The San Francisco call., 1901-12-20
SENIOR SENATOR
PERKINS COMES
OFF THE FENCE
The President and Bard
Compel Him to De-
scend.
Ousted Faction of Labor
Party Goes to Law for
Help.


Senator Bard and other members Of the
California Congressional delegation. as
sisted by Charles M Belshaw and sus-
tained by the President, have compelled
Senator Perkins to declare himself. 1t
appears that the President heartily ap-
preciates the humor of the situation. Our
senior Senator has held for a long time
the record for clever balancing on the
fence, but at last he has been compelled
to alight.
For the past year Perkins has been
representing to the anti-boss forces in
California that he was ready to join Sen
ator Bard in recommending change In
the Collectorship of Internal Revenue,
First California District At the same
time he was representing to the machlne
politicians of the State that he would not
join in a measure to bring about change.
Before leaving California for washington
the adroit Senator found his position on
the fence quite uncomfortable and sought
to, extricate himself by transferring the
delegation on the ground that the SEN
ators could not agree. representatives
Loud, Kahn, Metcalf, Coombs, Needham
Woods and McLachlan resolved that the
Senator should not escape in that direc-
ton and accordingly refused to mix In.
In the meantime President RooseVelt was
apprised of the Senator's dilemma ana
whenever the latter visited the White
House the President advised him to settle
the collectorship differences with senator
Bard.
Forced to Declare Himself.
Finding all avenues Of evasion closed
the senior Senator had to come down and
enter a protest against the removal OF
John c. Lynch. Everybody in Washing
ton is laughing and the Presldent ana fa
Senator Bard are being congratulated Tor
their success In forcing the Willy senator
to declare himself 1t is reported that
the President was highly amused when
Senator Perkins remarked: AS CHAIRMAN
of the Senate Committee on civil Service
Reform 1 cannot consistently recommend
the removal of an efficient public serV-
ant"
Senator Perkins will keep his agreement
with the machine to retain Lynch until
he can find some adroit method of break
ing it, but break it he will by. some twist
or turn for he cannot afford to remain
in the position of being responsible for
the retention of Lynch. Ultimately he
will be constrained to accept the sugges-
ton of the President and come to an
agreement with Senator Bard on the Col
lectorship. The President signifies that
he will not make a change In the office
against the protest of the senior Senator,
hence Perkins must take the whole re-
sponsibility for Lynch's retention. The
President is obviously determined that the
Republicans of California shall know
where the responsibility rests.
Next Senatorial Contest.
The subject is bound to have an i'm
portant bearing on the next Senatorial
age of the Revenue Collectors office to
justify party squabble for the spoils,
but here principle is involved. Lynch,
and the active servant of the Southern
Pacific, repeatedly left his Federal Of
99 in Sam and engage S he 1st SSS o%-
est kind of political work to de-
feat the will of the anti-boss Re-
publicans. After the defeat of the bosses
1f tor IQoV- y7aI7
used the prestige of his Federal posi-
ton to fight Republican candidates for
the Legislature who refused to take or
ders from the railroad. In sustaining
right to expect the support of anti-boss
Republicans in the next contest for
that Belshaw, Greenwell, Nelson, Cald-
well and other hold-over State Senators
regret that Perkins has seen ut to cast
his political fortunes with the avowed
The ousted Delaneyites of the Union
Labor partys executive committee have
taken their grievances to court. They
have obtained an order to restrain the
Parryites from mutilating or destroying
the records of the committee. The plain
tiffs in the case are:
w. P. Delaney ]. c. Lane John McKeon,
Tim Ryan. H. J. Power. W. H. Hutchinson,
W. P Stanton, F. Cassidy. ]. Mutually and j.
A. wilson
The defendants are:
G. w. Aubertine, j. w Crowley. j. S. Parry,
Duffy James Roxburgh G. Krimphoff "
Bello. A. H Ewen, NJ Fitzpatrick. John
Quinn, ]. J. Harper ]. Bowling, S. Simmons,
NJ. Holloway and P. Frederichs
Restraining Order Issued.
1t is alleged by the plaintiffs that
George w. Aubertine has been advised
by Parry, Ewel and others to destroy
entries in the minute book of the COM
mittee.
Judge Murasky yesterday issued re-
straining order, returnable at 10 a. m.
on December % in Department of the
Superior Court. The plaintiffs gave a
bond of $500 to cover any damage that
Aubertine may suffer by. reason of the
order of the court restraining him from
mutilating, destroying or expunging GER
tain entries in the minute book of the
executive committee of the Union Labor
party and the originals of the rough
minutes of the meeting of said commit
tee held on December 10, and from deliv-
ering them to any other person or re-
moving the same beyond the reach of
the process of the court.