and held him back for de sake of peace
and de state ticket.
Bert Worthington came in just then,
and let him into de private room and
dey all began whispering, and lost most
OF de chin music; but de kernel finally
broke out with curse and said it was a
good scheme anyhow, and that Mills was
doing de right thing to cut off de reve.
nue.. That was de only way to put de
gaff into an enemy. De HERALD was q
fighting McLachlan for congress and
giving de campaign committee and de
railroad q whole lot OF trouble. and be-
sides was raising de mischief wild Web.
ber and Lindley, who had come to de front
for McLachlan, and besides nominating
him went good for him to Bill Stowe
and Coils P. on de harbor question.
AS long as de Evening Express was
solid for de gang and Senator Carpenter
would stay down in Los Angeles and
manage de literary bureau it did not
make any difference to him what any
body said about de method of de cam
paign.
mike de Young and Higgins tried to
argue wild him. but he had his jag wild
him and wae as ugly as sin. He shut
'sm up wild de remark. That he owned
the buck hoard and hosses and dey could
get in and ride, but he would see 'em
all d. first before he would let 'em
drive. He was for Huntington and de
Southern Pacific and didn't care d.
what the public thought. That settled
the chin music and dey quit chewin' de
rag and went down stairs leaving de
kernel and Higgins to fight it out.
mike was muttering about getting
de double cross and giving de kernel
shake up all along de line for talking
and writing too much. After the silk
stocking bosses was gone de kernel
braced up on email bottle and sent for
de gang and fixed up de details about
de registration and de votin.
king McManus, Fat JACK C'Connor.
Mike Malone, Gimp Watson, One
eyed Wallace and whole raft OF board
ing house runners and dive keepers give
IN dere reports and the kernel got back
his good humor. and when dey was gone
ne told Higgins dat de gang and Bill
stowe was the only ones handling dis
campaignwhich had horse sense.
"De gang has got about 1000 votes all
liked for de kernel. and Higgins he's
gang OF clerks from de kernels business