The San Francisco call., 1898-12-16
Made an Offer to Resign One Year After His Election to the United States
 Senate.
Threatened to Make Trouble" for the Party if His Wishes Were DiSregarded Respecting the Selection of 8 Northern Man for
 Governor

Now that 1t has been shown that one of [. s. Grants first political acts after he had acquired residence in California was 10 lend his moral and financial support 10 the cause of Bryan and free silver the Republican members of the Legislature in this end of the State are united in saying that he deserves little at the hands of the party and will receive less.
 This feeling is accentuated by the fact that at the recent election Grant and his managers in the extreme southern part ot the State knifed the Republican State tlcket in order to secure votes for his leg lslatlVe candidates. So extensive were their transactions in trading votes to Ma sulre in return for votes for their legis- IatiVe nominees that Gage ran about a thousand votes behind his ticket in San Diego County alone. This would have been sufficient to defeat the Republican ticket had the result in other parts of the state been as close as in the election of TWO years ago, when Grant lent his ef- Iorts to promoting the cause of Bryan and free silver
 That the trading of votes by Gran. was oehoerate and premeditated and was part or a plan formed long prior to the election IS made evident by the threats uttered by the young man and his political man. ager, Milton J. Green, prior to the hold Ing or the State convention at Sacra- hento. About the time the plan of giv- IIdS5,, IltS southern man the Gubernatorial noInlnatlon was being discussed MT GIdHt visited Bakersfield In the interest Ua @ HIS pudding Senatorial candidacy. He H.b wbS dSSGonpanled by MT. Green. This is @ ~ Ilat MT. Green, who acted as spokesman ! doI m HtS inexperienced chief, had to say to a CaHIornlan reporter relative to the talk Oi a southern man for Governor:
 That is scheme that originated in the North, and it may as well be un- derstood once for all that the South cannot have @ Governor thrust upon her. The South don't want the Gov ernorship and if the plan you name should be carried out there will be trouble. The South wants a man in the Senate and if the Republican par ty wants harmony it will not insist in trying to force the GubernatoriaI nomination south of Tehachapi.
 That was MT. Grants way of thinking prlor to the holding of the State conven- uon. Note the result. The Republican party did insist on naming a Southern nlaI- for Governor. MT. Grant then car ried out his threat to create trouble" by doing his best to defeat that candi- cate. Having failed to accomplish his purlcse. through TO fault of his own he now comes forward and reneWs his cam To recognition at the hands of the party 4tt HOS hOle HIS utmost 10 QeIedt at two successive general elections-that is to say, during his term of residence in the state. A me record, surely. for a man who Is still unfamiliar with the geography of the State, whose legislators he Is ap- paTently seeking to corrupt with money furnished by, Eastern capitalists who profit by legislation that is adverse to the interests of California.
 IL may be of interest to the legislators who will soon be called upon to choose d United States Senator to know a few of the schemes this brilliant young man 50 recently arrived from beyond the noun tatns has attempted to put into execution in order to delude the general public and secure for himself what he Is pleased to cal his ambition" Some time ago M. Gran. approached a gentleman who is prominent in the councils of the Republi- c1n party and sought his support. Tnis l. ne proposition he made:
 T have an ambition to be United States Senator. If you will lend your in- tutnce and support to secure my election l will serve one year in Congress and then resign in your favor"
 The gentleman to whom the offer was made replied that he was not in the busi- ness of assisting unknown young men to gratlfy personal ambitions at the expense of the people of the State. He also said much more to the same effect and AIr Grant was dismissed with the assurance that he would do well to let "crooked' politics alone If he wished to retain the respect of decent men. If MT. Grant has a sufficient disregard for the truth to deny the assertion that he made the 15ove mentioned proposition the name of the gentleman will be given, as well as some additional particulars regarding the in terView.
 MT Grant has been in the State but comparatively short time and he is totally unacQuainted with the needs of the peo- ple While claiming to be a Republican he has endeavored to defeat the men put forward by the party as its representa- tives and the representatives of it's prin- ciples With such a recommendation he comes forward with political manager mands the highest honor in the gift of the party. There are other men-good Repub iicans. who have spent the better part of their lives in promoting the interests of the State and advancing the principles of the party-who have also signitied their desire to represent the, State in the coun- ci1s of the nations lawmakers. They know the needs of the State as 9 mother knows those of her children. Many of them are comparatively poor men who