The San Francisco call., 1905-01-06
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OXNARD STILL CONFIDENT

ramento for the present"
One feature of Fisk's fight that is
creating comment among the politi-
clans Is the fact that he is the first
Federal officeholder, in San Francisco
who has made a fight for the Senator
ship while serving under the Govern
ment. Others have come here to help
candidates, but none to seek office
themselves. The late Collector, John P.
Jackson, interested himself in Perkins
fight, United States Marshal Shine was
here for Grant in 1889, and John C.
Lynch, Internal Revenue Collector, was
here for Burns, later for Perkins and
now for Knight and Flint, but never
before has a man holding a Federal of
flee tried at the same time to become
United States Senator.
"Supposing Fisk should receive a tel
egram from the Postmaster General ad-
vising him that his duties were in San
Francisco suggested an Assembly
man, who, by the way, is not in the
Fisk column. He went no further than
the suggestion.
Fisk departed for the bay this after
noon, as Gid also John II. Lynch. There
will be a general exodus of candidates,
legislators and attaches to the me-
tropolis tomorrow. and Sacramento
will relapse into it's normal state until
Sunday night. Then they will come
surging back and the real life of the
Senatorial contest will begin. Legis-
lators who have been in doubt how
they were to cast their votes will have
made up their minds or received their
instructions; combinations will have
been decided upon. The last fierce
struggle to secure votes before the bal
loting begins will be inaugurated and
the legislators will find themselves
pulled hither and thither by a whirl-
wind of conflicting interests, the ma
jority to remain where they stood or
had been put, but some to waver and
change base, perhaps more than once
in the last two days before the ballot
ing should begin.
Knight and Flint are going down to
see Herrin and each will try to find out
whether he is to receive the votes that
the "Southen Pacific" controls. The
Ruef men at present are simply wait
ing.
Like soldiers on the field. who know
naught of what is before them. they
await the command that will send them
into the fray. Somehow or another
they seem to think the man they land
on will be the Senator. They seem to
believe that other votes, controlled In
various ways, will go in the same di-
rection. incidentally some of them do
money for a man holding the dignified
title of Assemblyman. Ruef's men,
some of them say, will never go for
Knight The San Francisco boss dis
likes this particular Senatorial candi-
date too much for that. they allege
1t is said that Knight treated Ruef
with disdain at the Chicago convention.
and that the. last named has treasured
this up.
Candidate Knight and Governor
Pardee were to have had talk to-day
to renew Fluctuations and pledges of
friendship, but when the Senatorial
candidate called at the Capitol the
Governor was deep in some matters of
legislation and knight said he would
call another day. If he had had any
doubts on the matter, the publication
by The Call of the fact that the Gov
ernor had his hands entirely off the
Senatorial fight convinced Knight that
the Governor was in no way obstruct-
ing him.
Assemblymen from above Tehachapi
are still being sounded as to a caucus.
and one will undoubtedly be held by
the northerners early next week if the
south has not by that time united on a
man and elected him. The southern
delegation is holding many caucuses.
1t is understood now that when the