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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1899. o Apartments on K Street Wh ters to count. The candidates who have resorted to bribery and corruption are sending home for reinforcements from the ranks of the place hunters. The low down element of society are coming to Sacramento to help Burns. Paid lobbyists are silently serving Grant and spending his money to cor- rupt the legislator. Good men in the Legislature, astounded at the specta- cle, wonder what has become of the moral forces of California. Instead of sending letters cities and counties should send their foremost citizens to the front. The disclosures of to-day may alarm the State and cause an awakening of the masses. Other let- ters, similar to that received by As- semblyman Clough, may be brought forth, as there is not the slightest doubt of their existence. There haves been no gains of strength for Grant or Burns during the past twenty-four hours. It transpired late to-night that Dan T. Cole wrote the letter to Judge Clough asking the latter to sign a pledge to vote for U. S. Grant for the United States Senate, and offering as a condition of such signing to pay Clough's campaign expenses. The knowled~ that Cole wrote the letter came out In this manner. Short- ly after the election Judge Clough told a prominent Senator that an attempt had been made to bribe him to vote for Grant. The Senator asked Clough to narrate the circumstances of the at- tempted briber— and thereupon the lat- ter said he had received a letter from Dan T. Cole offering to pay campaign expenses in consideration of a vote for Grant. Upon receiving this info tion, the Senator went to San Fran- cisco and there told Milton Green and AT SN WAL \) gre the Coin Is Paid Out. well cooked meal at which wine | of good quality and generous quantity are the main features. If| a bargain is concluded the guest | is taken in hand and directed to t ided over by the| Mr. (}rznn'fl These quarters are sit- | 1e quarters pr ispenser of you largess. uated at 611 K street. The stair- way leading to them is narrow | and the surroundings, as well as e rooms, are dark and gloomy befits the purpose for which ey are intended: The average egislator who accepts a bribe does not care to do so where the light of day is stronger than is necessary for the proper inspec- tion of the denominations of the greenbacks that are to be salve for his wounded consc t 1 cel | The gentleman who. presides | ceal the fact that other Grant managers that if such question, T would take my bag of methods were pursued as that men- bread in one hand and my staff in the | tioned by Judge Clough serious trou- other and so travel through my dis-/ ble would come to Grant. trict.” Evidently Dan T. Cole was called in During the past twenty-four hours|to square the transaction with the the Grant campaign managers have re- | Plumas County Assemblyman. The sorted to all the methods known to the | yecord of corresponderce in The Call's adroit and subtle to induce Judge|possession shows that Cole’s letter was Clough to return the original letter | written prior to December 8, 1898, as on from San Francisco wherein an offer | that date Judge Clough wrote a re- was made to buy his vote. | sponsive letter to Cole’s explanation. It is significant that disclosures of at- | 1t gseems that Cole sought to smooth the tempted bribery come to-day from two | jatter over by saying that Clough was Senatorial camps. The railroad agents | a; old friend and a poor man who was Who are behind Burns are seeking bY | geserving of financial assistance. Judge the offer of bribes and the utterance of | ciough's reply does not in any sense threats to induce Assemblyman Brooke | roct the statement that Cole made of Sacramento to line up for Dan. The | {16 offer to pay campaign expenses. Grant managers are now face to face| gere js a copy of the letter sent to with the knowledge that their over-| . o iyo"cole: tures to obtain votes by unlawful means are known to leading men in the QUINCY, Dec. 8, 1898. State. | Hon. Dan T. Cole—Dear Frierd It makes but little difference so far | Dan: I mnever said to any one that as the law is concerned, or, indeed, in a | you offered me a bribe for any pur- moral sense, whether the bribe tendered | pose, and never thought of such a consists of coin in hand or the promise thing. You should know this with- of official emolument. In either (‘ilse“’ut being told. the offer is corrupt and tends to bring disgrace on the State and scandal on | Fecommending me to a place on the slature. judiciary committee. I fear there are Little attempt has been made to con- | many men better qualified for