The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-11

GALL EEAOk(OA6i 1EhSI SAUNA
MENTO, Jan. 10,-D. NJ. Burns will not
be the next United States Senator from
California. So much was demonstrated
to-day when the Legislature cast It's
first ballot and of the lis votes polled
Burns received but twenty-four.
The announcement of the result was
q great shock to the army of political
touts, ward heelers, gamblers and
saloon men who have been engaged
during the past few days in obeying
orders by spreading the report that
Burns had the fight won and that he
had enough votes and to spare TO elect
him on the first ballot if such course
was deemed wise. They took their or
ders willingly and obeyed them blindly
and there is little doubt but that they
believed the tales they told Of Burns
strength were gospel truth.
This same crowd of heelers trooped
to the Capitol this morning prepared to
shout for their boss when the vote had
been counted and the result announced.
They returned a sad-eyed and crest
fallen crew. too dazed by the blow they
had received to fully realize that their
idol had fallen and that his pretensions
made during the past few days were
only a bluff.
Burns poIled his full strength to-
day. The twenty-four votes given
him on the first ballot are all that he
has been able to secure by means of
his political influence, the influence
of W. n. Herrin of the Southern Pa
cifc Company, the offer of patron
H. II. -
Gage, and intimidation offered by
crowd of political highbinders whose
regulations are as unsavory as that
of their master. From thi time for
ward any accession of strength must
be gained by bribery. To learn the
names Of the Legislators who accept
the money of Burns and the railroad
. company in return for their votes the
public has but to watch for the names
of those who from this time forward
enroll themselves under the Burns
banner.
Never in the history Of the State has
a Senatorial candidate been surrounded
and supported by as disreputable a
crowd Of professional grafters as is
Dan Burns. Aside from few-a very
few personal friends, the men among
his followers who lay claim to SEM
blance Of responsibility can be counted
on the fingers of one hand. The hotels
and Hobbies swarm with this unsavory
mob to which every city and town of
consequence in the State has con-
tributed They swarm about a legsla-
tor like sharks around a swimmer
Their very presence cOntaminates and
their simulated friendship is a curse
Not only did the vote to-day pull the
mask from Burns boom and display it
in all its meager nakedness, but it also
let the light of day in on the preten-
sipns that have been made by that
other eminent statesman. U. S. Grant
Jr., Of San Diego. The Grant men have
INDUCED in much talk about a certain
paper containing the signatures of
thrty-siX legislators who had pledged
. themselves to vote for the San Diegan
from the beginning to the end, and on
this the Grant followers have built
hopes that fell far short Of realization
to-day. OF the thirty-six votes on which
tho counted but twenty-six material
lied. Just what became of the missing
ten is a problem Mr.. Grants managers
are now trying to solve. They have
small hopes of success in this direction
and contentment does not sit at the
Grant flreside tonight.
Not even Mr. Grants managers can
now figure out how it is possible for
him to win. The men who voted for
him to-day are, with but few excep-
tions. men who follow his standard for
purely selfish reasons and not because
of social, political or party ties. Grant
is practically unknown to Republican
politics in California. He has resided
here but a short time, and during that
time he has done nothing to justify him
in asking for the highest place in the
gift of the Republicans of the State.
He is a stranger in a strange land, and
his position and personality are not
such as will draw men to him in such
a crisis as is approaching in the Sena-
.torial contest. Within the next few
days he may gain few votes, probably
not more than half a Dozen but Ii is
very certain that he will be unable to
hold the strength he now has for more
than three ballots. The legislators
whose election expenses he has paid
and who feel in honor bound-if 1t is
possible for such men to have a feeling
akin to honor-to cancel their obliga-
lions by voting for their banker WILL
after the second or third ballot, con-
sole themselves with the thought that
their debt has been paid and that they
are at liberty to vote as hey please
The prospect before Mr.. Grant is GER
tainly not a cheerful one.
II Burns and Grant are in the dumps
on account of the result of to-day's
vote there are others who feel more
cheerful Bulla, Barnes and knight