The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 11, 1897, Page 1

PRICE FIVE CENTS. CHOSEN FEW PERKINS Personnel of the Senator’s Patronage Slate Made Public. FAT OFFICES FOR SIX COLONELS. George Stone Scheduled for the Superintendency of the Mint. FRIENDS OF ELI DENISON ARE FURIOUS. Aspirants Who Have Béen Ignored Denounce the Senator’s Duplicity. SACRAMENTO, Cal, Jan. 10.— The Porkins slate leaked out late to-night and created commotion in the ranks of where it was was to of the the Perkins following, found that Colonel George Stone walk into the superintendency Mint over the prostrate political of Senator Denison of Alameda. Senator Perkins seem« to have com- | ceived a strong antipathy toward the reprasentative men of his own county. First it was Waymire who was thrown Now it is Senator Denison. Letters and telegrams from all parts of the State continue flowlng in to the legislators, saying that their constitu- ents ure not for Perkins and that they want a man of brains and energy like Samuel M. Shortridge to represent this great State in the United States Senate, Al THE PERKINS SLATE. Apportionment of Patronage as Planned by the Man In Washington. SACRAMENTO, C Jen. 10.—There was much tribulation in the ranks of the faithful after the arrival of the last train to-night, when it was learned that Sena- tor Perking’ slate had been made public through an unfortunate leak on the part one of its custodians. The path of poli- tics sometimes meanders through dark and narrow ways, and the slate is of itself a map of those w down. The friends of Eli Denison are furious. speculated somewhst hereto- fore as to the reason why Colonel Stone seemed so close to Billy Hamilton, man- enator Perkins, and why Colonel They had ager Stone spending his time and breaking his neck for Perkins, but the slate of which the following is a copy, fells the For Superintendent of the ~Colonel George Stone. br of the Port— ohn P. Jackson. the Port— Colonel Paris Kilburn. ¥ Will For - Collec Colonel For Surve, Naval Officer — Colonel m 3. ¥ Collector milton. Internal Revenue—Colonel Daniel Cole. For Postmaster — Colomel S. W. Backus. Every mother’s son of them, Irom Alpha to Omega, from the crown of his head ‘o the so'e of his foot, a colonel, and Perkins a colonei at thar! All of them men for civil offices! The friends of Senator Denison and of other aspirants for those fat piums of Fed- of military "VOLUME LXXXI.—NO. 42. corpse | | | EOMFORTS oF AN HOME D MAaNy | THE DAY OF REST IN SACRAMENTO. | eral patronage are inquiring why Colonel Stone and the other colonels should be placed above Senator Denison and the rest. Tbey claim that they have done | ten times more for Senator Perkins ana | the party than the preferred colonels, and | they are porspiring in 'the neighborhood | of the collar about 1t. | Thelate trains brought up Samuel M. | Shortririge, Charles M. Shortridge, Colonel | | Isaac Trumbo, Senators Mahoney and | Morebouse and & large number of mem- | bers and others, and. the hotel lobby is alive with pélitical buzz. —_g | 1 SHORTRIDGE GAINS DAILY. | Men Who Feared to Antagonizs | Perkins Are Now in Open Revolt. the Republican State Committee nor to the | Alameda County Committee. When Red- | field Proctor came out to brace up Repub- licans with the sinews of war C. N. Felton offered to give $5000 it Perkins would con- | tribute a like sum. Perkins pleaded poy- erty; said be had lost money in the steam- | ship business and could not help the varty. Itwasthen that John D. Spreckels came forward with §5000. “‘Perkins is making his fight to-day on promises of Federal patronage. The old Federal ring has pzroeled out every- thing.” Fomte SUNDAY AT THE CAPITAL. Members Find Time to Read Let- ters Giving the Drift of Public Opinion. SACRAMENTO, CAL, Jan. 10.—After a | week of fog and damp, almost freezing | SACRAMENTO. Can, Jan. 10.—The|air, a Sacramento winter Sunday has { sentiment against the re-election of | dawned upon the few visitors, left here in George C. Perkins to the United States|a double sense, and has exchanged the Senate is hourly growing stronger, and as | tule fogs for a cloudy sky and a light a result Shortridge stock is perceptibly | breeze, so raw and cutting thac even the | advancing. The ballpt next Tuesday will | acclimated are hugging their grates in- be a surprise to those people who have | doors and telling the shivering stranger accepted the talk of Perkins’ strength as | that this is an exceptional season, and truth. Men who were on the fence a few | that Sacramento has more sunny days days ago, fearing to antagonize a candi- | than Genoa, the Riviera, Athens, Algiers, date who was regarded as strong and | Marseilles, Los Angeles and Milpitas put | powerful, now speak their opposition | together. When the frozen victim who | openly. | bas been dragged hither in the waka of | Atime-honorrd Reputlican who is not | the legislative ship moans bis doubts he | slated for s Federal office said to-night: | is handed “The Bee Souvenir.’ which | “Ihave read Perkins’ letter to Waymire, | gives columns of figures for the truth of | and I declare that it is insulting. The idea | the felonions boast, and which contains { that Waymire should be excluded irom of orange and the cabinet because he is poor shows in | what light Perkins holds those who are | not rich. 1 predict that there will be a poor man’s ticket nominated for every State office at the next general election. | photographic pictures | banana trees in full bearing in the gardens | of the town in the depth of winter. : | Against such proof as that of the cam- | era, which is not like an editor and cannot | tie, what can the poor, shivering mortal | The people will cast about for some effec- [ offer except his pale gooseflesh. And if | tive way of resenting this insuit which | the disgustel mortal finds walking dificult Perkins has cast on the poor men of Cali- | by reason of his shoes carrying several fornia. {pounds of mud from the bituminized ““When the fight was on for President, | pavements, which are the dirtiest and | when Major McKinley needed votes, who | muddiest in the world, he is referred to gave of their means to aid the Republican | the City Council, one member of which’ cause? It is history known to men who | body declared right out in meeting that were in the thick of the Yight to carry this | river water flowing from a State prison or JS“te that Perkins contributed neither to [a manufacturing town was the most B/ 1)1 Aok Senator Androus of Pomona and Senator Voorheis of Amador Talked Business Even if There Was an Adjournment. ! poets, orators, artists and statesmen to fill | '| groves of ‘the sunny south and the foo! 7 wholesome water in this wide, wide world | to drink, and another member of which declared that he had known cases where | good horses had been poisoned by drink- | ing water that had come from deep wells. Some of the few legislators who did not care to encounter the yaried seductions of wicked San Francisco femained here and went to church and spent the remainder of the time reading letters and telegrams in the well warmed and comfortable Sen- ate and Assembly chambers. Those let- ters and telegrams were of & highly inter- | esting character and expresud in vigor- ous language the iaet that the yeople did not want Mr. Perkins re-elected to a posi- tion which he had shown his incapacity to fill. They said that it was time that California should wake up and take a more conspicaous and honored place among the States of this Union, which she could never do with men of small mental caliber. It is many a long year since California was proud of her repre- sentatives, and it is many a long year| since her intellect, her statesmanship, ber breadth of vision, her progressiveness and her resistless energy were fittingly em- bodied in her representatives in the United States Senate. Since that time, long ago, of broad men Californians have ofien had to blush for the effigies which have sometimes repre- sented the State in the most august body of statesmen in the world. She has blushed for shame at their incapacity, | their narrow-mindedness, their selfish- | ness, and she has wept with chagrin for their sins. 8o out of very shamefacedness the Golden State is now raising a wail of pro- tesl against the perpetuation of what is nothing less than a crime against the | people, imisrepresenting their intellect, their learning, their eloquence, their knowledge and their appreciation of true statesmanship. Her summer suns that know no clouds, | ner balmy airs mingling the refreshing saltiness of the quiescent sea with the soit and languorous odorsof the orange and | the rose, the one ripening, the other | blooming side by side in the happy Corist- mastide, have created a new nation of up the great blanks left both in the old | and new worlds by the corroding tooth of a decaying and a degenerate age. And so there has come to the thoughtful, the no- ble of the golden land, & yearning and a regret, a'yearning for a better ambition in the man who places the ballot of the free- man in the .box, which is the only throne we know or revere, and a regret that the fairest State in the fair sisterhood should be so cruelly caricatured in the Nation’s Capitol. . People cannot help drawing a contrast between the two men now standing in the focus of their vision above all the rest just nowin interest. They cannot help com par- ing the learning, the manhners, the elo- quence, the courtesy, the cordiality and the human warmth of heartin the one and the ; lack of these desirable qualities, or the | possession of them in the lesser degree by the other. They cannot help recalling the energy, the unsellishness and the commanding influence that have not been the characteristics of California represen- tatives in the Senate of the United States for lo! these many years. It would not be charitable to name the gentlemen who did not refl=ct the civilization of the re- motest West in the council halls of the Nation, for some of them have been dead for a long time and others are dead in in- fluence, in State pride, in everything pro- ductive of good to the State which has toved and honored them, not wisely, but too well. Tardy though it may be of expression, the sentiment is in the air that the time has come for a better order of things. It reaches us here on the perfumed wings of the zephyrs that fly from the orange hills of the North: It comes hither Jetters and rushes hitherin the captive lightning that flashes through the wire, wiping out both time and distance, and the murmur of it is growing deeper and louder, like the warning rumble of the earthquake. Who is there, leaving aside all question of personal friendship, who does not com- pare the capacity and the