chair- Milton Green and |man. I ‘rust after our long ac- & here is 1own to fan IIr:}szmrs Brown have been disbursing | quaintance you will never believe I : B S money in the interest of U. §. Grant of | malk, remarks d lizi Bes Dot mik e nolitical so- 1= : t | make any remarks demoralizing to does not mix in-the:political so | San Diego. It is an open secret that | Tou'® T¢ 1¢ mpossible that I gcfln ~ietv of the Capitol. his occuna- | se mel i he cs 5 ciety the Capitol, his occupa ‘:ttv:n::éZrc:»:};grffrdu:g«‘J-co(segluriaaifig\WS“ San Francisco before the ses- tion being of a nature to make | quite o number of defeated candidates | 502 but if I do, shall of course call temporary seclusion a necessity. |for the Legislature. It was known dur- | ©1 you. Yours very truly, » one but those zlcqunimml; with the secret knock or pas word are permitted to enter. Re- peated knocking by an unedu- cated hand brings no 1'c.<])0nsc.' The interior .of the apartments is | an unknown world to all save the purchased few, and they of ne- cessity plead ignorance. The apartments should have over the door the motto: “He who enters here leaves| honor behind.” There however, as little doubt as to the existence of the is, apartments as there is concern- ing the purpose to which they are put. y as a shock to the good people of many districts who went to the polls on election ‘day and con- scientiously deposited their bal- lots, believing that by so doing they were assisting in sending men to the Legislature who would vote as their consciences dictated and not as their interests la Mr. Grant’s lieutenants have established these same po- litical roadhouses for the very purpose of blunting consciences and paying the price for the same. DIRECT OFFER OF MONEY FOR A VOTE Judge Clougl-r“li’roffered Fin- ancial Assistance by a Friend of Grant. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 6.—Here is a case of at- tempted bribery for the Legislature to investigate. A crime was committed by some one in San Francisco, who | wrote a letter to Assemblyman G. G. | Clough of Plumas County, effering to | pay his' election expenses in any sum | ranging from $300 to $500, provided he | would sign a pledge inclosed in the These facts may come ing G. G. CLOUGH. To-night the Grant managers blame the campaign that Green was| handling money for Grant. The Re-| I thank you for| , MOSE GUNST HAS WENT consent, of Mr. Grant or of either or any of his managers. I have known | Judge Clough for a great many years. I also felt a aeep interest in Mr. | Grant’s campaign, and sought to Cole wrote to Judge Clough offering to pay from $300 to $500 if the Assem- blyman would vote for Grant? Is Dan T. Cole purchasing Grant votes for his own amusement and pastime? Does his salary in the United States Mint CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 5.—The names of twenty- five Assemblymen and sixSenators were printed by the Examiner this mornir_:.i: as the thirty-one legislators W h_o will “admit at this time that they intend to vote for Colonel Dan Burns for United States Senator.” The publication was made as a part of a poll of the Legislature on the Sen- atorial question and the whole was one of those rare fakes for which that pa- per is noted. Of the thirty-one Senators and 1}5- semblymen who are credited in the BEx- aminer fake poll as having admitted that they intended to vote for the col- onel, there were but two who could be found to-day who stated that they had made any such admission, and those two were Senator Bettman and Assem- blyman Kenneally of San Francisi A large majority of the re twenty-nine said they never I either questioned or approached by a representative of the Examiner and in- terrogated as to their choice for Sena- tor. There were two who had been inter- rogated, but they had informed the Ex- aminer representative that they had formed absolutely no choice for Sena- tor as yet, and furthermore they did | not intend to give exor ! dividual choice or preference until the time for balloting came. The publication of these thirty-one names of Senators and Assemblymen as acknowledged supporters of Burns’ will work cruel injustice in some cases, and it certainly did cause a great deal of indignation among those who had been credited as admitting their prefer- ence for Burns, when they never had | done so. | These legislators put in the day en- tering denials to the allegation and de- nounced the publication as a fake of the first water. They were in many in- most emphatic in the language v used because of the false light in which they had been placed, not on before their own constituents, but be- fore the people of the whole State. Among those who