The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-13

visitors present at the JOINT session oI
the two houses witnessed melancholy
spectacle. Possibly all did not appre-
..Ciate ii to the full, but to those who
did it brought a feeling OF sadness. 1t
was the fall Of a man to whom the
future seemed to hold out much, who
was respected as an honorable citizen,
who was given fair esteem as poll
fician at once clean and adroit, and
who had an opportunity to write his
na11e high He had been given a po-
. 6ition of honor He had been looked up
TO as one who would not violate the
pledges freely given to decency. Yet
he. fell. When his name was called he
voted for Dan Burns. He did it in a
voice tremulous with a sense of shame
and a face burning. He realized the
degradation to which he had sunk, the
Humiliation he had brought upon his
dearest and nearest associates. Never
fheless he voted for Burns, and on each
succeeding ballot emphasized the dis
honor. Three times he proclaimed him
!. self .dupe or knave Three times the
cup was passed TO him and he drained
TO the dregs the draught to his own
.qndoing and his own dishonor. This
man was Howard E. Wright, Speaker
OF the Assembly.
1t is impossible not to feel sorry for
Wright; he has sacrificed so much and
all for nothing He has traded his
political birthright for phantom mess
!: of pottage. He has allied himself to
Burns. and Burns is an impossible pre-
sumption, a creature of luck and acct
dent and lenient courts. Wright has
forfeited the respect of his former
friends and skulking into the Burns
camp with a sense of his abasement
upon him can expect no consideration
even there. He has stamped his word
as worthless, his pledge as of no eff
feet. A wretched traitor, unlike Judas
In that he has no thirty pieces Of silver
and that he has not hanged himself,
IL he shall not hereafter be accounted
DIS one undeserving of trust, and whose
word is the mockery of truth, then is
there no honor in party affairs. l pre-
dict that the career Of Wright is at an
END. This is the penalty he has earned.
Probably he relies on a Burns promise,
but Burns himself, spurned and de-
spised, is in better condition to make
promises than to keep them. Good-by
TO Wright.
Gooa-by also to Huber Of Los An
geles. In the face of solemn agree
ment TO stand by Bulla unless there
take another course, he cast his vote
to-day for Grant. That he went to
: RESPECTABLE candidate matters nothing.
for. a man who exhibits such traits IS
no friend to Grant nor to anybody else.
He Is no acquisition to the forces OF
any candidate, for he cannot be de-
pended upon. My personal opinion IS
that huber will land in the Burns
camp, and, unless greater inducements
be offered, stay there until tents are
struck To lie may be regarded rs part
of politics, but 1t is a poor and scuryy
part which may be left to the Wrights
and the Hubers of the situation. l do
not expect to pay either Of them, but
entertain a hope that in some measure
the estimate in which they are held
may be a warning to others. AS to the
pair; they are gone beyond redemption.
This is not the funeral dirge, but the
epitaphs.
by an omission. l tried to say that
p. Judge Davis of Amador had made a
good speech in nominating Irving NJ.
Scott but the superior genius at the
other end of the wire judged 1t better to
say nothing. Judge Davis will please
accept apologies, for the story he told
of the Oregon was the best the Joint
convention has had a chance to listen
TO Also, the type machine slipped a
=. cog and thus gave to Grove L. Johnson
credit for things I had said myself, a
circumstance not pleasing to either of
e US, He might have said the same things
@ better. but as he didn't, let the truth
prevail.
It is scendalous that members of the
Supreme Court should be here touting
for any candidate. 1t is scandalous be-
You'd expression that the particular
" candidate of their affection should be
Dan Burns but if they advocated the
of thara would
be no essential difference in the viii
lainy of their mission. They have left
. the. bench to which they were elected to
s carry out the law of the land and are
dabbling in politics. They degrade the
ermine, they prostitute high office ard
all to do the bidding of their master.
WHO are their masters? Not the peo-
pie who chose them, not the Leglsla-
ture from which they are trying to Sc
cure more Judges so their burden NAV
q be lightened, but the Southern Pacific
Railroad To its power they bow. At
1t. behest they desert the post Of duty
and. mingling with the motley crew
drink bad whisky over a bar polished
by the vest Of the most notable scala
wagS in California, while they ask
support for Dan Burns. There are
other additions to the push. but the
Supreme Court, as matter of courtesy.
must take precedence. A push with a
pupLe enc COuIL lIISH IS 10 ordinary al
fair. Sometimes the lofty tribunal
makes mistakes in it's regular business.
It's decisions are not always above
. criticism, but people choose TO think it
fair and able, composed of turisus of
experience and without reproach. Off
the bench 1t is human.
Hoary old Mcfarland, do not hest
tate to say, cares more for the inter-
ests of Huntington than he does for
the interests Of California He has Just
' been reelected, and a sorry error the
voters Of this State made when they
did it. Mcfarland is here as Burns
spieler, no better than a Dennery or a
"banjo-eyed" kid. whose labors he Is
sharing. There are many shady fell
lows on the spot for Burns It IS a
regrettable circumstance that McFar-
land should have taken his stand at
their level According to Wright there
are four members of this elevated tri-
bunal engaged in the same business.
IT is a pretty rotten business and such
court needs reforming as badly as
, Burns needs defeat.
The Joint session to-day was interest
ing. because there were no speeches and
. because the time was given to voting.
There were moments of excitement as
,rt,ap on the FIRST ballot BIrng and