The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1899, Page 1

the Library. + This Paper not | to be taken from *e e - The Call “VOLUME LXXXV-—NO. A4, SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ALAMEDA’S TRUSTED REPRESENTATIVE ONE MORE VICTIM GAINED BY THE SOULLESS CORPORATION :::: Howard Wright Enrolls His Name on the Black List § = s s v A WEAK EXPLANATION CONFESSES DEGRADATION Notwithstanding the Most Corrupt Senatorial Situation in-California’s Legislative fiistory the Ballots Demonstrate the Utter Hopelessmess of Burns polled his full CALL HEADQUARTERS, \ SAC MENTO, Jan. 12. | Yesterday K|YOU voted for D. M. Burns, he hav- | i for Grant on the first ballet HOWARD E. WRIGHT OF BERKELEY voted for D. M. Burns, having voted for Bulla on the first econd ballots. as a spectacle that is, fortunate- dom witnessed in a legislative as- fiblage. Jilson is new In politics and tempting bribe of a patronage po- o much for his honesty. it was different. With an record as a legislator with the position of he Assembly, and had he ained true to the he ' obuld have nded and would ve:received alr t any office within gift of the people of the State. In- ad, he has elected to cast his lot with the gamblers, touts, saloonkeepers ©X-RaWLROAD Commi3sionER LARUE IS NOw ONLY oM INTERESTED SPE(TATOR political shysters who form the tail Dan Burnps' kite. In dping this Mr. Wright has the ce [to acknowledge that he is aware that he has not the support of a majority of the people who elected him and whose servant he is. He ad- mits that he was sent to the Legisla- ture to express the will of his con- stituents, but he acknowledges the bétrayal of his trust and declares his intention to turn a deaf ear to the prayers of his people. Beyond ‘the fall of Wright and the defection of Assemblyman O. H. Huber of Log Angeles; to whom more extended reference will be made in this story, the Senatorial situation remains un- changed, 'Burns' weakness was dis- closed on Tuesday and the .events of 3 rday and to-day have only served to.accentuate it. The man'from Mexico came to Sacra- mento with the strength of the South- ern Pacific Company behind him; with the .control of the patronage of Gov- ernor Gage; with a following of polit- ical heelers from every town and city in thé State and with the boast that he unsavory as that of their master. strength must be gained by bribery. principles that | e-endeared him to his constituents, | of Dan Burns. the Mexican’s Contest. strength to-day. had enough votes.and to spare to elect him United States Senator. Now, after | five ballois haye been taken, he'eani ° C. B: JHLSONBF SIS« 13333 Tlserable total of twenty- | six votes, and to retain these he has | | had to resort to every artifice known‘ to political tricksters. | | The Senatorial situation, as. it exists | | to-day, is in one sense more corrupt | than any that has ever disgraced the | legislative history of the State. Every | wirepuller, Federal official and politi- cal pap-sucker in the State has been brought to Sacramento to assist in pro- | | moting Burns’ candidacy. Besides other | influence it required the efforts of four | Justices of the Supreme Court to pull | Howard E. Wright from a path of rectitude and honor and force him to | say the words that seal the sentence of | his own political ruin. So much is ac- knowledged by Wright himself. | One of these eminent jurists is Su- preme Justice McFarland. He has tem- | porarily deserted the bench where the cause of the people is so neglected that | | it requires months and sometimesyears to secure a hearing, to come to Sacra- mento to do the bidding of the railroad company, whose servant he is. and of Dan Burns, who is his master. The Call opposed the nomination of this man and did nothing to secure his| election for reasons stated at the time of the meeting of the convention., and the truth of which is now made ap- parent. | Of Assemblyman O. H. Huber there is much to say, and none of it is to his credit. He came to Sacramento under instructions from his county conven- tion to support Bulla. Last night he attend icus of the Bulla forces | and specifically agreed | to0 remain true to Bulla until a major- | ity of the caucus subscribed to the same { agreement. To-day Huber voted once for Bulla and then, without notifica- tion of his intentions, deserted the | | Bulla camp and went over to Grant. The breach of faith was so flagrant as to lay Mr. Huber liable to the im- | putation that he has accepted of the | 8ogd things that the San Diegan is | creflited with handing out to those who | promise to support his candidacy. Such | charges are being made openly here to-night, and when Mr. Huber goes home to'his constituents he will have to make some explanations that may prove embarrassing. Three ballots taken to-day in joint convention demonstrated the utter hopelessness' of the Burns cause in the Senatorial struggle. After all the boastings and vauntings of strength