were most indig- nant was Senator Dayis of Amador | County. The Senator, in discussing the subject, sald: “I have never talked with any re- 3 OPEN HOUSE AT BARNES' SENATORIAL HEADQUARTERS. publican State Central Committee, or General Barnes for exploiting the let- at least several members of the execu- | ter. As a matter of fact The Call did tive committee, suspected it, and not get its information from any can- sought to confirm their suspicions by 1 didate for Senator and is In a position direct inquiry. In the light of subse-|to give General Barnes more light on quent events it is now clear that U. 8. Grant and several of his associates were in possession of the secret agree- ment of the railroad*to support Burns, and therefore a watch was kept on Grant’s money-spending campaign. To-night it is said that D. M. Burns is asserting with no little emphasis that letter, agreeing to support a certain | candidate for the United States Senate. | The letter was written and mafled in San Francisco by some one in sym- | pathy with the aspirations of U. S.| irant Jr. for the Senatorship, and it | wis received by Judge Clough at his | home in Plumas County. There never | S0me one Will go to the penitentiary. was a clearer case of attempted brih- | AIODE the reports circulated is one . and if the Legislature has any re. | With the color of truth, which holds gard for the purity of Senatorial elec- tions, it will not hesitate to elicit all | CamPp to be bribed and that the Grant the facts. | managers boyght the recruit. The spy To the lasting honor of Judge Clough | rgturned to Burns with the proof that be it said that he promptly spurned the | hi§ Vote had been purchased. offer and wrote a letter in reply, which | The situation here is so full of peril shows that he is a man of sterling in- | to the good name and character of the tegrity. His reply was manly and State of.California that the leading cit- characteristic. In substance he wrote |izens of the commonwealth should ask to the bribe-tender “I acknowledge | for a conference with their neighbors, the receipt of your letter containing an | to devise some means of giving strength offer to purchase my vote for United | and encouragement to the loyal and States Senator by the payment of my | true men of the Legislature who can- election expenses. My expenses in the | not be intimidated by threats or campaign have not exceeded the price | tempted by bribes. of the two-cent postage stamp on this | Thousands of letters come to Sacra- letter of reply, and the amount is| mento daily in which the people im- therefore too small to tzke into con- | portune their public servants to elect sideration. Rather than sell my vote | a worthy man to the United States in the Legislature on this or any other | Senate. The time is passing for let- | that Burns sent a spy into Grant's| the subject than he has ever received. | The simple fact that the controversy {as to the real meaning of Cole's ad- | vances was in progress as early as De- cember 8, and that several days if not weeks before that time the secret was out, ought to absolve General Barnes | from any blame for bringing the corre- spondence tc the attention of the pres However, Dan T. Cole addressed to- | night the following letter to General Barnes: | SACRAMENTO, Jan. 5, 1899. To General W. H. L. Barnes—Dear Sir: I understand you are threaten- ing to exploit a letter written by me to Judge G. G. Clough after his nomination to the Assembly. I un- derstand, furthermore, you, while pretending to regret ‘‘dragging the honored name of Grant through the slime of politics,” feel it your “bounden duty” to besmear the son of General Grant for the purpose of advancing your own Senatorial aspi- rations. This is to notify you that the letter written by me to Judge Clough was not written with the knowledge or serve him whenever I might honor- ably do so. with the letter to Judge Clough or with me, I uesire that you do so with | full notice that they are in no way responsible for it and had no knowl- edge of it. DAN T. COLE. Milton Green is so much alarmed over {he turn affairs have uow throws the whole blame of the at- tempted bribery on Dan T. Cole. To- night he writeg this rather remarkable letter to shield Grant: SACRAMENTO, Jan. 5, 1899. If any letter was written to Judge Clough by Dan T. Cole offering him financial assistance in his campaign, it was wholly witnout the knowledge with his campaign, and any such financial assistance, if accepted, would have been rendered out of the private funds of Mr. Cole himself. MILTON J. GREENE. Can any member of the Legislature remain indifferent to the demand for immediate investigation when he reads | these