The morning call., 1894-09-25
TO NAME CITY OFFICIALS.
Boss Burns Very Busy Issuing
Instructions.
ThRONGS AT HEADQUARTERS.
All Candidates Not on the Slate
VIII Be Advised to Absent
Themselves.

The scenes which preceded the Demo-
cratic State convention are being repeated
at the Baldwin Hotel. Politicians were as
thick as bees there Yesterday afternoon,
and Colonel Dan Burns was the lily about
which they swarmed.
The colonel entered the hotel Office about
2 O'Clock and stopped to talk moment or
two with a lady aDd gentleman before
going up to headquarters on the second
hoor. 1t was fatal pause. for the man
who owns the Republican party never sue
ceeded in getting upstairs at all during the
afternoon.
Politicians came in at all the doors, and
as soon as the colonel had finished his con-
versation they crowded around him. He
stood in the middle of the floor, shifting
uneasily from one foot to the other, aud
then sided along until he could get some
thing to lean against. The place-hunters
and workers whispered in his ears and
were dismissed as rapidly as possible, but
there were always others waiting.
King McManus finally had his turn. He
aud the boss must have arranged matters
to the satisfaction of McManus, for he
smiled radiantly, as only he can, as he re-
joined his friends al The close of the inter
view.
Rev. A. c. Hirst then held the colonel's
attention for long time. DR.. Hirst is
Identified with the NOn-Partisan move
ment and considerable interest was ex-
cit'd as to what the colonel could have
wanted to see him for. He talked very
confldentially to the minister about the
Republican convention. That much DR..
Hirst was willing to admit. but he said
afterward that he did not feel at liberty to
relate what the boss had told him. The
other men with whom Burns talked were
Repu blicans of all sorts and condi ions.
Some of them were delegates, who took
his orders and will do his bidding when
the convention meets.
Few new candidates we're announced
during tie day. Some of those who have
not yet been slated were standing about
with anxious faces. Joe King, formerly a
hotel runner for the Russ House and now
PROF rietor of a Kearny-street hotel, was
On land, looking after his aspirations
for Supervisor OF the First Ward. The
prOperty-owners of the ward know King
pretty well aud they want some other man
10 represent them in the board, but he has
been good Burns man all through the
campaign aud would DO doubt be valuable
in the future.
Mayor l.. K. Ebert was not In the lobby.
lie is one of the few men who doesn't
lave to go there 10 get r publican nomi-
nation. Burns has concluded to uomina ate
him without being asked, because he
thinks that the Non-Partisans will place
him at the head of their ticket and that by
putting him on the Republican ticket be
can get the support Of the independent
voters of the city. This is bitter pill for
the colonel. He doesn't like Mayor Ellerr.
but he Will nominate him no doubt if he
does have to eat little crow.
DE is in somewhat the same predica-
ment about John d. Siebe, who will run
Tor Assessor whether the boss says be may
or MT. Mr.. Siebe was at tue City Hail
yesterday, and was not in lie crowd that
hung upon the words of tie Republican
commander. He doesn't know whether
he will be nominated or not, and did not
display any anxiety on that score.
Ed Donnely of the Thirty-seventh Dis
trict, who was defeated at the recent dis
trict primary in his effort to control the
delegation 10 be selected, waited all of the
afternoon for an opportunity to make his
peace with Burns. At the Sacramento
convention Donnelly threw the votes of ten
Of the eleven delegates against the caudi-
dates favored by Burns, and his defeat in
his own district was the way Burns re.
venged himself.
Donnelly finally met Burns and the two
sat down on a window sill. They were
engaged in an earnest conversation for a
nu RI 0f N honr nd ha L
Burns suffered Donnelly to become one OF
his supporters.
James Alva Wait will most likely be
made the chairman of the Republican
municipal convention. 1t has been
rumored about that d. S. Dorm was an as
pirant for this honor against Mr.. Watt.
Speaking with reference to this report Mr.
Dorm said yesterday: Il am not a candi-
date for the chairmanship. Mr.. Watt is
my choice and ! have been working for
him to receive the honor for some time
rasi."
1t is now believed that Burns viii not
oppose Watts claim for the charmanship
though he was at first disposed TO object 10
II. At the Sacramento eonyentio Mr..
Watt seconded the nomination of Judge de
Ravens for the Supreme bench. thereby
giving umbrago TO Burns, but IL is be-
lieved that Burns has since condoped the
offense. 1t may be at the last moment
however, that the name of j. p. jackson
will be sprung upon the convention for
chairman.
Eugene Z. Bert declares that he retire d
months ago from the contest for District
Attorney and that the nomin alton will go
TO w. S. Barnes without doubt. ST shall
make the race for the Senatorial nomina-
ton in my district" SAID Mr.. Bert, "and
shall support, so far as my influence goes,
the nomination of Mr. Barnes for District
Attorney"
Asa Wells is spoken of as rival of L.
X. Ebert for the nomination of Mayor.
Matthew Arnold, superin endent of the
Union Iron Works. is regarded as slated
beyond doubt for the nomination for
Sheriff.
George E. Stoker's name will be pre-
sented for the nomination of Justice of
the Peace, and T. j. Murray is an aspirant
Tor the nomination for Police Judge
General w. Fl. Brown, formerly Harbor
Commissioner. dropped in at the Baldwin
and talked politics with Samuel Hilborp.
General Brown says he does not want any
nomination. He thi ks that James is a
weak candidate for Mayor ON the Demo-
cratic ticket. Hes no man for Mayor:
DO more fit for the place than am" he
said anonymously. ''For Mayor we
want man who can meet and entertain
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