The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04
PIECRUST FOR THE SENATOR.
Burns Tous Using All Their Energies Now to Force
Country Members to Come to Their Can
didate by False PretenSeS

while writing friendly LETT
terS to Barnes and BuIIa.
The Grant men may regard
the promise to Perkins,
implied or otherwise, as
campaign piecpuSt and
proceed to break it.
The touts are disappearing from the
scene, but this does not signify that
| they will stay away from the Capitol.
1t is highly probable that they will be
here in force next Monday ready to
badger members on the proposition TO
go into caucus For days and days the
touts will swarm around the Golden
Eagle Hotel and then all at once they
will vanish. No doubt they obey in
structions to go home and recruit
more touts, or take a run to some in
terror town and make a secret play to
get this man or that man to come to
Sacramento and urge some Senator or
Assemblyman in the Grant, Bul1a or
Barnes camp to join the scheme for a
caucus to break the deadlock
During the past three days Assem-
blyman Clough of Plumas has been
besieged by touts of the Burns corral.
They urge him to join in the caucus
scheme. One of the men who has been
harassing Judge Clo1gh is from CJro-
vile and the other is a we'll known tout
! from San Francisco. The veteran jurist
was patient under the fire of many in
terviews, but when he deemed that for
bearance had ceased to be a virtue he
told the chief tout to go to the lower
regions for a caucus. The incident, so
| far as it relates to the representative
of Plumas County in the Legislature, is
| closed.
1t comes to light that special efforts
are being made to enlist good-natured
but weak country editors in the work
of soliciting caucus. 1t is known that
Mr.. Holden, who is here from Wheat
land, has produced letter from Editor
burst of the Wheatland Four Corners
in which the statement is made that the
people of Wheatland who once were
favorabIy disposed to Barnes, Scott and
Grant are now. of the opinion that
Burns might be a possible popular can
didate The clearing away of the cloud
on Burns reputation is mentioned as a
point in the colonePs favor. No one has
presented a petition signed by a ma
jority of the Republican voters of
Wheatland or letters from any consid-
cradle number of voters asking the
Representatives of that locality to join
the colonel in a scheme for a caucus.
There is hardly doubt that the plan
of getting Holden here with letter
from burst emanated from the organ
ization.''
Holden will soon return home with
about the same sort Of feeling that o.
A. Hale carried when he. left Sacra-
mento for the Garden City.
Assemblyman Raub, who represents
Yuba and Sutter counties, has had his
little experience with this latest thing
in the line of Burns touts. Mr.. Holden,
who, with Editor burst, evidently con-
stitutes that "undercurrent of feeling
for Burns" which is just now inflict-
ing the Wheatland district, has made
his headquarters at the Assemblyman's
desk for the past four or five days and
has argued long though rather thick
ly the Mexican attainments and the
wishes of the people at home that he be
elected.
Asked about the matter last night,
Mr. Raub said: Now, 1 come from a
Republican county, and Wheatland Is
the heaviest Republican district in it.
My opponent, man named Hicks,
lives there, but I was given to under
stand that 1 would run all right, not
withstanding. There is ordinarily a
Republican majority of seventy-five in
that city, but when the election came
along l got the knife good and strong.
Hicks piled up a majority of fifty-four
on me in that precinct, so when Holden
came on me the other day with a
proposition to vote for Burns did not
understand it. He said the people up
there demanded it, and kept at me for
three or four days, until finally I
called UP the election and asked him
what right the people of Wheatland
had to dictate to me when they had
treated me the way they had. I told
him l thought burst, who runs a paper
called the Four Corners, was one of
those who knitted me, and he at once
either wrote or telephoned to him what
1 had said. Next morning got let
ter from burst telling me all this stuff
about Burns and how the feeling up
there was and presuming to dictate.
/ got so mad 1 threw his letter in the
fire and wrote him a reply acknowl-
edging It, but giving him no satisfac-
tion on the Senatorial proposition.
II have nothing against Burns, but
I am not going to vote for him. I think
we hold the key to the situation, and
we would be fools to quit and make
him a present of this office when I
think we stand the best chance of win
ming it ourselves. That's the way the
rest feel, too. If this man burst wants
to represent the feeling of the people
of his district for Burns he had better
send a more fit representative down
| here to do it, anyway"