qualifications ) | wind to prey at fortune.” of Samnel M. Shortridge with those of George C. Perkins, and who does not say that if Mr. Perkins represents the intel- Mr. Shortridge would represent it more truly and better? That is what is being done here to-day in the Cavitol building, in the hotels, in | the lobbies, in the saloons, on the side- walks, in tbe houses of friends and in the family circle. There is only one result, one opinion growing out of that compari- son, and that is that Mr. Shoriridge fairly ‘ontclasses him on all points. " “Republics are ungrateful,” s a saying asold as the big redwoods of California. But it seems to be ever new here, and there are quite a large number of unfor- tunates who are saying it. If republics ao not within the ncxt two or three days cease to be ungrateful, and if they do not display a keener appreciation of neglected merit, the railroad ties for a radius of 100 | miles of this place will be measured by a grand arniy of patriots whose claims upon the party ‘‘have been whistled down the Among the discontented, it may be said rebellious, statesmen who have toiled for the party by an incessant wagging of the jaw are about twelve colored men who have been here since New Year's day hop- ing against hope, and waiting most patiently for the fulfillment of the prom- ises rashly made before election to le re- pented of at leisure afterward. Three colored men have beer provided with positions of trust and emolument, among them *“Long John” Wilkins of San Fran- cisco, who was early in the session re- warded fora life of unswerving devotion to the party by the dignified and re- ponsible office of rear porter. The left and the lorn sigh when the tall form of “Long John" looms up in the lobbies, draped in a brand new overcoat and orna- mented with a pair of spectacles which impart to him au.air of great wisdcm, the envy of his less fortunate colleagnes. The other night the weary waiters or- ganized a caucus in a corner of the office of the Golden Eagle Hotel and passed a verbal resolution to the effect that if their claims were not recognized very soon they would withdraw their support from the Grand Old Republican party and would throw the whole weight of their influence with the Democrats, who appear to be- come violently in love with the colored man whenever that party is ina hopeless minority and can’t do anything for them. 1t was stated at the caucus that Lieuten- ant-Governor Jeter had expressed the opinion to one of their number, Mr. Lafon, that it was a burning shame and that he would try to do somathing for them. The caucus decided that if the colored men were not given ten places they would go over in a body, cast their fortunes with the Democracy and ask it for a job. “Long John" deprecates the action of the colored men and says that it does not speak well for the loyalty of any man when Le allows himself to be governed by selfish considerations. James Kiddey, an old-time warhorse, who made some very clever speeches dur- ing the last campaign ou the subjects of protection and the financial issue, is among the ranks of the unappreciated and unrewarded here. He says that it is hard that a'man like himself, who did so much | for the party, should be left out in tne| cold, while men who did little or nothing for the cause are enjoying the ease of mind which.accompanies a fat joo. A whole lot of women, some of them very good looking, have failed to get any- thing to do in the way of clerkships and ‘have gone home convinced that politics is demoralizing. 1t is against all precedent that a young afd pretty woman should not be able to get an appointment in a California Legzislature; but stranger things than that happen in politics every day. Major Don Jose Ramon Pico of the classic shades of Berkeley is here again looking aiter a claim which he has pre- sented for several sessions, and whicn failed to pass at the last session because it went too late to the Governor. The major raised a company of soldiers in this State and equipped them at his own expense during the war. At that time he had ues of land and houses and cattle, while he had a regiment of vaqueros in his service. Since the close of the war he has become poor, and he asks the State to re- ‘imburse him for the money expended by bim in the time of the Nation’s peril. Another well-known San Franciscan is domiciled here watching the Senatorial fight. He is Sol Berliner, and he fills the post of caretaker of the Shortridge head- quarters in- the Golden Eagle Hotel. He is said to be the best judge of 3 good cigar whom Sacramento has ever seen. —_———— WHY PERKINS 1S LOSING. Legislators Tiring of the Methods ‘Pursued. by “The Echo of Steve White.” Bince the ad journment of the Legislature last Friday the Shortridge forces of the Senatorial contest have gained a decided advantage. No defections have taken place and some gains of strength are re- ported. 