The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-05
OW THAT FAMOUS PETITION WAS SIGNED.

CIATION-J. L. NJ. Shetterley. secre-
| tary of the Fidelity Mutual Aid Asso-
ciation-I signed the petition on behalf
OF the firm. Three of my personal
friends came to me and asked me to do
so. Two of them were men who would
! do any favor for me and I would do
anything for them. When 1 stated that
l was Democrat they asked me as a
! citizen and not as a partisan to sign
the thing and I did so. Burns is not
my choice. There are other men whom
| l would rather see in the halls of ma
tional legislation, but as they are not
prominent in the fight [ did not con-
slider that l was harming any one.
H. LEVI of the firm of II.
LEVI & CO., grocers, at 117-1f9
Market street, did not sign the pc
tition nor do I know anything of it
whatever. Jacob Levi ST., the other
member of the firm, stated emphatical-
| ly that he had never heard of the petit
| ton before.
ED w. MCCARTHY of the firm of
MCCARTHY BROS, tea and coffee i'm
porters, 113 Front street, declined to
discuss the matter. He said he did not
consider that the petition meant any,
thing or that a person by signing 1t
urged the election of D. NJ. Burns.
There are many other persons whom
would rather see United States Senator
than Burns he said.
NJ. J. BRANDENSTEIN of the firm
of NJ. ]. BRANDENSTEIN & CO..
commission merchants. 11S-120 Market
street, was asked by Mr.. Cuff as
personal favor to sign the petition. l
would not have done so under other
conditions. He is a friend of"mine and
1 considered that 1 should do it for him.
So far as l am concerned, l am not in
politics and would like to have my
name left out of the affair. 1 might say
that at the time of signing there were
but two candidates at the top of the
list, and 1 considered that strength
must be thrown with one or the other
to break a deadlock, since believed my
| signature would g no harm.
| EDWARD KLAU of HAAS BROS
1 did not sign that petition. Perhaps
some other member of the firm did, but
do not know. Dan Burns is not my
| preference for United States Senator.
| ] have not discussed the matter with
the other members of the firm, and do
not know their preferences.
MAURICE ROTHCHILD, president
of the Wertheimer Company, is in New
York, was there when the petition was
circulated, and consequently could not
have signed it. Morris Feintuch, sec
rotary of the Wertheimer Company,
said: II did not sign the name of our
| company to that petition. l do not
know who did. Personally 1 have no
|
| directors of the corporation may nave
signed it, but in that case it would not
| indicate the opinions of the others"
| ACHILLE ROOS of ROOS BROS.-I
am a Democrat but I believe Demo-
crat can sign petition to the Legls-
! lature without interfering in Repub-
| lican party affairs, even if the Leglsla-
ture is Republican. Personally l have
no preference for D. NJ. Burns, and the
petition does not really indicate any.
It says without prejudice to the other
candidates" 1t is so loosely worded
| that it means almost nothing.
| FRANK D. BATES of BATES & co.
1 want to see the deadlock broken,
and while perhaps Dan Burns is no
better than the other candidates he
seems to have the best chance, and L
think he is as good as any of them.
LEON GUGGENHEIMER,o of MACK
& COL did not sign the petition and
have really no particular choice
among the candidates. 1 believe, how
ever that some member of our firm
did sign the paper, just to oblige
| friend who was circulating i'll do not
| remember who it was.
EDWIN B. CUTTER of CUTTER &
MOSELEY-I have no particular in
| terest in the Senatorial fight and GER
tainly have no preference for Dan
| Burns, but 1 signed the petition to
oblige a friend who was circulating it.
My own choice would be Irving M
Scott or Dr. Pardee.
The petition was presented to George
| w McNear and strong efforts made to
induce him to add his signature, but
| he absolutely refused, even when it
| was urged that the signing of petition
has but little significance.
Henry Crocker was the friend" who
| presented the petition to each of these
gentlemen.
WILLARD BROS, MORRIS
WILLARD never signed the
name of my firm to any paper pro-
mulgated in the interest of Burns
candidacy. I am a Republican, but
I want no Dan Burns in mine, for
don't consider that he would make a
fit representative for the State of
California. If the firms name is
signed to the paper it was done
without my authority. The only
one besides myself who is empowered
to sign the firm name is my brother,
Jules Willard, the junior member of
the concern, and do not think that
he would do so in a case of this kind
without consulting with me. How
ever, he may have done so on, his own
responsibility as expressing his in
dividual feelings in the matter, but
certainly was not party to it. Had