The San Francisco call., 1898-06-26
RAILROAD
 INFLUENCE
 FOR CAGE Speculation Concern ing Corporations. MAY FAVOR A DARK HORSE A DESIRE TO DEFEAT BULLA
 FOR SENATOR. Southern Republicans Are Alarmed at the Way in Which Events
 Are Now Being
 Shaped.

cific Company and other corporation
 influences to cause a split in the party
 and thereby rob the South of any of
 the prospective fruits of the coming
 election.
 As far as this part of the State is
 concerned this activity on the part of
 the corporations has a significance that
 Is not well understood, but with the
 south it is an assured fact and the
 consequences are only too apparent
 Henry T. Gage has been put forward
 as candidate for the gubernatorial
 nomination, and during the past week
 the radius of his boom has been ex-
 tended until now the whole State Is
 being canvassed in a quiet way in his
 Interests. Republicans north of the
 Tehachapi line are speculating as to
 whether this means that Gage is to be
 the bona fide candidate of the railroad
 interests for the gubernatorial nomi-
 nation, and on the other side of the line the politicians are guessing
 whether or not the Gage boom will rob
 the south of its rightful claim to the
 next United States Senator.
 AS to the latter contingency 1t is very
 certain that the corporation influences l VIII SpdIS IlO pdlIlS lO ucl6dI 1t. N. 1 Bulla for the Senatorship and to se-
 cure the election of a man from this end of the State who will be the cham i pion of the railroad interests in the
 halls of the national Congress. Should
 the southern delegation go to the State l Convention with but one declared ob- i ject, and that the right to name the man who is to be. the next Senator, it l is certain that such a right would be | conceded them If however tho Hal- | egation could be wholly or partially won over to the cause of Gage and his
 candidacy the result desired by the l railroad politicians would be attained. l The north would refuse to recognize the claims of the south to both the Sen ator and the Governor, and the nomi- 1 nation of the one and the election of the other would be given to men from this end of the State. This would, of l course, give the railroad people a chance to put men of their own se- l lection into the coveted places. This being so, it Is not surprising that the corporation hirelings are pushing the Gage boom with all due diligence. At the instigation of MT. Mills of the lit erary bureau the subsidized press of the southern end of the State have ta- ken up the question and are printing double-leaded editorials, asking why the south should not be entitled to both Senator and Governor. They men | tion Cages candidacy as one of the proposed stepping stones to southern supremacy.
 The question of whether or not the corporations are assisting the Gage boom with any other intention than that of defeating Bulla for United States Senator is one that is at this mo- ment receiving the serious considera- ton of the friends of every man in this end of the State who is a candidate for the place at the head of the ticket. Some ordinarily astute politicians pro- fess to believe that the railroad com pany has in view northen man whom it wishes to put forward as the Repub- lican candidate for Governor. These same politicians say that General Chip man is the man of the hour in the cor poration camp. They point to the fact that Chipman has considerable strength in the north and very little in the south. To correct this defect the railroad company has put up Gage as a candidate in the south, with the ex- peetation that he can go before the convention with at least a portion of the strength of the southern delega- tion. At the proper moment this strength could be traded to Chipman and the desired result would be at- tained.
 General Chipman has already ac- knowledged his willingness to be se- 1ected as the Republican nominee for Governor, and has thus paved the way for what is to follow, if. indeed, there is anything In the conclusion of those l who profess to believe that Cages can didacy is only clever political ruse to | throw the general rublic off the real | trend of the railroad company's de- sires.
 In connection with present guberna- torial possibilities the attitude, of the Populist party is not uninteresting. The Gator following, which is the pro- gramme element of the party have se- lected T. w. H. Shanahan as their can didate for Governor. Gator has agreed | to deliver the San Francisco delegation and Shanahans nomination Is deemed | certain. This condition of things is dis pleasing to that portion of the arty | known as middle -of-the-ro Popu- lists" and they threaten to boycott | the convention. They say that the date | of the convention Is too early and that | it was so fixed in order to give the pro- grammers an opportunity to put up ticket that can be used for trading purposes. They claim that Shanahan | is trying to place himself in a position | where he can trade to the Democrats | his nomination for Governor for the | fusion nomination for Lieutenant Gov ernOr.
 Since the publication in these col uliiuS VI llle ldCl llldl 1dSulre s friends had proposed to George w Monteith that he become a candidate for the Populist nomination for Governor with the understanding that in case he se-f cured it he would resign his candidacy | provided the Democrats nominated Ma I guire. the prominent Populists in the interior have signifed their marked | disapproval of the scheme Such men as Taylor Rogers. Daywalt and John | son have frequently been attacked by Mcguire and his friends and they now propose to retaliate.
 Monteith makes the following state | ment in reply to the question as to his candidacy:
 I don't want to be candidate in any active sense and will not be. If the con. vention wants to nominate me I will | abide by it's action, and if it desires me to stick to the end I will accept its de- claration in that particular as absolute and final and entertain no fusion propo- sition that is not ordered by the conven- tion.
 Personally I don't think there will be any fusion. think the Populists in tend to go it alone, and if they do I | think they will poll more votes than the Democrats will. There are just two blanks that ought to be included in the