The herald., 1898-12-06

over the lovely mess that the Republicans
have made of the senatorial fight. The fat
is in the fire as regards Mr.. DE Young for
his coquettng with Mr.. Herrn and his re-
pudiation by the latter, the absurd council
of three in which DE Young, Spreckes and
the crafty IIerrn took part, and the appear
ance of Colonel Dan Burns in the field. All
these circumstances have served to precipi-
tate Donny brook fair time OF it with the
three men who have been supposed all
along to have the election OF the senator IN
their vest pockets, so that now no one can
make any claim to have the control OF the
situation.
There is one element and that very i'm
portant one Just now, which the political
touts have left out of their calculation, and
which is very liable to have the greatest in
fluence, and that is the state administration
headed, of course, by Governor Gage. The
governor is known to be very hostile to Mr..
Grant, and his relations with both DE
Young and Spreckels are such as to make
1t bad politics for him to take up the fight
of either one. 1t is also an open secret that
Mr. Bulla and Mr. Gage made their peace
early in the campaign and that Mr.. Bulla
had more or less assurance from the gov
ernor and his following that in event Of
Republican success he would be gievn an
exchange for his graceful acquiescence IN
Cages nomination. This was signed, sealed
and witnessed at the meeting at the pavilion
when Mr. Bulla appeared as the master of
ceremonies
Mr. Spreckels has now commenced in the
Calls usual style hysterical fight against
Burns, whom the paper affects to take seri-
ously as the railway candidate, and in this
it rakes up an old-time scandal which no
one considers has any bearing on the pres
ent situation, for it was always considered
that Colonel Burns was not in any way par
ticeps criminis. He is, however, none the
less unfit for the place for a thousand rea-
sons, and only one need be given, which is
that he is sport pure and simple, a
racing man on whose shoulders must par
TALLY rest the responsibility for the moral
blight Of the pool rooms which have de-
bauched hundreds if not thousands of men,
and which were directly responsible for sew
eral official scandals which have disgraced
San Francisco. Colonel Burns is an i'm
possibility, and the Call and Chronicle are
wasting their ink and paper in denouncing
him.
The Call of Sunday has long article, from
which the following extract is taken as an
cymbal style of political fighting that char
acterizes the paper:
civilian L. Herrin has been whipped
back to his kennel.
''The afternoon papers that on Friday
bulged with interviews from the typewriter
of the head of the Southern Pacific COM
pany's political bureau, in which Mr.. Her
rim abundantly proved that his employers
were in the business of selecting a candidate
for the United States senate, and that the
man of their choice is Colonel Dan Burns,
were silent yesterday. Papa Huntington
has boxed little Willie's ears and warned
him that a repetition of the otfense Of let
ting the public into the secret inclosure
where the railroads political wheels go
round would cost him his job. So it is that
Willie is silent and his typewriter will be
heard no more forever.
''But Colonel Dan Burns is still the rail
roads candidate for United States senator.
He is apparently oblivious of the fact that
the announcement of his candidacy by Mr..
Herrin has caused wave of Indignation to
sweep over the state, and that everywhere
the people are discussing mis- record as coun-
ty clerk of Yolo county and the manner in
which he discharged his duties as secretary
of state, to say nothing of his personality,
his associates and his whole malodorous ca
reer in the politics of the state.
Colonel Burns may possibly derive com
fort from the fact that the Examiner, in
bungling effort TO turn political trick and
score n point for the Democratic party by
seeking to secure the election of discred-
tied Republican to a high office, is busily
engaged in promoting his candidacy. When
almost the entire Republican press of the
state is engaged in telling the people the kind
of man the Southern Pacific company is
seeking to send to the United States senate
the Examiner, which has for so long posed
as the friend of the people and the enemy
OF the corporation, is saying nice things of
Colonel Burns and seeking to convey the i'm
preston that it believes it would be the
proper thing to send him to congress.
The Examiner, on the other hand, is quiet
ly laughing at the whole affair, and having
fun with John Dough Sprecl,les. 1t quotes
from recent utterances of the Call on Mr..
Herrin, and compares them with the most
ridiculous bit of slobber and rot that w%s
ever written of n man when the same paper
published long biography of Mr. Herrin.
who was pictured as all that was good, true
and beautiful and holy. Some of the Exam
iner's matter is as follows:
Last winter, while yet the bloom was on
the conspiracy to chose senator to repre.
sent the Southern Pacific Company, John
D. Spreckles published an appreciation Of
Mr.. Herrin. whom he now calls nick
pocket, shyster and blackleg. Among
other things, in the course of that biographv
Mr.. Spreckles said:
Probably there is nothing of which he
feels so selt-satsfied as that with each new
client he has acquired an additional friend
UNLESS il be that he has never lost fricnd
on this side of the grave.
If it was true last winter that Mr.. Herrin
could not lose a friend it is likewise tru.
now that he would like to lose John n
Sprecklcs: for this is what Mr.. Spreckles
said OF him couple of weeks ago:
This is a plain tale of William F. Herrin
and Colonel Dan Burns. Those who have
some small interest in the welfare of The
state, or who place value on their citizen