The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-12
Hand Of Governor Gage Shown in the Fight
for Burns.
All the Influence Of the Executive Is at the Disposal
Of Mexican Dan to Get Votes, but It Seems to
Have Little Effect.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, Jan. u.-Assemblyman c. B. jill
son Of Siskiyou County has made for HIM
helf this day name and reputation
which will cover the State of California
from his home county of Siskiyou, on the
north, to the far confines of San Diego,
and even to the Mexican boundary line on
the south. But more particularly in the
county Of San Diego, where Ulysses S.
son be known from this time on. Here
in Sacramento, in the Senatorial head
quarters of this same L. S. Grant, Mr..
Jilson is already known.
Until yesterday Mr.. JiIson was highly
thought of by all the heutenants, cor
porals and privates who are handling the
Senatorial fight for Mr.. Grant. He was
supposed to be one of Mr.. Grants most
staunch supporters, and was regarded as
true blue. He had been detailed to pre-
pare one of the seconding speeches to be
made in the assembly for Mr.. Grant, and
was to have had his picture taken for the
purpose OF placing before the reading pub
lie through the San Francisco papers a
counterfeit preSentment of the brilliant
ASSENT lyman from far off Siskiyou who
seconded the nomination OF l. ). Grant in
a brilliant speech.
But alas! The best laid plans of mice
and men gang aft agley.' So said Bobby
Burns. and so said the Gran managers
mating and seconding speeches were made
in the Assembly yesterday afternoon, and
the Grant men waited and watched for
the prepared effort of Assemblyman Jill
son. But they waited in vain. The gem
tleman failed to arise and uncork his elo-
quence.
AnXiously they waited for the call Of the
roll. At last 1t was reacheu, and as the
clerk called the alphabetically arranged
list of Assemblymen they held their
breath letter
Then the name OF Jilson was called and
he voted for Grant.
This eased the minds OF Milton Green,
James Brown and United States Marshal
Shine. After all. perhaps there was no
ground for their suspicion that the As
semblyman had fallen by the roadside in
the ardor of his support for Grants can
didacy.
But to-day. in the joint session, Assem-
blyman Jlson gave the Grant managers
a shock from which they have not yet
recovered. When his name was reached
on the Assembly rollcall he cast his vote
for Daniel NJ. Burns. Then it was that
the Grant people realized their suspicious
of the day previous as to the loyalty OIL
Jillson were well founded Nevertheless,
they were surprised beyond measure, and
after the joint session had adjourned they
sent out an army of detectives TO ascer-
tain the reasons, monetary or otherwise,
that AsSemblyman Jilson had for chang
ing his vote from Grant to Burns.
The one man who is responsible for the
change or the vote OF Assem- blyman JilSon
to-day is Hervey Lindley, the ex-Repub-
lican boss of Los Angeles County, who
has large log-rolling plant in Siskiyou
County but who is just at present engaged
rolling logs in Sacramento TO secure the
election of the man from Mexico. Lind
ley is one of the most shrewd political
wire-pullers in the State, and at no time
since his arrival in Sacramento have the
Grant people had the vote Of Assembly
man Jilson.
Lindley called in to assist him in win
ming over the vote of Jilson TO Burns Dr.
c. L. Gregory, the chairman of the Re
publican committee of Siskiyou County
The doctor arrived in the city Monday.
and ever since then he has been working
with his friend, Assemblyman Jilson, to
secure his vote for Burns. To-day nc ac-
compEshed his purpose, and Hervey Lind
ley once more demonstrated that he has
not forgotten that political cunning and
trickery for which he is noted.
1t was the State patronage and the fact
that, If Jilson continued to vote for Grant
neither he nor the Republicans of Siski-
you County would receive any of it. that
was a powerful factor in the change OF
his vote to Burns.
To the Grant people Mr. Jilson gave
his reason for changing his vote. He told
them that DR.. Gregory. the chairman
of the county committee, had come to
him and stated that the Republicans of
Siskiyou County would approve of his
vote for Burns and that if he did so the
Republicans of that county would stand
some show of securing recognition in the
division of State patronage. But If he