The San Francisco call., 1896-10-02
McGlashan Boasts Of His IT,
huence With the A. P. AS
in the Second.
PcURs vITRIoL ON FUSION.
How Railroad Magnates Have Cap.
tured the Poop e's Party Ma.
chinery for Greed.


of trouble on his hands at present. Not
only is he up to his ears in doing politics
with his friend Christopher Buckley, but
he is catching 1t from every quarter all
over the State. The Populists from Slskl-
you to San Diego are in ferment of anger
and indignation over the methods that
have been employed by Gator and his
State Central Committee. Day before
yesterday he endeavored to pacify Mon
teith, the Congressional nominee in the
First District, and the result of very
stormy interview was that Gator learned
that not only was his Senatorial ambition
ieopardized, but that his qualifications for
the leadership of the party were being
seriously called in question.
Monteith does not hesitate to denounce
Gator in unmeasured terms. He declares
that the municipal convention has been
Buckley and the railroad and says the
only thing that remains to be done Is for
the party TO be reorganized by eliminat-
ing the Gator crowd from its ranks.
COMPLICATIONS are arising in every
quarter. and among these is the CORE
spondence which has been going on
between the Populist State Committee
Ii.
In response to letters written by Chair
man Wardall of the Peoples Party State
Central Com mmittee, asking and pleading
with G. w. Monteith and G. f. Nc
Glashan to resign as candidates for Con-
gress from the First and Second districts
respectively. Mr.. McGiashan has written
to the effect that this is the first time that
Mr.. Wardall has requested or pleaded
with him to resign.
nth nf fu
written by Mr.. McGlashan in his letter
are the foilowing:
To illustrate. IN this Second District the
miners are engaged in direct war with the
railroad company concerning mineral lands,
and the convention deemed it wise to select
for Congressman man who has lived in the
mining regions and been identified with min
ing interests for forty-two years. You have
su bstituted candidate who was known and
raised in valley town. The convention
named man who has always, as
journalist, citizen and public speaker,
been identified with labor organizs-
movements and strikes, and who was
elected TO membership in the A. r. U. during
the great railroad strike. You pull him down
for young lawyer fresh from college, whose
only appearance before the public was while
stamping the district with Marion Biggs, who
was favorable to the railroad while in Con-
gress, and who now supports the funding bill.
There are 10000 voters in the district VINO are
members OF the American Protective ASsocia-
tion, and the Mayors of the two largest cities
in the district were elected upon this issue
alone. The convention selected an A. p A,
who has been somewhat prominent in the
order. You set him aside for one who repre-
sents the opposition. You may be wiser than
the convention, and your candidate may be
stronger, freer and in every way q better man
to represent the people, but the convention
had right to choose, and your action is un-
just, illegal and subversive of every principle
of Popullsm.
Every A. P A. council in the entire dis
trict which has taken action in advance
OF the report OF advisory boards has voted
of the A. P. AS they are the truest
friends 1 ever had at my back in time of
trouble. think I have convinced most
OF those who listen to me that the news
papers lie as usual when they say am work
ing for Grove Johnson. Let me say, paren-
thetlcany, that cannot see any sense in your
the defeat of the funding bill four out
of every five votes that have been promised
me are votes that will go 10 Mr. Johnson if l
draw out. Just as the Catholic vote would
leave me and go to Mr.. Johnson if had the
Democratic Endorsement, so will the American
vote go to Mr.. Johnson when you have had
your way. Fusion in committees does not
necessarily mean fusion at the polls You
can't deliver the goods you are bargaining.
Mr.. de Vries can win with me in the fight
much more easily than he can with my resig-
nation in your hands | could have held
10000 votes away from Johnson that will
never go to De Vries.
am glad you say you are not "infallible.''
Part OF your com animation claims infallibility
and you have downed every A. Z. A. whom the
Peoples party nominated for Congress and
put ''infallibles or their sympathizers in as
fusion candidates. How did ltever occur to
you could not drive me? This letter OF yours
is the most supplicating epistie ever read.
consider 1t the triumph OF my life to have won
such q letter from body of men who have
tried so hard to scare, bully and drive me out
OF the fight 1t seems marvellous to me that
alter lighting me for weeks supported as you
were by the heavy artillery OF the railroad, the
Catholic church, the Democratic party and all
the newspapers, you should now fall on your
knee and beg, pie ad, supplicate that ] give
you what we were fighting oyer-my resigna-
ton. Why, OF course 1 will. Half this amount
of pleading would have got it at any stage of
the proceedings. l nave been earnestly CAM
paigning four months and hall, but, if
would hand my resignation to you in re-
sponse to such prayerful appeal. / am
yours at last, c. f. MCGLAsHAN. +
Mr.. Monteith also pays his d isrespects
to Chairman Wardall. He begins by tax
ing him with treachery and insincerity
and with an attempt to dictate to the candi-
dates. The following is an extract:
The railroad was anxious about the fate of
the funding bill next winter. The Congress
sional election this year could have but one
effect on that and that was moral one. But
it is all important to the railroad. The elec-
refute Huntington's assertion that the opposi-
ton was but a few 'scranks and sandlottters,"
while the contrary would assist him. There
were three distinctively anti-railroad candi-
dates in the field-Judge Mcguire, Taylor
Rogers and myself. There were also two Con-
gressmen up tor reelection who had sincerely
opposed refunding-Barham and Hilborn.
Then, on the other hand. Grove Johnson was
openly and McLachlan and Loud passively pro-
railroad. The railroad, for the moral effect on
the refunding situation, must secure the de-
feat of both Barnam and Monteith in the
First, the election of Johnson in the Second,
the defeat of Hilborn in the Third, either the
defeat or muchly reduced majority for Ma
guire in the Fourth, the defeat OF Rogers and
the return of Loud in the Fifth, the return of
McLachlan in the Sixth and the reelection of
Bowers in the Seventh, when they would
claim his attack on Sutro on the floor of the
House was sustained.
This could be done by forcing me out in the
First and uniting the Democrats and Populists
on an unknown or unlried man in that dis
trict to defeat Barham.i In the Second the anti
railroad forces should be kept divided by
keeping both De Vries and McGlashan IN the
field. In the Third by uniting the opposition
to Hilborn. I0 the Fourth by stuffing the
regis ter, fraudulent voting and a still hunt to
beat Mcguire or give him a close race In the
Fifth by dividing the Populist and Demo-
cratic votes between two weak candidates. BY
nominating a candidate against McLachlan as
far from Los Angeles as possible to utilize