The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-17
INSTRUCTIONS ARE IGNORED
? THE ROLL OF
7 DISHONOR
? HOWARD E. WRIGHT, Alameda
. c. B. JILSON, Siskiyou
. c. NJ. SIMPSON, Los Angeles
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CALL HEADQUARTERS sACRA-
MENTO. Feb. 16.-At one stage in a
career of repulsive conduct which has
been the open scandal of the Senate
during this session of the Legislature
Senator C. NJ. Simpson of Pasadena to-
day cast his vote for Daniel NJ. Burns
for United States. Senator.
He did not act as a man in his sober
senses, impelled by an honest motive,
would have acted. Such a man would
have consulted Melick and his col
leagues from Los Angeles, who are
bound with himself to Bulla by
pledge that cannot be broken honor
ably. He has broken it dishonorably
and against the wishes of a constitu-
ency which he has betrayed.
Had the respectable and honor-loying
people of California witnessed the dem
onstration in the Assembly chamber. in
which all the low and despieable ele
ments clustering about the Capitol
participated, they would have blushed
for the fair commonwealth.
Simpson, in spite of his vicious tastes.
nesses, maintained. until to-day. the
outward respect of many of his fellow
men, but since his disgrace was pub
licly proclaimed in joint convention his
old companions and friends regard him
as an object to be pitied and despised.
At his home in Pasadena Senator
Simpson poses as the exponent of the
moral and prohibition elements of So
ciety. He shudders at the thought of
men becoming intoxicated. He is the
champion of the observance of the Sab
bath, and introduces in the Legislature
the petitions and bills for more rigid
observance of the Lords day. He re-
ceived his nomination for the Senate
because his opponent, George Phipps.
had the reputation of looking on the
wine when it is red. The moral people
of Pasadena supported Simpson on the
ground that he was man fitted by
his conduct in life to give expression
to their advanced ideas of morality.
Early in this session of the Legisla-
ture Simpson got into bad company.
The society of deprayed touts seemed
agreeable to him. Step by step he went
from bad to worse until his presence
in the Senate Chamber became re-
proach to the honorable body.
IL the people OL LOS <AISSlcS OOuLlJ
for a minute doubt the truth of this
statement of The Call let them send
to Sacramento committee of Senator
Simpsons neighbors to investigate it.
Should these neighbors come here and
make fair inquiry they would ascertain
that Simpson, before breaking his SOL
emn pledge to stand by Mr.. Bulla. went
to General Barnes and promised the
general that whenever he left Bulla he
would go to Barnes and stay there un-
til the finish. They will find that he
made a like promise to support Grant.
They would ascertain further that the
moral Senator representing the Pas
adena constituency has been boasttng
of his own vices and sounding the
shame of his own debauches-
When the joint convention Of the
Legislature adjourned to-day Simpson
was Immediately surrounded and con-
graduated by the swarms of touts now
infesting the Capitol. The people OF
Pasadena should have seen the gang
that commended their Senator. Never
before was such disgrace cast upon
a constituency of honest people as that
which Simpson to-day inflicted upon
the good people of Pasadena.
In one sense the Senator Is not re-
sponsibIe for his conduct, as he has
seldom been sober since the Legislature
convened. The touts knew his weak
ness and ministered to it. They did
not permit him to get sufficiently
sober to enable him to judge between
right and wrong. He is now landed
in the Burns corral and herded with
Wright and Jilson. His public career
closes in disgrace.
The fact has been known for weeks
that he intended to desert the STAN
card of Mr. Bulla, but Burns ex-
pected to shield him under cover of a
secret caucus The caucus scheme,
however, has failed, and the colonel
is now forced to the cruel extremity of
dragging his followers out in the open
light of the joint Assembly.
Several others may be dragged out
in like fashion, but the end has come
for the Candelaria candidate. The
Simpson episode gives cohesion to the
antf-Burns elements. Public Judgment
expressed in every county of the State
may now demand a consolidation of all
the elements of the Legislature opposed
to the election of Burns.
This evening the story is circulated
by the touts that all the followers OF
Senator Bu.la, save one. belong to the
railroad and that they will go into the
Burns corral when Herrin gives the
signal. There is not the shadow of fact