The San Francisco call., 1898-12-03
Entertaining Spectacle Of the Southern PaGi6C'S Political Manager Trying to
 Save His Own SCalp p.
When Trapped He Seeks by FasehoOd and EQuYOca0l to Avert From His Own Head the COnSe QuenCeS of His Double
 Dealing.

dacy reference is made to the editorial columns of this issue.
 What other people think of Colonel Burns. MT. Herrin, the Southern Pa- cific Company and their combined att tempt to steal the Senatorial toga for use as a cover for their many sins Is set forth in the following article copied from the columns of the Oakland En- quirer of last evening:
 It is certain that the next Senator will equally certain that he will not be Col onel Burns. The tremendous artillery fire of the Republican press settles that, and when The Call and the Chronicle, the two big battleships of the fleet, trained their guns on the candidate from Mexico it was all up with his chances. There are circumstances under which even the Southern Pacific of Kentucky cannot elect thes person of its choice.
 In other words, those members of the Legislature who under different condi- tions might find their pleasure and their profit in voting to send Colonel Burns to the Senate will not do so under the con- ditions which actually exist They might like to befriend the man who has ren- dered them service, but they are not ready to go through hades to do it. They want to leave enough of the bridges be- hind them so that after the session is over they can venture to go home to their constituents.
 Even the most hardened of them have not progressed beyond that stage whera in voting for railroad selection for Sem ator they could say they did not think they were doing it, and after to-day's exposure to vote for Burns would be like voting that the United States Senator from California should be any attorney whom the railroad might find it convent ent to detail from week to week to pros ceed to Washington and attend to Sena- toriaI duties.
 Not for years. if ever. did the political side of the railroad get such a whack as 1t received to-day in the exposure made by The Call and the Chronicle Every body has read the story of Herrin's dis- comiture, and everybody is laughing
 De Young found that Herrin was send- ing his (De Young's) friends to him to get him to declare for Burns, and also that the same offer to name the next Sem ator" had been made to J. D. Spreckes. After that the two editors held a joint session and sent for Herrin, who came over. to the Spreckels building on the trot. This part of the story Is told by De Young with a good deal of humor He says: # - - . : <. |: -..: .:..
 . "Herrin complied immediately with the
  where we were He was so surprised and taken abaek that he leaned against .the wall for support until he could recover himself ":+. " . s:.- = :. :.
 ..'I asked Herrin how it was that he had made practically the same proposition to Mir. Spreckels and myself. He hemmed and hawed, pulled out a cigar and stuck the wrong end in his mouth, and finally stammered out something, about the de- lay that had been made in making a reply to his proposition. I then asked him point blank: Who is the railroads candidate for United States Senator?' His reply vast: 2.
 Colonel Dan Burns is the railroads candidate '..
 It is said by the knowing ones that while MT. de Young tells the truth he does not tell it all, and that one part of MT. Herrin's errand was to say that George Crocker and the others had decided that MT de Young could not be Senator, this being the first notification MT. de Young had received that his aspirations were to be blighted. Another interesting fact is that Mir. Herrir, after he found he has been trapped by the two editors, hastened to get his story before the public first. To do that he gave the Examiner an in- terview, which was printed Wednesday morning. In this he represented the scene as being quite different from the picture painted by the two editors and intimated that they both wanted to be Senator, or at least to name the man, and that he } told them they could not elect Senator without votes.
 Gossip now turns on the question who twill be the railroads next candidate and also to whose support Burns will go, for it is taken for granted that his own chances have been smashed. Some be- lieve that Burns will eventually assist Grant, although the railroad appears to be opposed to the San Diego candidate. But there are so many candidates in the field, and the feeling excited is becoming so rapidly embittered, that no quick solu- ton of the matter is generally looked for. One of those trying struggles in which a Legislature ballots without result day after day may be the ill-havored fruitage which is in store for the State.
 CRTIISE OF BATTLESHIPS.