The San Francisco call., 1898-07-31
The Democratic High
 Joints Grind Axes.
AGNEWS OFFICIALS SCORED
GIVEN A LECTURE BY THE
 EXECUTIVE.
Inquiries Concerning the Recent Shotgun Marriage Between Miss Democracy and MT.
 Populist Party.

The headquarters of Adjutant Gen eral Barrett in the Palace Hotel bore 8 distinctly political aspect during the greater part of yesterday on account of the presence of a number of Demo- cratic high joints who were there to wait upon Governor Budd. The busi- ness end of several Democratic news papers were also represented, the ob- Jeot in view baing the securing of the ,contract for the printing of several proposed constitutional amendments and the regular election proclamation. ;. Early in the day Trustee Hale and /: Medical Director Sponogle of Agnews Insane Asylum paid the Governor a formal call for the purpose of laying before him transcript of the evidence taken. recently by the board of trustees of the asylum in connection. with the charges made against Dr. Sponogle. It was expected that Trustee Gould would also be present, but he failed to put in : an appearances much to the regret of : Hale and Sponogle, though the Gov ernor displayed no visible evidences of regret because of the non-arrival of the gentleman who is credited with ap- plying the beautiful coat of whitewash that now covers the moral defects in the administration of affairs at Ag- news. The transcript of evidence was given to the Governor, and will be presented by him to the Lunacy Com mission for consideration.
 .: Both pr. Spon0gle and Trustee Hale attempted to impress upon the mind of the Governor the alleged fact that the investigation conducted by the board of trustees was full and com plete, and demonstrated beyond doubt that the charges against the medical director were without foundation. The Governor declined to take this view of the case and informed the gentlemen that the Iunacy Commission intended to carry on an entirely independent in vestigation, which he hoped would re- suit in the complete exoneration of all accused officials. If the contrary hap pened to be the case action of a sum- mary kino might be expected.
 Incidentally the Governor gave his visitors some good political advice, and from this point of view directed their attention to some of the mistakes that have been made in the administration of affairs at the asylum. It may be that he saw fit to go even deeper into the matter, for when the officials emerged from the presence they presented the appearance of two bad boys who had just been mixed up with the sole of the parental slipper. It may be that it was the anticipation of some such thing that deterred Trustee Gould from par ticipating in the interview. He Is master hand at applying the rod, but is naturally averse to exposing him. self to any sort of castigation.
 John F. Rldder the Debris Commits siOner, made a brief call on the Gov ernor during the forenoon. They held a short executive session on matters political, after which W. W. Foote, Yosemite Commissioner and candidate for United States Senator, was given a chance to tell the Governor about the merit, as an advertising medium, of the newspaper owned by one of his per sonal friends and political henchmen- State Library Trustee A B. Lennon of Santa Rosa also dropped in to see what was being done in the way of official ad- vertising, as well as to make a few timely suggestions concerning the lay ing of pipes for the programmers at the State convention. <. J. Clunie, In surance Commissioner, called in for a word with the chief executive, presum- ably on the subject of the apportion- ment of election printing. Clunie is said to be candidate for the nomina- tioh for Assessor though this fact is not presumed to have any connection with his visit to the Governor.
 Patrick Reddy and Peter Shields dropped ih to see the Governor during