The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 5, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCI CO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1899. 5, 8 HOW THAT FAMOUS PETITION LATEST DESPERATE EFFORT OF THE RAILROAD TG ASSIST DAN BURNS PROVES TO BE A GENUINE FAILURE SUCCEEDED IN SE FOUR NAMES ON A TESTlMONlAL‘.l Descended to the Use of| False Signatures. Adam Andrew, Henry Crocker | and Mose Gunst Were | Touters. Some of the Names Were Signed “for Business” Reasozs and Others to “Oblige a Friend.” HESE are desperate times in the p of one Dan Burns, who is| ;er voring to force the | State to “vin- making him | nator because the hon- f the commonwealth has had | » publish his criminal tv 1e past two weeks the touts of | itcast have declared that ion made it neces- re would be needed votes These allega- d by many to be power to deliver everybody interested in s curious to know what Mr. Burns had up his the force” has been discov- revelation shows the h the Southern Pacific has been put to promote the utable candidate. that it plainly wdiwork of Man Burns is credited more political sense such boomerang methods, nands of the railroad | must sink or swim | fight they are mak- the position where he the people of Cali- ssessin nted by errin ran away with the idea circulati petition among uses of San Francisco that nd are at its through to secure a s that would appoint a cheme popula- | the tools of the ded in inducingsixty- unity to put their | nt setting forth that ot be disgraced by tor. The rea- sixty-four lone- wires, 1ture Lture n succee | CURING SIXTY- < individ for placing them- | selves in such unenviable light will be d with deep interest by the peo- ple of Califo This unique document was forced up- n these members of the community, by Adam Andrew, president a Mineral Water Company, | a pet enterprise of the South- , founded by th ate Colonel and in which Burns is kholder. Added ilroad push was rtner in the promotion of 1es, known to fame as Police Commissioner, ap- Governor Markham. Mr. | yerat, pushed his face into making a Republican by divers and sundry al names. What en to shippers as rates will probably and why certain mem- shipping trade went around st to sign the paper | another feature public will probably acquainted. signers at the nature were frank did not want | and that they ould have any effect: did not thir oth that re indebted to Burns fo in years past, and oth to see some- thing done at Sacramento. The anxiety moters of the document to make a fair showing is illustrated by the fact that in two in- ances at the names were for- geries, in the case of Willard Co., i ter the fine | st appears, not good | 2 partner Gunst or | whose names appear | of our name is unauthor- ized and absolutely contra- ry to our wishes. Mose Hoppe said: “Mose E timent in our | ancisco, but | certainly gave | with the | bill of | to de-| s be attz 1to the | ity o nting the senti- community of San | NGER—I signed licitation of He Gartén: ht it to me. I did not look into the matter. I merely did it as a favor to Garten. I am now sorry that | senior member of the | Co.—I do not know | ned the petition. If our name | p sre then ny brother must have | eigned. If I hai been present no such signature would have been written. I don't care to have my business men- tioned in connection with politics or have it mixed tp in the Senatorial | fight in any manner whatever. l F. E. BRIGHAM of Brig-| ham, Hoppe &Co.—Our firm has acknowledged no such action and any appearance | Gunst was canvassing the sentiment in our neighbor- hood, but I can ssay no member of this firm gave him any encouragement. THOMAS KIRKPATRICK of the Jesse Moore, "unt & Cq both the firm and myself a personal matter of friendship to Burns; also for a favor done to me by Mr. Burns in the past. T. COHN, bookkeeper with Rinaldo Bros.—1 signed the petition with knowledge and consent of the firm. thought it amounted to nothing. simply thought that if the members of the Legislature selected no other man there would be no harm in electing Burns. B. D. PIKE of B. D. Pike & Co.—I signed for the firm. I thought the deadlock ought to be broken. Besides I have known D. M. Burns for twenty- five years. I would rather see De Young elected, but next to him I would just as soon see Burns win. think he would be a bad man for Cali- fornia. However, I don't particularly care who gets it. FERNAND LEVY, of the firm of J. Kahn & Co.