The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-23
HERVEY LlNDLEY TAKES CHARGE
Burns Campaign to Be Pushed From Now On by the
SmOotfest Lobbyist in the Pay of the
Southern Pacific.

Senate are not only expensive, but diff
cult to obtain.
The investigation of the railroad
agents was fruitful. It was found that
Mclaughlin was not giving his undi-
vided attention to the Senatorial fight.
He was seen day after day interesting
himself in other legislation.
The Southern Pacific Company baked
at this condition of affairs and Nc
Laughlin has been deposed. Hervey
Lindley will now assume the manage
ment of the MeXicans campaign and
conduct it on lines that were over
looked by Mclaughlin. Hervey Lind
ley is first cousin to Colonel MaZuma
and possesses all the family secrets.
Lindley has been for years the recOg-
niZed agent, lobbyist and representa-
tive of the railroad in the southern part
of the State. His headquarters are at
Los Angeles, but his political and cor
ruptiOnist division extends all over the
State. In matters of moment, in af-
fairs requiring a delicate manipulation
and the presentation of ringing argu-
mentS Hervey Lindley has few equals.
He has therefore been chosen to handle
the Mexican's fight. In a matter of
such grave Importance it was not to
be expected that the employers of Lind
ley would ask him to assume all the
complex obligations of the trust they
have imposed upon him. There are
great schemes to be concocted and de-
tails 20 be carried out.
Hervey Lindley cannot do both, and
to his brother, Al Lindley, has been as
signed the duty Of attending to the de-
tails Of the management. These de-
tails are also delicate in their nature.
One may make the general outline of
negotiation, but some one else must
carry out the incidents. This duty Al
Lindley will accept, as he is qualified by
nature, it is said, to see in the dark.
He is now in the Office of the Secretary
of State, but will have ample opportun-
ity to assume his new obligations.
This affair has created a great deal of
comment. It is looked upon as the be-
ginning of the end of the unwarranted
ambition of D. NJ. Burns to disgrace
| this State as its representative in the
+ United States Senate. The change OF
/ managers at this critical time in the
struggle is a confession more eloquent
than a spoken avowal that the fight is
| lost
1t was to be expected that Major Nc
Laughlin would deny this important
incident in Burns campaign. and in his
denial this is what he says:
THE first intima ton I had of this
matter was when Call representative
called on me this evening. I then stated
and now state that there is not the
slightest foundation of truth In the
story. that l am still managing Colonel
Burns senatorial campaign and will re-
main in his fight in the capacity of his
friend and chief adviser until he is
elected United States Senator
The other politicians interested in the
affair are, as a matter of course, Sc
cretive. In business such as this, where
there is involved the manipulation of
public men, silence on the part of the
manipulatGrs is the only argument.
The new management by Hervey
Lindley has been so conspicuous as to
be noticeable to every observer in the
last few days. Lindley has outclassed
Mclaughlin in boldness. indicating in
his actions his realization that desper-
ate. measures are necessary to win the
fight for Burns. Mclaughlin, in a dis
cussion subsequent to his formal denial
of the truth of the change of manage
ment, laid stress particularly upon the
fact that the change will injure the
fight of Burns.