1n the Perkins camp the swagger- ing confidence manifested early Jast week has given way to apprehension. It is pos- itively known that some of the members who were lured into the Perkins corral or caucus at Sacramento wili vote on the first ballot for Samuel M. Shortridge. Speaking of this atiempted corraling of Republicans at Sacramento an Oakland Assemblyman saii yesterday: “In view of Perkins’ treachery in his dealings with Judge Waymire I regard myself absolved from all obligations imposed by the pre- tended caucus. Again, it has been made clear to my mind that a caucus represent- ing less than the number required to elect a United States Senator on joint ballot has no binding force. ‘Where Republicans have attained the highest degree of intel- ligent independence the rule of King Caucus is despised. “‘A caucus for the purpose of discussing the merits of candidates is one thing and a caucus called to bind men hand and foot 10 the cause of a singie candidate is quite another. In every State of the Union Republicans of inteliizence and publicspirit have emancipated themselves from the obnoxious slavery of the old-time cancus system, which forced men to sur- render their convictions of wrong at the tidding of a majority. *I observe.” continued the Assembly- man, *‘that Perkins is aptly named the *Echo of Steve White.” That’s what he is. The Democratic United States Sena- tor guides him and leads him in Wash- ington. . Why cannot we have a straight- forward Repubiican of character, firmness and intellect to represent California in the United States Senate? In my judgment the time is ripe for a change. If Perkins fails to get elected on the first ballot, as 1 believe he will, his followers will ledve him.” It transpires that in the letter which Perkins wrote to Waymire, seeking to ex- plain his double-dealing in the indorse- ment of Horace Davis for the Cabinet, Waymire was told in lancuage that can- not well be -misconstrued that Cabinet offices were reserved for the rich. Way- mire was inferentially advised to look for some other position or increase his | income. ‘The ex-Union veterans are decidedly sensitive on this particular point. One who served at the front through the war, when Ferkins was at home fighting against giving any mcre recognition to the negroes, expressed his indignation freely: *'It is not enough,” he said, ‘‘that the rich should manage the trusts and con- trol the industries of the land, but here we have a United States Senator from California saying to an old Union vetera ‘You are too poor to live in Washington and hold a position in President McKinley’s Cabmet? 1t is my opinion that Major McKinley will take the measure of Perkins when Federal patronage is to be given out. It's com- mon talk, you know—and no one disputes it—that Perkins refused to contribute money to the Republican State Central Committee. While h2 was holding back John D. Spreckels pat up $3000 for the cause of protection and prosperity. Per- kins gave his jawbone in bis own behalf, and so complicated the fight that Califor- nia would have been lost to the party had it not been for the ability, zenerosity and loyelty of John D, Spreckels, Major Frank, McLaughlin, Samuet M. Shortridge, Judge' ‘Waymire and a host of other Republicans who stand in to win tights,” right and CHOICE 0 THE PEOPLE Senator Morehouse Pre- dicts Certain Victory for Shortridge. WILL PLACE HIS NAMEIN NOMINATION. Confident That Merit Will Win in the Contest Before the Legislature. SAN JOSE CITIZENS EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS. Enthusiastic Support Given to the Canlidacy of Their Former Townsm .1 SAN JOSE, Can., Jan. 10.—To-day’s Mercury contained the following: State Senator H. V. Morehouse returned home from Sacramento yesterday for a two days’ visit. Inthe hot fight for United States Senator now being waged at the Capital, Senator Morehouse is an enthusi- astic supporter of Samuel M. Shortridge, and he is very hopelfut of the latter's ultis mate success. “The chances of Samuel M. Shortridge,”” said Senator Morehouse yesterday alter- noon, “are growing brighter every day. The Perkins managers are making great claims and lots of noise, but it is a case of whistling to keep up courage. The real facts of the case are that they are alarmed over the present status of affairs, There is a great deal of feeling against Perkins at the Capital. His betrayal of his life-long friend, Judge Waymire, in the matter of indorsement for a Cabinet position bas lost the present Repnbiican Uniteq States Senator many adherents. “The claim of the Perkins managers that they had sixty Senators and Repre- sentatives in their caucus is baseless. They bad just fifty-seven members all told. The general séntiment-is thaf unless such a meeting has enough members present to carry out its action it isnot a caucus. As there were not the necessary sixty-one members present several who were in the caucus do not consider themselves bound to vote for Perkinsand have come over to Shortridge. “We have now fourtéen votes sure for Shortridge, and there is every indication that we will have twenty on the first bal- lot next Tuesday. Perkins’ only hope is to secure enough Democratic Senators and Representatives to swell his vote to the required sixty-one. Itis my opinion that this hope will be biasted, as I have been informed that the Democratic mem- bers have held a conference and have agreed to vote only for members of their own party. ““All we have to do is to prevent the election of Perkins on the first ballot, when his vote will be at the maximum, because a number of members were in- structed to support him by the conven- tions that nominated them. On the sec- ond bailot the friends of Wavmire will break away from Perkins and the voté of Ehortridge will be materially increased. 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