The San Francisco call., 1898-12-09
A YOLO COUNTY GHOST REFUSES TO BE LAID.
Interesting Excerpts From Report of the State Con= troller-The Examiners Latest Move in Behalf of Its Senatorial
 Candidate

Colonel Dan Burns has not yet taken erence to his wishes in the matter of the Senatorial plum. He is so busy di- recting the efforts of his satellites who are engaged in the work of trying to whip legislators into line for their boss that he cannot find time to make up his mind as to what course he shall pursue with the public at large. To be sure, the general public cannot vote for Senator, and legislators can, but this fact probably has no particular weight with Colonel Burns.
 It will be remembered that some days ago w. F. Herrin, in a burst of confidence inspired by circumstances that were to him somewhat embarrass- ing, declared that Burns is the rail- roads candidate for Senator. About the same time Colonel Burns was inter viewed on the subject and declared that he is not yet a candidate, though he confessed, with a certain show of in- genuousness, that the only reason for his hesitancy in accepting the position and starting for Washington was his inability to decide off-hand whether or not he wanted the job. This astonish- ing declaration was taken with proper seriousness, for as every one knows, the colonel is fond of his little joke, even when the victims of his rare hu- nor happen to be the electors of so great State as California.
 While Colonel Burns has been toying with fate and striving to forget the past his friend Herrin has not been idle. The political Pooh Bah of the Southern Pacific Company has sent his agents and emissaries to every quarter of the State and used all of the available power of the great corporation that en- ploys him in an endeavor te pledge leg islators to vote for Burns for Senator With the fine sense of honor that led him to lie publicly in order to cover up a blunder into which he had been led, he has sought to strengthen his forces and those of Colonel Burns by dragging before the public the name of lady who is known and loved from one end of the State to the other.
 It is needless to say that Mrs. Stan ford has not taken, and does intend to take any interest in the selection of a United States Senator, other than that of an onloker who has the welfare of the State and its people at heart. Yet Mir Herrin, with a display of honor and chivalry that would put a Sioux Indian to the blush, has dragged this ladys name into the controversy, hop ing, no doubt, to gain a temporary ad- vantage by distracting attention for the moment from the despicable and crimi- nal methods by which he is seeking to throw dust in the eyes of the public and gain for a man with an. unspeak- able record a seat in the Senate of the United States.
 The Indian brave, who beats his squaw to prove his prowess as a war rior, appears as an honorable gentle man when compared with a man who, in order to hid his own methods as a giver of bribes and a purchaser of power drags before the public the name of a kindly and charitable gentle woman, that he may hide behind her skirts and thus expose her to criticisms which he alone has earned and de- serves. Such a man is William F. Herrin, head of Collis P. Huntington's political bureau, and chief promoter of the Senatorial candidacy of the aro- matic Colonel Daniel M. Burns, ex- Clerk of Yolo County, ex-Secretary of State, present horseman and mine owner, one-time occupant of a prison cell in Mexico and would-be arbiter of the destiny and fortunes of the good people of the State of California.
 Colonel Burns is not a talkative man