The herald., 1894-10-11
POLITICS IN SAN FRANCISCO,
Estee Is Losing Ground Very
Rapidly.
Features Of the Campaign as Seen
in the North.
The Fall Out Among the Bessss-Col.
Burns Said to Be Unhappy.
The Municipal Sit
uRtion.
Special correspondence Of the HERALD.

Special Correspondence of the HERALD.
SAN FRANcIsoo. Oct. 9.-"In my opin-
ion Morris M Estes will be the worst
beaten candidate ever known in the
political history of California" This
was the remark made by Joseph Good
man, the other day, and Mr.. Goodman
is gentleman who ie posted, and who
knows what he is talking about. He
formerly conducted the Virginia City
Enterprise where labored Mark Twain,
Arthur McEwen and coterie OF bril>
liant men. Mr.. Goodman has known
Mr.. Estee ever since he came to the
state, and has been a close observer of
the causes that lead up to political re-
eults in California.
The general consensus OF, opinion
among politicians here is that Estee is
beaten beyond any doubt. The result
is openly predicted on all sides, three
weeks before the day OF election, and
not only this. Nine men out ten will
give you reasons why Jameo III. Bcdd
will be the next governor of California.
IL ia astonishing to find 30 many peo-
pie who have read the signs of the
times and formed their ideas Ss to the
result OF the vote 80 far in advance of
the day when it Is to be cast.
Here in San Francisco Budd is going
to receive a vote that will beNilder the
Oldest inbabitant. He is recognized on
every hand in this city aS the one man
to olece in the gubernatorial chair, who
will turn the hose on in the Angeles
stables of the executive office and give
them thorough cleansing. The solid
business men, regardless of party, are
for him, because they know that he is
manly, upright. young, active and above
and beyond sordid. selfish influence of
any kind or character.
They are we'll aware that he will be
all that the title carries with it. No
corporation will dispense the favors of
the office. The pulp of the private
secretary will be thing OF the past.
Then there is all tho influence and
weight OF the Traffic association, which
is to be cast in his favor. This is big
item.
Here, though, is the strangest thing
of all. 1t has been said that when
thieves fall out honest men get their
due" The truth of this trite saying
will be exemplhed in this year of our
Lord 1894. In the city of San Francisco
there are IS assembly districts. In each
one of these districts there are at least
so men who have voted the Republican
ticket and who ere controlled by Messrs.
Crimmins and Kelley. These two
thrifty persons were completely elm,
mated by Boes Burns with the timely
assistance of Mr.. Buckley. The word
has been passed down the line to theee
husky boys - "Vote the Democratic
ticket straight" The object of this is
TO defeat not only the ticket Boss Burns
mas given the pu5licans of this city,
put the one he has given the state as
we'll. Thus it will be seen that good
government, rs represented by the
Democratic state ticket, is to receive q
material gift from an unexpected source
in tho metropolis. Boss dictation and
boss rule is to get black eye in its own
camp.
Arthur McEwen's Letter is not large in
size but it is rich in contents. II has a
sale in this city and the
fight that is being made by this able
journalist against that giant octopus-
the Southern Pacific railroad-is receiv-
ing the plaudits OF thousands. Mr.. Nc
Even proposes to continue the battle he
has inaugurated 10 the end. The Letter
has been placed upon sound basis and
eventually It will become an established
newspaper, to be issued each week, if
the plans OF its originator are carried
out. Mr.. McEwen Is a poor man but
there is not gold sufficient in the hands
of Messrs. Huntington and Crocker to
cause him to change the course he has
outlined. He proposes to continue to
protest against railroad domination of
the state.
No one is better posted on the condi-
tion of the Republican party in this
state today than Bose Burns. He re-
alizss, 80 it is said, that something
must pe done or all of his labors of the
past 10 months will count for nsught.
Unless the tide is etemmed the ticket
which he 30 carefully selected for the
Republicans OF California to vote for
will go down TO q defeat by the side Of
which Marathon was as nothing. He
ia a remarkable man. SSrewd, keen,
tireless and with countless and mex
haustiDe resources at his command, he
will put forth herculean efforts to elect
hie tools. This being the osse it be-
hooves all Democrats and lovers OF anti
boss, anti corporation rule, to keep up
the great fight that has been COM
menced.
Local politics in San Francisco are
nightly mixed. Everybody comedies
that where the partisans have en-
dorsed candidate from either of the
old parties, that candidate is certain to
win. But in come instances the non
parsiaans have failed TO endorse either
OF the candidates of the old parties
They have put up en- independent cam
dilate of their own. This makes O
three-cornered fight for q few Offices.
Take, for instsnce, the sheriff's Office,
one OF the most remunerative public
positions in the whole country. The
Repa ablicans, Democrats and non-parti-
sans all have candidates in the field,
and bets are offered freely that the
Democratic nominee is winner.
Wherever there is a three-cornered
fight on the county ticket, the Demo.
cratic candidate is marked for a winner
by those who ought TO know.
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A gentlemen who was formerly we'll
known in Los Angeles is now doing
politics, etc." in the metropolis. His
name is 4. Blennerhassett. formerly a