The evening times., 1896-12-02
The Lounger.

McCall. are much worked up over the
proposed contest over the gubernato-
rial chair. Gov. Robert Taylor, ''Fiddling
Bob has been awarded the office on the
face of the returns. but there are many
and among them Col. Mccall himself, who
believe his opponent to have been really
elected. However as the matter is to be
decided by the legislature. which was
elected at the same time as the governor.
there is scarcely any doubt as to the out
come.
Gov. Taylor's decision to 60 on the lecture
platform with his fiddle has aroused a
storm of adverse criticism, even among his
own people, for such a course is generally
thought to be below the dignity of one who
has once held the office of governor, and
upon whom that honor has again been con-
ferred. This may hurt him to some extent
1.-THE contest for the office, but not enough,
Col. Mccall believes, to cause him to lose it.
The talk of Gov. Taylor and his fiddle
brought TO mind the old story of how. when
ALI Taylor and Bob Taylor were both ca1-
didates for the office of governor, Bob
stunped the State with his violin and ever
since he is spoken of as having fiddled his
way into the office.
@ RESIDENT JORDAN, of Leland Stan
ford University, who is also mem
Der of the Bering Sea Commission,
is occupying rooms at the Arlington
The litigation with the Southern Pacific
Railway, which tied up the funds of the
university and forced it to close its doors
for some time last year, says President
Jordan, has now been settled for good and
all, and the institution, therefore. is as
sured of sufficient funds to at least keep it
going as long as is desired. Some of the
other funds, however. are mixed up in law
suits, and the unsettled state of affairs
I,DS oil he trv al nj
has rendered IL impossible to straighten
matters out.
But even as 1t is, the university has
every reason to feel proud of the work which
it is doing in the cause of higher educaticn
on the Pacific slope. Its students have
taken the highest prizes when they have
pursued further course OF studies at other
institutions, and those who have gone out
into the world have taken the highest rank
i'll the careers which they have chosen. The
applications for admission to the univer-
sity have been so numerous that it has been
found necessary to limit the entering
class each year to 400. The university
today has 1 100 students as many as the
University of Chicago, which is situated in
section twenty times as thickly popu-
lated.
With regard to the work of the Bering
Sea commission, President Jordan said that
the report is now in the hands of the Off
Gals, who are having it printed, after
which il will be given to the public. This,
he believes, will he done in two or three days
at the most. The reason for holding the
report back until it is printed and care
fully gone over is that the commission
wish to be sure that nothing should creep
into the report which would put them in
the wrong light or with which it is not yet
time to acquafnt the public.
The report treats of the present aspects
of the seal fishery question, and contains
the Recommendations Of the committee with
regard to the propagation and preservation
of the animal.
Besides the deductions which the commits
sion have made, it will also contain as much
aois essential of the data upon which the
deductions are based. The report as n
whole, President Jordan concluded will
make very instructive reading, and will
include much which is of profound interest
n the ppnaral Dublic