The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-20
=.ESTEE IS SAFE.
Barnes Scared Him a
Little.
IT ALL DIED AWAY.
!. Nobody Else Is In the
!. .,=>. !: .... Race.
KNIGHT PUT IN THE CHAIR
Completes the Victory Gained by
Dan Burns.
!: :fiENsHAW BROKE THE SLATE.
The Alameda Delegates Did Not
:. Hesitate to Trade on Ju-
e diciaI Office.


Barnes had delivered himself of his much |
ta,ked-of speech at Turner Hall last night
there was more or less desultory talk about
organizing formidable opposition to the
: Estee boom. The "kickers" were sec
onded by Fred Greeley of Marysville and
Frank H Short of Fresno. The efforts of
these two men were limited upon by Gen
eral Barnes and his ambitious son, and
probably by some others who for other
than ambitious reasons objected to the
cut-and-dried progrsmming of Dan Burns.
The small fame of protest that was kin
died last evening burned still lore brightly
this morning when circulars were sen out
announcing a grand mass-meeting to take
place to-day at l o'clock in Turner Hall
The motives Of these opposing men were
;" undoubtedly the same that have governed
= and will govern politicians who have
striven for the attainment of an object and
. failed. Greeley has been in the State Sem
i: ate and was rated as something of states
+: man up around MarysYlle. Joining earn
.estEE in the Yuba belief that he was ent-
tiled TO some favor in the convention he
started a small boom for chairman, and
!: when death followed its briet and flicker.
!. ing, life he determined to kick" 1t was
! precisely the same with Short of Fresno.
+ At O'Clock. the hour set for the trouble
]. in. Turner Hall. there were perhaps 100
: delegates present who had drifted in to
: see The fun. They were disappointed, how
eIar bn Foilot
ITO show up. But Greeley was there, and,
responding to very gentle solicitation, he
amounted the platform and gave some
reasons why Estee should not be nomi-
N ated. He said that he did not object to
=the Napa man on personal grounds, but as
: a coed and true Republican he would have
:. .tooppose him, for he declared were he to
.be nominated fully 30 per cent of the Re-
=publicans of California would bolt the
ticket.
{ .''The Democrats" said Greeley, ''ars
going to put up man who is the peer of
every one in California. and so we have
got to nominate man who is his equal"
= :Mr. Greeley did not undertake to ex-
plain how that feat was to be accom-
!. plisheds and evidently failed to note the in
! consistency of the statement. The speaker
: finally closed his discourse by declaring
that he.didn't care much who was nomi-
mated so long as it wasn't Estee.
Short, the other aspiring chairman, did
not explain at all. and so when Greeey's
: PRO otesting voice died away the opposition
g.: -
" There is a biz Of sentiment in Dan
Burns persistent espousaI of Estee's
cause and it goes back to the time when
Burns fed 10 Honolulu to avoid any possi-
bic entanglements that might perchance
arise over the shortage in the Secretary of
States Office. While waiting for the
clouds to roll by in that far away country.
Estee proved himself a friend to Burns
and forwarded him money to return. He
also advised the absent one to come back
and face his trouble. Burns took his ad-
vice. and later when he reached San Fran.
cisco and the office of bis benefactor the
latter gave him words of encouragement
and good advice which he has never for
gotten.
dt was not many years afterward that
Burns discovered a bonanza In Mexico and
suddenly bloomed out as a millionaire.
There is ample proof that Burns never
forgot the kindness OF Estee.
:. Three years ago last winter he used all
of his influence to make him United States
Senator, but failed. Nothing daunted,
however, by one defeat he is now just as
determined to make him Governor.
! AS heretofore stated, the echoes of the
.comnotion created by the opposition to
Estee's gubernatorial aspirations died
: away this afternoon into sepulchral ST.
.; lence. The speech Of General Barnes, it
: cannot be denied, alarmed the forces of
:. the man from Napa. and during the early
part Of the day rumors of combinations
few about in inextricable confusion.
Estee himself was somewhat annoyed by
the assault Barnes made upon his record.
aad to the delegates he talked freely. He
occupies a little by room in the Golden
Eagle, which contains two beds. In one
Of them he sleeps and in the other he
lodges pair of weary delegates from
Napa. The room is scarcely large enough
to contain the dodgers, but from time to
time large numbers of the elect crowd
into it.
= Estee was not able to stand the pressure
very leng. and so about 10 o'clock he
turned.cut and took to the corridors be-
low: Here he discussed the issues raised
!: 0y: Barnes and expressed bis mind freely.