The morning call., 1895-01-24

Clark thinks that he has as good chance
to bring one of the Democrats to his side
as the Democrats have to bring each other
into sweet accord.
The Commissioners met yesterday at 1
o'clock. the principal business before them
being the election of a secretary and a
bailiff. The applicants for the secretary
ship are: Samuel Newman of San Fran
cisco, John Marley of Santa Rosa, c. B.
Wakefield of Placerville, Herman de La
guna of Alameda, Mr.. Knox of Napa, c.
R. Presley of Santa Rosa, r. O. Cravens of
Sacramento and ]. V. Kelly.
As the case stands at present the fight is
between Newman, Marley and Kelly.
Newman is good Democrat, so Mr. STAN
ton says, and is a capable and highly es-
teemed man. He was nominated by Mr..
Stanton at a previous meeting, and the
nominator sticketh to his nominee
closer than brother. Up TO the pres
ent time Mr.. Stanton has positively de-
clined to heed the pleadings of Mr.. La
Rue, who is the nominator and champion
of John Marley. The latter is credited
with being just as good Democrat as Mr..
Newman and equally capable. Mr.. Mark
ley is from the First District, which is rep
resented by Mr.. La Rue, and that is another
powerful reason why the deadlock is SO
hard to open.
Yesterday two ballots were taken with
out change in the situation or result OF any
kind. Mr.. Stanton voted for Samuel New
man, Mr.. La Rue cast his ballot for John
Marley, and as matter of course Secre-
tary Kelly got the vote of Mr.. Clark.
L. II
said Mr.. La Rue, who is president of the
board. "We've been fooling along with
useless balloting long enough"
"That's what | think about it," returned
Mr.. Stanton. 81 am quite willing and
ready to end the matter with another bal
lot if you will vote for my candidate, Mr..
Newman"
"And | am willing to come to decision
at once if either or both of you will vote
for Mr.. Kelly" put III Mr.. Clark.
But the two Democrats only shook their
heads and for some moments glared at
each other in impressive silence. They
were i'll at ease. In the meantime Mr..
Clark sat easy in his chair and smiled a
barely perceptible smile under his mus
tache. 1t was evident that this Democratic
deadlock is source of much amusement
to him. He will not desert Secretary Kelly
because he considers him the best and
most efficient man for the place, inasmuch
as he is familiar with the work of the COM
mission and its duties, to say nothing of
the fact that he is a Republican of good
standing.
1t was finally agreed that the commission
should hold a session to-day at o'clock
for the purpose of casting few more bal
lots for secretary and if an agreement on
that official is reached they will also pro-
coed to elect a bailiff For the latter po-
sition there is at present only one appli-
cant, namely, George E. Ebert of Sacra.
mento.
One of the leading features of Yesterdays
session was lengthy letter, written by w.
P. Ink, president OF the Town Council of
Cloverdale, and addressed to the commits
sion by way of Mr.. La Rue. 1t is a serious
complaint and severe arraignment of the
San Francisco and North Pacific Coast
Railroad Company charging them with
extortion in freight and passenger rates
and discrimination as between competitive
and non-eompetitive points.
Mr.. Ink complains that discrimination
by the road has forced many in his section
TO the wall. He called attention to the
fact that $57 was charged on carload lots
from Chicago to San Francisco, and from
that point to Cloverdale, a distance of