The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-21
HE MOULD "MAKE THINGS HUM"

:: n have a good mind to run for Railroad
Comm issiOner, myself"
And Adolph Sutro, the monarch of the
heights, the Nemesis on the trail of the
Southern Pacific (of Kentucky wheeled
suddenly around on the reddest spot in
the carpet in his Office yesterday after
neon; His keen eyes snapped brightly
=" Rlfd tine tremOr noticeable in his frame
was expressive Of the measures he would
take in such a contingency.
%.'Fye good mind 10 run FOR it myself,
be continued. ~ wouldn't care a snap to
. be Governor or Senator, but l would like
To be Railroad Commissioner fer just four
years and | would make them come to
their duty under the law.'
The chem" contemplated in Mr.. Sutro's
thoughts is the Southern Pacific, and his
utterances vera called forth after he had
been talking some time on the methods of
the company.
would l accept a nomination as Rail-
road Commissioner? Well. | don't say
that would; but I'd just like to be Rail
road Commissioner, that's alp
The lowered figure on the carpet had
twiniug tendrils running from the central
figure, and to Mr. Sutro it may have sug-
gested a likeness to ''the Southern Pacific
gave an emphatic stamp on what might
have been two of the teniacles OF the devil
fish, and then resumed the revolving-chai-
at his desk. There were hundreds and
hundreds of letters on his desk cCmpli-
mentiug him on the fight he was making
against the railroad, and urging him to
let the work go on.
Look at these" he said TO a reporter
70 TIM nd oira hot
I'd an interest the people Of the State are TAX
ing in this fight. and you can imagine also
=: whether or not Huntington is feeling bit
comfortable. 1t would be impossible for
me to answer a tenth Of these letters. and
80 l answer none. butitIs some satisfaction
tQ:seethem.
.,.'>;"By the way. have some private ad-
VICES from Washington, just received by
mail to-day" and Mr.. Sutro read:
We have already a good deal of reason
-: fet believing that it will be impossible for
Huntington to pass his bill at this session.
-: lie is here, however, and busy.
MIR. Russell Of the AttOrneY-GeneraPs
Office is bnsiIy engaged in preparing the
;suit against the Stanford, Croker and
Hopkins estates.
mir. Oiney. We firmly believe, really in-
tends TO do his whole duty to the United
Slatps in this matter"
- "rhere is Information in that letter"
said Mr.. Sutr0, as he carefully placed it
: away, shat l think viii be gladly re-
:. .ceiTed by the people of California, but no
matter how things look we propose to go
on with the fight and make it hotter every
: day.
az was very much pleased with the way
THE CALL reported our meeting at Me
trepOlitan Temple last night, and we have
now. 500 copies of this mornings issue.
: which will be marked and sent to the law
makers at Washington. We are having
- .Ienrinted loco copies of the argument of
Alfred a. Cohen made before Judge Dain-
= gerfeld in.1S76 in the case of the Central
Pacific Railroad Company VS.. Cohen.
which is a mastery arraignment Of Hunt
" ington. Wen send copies of that to the
Senators and Congressman at WASHINGTON
also. Furthermore, we are having printed
copies Of the report of the United States
commission to investigate the affairs OF
the Central Pacific, which will go the same
way"
r.. Regarding the placing in the field OF a
ticket the sole plank in its platform to be
death to the Southern Pacific, MIR. Sutro
said the plans had not been matured. lie
was confident, be said, that the Sacra-
mento- convention would formulate nc
such plank, while he was equally certain
the Democrats would
THE Republicans have never had such
a chance for success q twenty years." he
-. said, "as they have this time, if they will
only seize the opportunity. If they don't
e. they will be beaten, the people are Sc
:. In Oroughly aroused on this question"
1t is probable. from the conversation
that those interested in the fight against
the railroad will wait until after the Dem.
-ocratic convention has finished its labor
before any move of a political kind i;
made; and even should independent
action be resolved upon it is more thar
likely tbat candidates on all tickets may
Reimbursed
. At any rate. the Gght will be kept up
both here and in Washington, and NJ
stone Will be left unturned TO circumven
the ulans Of Huntington and defeat th,
funding bin Other meetings similar Il
the one at Metropolitan Temple will b'
: held. and liter allure of a nature reflectins
on the management of Southern Pacific
affairs will be distributed where it will d.
the most good.