The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-22
His Prediction Did Not Come
True, as Did That of
Mr.. Stow.
CONSERVATION OF MR.. BARRY
The Editor of the S ar Walked In
Unexpectedly Upon the Leaders
of the Fusion.

psst-in fact ever since the Senator
made a com bination with Thomas V.
Gator to elect Gator to the Senate at the
present session of the Legislature, in re-
turn for which favor Gator would throw
the Populist vote for White when Sena-
tor Whites turn should come round for
reelection.
1t is argued by those Democrats who
have lost faith in the Senator that no true
anti-monopoly man could assist in the
election of Gator to the United States Sem
ate as the choice of the Democratic and
Populist parties, or in fact as the choice
of any parties, as he could not be sincere
in his opposition to the funding bill.
Gators anti-monopoly is mistrusted
because he is believed to be an attorney
for the Southern Pacific Company. 1t has
been openly charged that when he was
prominent in the Nationalist movement
and denouncing the Spring Valley Water
corporation he went to the legal represen-
tative of that corporation and sought to be
appointed special counsel. 1t has been
charged al so that Gator denounced Judge
Mcguire when he was making his first
fight for Congress, and that he surrepti-
tiously supported the Southern Pacific
candidate.
AS late as last March Gator was en-
ployed by the Southern Pacific Company
or on behalf OF that company as attorney
in the case of Ernst H. Furst against Cal
vim B. White, Sheriff of Alameda County.
Sheriff White demanded that the law de-
partment OF the Southern Pacific Com
pany should defend the suit, as the dep
nty whose action caused the damage suit
against him was not his employe, but the
railroads. The railroad company con-
sented and retained Thomas V. Gator.
Gators close political intimacy with
George w. Baker, a railroad attorney,
during the last campaign was notorious.
For these reasons the intimacy of Senator
White and Mr.. Gator has grated upon the
nerves of Democrats opposed to the tund-
ing bill.
A day or two before the Senator LETT this
City for Washington the Senator and Mr..
Gator were seen in close and earnest con-
suItation in the office of the Palace Hotel.
Bvstahders who knew the com bination
yinked at and nudged one another.
But, horrors who should come in at
that moment but James II. Barry of the
Star, which has been roasting Gator for
wears as a railroad man. MIR. Barry was
dressed as neatly as a retired banker. He
wore a rose in his coat lapel and there was
q smile on his face when his eyes fell on
White. The nudges and winks multi
piled at furious rate as Mr. Barry
stopped short at the threshold and flushed
10 the roots of his hair, either with anger
or suspicion. The Senator and Gator saw
him at that moment, and as the Senator
smilingly greeted the editor of the Star
Mr.. Gator took his leave walking as if on
air and wearing the usual mask of self
possession. He looked straight over Mr..
Barry's head and seemed to be III state
OF ecstatic contemplation.
James H. Barry was with the commit
tee that waited on Senator White to talk
over a plan of action for the campaign.
The Senator said on that occasion that it
might be possible to beat the bill by fill
clustering; that such had been the prac-
tice in the Senate for many years, and
that to defeat such an infamous measure
as the funding bill almost any method
that was not dishonorable should be
adopted. He added that mum Der or
goodIy number of Senators would be re-
Quired to carry on a filibustering scheme
successfully, because the fight might be a
very protracted one. He was asked if
twenty Senators would be required, and
the Senator replied that the more they
could get the better.
The foregoing is Mr.. Barry's statement
OF the interview. He denied that Senator
White had said that twenty Senators
would be required to filibuster. In fact
Mr.. Barry appeared TO have the most i'm
plicit confidence IN Senator White.
This confidence is not shared in, how
ever, by al the mem bers of the Committee
of Fifty. They recall the fact that the
Senator was an attorney for the Southern
Pacific Company up to the time of his
election to the United States Senate, and
his intimacy and job with Gator have
forced them to the belief that White is a
politician and that he likes h is Job at
Washington so well that he would accept
even Gator as his colleague i'll order to go
there.
Byron Waters is bosom friend of Sena-
tor White. Mr.. Waters Is also railroad
attorney. He remarked last summer that
Gator ought to go to the United States
Senate. So that it is no wonder that many
people believe that birds of feather flock
by themselves.
There is, it has been remarked by dis
contented anti-funding bill Democrats, a
singular unanimity between the utterAnce
of Byron Waters regarding Gator, and the
remark of w. w. Stow some years ago re-
garding Senator White; namely, that if
the Democratic party got into power at
the next election Stephen M. White would
be the next United States Senator. The
became Senator, and Mr.. Slows predic-
ton, guided perhaps by certain inner
light, came true. Then followed Mr..
Waters Endorsement of Mr.. Gator, but
the Demo cratic party did not get into
power ana Mr.. Gator will not be elected
Senator.
The subscription committee of the COM
mittee of fifty reports having made en-
couraging progress thus far, although it
has only started in on the work. 1t is ex-
pected that the Mayor will call meeting
of the committee OF fifty about the end OF
this week or the beginning of next week
and will consider what is best to be done.
1t has been decided to send ex-Con-
gresham Charles A. Sumner of United
States Postal Telegraph fame to Washing
ton to represent the committee and to
watch the great fight on Mr.. Hunting
TOMS proposition. The committee is also
going to make vigorous fiEhr in the way
of sending literature to members of Con-
gress, setting forth the reasons why the
Bill should not be passed. When Senator
White was asked as to his opinion on the
value of litera tnre in the fight he replied
that it was an excellent thing, but that
the pamphlets should be short, for Con-
gressmen are very busy people and do not
have time to read loDg-winded effusions.
Several mem bers of the general com nit
tee feel rather anxious and unsettled over
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