foregoing letters in referenc to | the subject? Can the Legislature hesitate to de- mand the production of the letter which 1f you insist on coupling the name | of Grant, or either of his managers, | taken that he | of Mr. Grant or of any one connected | Jjustify him in making such unsolicited | tenders of financial assistance to old friends? To-night the wires carry the news to every city in the United States that a Federal office holder employed in the | S8an Francisco Mint offered to bribe a | member of the California Legisiature [to vote for U. S. Grant for United | States Senator. The topic is now a | national scandal, and the eyes of the | whole country are on the Legislature now in session here. If ever the fair fame of California was involved it is now. The time has come for the masses of honest and | patriotic citizens of the State, for farm- ers, merchants, bankers and profes- sioral men, to speak out in favor of honest and honorable methods in the choice of a United States Senator to succeed Hon, Stephen M. White. LEVINSON A BENEDICT. Portland Journalist Weds a San Ber- nardino Young Lady. SAN BERNARDINO, Jan. & s & Levinson of Portlana, Or., city editor of the Oregonian, was married this evening to Miss Margaret M. Mogeau. The wed- ding took place at the residence of the bride’s mother near San Bernardino, and was solemnized by the Rev. J. C. Rollins, pastor of the First Congregational Church. Mr. and Mrs. Levinson go to Monterey for their honeymoon and will reach home about the middle of the pres- ent month. porter or any one else about voting for Colonel Burns. 1 am not in a position te do so. The man whom I think should be sent to the United States Senat {from California is Irving M. Scott, and THE EXAMINER POLL A BARE-FACED FAKE Raw Work by a Reporter of the Yellow Paper. Indignant Denials and Protests Entered by Nearly All of Those Quoted as Favoring Dan Burns. County made the same statement that Mr. Johnson did. Both were approached | by an Examiner representative and | asked to express a prererence for Sena- tor, but both declined to do so. where- | upon they were recorded by that paper as “admitting that they intended to vote for the colonel.” Assemblyman Dibble of San Fran- cisco never at any time stated that he intended to vote for the colonel. A mblyman voto of San Fran- v incensed at having been dmitting” that he intended to vote r the colonel. He never at any time made any such state- , in fact he has at no time ex- ed a Senatorial preference. emblyman Knowland of ameda was in the poll as an “admit- Mr. Knowland never on and has not Senatorial cisco v I choice to any one. | Assemblyman Cargill of San Benito | was among those misrepresented. He has as yet formed no preference. Assemblyman Rickard of San Fran- cisco stated that he had ne declared himself for any candidate for Senator. but had repeatedly stated that he | tended to vote for the caucus nominee: Not until he was called u did he intend to announce | Assemblyman Kelsey of Santa Clara | County said he had never taken any- | body into his confidence as to whom he intended to vote for and declared he was absolutely unpledged. Assemblyman Arnerich of Santa Clara denied absolutely that he had ever informed anybody that he intended to support Burns for Senator. ; emblyman Cobb of San Francisco “I have never declared to any- sald: body whom it is my intention to sup- port for Senator.” man Raub of Sutter County Sena- Assembl ne d himself torial proposition. Senator Hoe that he had Senatorial pr on the - given ex erence and no Examiner regard to the matter. Senator Burnett of San Francis nied absolutely that he had ev any time told anybody whom it was his intention to vote for. He was not prepared to state yet the man of his | choice. And so it we 0 de- at all the way down the line. Vario rs and Assembl men were publ having declar for Grant, Bulla, Beale, Knight or Fel- ton. In some few tances it is tr that legislators have expr d pref ences, but the poll was simply the com- pilation of a member 6f the Examin staff, based upon no actual information or data whatever, but made up as he thought the vote might be upon the first ballot, and printed for the purpose of bolstering up the candidacy of the man from Mexico. But the publication of the fake failed of its purpose. It has ulted in mak- ing about twenty-five angry states men as can be found gathered in any capital city in the United States. ready some of them are receiving tele- grams from their constituents asking if they have been correctly placed by the Examiner as announced supporters of the candidacy of ‘“Mexican Dan.” Those unhappy leg tors have been compelled to keep the wires hot with explanations and as each gram goes out their anger increases and the lan- guage they use in denouncing the Ex- aminer’s fake Senatorial poll becomes stronger and more expressive. oz “MAGE” McLAUGHLIN IN A NEW ROLE CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 5.