The San Francisco call., 1898-12-02
", E, HEREIN HAS DECLARED
 FOR BURNS FOR SENATOR

the end in view of securing the election of Burns to the United States Senate. Burns has changed his personal habits, though he has not changed his personal associates. As far back as last August he went to a gentleman to whom he had not spoken in years and asked that bygones be forgotten. The cause of his enmity to this gentleman grew out of the fact that when Burns was in jail in Sacramento charged with robbing the State of more than $30, 900 this gen. tleman refused to go on his bond. He sent word to Burns that he (Burns) was in the place where he ought to be and that he trusted that he would be punished as he deserved
 Burns also went to the attorney who defended him when he was charged with robbing the State, and whose fee Burns never paid, and requested him to forget the past and be friends.
 Tt was Burns that handled all of the money paid out in this district to Leg islative candidates, presumably by the railroad company, during the cam paign. This was done for the purpose of securing their favor for Burns when he should finally unmask and come out as a Senatorial candidate.
 "As I said at the beginning, these are facts that the public should know in order that the people of the State can decide if they want Burns to represent them in the Senate of the United | States"
 What MT. de Young had to say of the proposition made to him concerning the announcement of a candidate for Sena- 1 tor was corroborated by MT. John D. l Spreckels.
 MT. Herrin came to me some time | ago." said MT. Spreckels, '.and told me that I could name the next United l States Senator. He said that I might as we'll have the honor as another. as 1 he believed it best for all parties to come together and agree upon some l good man.
 q asked him if the railroad had a candidate, and he said it had not. He added, however, that the railroad would favor a man whose views on public questions were not prejudicfal to it's l interests.
 II told MT. Herrin that had no can didate, and that I was willing to get behind any big, broadminded man who would be satisfactory to the people of the State. I then named every man who has from time to time been men, toned as Senatorial possibility, but at the suggestion of each name Herrin shook his head and said the man would not do. Burns name had never been mentioned in connection with the Sena- l torship, and it never entered my head that it was Burns that Herrin was try ing to get me to name.
 T r.. <J1 that Herrin had made the same propo- sition to him, and that 1t was Burns for whom the railroad was seeking my support and the support of The Gall, the whole thing dawned upon me. I | immediately sent for MT. Herrin. He was somewhat disconcerted when he found MT. de Young with me, but when he was challenged to name the rail- roads candidate he defantly asserted that it was Colonel Dan Burns. and no I one else. I did not leave him long in doubt as to the attitude The Call would assume toward Colonel Burns candi- dacy. and there the matter was dropped"
 There is yet little of the history of Mir. Herrin's dark lantern attempt to secure for Burns under-cover candi- l newspapers that has not been related in the foregoing statements of MT. de Young and Mr. Spreckels. As it is per tinent to the subject under discussion it is given here with the assurance that the facts as they will be stated will be vouched for by either of the gentlemen mentioned. The attention of the numerous candidates for Sena-
 +tx1,, ,f.,x-I I1aI 40 this part of the story, as they will be given, free of charge. true estimate of the: esteem in which they are held by the railroad company.
 When MT. .Herrin went to MT. Spreck- els and asked him to name candidate for United States Senator he stipu- l lated that the man named must be some one whom the railroad liked better than M. H. de. Young. MT. | Spreckels then proceeded to name, one l after another, such men as George A. Knight. E. F. Preston, Robert N Bulla, 1 General w. H. l.. Barnes, Judge Hen shaw. U. S. Grant, Thomas R. Bard, E. s. Pillsbury, Charles NJ Felton. James A. Waymire, Irving M. Scott and | half dozen others whose names are familiar to almost every resident q the | terposed a decided negative. AS it 1 transpired that 1t was Colonel Dan Burns who was in MT. Herrin's minds eye, the inference is apparent. MT. | Herrin and the political H1anipulators of the Southern Pacific Company place small value on the mental and moral | qualifications of the many gentlemen l named when compared with the magni- ficent attainments of the cultured Col onel Burns, whose career as an office holder ended in a prison cell; whose knowledge of race horses and racing matters is unlimited; whose brilliant record as a mine operator is contained l in a thousand legends that float back and forth across the border line of Mexico; whose career as a political boss | is as aromatic as that of Sam Rainey; whose personal associates moveNin the best circles of the Tenderloin; whose knowledge of the great questions af- fecting the welfare of the nation Is as l limitless as the broade prairies beyond the Rocky Mountains, and whose love of Collis P. Huntington is as that of a AI@<1x- rf