The record-union., 1896-01-20

funding bill. l know these gentlemen
who have offered this amendment to
the resolutions have the best of mo-
tives, but they are, without knowing
it, the best friends that Mr.. Huntington
has. You could not do anything that
would please Mr. Huntington better
than to adopt the amendment. Mr..
Huntington is a very shrewd man,
and I know from facts that have come
to me, and from other indications, that
he is very anxious to have resolution
passed here in favor of the Government
taking possession of and running these
roads And why? The people in the East.
the members and Senators from the
East, do not understand this question
as thoroughly as we do, and they are
generally opposed to the Government
taking hold of these roads and running
them. If we want to win our fight, let
US stick to the subject matter we are
fighting about
II now rule that the amendment is
out of order, under the call for this
convention, and the question now is
upon the adoption of the resolutions
as presented"
The vote then being taken on the re-
port of the committee it was adopted as
presented. Thereupon a delegate said
there was so much confusion that he
and others had not understood and he
begged to have the vote taken over.
The Mayor told him he was too late; he
should have been more attentive. The
Mayor remarked also: ''I understand
this question as we'll as any living man.
You people in favor of Government
ownership and control of railroads are
the best friends Mr.. Huntington has
got but you don't know it,"
This is where
DENNIS KEARNEY CAME IN.
His sense of parliamentary ethics was
wounded He arose and wanted to
know what had become of the lost
amendment Then followed the second
diversion of the weary afternoon. !. The
members did not appreciate Kearney's S
criticism and they made it a personal
matter with the relic of the sand lots.
The policemen approached from one
direction, and Mr.. Barry of the Star"
called him a most disreputable and
sinking animal"
Shortly after this episode, all record
of called meeting to replace what was
at first agreed to be a failure, was re-
moved by the declaration that the meet
ing had been a great success, and in
formally the Mayor was endowed with
authority to act in regard to future
meetings as his discretion might sug-
gest.
PERSONALITY OF DELEGATES.
The foregoing report indicates the
manner in which the convention did its
work. The reporter of the Record
Union had an excellent opportunity
after it was all over to hear members
and others in the lobby characterize
come of the chiefs. why" said one,
this is Sutro's convention. He is the
originator and boss of the whole outfit.
He the champion of the people? I re-
member that some of his private let
tiers were published a few months ago,
because he had gone back in some job
berry on a fellow that he was in pool
with. In one of those letters, he wrote:
We can't do anything with the bank
ers, they'll eat us up. But as I have
always told you
THE PUBLIC IS AN ASS
What is he working for do you sup
pose? He is in for Sutro, anyhow, and
don't you forget it. He's going to give
Ills SdIQ6AS W lIG PuDllC dAAd q pA6
free public library, too, with all his
mummies and whitewashed statuary
and things, but I'll bet you'll find he's
got strong-a steel cable on 'en."
An interested bystander spoke up:
"And how does he know SO much about
corruption in Congress? He was there
long enough to find out. Wonder if he
has ever accounted for missing Sutro
YTI.. 10 4
to slip into members overcoat pockets.
Anyhow that stock is all he had to
start with and now he has out of the
proceeds 1000 acres of land in the city
limits and the other fellows have got
the tunnel. I guess that's where his
friends kick comes in. He's champion
of the people; a fakir; when he has un-
loaded his real estate as he did his
tunnel maybe he won't be so patriotic" +"
Another speaker said: II wonder where
Charles Sumner is to-day. Has he got
| left? He toots for Sutro mostly What
a gall that chap has. 1 remember him
over in the sage brush. Why, that
Injun talked a Nevada Legislature out
of existence. They say John T. Doyle is
a natural a born kicker, and the only
way to subdue him is to let him have
| the best of you. I guess Stanford
wouldn't do that. You know the G. p.
bought the road from San Francisco to
| San Jose back in the early '70s, and
they say that because they did not take
| Doyle in with the other assets he's been
kicking ever since. Stanford, they say
| remarked to friend who was trying to
wiring him in: No. he amt the right
| kind of a man. But he's got more mis-
chief in him than goat. Guess some OF
| the railroad folks think now it would
| have been as well to let him into the
crib.
And then there is Bassett; he's
mighty cute with his old Pard Letters.
They are a good deal like the bloody
shirt, pretty stale, for he has worked
the stuff for all there is in it. But he
never kicked until they fired him.
| The disaffection was getting gen.
eral A delegate who did not like
Sutro's Reed-like style said: "They are
all kickers and l must be one myself
or else I could not have got in with
the crowd. Good Lord I suppose I'll
be classed with Estee from now on
How he does bob up and git in on move
ments He chased Dolly Warden first
then Dan Burns and now he has
! dropped into old Sutro's vest pocket
I am pretty sick. I'll not. congregate
with this outfit any more; but / guess
we've all climbed the pole SO high this
| time that it viii be our last rally any
how. The Mayors Secretary and that
respectable chestnut Fitch, and doctors
without patients and lawyers without
cases. 1 think we can trust Congress
after this. How much better have we
done than Dennis Kearney? I think he
is not so bad an animal after all. ]
couldn't feel much worse if / had been
/ kicked out ton on that nnint Of nrdar.