—'Mage” McLaughlin, manipulator of the golden feather and political Pooh-Bah at the throne of Al- calde Burns, came out in a nice new role here this evening—that of political high- wayman. Moral suasion and that *“ur- bane manner” that has made ‘Mage’ famous from Oroville tu Santa Cruz have falled to do much business in the way of Burns votes since the Mexican coterie descended on the Golden Eagle bar, I fact, any good old political “‘has been? could have effected just as much in the same time, and it Las become apparent to the whole push that what cannot be had for the asking—or for that matter the buying—must perforce be had by other means. Force was necessary and force must be u: A d. It was new busi for the “Mage.” The good old con was more to his liking, but it was one of the enalties of hig unholy associations and va ected to gl el 80 ‘out on the line on might have gone well enough had not gone up against the wrfnglx‘n;l: on his first attempt. Sizing up the Golden Eagle office as the most prolific field for operations, he armed Rimseif eah a pocketful of bar checks and a stern ex- pression and sallied forth. At the bot- tom of the stairway he bumped into As- semblyman George Radcliffe of Santa Cruz County, one of the cleanest young men_in State politics. Jingling his -bar checks threateningly and letting out a link or so of that stern expression he seized the Santa Cruzan by the arm and dragged him by main strength into one of, the anterooms of the hotel. 0 are you tied up to for Se 2 he demanded in tones that. wees Joned by a newspaper mas kv | you righy s P! n at the bar. ‘“‘Are | _ Radcliffe wasn’t scared a bit. He had een the ‘“‘maja in his harmless mo- man ever pretended to question him in 7. | @ United States Senator at present and if we can but get him into the contest | ments, ar e fel + I think he is far and away the best of | denied that he rod hoyiitie Lo, Simply any or all of the candidates now in the | that the new Robin Hood had ane wre Lm field. In my judgment this matter of |and he did it most emphatically. Mo | electing a Senator should be governed | Laughlin’s nervy graft made him good | not by what is best for us as individ- (#0d mad. He jerked off his hat with one uals, but what is best for the State of | fi'fld'v?‘& other he jammed down on the California. There can certainly be no | wure, & ' & P28 that rattled the glass- | question that the best interests of this| «pm ti < | State would be subserved by the elec. | e T'n';‘“meg&;;:‘,efi;:'n‘&ah:dk(now of, tion of Irving M. Scott, If we can only | man Burns.” 0 your get him into the contest. Feeling as I| But Mage knew better. “Rad” had = | do in this matter you can see how it |Vote, and he'd have to give it up. Run- would be impossible for me to state | Ping his hand threateningly down on his | that I was for Colonel Burns.” ,I‘;Q}E‘r?“"‘i&‘:-I(?l‘;‘i‘fi'“‘ ed an immediate de- Senator E. I. Wolfe of San Francisco | ness: and 5o maae g1t was serlous busi- wes also credited as being among those | Safd he, in no unmistakable terms: *I who Pad jannounced their intention to | would not vote for Dan Burns if my vote | vote for the colonel. Senator Wolfe. in | would elect him and all — w. y % | speaking of the matter, indignantly | ;:)?;l\ne;‘ ‘anél huu might as wefiri’m‘ffii ‘:p | said: your mind to it.” | “I have never informed anybody as to | ,, .t WaS emph | whom I intended to vote for for ited | i{“;xfiff&"]fif‘-i States Senator. I am not in anybody’s | nerve of the e | camp. The Senate is not balloting for | tered, fell, zed by another smash at ed table, and the golden stood up in anger. The mbryo highwayman fal- and out came the deadly bar 1Lhi~('kfl. but not in anger. Maje quit the | T have not yet determined upon my |road right there, and these weapons were | choice. This is not the time for declara. | Put to their original liquid use tions to be made, in my judgment.” Assemblyman Grove L. Johnson was algo in the list of “admitting ones.” Mr. Johnson denied that he had ever | stated to any human being the name A new Robinson Crusoe has been found. The man, according to a Peru- vian telegram, was found on_one of the deserted Galapagos Islands. He had not A : spoken to or even seen n human being for of the man he intended to vote for for | fourteen years, and his body was covered Senator. ‘wlth a thick hair. He has lived on wild Assemblyman Knight of Sacramento | birds, shellfish and water