in |:reserve to be displayed as the voting progressed the Candelaria colonel could not muster on the third ballot to-day morg than twenty-six votes. Even the touts were chagrined when the motion to adjourn came from the Burns camp and was resisted by the Grant men in the convention. Poor Howard E. Wright, the man in whom the people of Alameda once re- posed confidence, cculd hardly utter the words which signified his disgrace. In the State library immediately pre- ceding the session of the convention Bulla and Wright had high words. ‘When the Speaker asserted that he had not solemnly promised to stand by Bulla from the first to the last Senator Bulla replied: *“You lie,” The Speaker sald in a tone of resignation: “It can- not be helped.” In some circles con- tempt is expressed for Wright, but the general expression is one of profound sympathy. It is clear to all that he knew the path of honor and duty, but did not have the courage and manli- ness to follow it. The pressure of the politicians was too great for his weak character to resist. The applduse of | the touts, which proclaimed to the au- | dience assembled In the Capitol the | news that his public career, once so | promising and bright, had ended in | shame and degradation, was not music | to the ears of the Speaker. | _The soulless railroad corporation, in | the pulling down of Howard E. Wright, Continued on Second Page. i FROM THE CALL OF TUESDAY. § T i H The twenty-four votes given him on the first ballot are all that he has been able to secure by means of his political influence, the influence of W. F. Herrin of the Southern Pacific Com- pany, the offer of patronage under the control of Governor Gage and intimi- dation offered by a crowd of political highbinders whose reputations are as From this time forward any accession of To learn the names of the legislators who -accept the money of Burns and the railroad company in return for their votes the public has but to watch for the names of those who, from this time forward, enroll themselves under the Burns banner. | © derson, Wade—2. e - . ® |ing before it was believed. 00068006 ) O00C00000O000COOO0D| Assemblyman Wright's present home - BETRAYER OF HIS CONSTITUENTS STe Efiéi_élfifféiéfSPEAKER WRIGHT'S SUPPORTERS SAY HE HAS DISGRACED THEM The Recalcitrant Assemblyman Bitterly Denounced by Former Friends. NO TERMS T0O STRONG FOR HIS CONDEMNATION Republicans in All Parts of His District Express Their Humiliation Over the Disgrace Which Has Been Cast Upom Them by Their Trusted Representative in the Legislature. WRIGHT’S FORMER FRIENDS DENOUNCE HIM. Barnes—Senators Dick- Luchsinger, Morehouse, Assemblymen Ather- © ton, Clough, Knights, Know- © land, Lardner, Muenter—10. ; © For Bulla—Senators Carrier, © Simpson: Assemblymen Bel- [] ©® For Burns—Senators Bettman, Burnett, Hoey, Laird, Leavitt, Shortridge, Wolfe ; As- semblymen Arnerich, Barry, Beecher, Cobb, Devoto, Dibble, Henry, JILSON, Johnson, Kel- sey, Kelley, Kenneally, Lundquist, McKeen, Miller of San Fran- cisco, Pierce, Rickard, Eugene Sullivan, o WRIGHT—26. © O For © Cautter, Jones, © Smith, Troutt; Assemblymen © Bliss, Blood, Cargill, Clark, © Crowder, Dole, De Lancie, © Greenwell, Chenoweth, Le Bar- © ron, McDonald of Alameda, Mc- © Donnld of Tuolumne, Merrill, © Merritt, Milice, Radcliff, Raub, | © Raw, Works, Huber—27. ] For Knight—SenatorGillette, O Assemblyman Boynton—2. |© For Felton — Assemblymen | © Brown, Marvin—2. © For Scott—Senator Davis, As- © semblyman Dunlap—2. © For Rosenfeld—Senator Fee- © ney—I1. For Bard—Senators H s | § Rowell—2. H 0000000000000 00 Grant—Senators Boyce, Maggard, Nutt, Hundreds of the former friends and supporters of Speaker Howard Wright in his district yesterday expressed themselves in strongest terms of condemnation of his action in voting for D. M. Burns for United States Senator, and from those expressions it is readily seen that the young man has dug his political grave by betraying the trust placed in him by the people of Alameda County. 000000 LETYTT LY Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | in East Oakland and his old home 908 Broadway, Jan. 12. | at Berkeley, which two places consti- | ~The announcement thatSpeaker How- | tute his Assembly district, were more | ard Wright had cast his vote for United | shocked than if an earthquake had vis- | $100.es are absoutels talse, If the Sena- ¥ s.Senator for Dan M. Burns cre- | ited them. ple of Yolo County I believe they would y‘g:«?(fie.:uc;nsurpris.o in this county that| This Assembly district is one of the | decide in favor of Colonel Burns by an | the‘information required substantiat-| most substantial and conservative in i 0\5’,}‘&_“';{3(‘,-“‘5‘-’!“\;‘{'0' the county, and it has always sent 10| woyld decide in f: the Legislature a man with a record for | understood him . lh . kA semblyman who has kn honesty. and steadfaatness: -Pwo-years p-klerce of Yolo, wn - Burne fore, because a quantity of data has been put into my hands by_business men and others, residents of Yolo County, wno have come to me and told me that tue stories are absolutely false. If the Sena- Flint, For Paterson—Senator Tay- © lor, Assemblyman La Baree—2. 