The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-15
COLONEL BURNS ANXIOUS.
tie TeIegraphs After Proxies, as
Country Members Protest.

Country Members Protest.
A very lively session of the Republican
State Central Committee will be held in
this city to-day. Colonel Dan Burns,
President Cornwall and their local ad-
beTents will have to face a storm of in
dienation from the country members, and
if there lie anything in the statements of
visiting statesmen the State committee
will be- rudely rent n twain.
Last night it was calm. save for an oc-
casional rumbling that predicted the COM
ing storm-very peaceful N comparison
with the row Of tie morrow. In the
downtown hotel corridors little groups Of
Republican politicians were gathered TO-
gether with an apparent common purpose
VIII oh each and every one of them had
very much at heart.
There were committeeman from South
ern California. from the San Joaquin and
Sacramento valleys and further north, who
had cone to tOwD TO attend the meeting.
Several local politicians kept them COM
pany and entered into conversation with
Intense interest upon the action of the
committee in trying sp cal pleadings be-
fore the Supreme Court
Now and again these groups would
break up, when some OIL the San Francisco
men would call a country committeeman
aside and lobby for his end of the fight,
so there was something reminiscent of
ante-cOnvanti0n nights about the MOTEL
Offices. Lobbying or arguing was carried
on with great earnesUness, though under
the breath, so that little more than an
Inference could be had from it, for the
politicians, with few exceptions, were close
as clans so far as their mouths were
concerned.
1--WE are going to have a hot time of it,"
remarked a country representative. 81
Ho1'f VVlgh n he nnote6 sc Ein0 al
this disagreeable affair, because it would
do me no good to be known In the position
of one opposed 10 the action taken upon
the San Francisco votes. But l am only
like many more members of the executive
committee when it comes down to a cues
ton of fair play all around.
"Colonel Dan Burns has bsen telegraph
Ing all over the State for proxies in order
TO get votes on his side at this meet
ing. guess he is rather nervous just now
at the prospects. But that can't accom-
plish very much after all.
1.-The country members ara here for the
uurpose of standing by the Republican
party first, last and all the time. Now
the Republican party needs no trickery.
II Estee was beaten fair and square, very
good. but it should go at that instead of
frying all sorts of lodges TO seat him. If
proxies are given in any mum ber-well.
that is simply playing into Burns hands,
van suppose we are going to have such
work continue? No. sir; and III be very
greatly astonished tomorrow II it does"
Judging from the unguarded expression
of opinlon heard last night. Colonel Burns
proxies, if presented at to-day.s session.
will fall like a bombshell in the State Gen.
trail Committee camp. and right on the
headquarters tent at that.
The colonel is DESTROYS of having all the
proxies he can get that the vOte on future
proceedings NAV go just as he pleases.
His hone is the Legislature, now that the
Supreme Court mas upset The committees
first step 10 knock Budd out, and for TINS
reason il is understood he desires the
proxies to vote in favor OF carrying the
fight into the Legislature.
But here again there are country men,
bers whose views on this procedure are not
quite clearly defined. and the outside men
who bad no voice in the Supreme Court
fasco may not be trifled with in their
present mood.
A member from Southern San Joaquin
and another from Alameda said they were
decidedly opposed to the action lin the
Supreme Court.
81 really do not think 1t the right thing
TO do to throw out several precincts, as
this action sought TO accomplish, without
counting the vote" SAID one of them.
RS"It was wrong thing for the committee