The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-23
GEORGE c. PERKINS THE WINNER.

when it was won, men were slow to grasp
the situation.
1t was believed by many that the result
was only an advantage won in prelimin-
ary skirmish and that the real struggle
was to take place in joint session to-mor-
be taken, and more men pledged to Perkins
might fall down. This is not so. Having
received majority in either house, all that
remains for the Senate and the Assembly
to do is to meet in joint session at noon to-
morrow to hear the result declared. There
will not be another ballot.
The surprise is that the Perkins men
held so well together. Three men pledged
to his support broke away from their
pledges in the Assembly The Senators
all stood steadfast. Senator Androus of
Los Angeles was the only absentee from
either house, and serious illness alone kept
him away. The position of Speaker Lynch
of the Assembly is particularly unfortu-
nate one. He took the Perkins pledge,
was instructed by his county to keep it,
but allowed his personal animosity toward
the man who was elected to-day to in
fuence him to break it and shouted an i'm
pulsive "De Young" when his name was
reached on the rollcall.
Personally, Lynch has been popular
among the legislators. Heis good-natured,
obliging and has made many friends. To
one of these he said this afternoon that he
supposed he had committed political sui
eide. "You have, was the only consola-
ton he received. Then he spoke of the
uncertainty which now clouded his future
in half-interrogatory vein and received
the somewhat unfeeling response, "You
might try South Africa now"
If there are two men who are pre-emi-
nently happy tonight they are Colonel ].
P. Jackson, the private secretary of the
Senator, and w. B. Hamilton-it is Billy
Hamilton now, who managed the fight for
George G. Perkins. Hamilton shook hands
with John Deane in the lobby of the Golden
Eagle Hotel to-day and received the con-
gratulations of one of De Young's stanch-
est hackers. Frank NJ. Stone accompanied
De Young to the city. Julius Kahn, of all
the marshals for the defeated man, alone
remains here. He takes the defeat philo-
sophically and with good-nature.
There were three votes in the Assembly
which the Perkins people expected and
which they didn't get. One was Bassford
of Solano. He was at the Republican
caucus that pledged itself for Perkins, but
his name heads the list, of De Young's sup.
porters. Hall of Placer was instructed for
Perkins, but voted for Neff. Richards of
Stanislaus was not instructed, but he had
taken the trouble to write letter to Per-
kins, assuring him of his allegiance. He
voted for Bowers.
The case of Hall is explained by the
Perkins people as simply succumbing to
the unusual pressure that it is said was ex-
e-ted upon the weak MEMBERSHIP reach
ing for him through his friends and all the
other influences that most do reach man.
''Neff is of Placer, and he was candidate,
and Hall is from Placer, you see, and
there you are" It is not doubted that
Hall would have come over to Perkins later
had he had chance, but probably having
no idea that Perkins would be named on
the first ballot, he threw one in for Neff for
luck-and it proved bad luck, for it leaves
him with the fragments of broken pledge
upon his hands.
Bassford, it is said, was imposed upon.
A thousand rumors came up from Vaca-
vile to the effect that the farmers down
there were all cheering for De Young like
mad, and a telegram actually came to him
from the chairman of the Republican
County Committee telling him that the
committee wanted him to vote for De
Young. w. B. Hamilton has a telegram
from the chairman of that committee that
nothing of the kind was ever sent by him
to Bassford. So there is screw loose in
Bassford's affairs.
AS to Richards, the only explanation