0000000000000 0000C00000000000200000C000000000C00D00C000 © For Estee—Assemblymen An- o0 ameda County also or Burns Jif they — sl S L 43 e - A \ i s ,/ N , )5 i having ably represented it in one Jggris- since childhood, was one of the sources ago Mr. Wright was elected to the As-| of my information. F e is a graduate sembly, and his career in the last Legis- | of ;‘hehStage- University, and a man of lature led his supporters to believe that | " FRATACIER o hentie the estimate they had formed of his| sources information that a majority of character was correct, and when he ex- | pressed a desire to succeed himself he the members of the Supreme Court are advocating the election of Burns. A great found little difficulty in being re- elected. | many of the prominent business men of San Francisco, with whom I am asso- | ciated, are for Him. -Some of the residents 2 | of my own district also have spol Throughout the campaign Mr. Wright | me of Burns, but I eannct mention theie made many- speeches and-caused it to | names without arousing comment. be well known that he was against Mr. | T believe that Burns Is the b De Young for United States Senator. | joyal to his friends. He made this declaration in the streets | trained mind and of Berkeley, and on several occasions he declared that no one affiliated with the railroad company should be accorded his vote for Senator. Mr. Wright's initial vote on the question for Senator Bulla was regarded as evidence that he intended to keep his ante-election prom- ises. When he followed this up by vot- ing on the second day for Bulla his dis- trict was satisfled that it could trust him. ‘When he was assailed by the Burns followers.. and charged-with being a traitor to Burns, to whom it was al- leged he had promised his vote, hun- | dreds of his warmest supporters flocked to his defense, and were perfectly will- ing to go on record as expressing their utmost confidence in their Assembly- man. More than this, they repudiated, on Mr. Wright's assertion that it was so, the statements of the Burns men that he was tied up to the railroad com- pany, aaid that as time went by he would be found in the Burns camp. | These assurances of supportand these many offers of defense were hardly ut- tered ere the news came that Speaker | | Wright had fulfilled the prediction of his enemies and had disgraced himself and betrayed his district. ‘When the first spasm of surprise had passed away indignation was rampant, and hundreds of the very best men in Mr. Wright's Assembly district de- nounced in unmeasured terms the ac- tion of their representative. No one acquainted with the public feeling in Berkeley or East Oakland can possibly argue that there is the least Kkindly feeling toward Mr. Burns in those dis- tricts. Mr. Burns’ character and meth- ods of doing politics are as far re- moved from the character of the men whom the Seventh Ward and Berkeley ould have to represent them in the United States Senate as Maguireism is removed from McKinleyism. Having lived in the district many years, and t fitted No man is more He is a man of as great organizing lature, Mr. Wright knew, and it was his duty to know, perhaps better than any other individual, that Mr. Burns is not the choice of that large district. Further down in this article will be found expressions of opinion concerning Mr. Wright from men who stand high- est in the Republican party in the Speaker's Assembly district. These men are neighbors, and have been sup- | porters and admirers of Mr. Wright. In their own words they express sur- | prise, indignation and abhorrence of the action of their representative at Sacramento to-day. After surprise and indignation. curi- osity was aroused, and everybody was demanding to know why Mr. Wright's position on such an important matter had changed. No valid reason could be suggested and several arguments were made that would not have been pleas- ing to Mr. Wright, and which that zen- tleman might consider libelous if he saw them in print. Neither was the situation improved | to any marked extent when an after- noon paper published an “explanation | which Mr. Wright had given to a re-| porter in Sacramento. Mr. Wright's | explanation is as follows: | “For over a week I have been engaged | in investigating carefully the charges made by the newspapers against Colonel Burns, and I am ready to say that I be- | lleve them to be unqualifiedly false. I imean the charges that he was short in | his accounts in Yolo County and else- | whfre and that he is a desperate crim- | nal. | "% es. T had opportunities for tnvestiga- | tlon this week which I'did not have be- At/ SUPRE{"\E JUDGE. MFARLAND > ES A HAND (N THE TA'S;NA'w RIAL: FIGHT mare SPEAKER WRIGHT'S.:—:YO.TE ~CAUSES SURPRISE.