The San Francisco call., 1898-12-14
HumOrS Of the Situation as Viewed by Young MT. Grant Of the Extreme
 South.
CUmStantal Evidence to Prove That He Kned the State Ticket in Order to Secure the Election of His Southern Legislative
 Candidates,

A blight seems to have struck the Senatorial boom of Colonel Dan Burns or Mexico, and there is a very apparent air of depression about his headQuar- ters at the Palace Hotel. His hatchet- men are still pursuing the rumors that come up from the sunny southland. and his strikers are still chasing bash full legislators who hail from the in terior, but they have lost the vim and vigor that marked their efforts imme- diately after the untruthful Herrin let the cat out of the bag concerning the ColonePs candidacy.
 To be sure, the daily bulletins given the expectant public by Burns lieu tenants are still to the effect that sixty one votes are pledged to their chief and that the landslide has only just begun. It is also a fact that the colonel him self has announced to close personal friends that he is in the fight to stay to the end. Added to this announce ment is another that comes from Schoolboy Herrin, who declares that he will shove his programme through. no matter what it costs.' In spite of these things, however, the steady driz- gle of gloom that has shut down on and plotted out the glad smile and high hopes of the Burns following grows thicker as the days go by. One after another the legislators whom Colonel Burns and Baby Herrin have hereto fore considered as their private chattels have dropped into town and publicly announced that they will not vote for Burns. Some say they are pledged to other candidates, others declare their belief that Burns election would be a deathblow, to the party, and not few confess that they would not dare go back to their constituents after voting for the gentleman from Mexico. What ever the excuse given, the result is the same, and with the passing of the days the stock of Burns, Herrin & Hunting ton drops lower and lower in the politi- cal market.
 While depression marks the mien of the Burns cohorts about the corridors of the Palace the temperature con tinueS to fall in the vicinity of the vel low building at the corner of Mont gomery and Market streets. Iclcles form on the cornices when Blunderer Herrin and Editor Mills meet by chance in the railways, and the messenger boys who carry necessary correspond ence from the office room of the Un- truthful One to the chiefs of other de- DdILUlGHAS y are forced to wear mittens and ear muffs. It is the coldest snap that has been experienced since the war.
 One amusing feature of Burns down fall is the manner in which it affects the political hacks wN0 are spending the money belonging to the Eastern friends of U. s. Grant. While the Young man. with-a-name is at home trying to memorize the names of the counties of the State his hired boomers are stationed at various points throughout the State studying up plans for the further increase of their bank rolls. As soon as a legislator from the interior declares himself a"ainst Burns and Bungler Herrin telegram is dis patched to Grant, couched in terms something like this:
 United States Senator U. s. Grant San Diego, Cal: Easy mark out against Burns. Think he Is ours. Two hun. will make the thing a cinch. Don't delay. Yours, till death, E. z. CRATER.
 So the game progresses. Grant now has POI votes out of a possible 120 pledged to himself. How can he lose While awaiting the announcement of the unanimous vote of the Legislature in his favor, the Son of his Father is taking a geography lesson at intervals