The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16


| from his county, to whom he wrote on the
subject last week; but it is very doubtful
| if he can affect the votes of any others.
Though banker in an interior Kentucky
town, he is a man who commands respect,
! and people generally listen when he
| speaks.
Mr.. McHenry is very frank in saying
| that the repeal of the charter might be con-
strued as rejecting on the motives and &C
| ton of the incorporators. He is quite
| right about that, but quite wrong in sup
posing that there will be no reflection cast
| if there is no repeal. The best thing that
| he can do is to stand up for the honor of
| his dead fathers name in his position
that Henry D. McHenry was imposed
| upon, and was not Willingly party to the
| Infamous uses to which that charter has
| been put, and insist on the repeal of the
charter
| His idea that repeal might affect the
stock of the company and result in loss
| to the shareholders is evidently born from
are over 1000 such shareholders in the
| the statement of Mr.. Huntington that there
| Southern Pacific Company. most OF whom,
! it is inferred, have their all invested in that
stock and are dependent on the dividends
therefrom for victuas and clothes.
| John McHenry was born with sympa-
| thetic streak in his composition-not as
| thick as a vein of his coal, it is true, but
still it is there-and his anxiety about
those suffering stockholders is commend
able; but if he inherited any of said stock
| from his father his sneighbors can vouch
| for the fact that he has not had to build
any new vaults in his bank to hold those
| generous dividends, nor did Mr.
| Huntington send them to him in
a freightcar. 1t is not probable
that.his anxiety for those dependent stock
holders will keep Mr.. McHenry away from
| his bank long, and so the inhuman mon
sters who are planning to take the bread
| out of their mouths will have to be Kept in
| check by some one else. In fact, he does
! not go away with the elastic buoyancy OF
| bearing that man who has achieved a
| great philanthropic success should wear.
| He must have become discouraged, or may
be he got hold of some of Sutro's red-letter
| literature on the subject of the Southern
Pacific oppression, and has experienced
| change of heart and purpose.
The Frisco bureau OF education is doing
deal OF good IN showing the people Of
volved in this repeal BILL The members
| of the Legislature have all received full
share of printed matter, well got UP,
and many of them are reading all of it
very carefully, and from the opinions ex-
pressed 1t is evident that the missives have
been sent to some purpose.
The extracts from the Cotton letters are
a revelation-almos incredible to many
| of them-while to some they are power
| full warning. A Kentuckian who has got
as far up the political ladder as the
Legislature is likely to have an impression
on his inmost soul that there is nothing
that he cannot win if he keeps on, and he
| is not quite brave enough to relish the
idea of having 10 the years to come the
ADMINISTRATION of the estate of some OF
the parties interested, producing in court
any Frankfort "Coltou" letters in which
his name figured; and this repugnance is
going to make him very cautious, if he
| does it at all.
Rumor laid the paternity of the bastard
Stiglitz bill to several persons who have
been in Frankfort lately, but with little
reason, and in no case with less reason
than that of the Hon. Walter Evans Con-
| gresham from the Louisville district. Mr..
Evans has not been in Frankfort since
early in the session. and while he is ac-
uuainted with Stiglitz that fact is only adj
ditional proof that he did not have any
thing to do with his having charge of the
bill. Then, too, Walter Evans is con-
scientious. upright man. He is not inter
eSted, as attorney for Huntington or other
wise, in the fate of the measure and he
would lend himself to no trickery looking
to coupling its defeat and Hunters success
together. even though he is good Repub-
lican and strong partisan. He always
stavs within the limits of decency and
honesty.
Mr.. Stiglitz will have to foster-father
that bill himself until he is ready to tell
who is the real father. That he and Mr.
Freeman will nurse it carefully and guard
the secret as closely as possible is assured
but when they get around among the boys
in Louisville tonight and tomorrow Billy
is very apt to be questioned, and will mad
vertently drop a pointer that will be
picked up by some of the newspaper boys
down there and followed up to the end
Mr. Goebel has taken no notice of the
discourtesy put upon him by StigIitz's
action as yet, and it is presumed that he
will not. He is rather above being
affronted by Mr.. Stiglitz in that way.
Goebel is one of the best hands in the
whole Legislature at Saving wood with
out utterlng more than an occasional re-
mark, so whatever he thinks about the
Stiglitz "brat" and its foster-father he
knows that it is not any kin to his, and he
will watch it all the same and even put it
to sleep when the time comes. One baby
and one bill of the same name i'll the
House at the same time are quite enough
the Senator thinks.
Goebel and the others are dispos
ing of the open arguments of the
anti repealers very readily, but they
are at a disadvantage, having other duties
in hand, in having opposed to them 8
well-organized and wellhandled set O.
men of great experience in promoting OIL
thwarting legislation, as the case might
be, and who are working continually anc
only for the interests of their masters.