—The petition was pre- the 1 WAS SIGNED. J. C. Johnson died he left an estate to which there were a number of heirs. | Mr. Andrew married one of the heirs and is practically one of the fami He and Mr. Burns are personal friend: and when Mr. Andrew asked for the| signature of the J. C. Johnson Com- to his petition in behalf of Mr. the family and I saw no reason | the T t should be denied, and | as the president of the company I added the name of the firm to the peti- tion. As I stated it was purely a fam- ily matter and politics cut no figure in the case, although politically 1 am a | Republican. | SOMERS & CO.—F. A. SOMERS—I signed the petition at the request of | Mr. Adam Andrew, a partner of D. M. esteem him highly. Our firm sells him a great deal of hay and grain, and as it was a favor to him, I granted his re- | quest. By giving you the facts in the matter I don’t want you to quote me so it will hurt my business. I am a Re- publican. SPLIVALO C. R. CO.—C. R. SPLI- VALO—A friend of mine handed me the paper and asked me to sign it and I did so. I had no interest whatever in the matter. He gave me no particular | reasons wh signature 1 should affix m to the paper; he simply asked me to sign it as a matter of friendship to him. I don't care to give the name of the gentleman who brought the petition to me. I did not take any interest in the matter and did not sign out of 1 signed for | I I don't | ~ GRANT'S FAITHFUL 28 WHO EMULATE THE FAMOUS “306.” quaintance, and 1 signed it matter of busin General Barn is my choice. T would tell you more about it, but cannot for publication. I guess most of the signatures were obtained | under the same conditions—simply a | business proposition. I really don't |care a d— who is elected United | States Senator. Business is business | with me. I cannot tell you for publi- | cation who presented the petition. I signed because I was asked to do so. J. C. JOHNSON & CO.—E. H. HOR- TON—As president and manager of J. | C. Johnson & Co. I signed the peti- tion for the election of Daniel Burns | to the United States Senate. I signed the petition several days ago and did €0 at the request of Adam Andrew, president of the Shasta Mineral Water Company. I have no objections to stat- Burns in the Shasta Mineral Water | Compa: I am unacquainted with Mr. Burns, but affixed my signature to the paper handed me because of my friendship for Mr. Andrew and because I saw the names of well known business men of | this city attached to the paper. ‘When you ask me whether I am in fa- vor of Mr. Burns, you place me in a peculiar attitude. You know when a friend comes to vou and asks you to sign a petition you can’t very well re- fuse him. Mr. Andrew did not explain to me why he wanted me to sign it, but simply recommended Mr. Burns to me as a gentleman who has been treat- ed unkindly and asked it asa favor that I sign my name. As I said before, I do not know Mr. Burns, and all I know of him is what I have read in the news- sented by a business man of my ac- | ing why I signed the document. ‘When | papers. I do know Mr. Andrew and friendship for Mr. Burns. W. S, brought the petition around to me and I added my signature to it. I know Mr. Burns and believe he would make | a strong representative in the Senate. | I am a member of the Republican party | and would feel satisfied if Mr. Burns were chozen. COGHILL & KOHN.—T. B. COGHILL—I wish it clearly understood that I have not signed any petition favor- ing anybody for United States Senator. If my name appears on any such petition it is a forgery. KITTLE—Mr. Henry Crocker | WILLARD BROTHERS— JULES WILLARD—I never | signed the firm’s name to | the paper in question. 1 am aDemocratand donot con- | sider that I have any right | to interfere in Republican | politics. 1f I had any dis- | position to support Burns’ candidacy 1 would not have signed the firm name, but my own as a personal mat- ter, for I strongly depre- cate the idea of business concerns meddling in poli- tics. Since my brother in- forms you that he did not sign the petition, and 1 know positively that 1 did not, it is evident that the signature does not repre- sent the firm nor its indi- vidual members with re- |gard to the Senatorial aspirations of Dan Burns, and, therefore, the signa- | ture has no weight as far i as we are concerned. | GEORGE A. KOHN of COGHILL & | KOHN—I do not remember of ever having signed such a petition and could | not positively say whether I did or not | unless I saw that signature alleged to | be mine. However, I certainly do not | prefer to see Burns a Senator, as Mr. Scott is my choice first, last and all the | time. I would have no hesitancy in | trusting the affairs of this State in his hands. I repeat that I have no recol- lection of ever signing anything in favor of the election of Burns. JOSEPH M. O’BRIEN of the firm of O’Brien & Sons, carriage manufactur- ers, Polk and Golden Gate avenue, was asked by a friend to sign the petition and requested that nothing be said of it as he feared it would make enemies for him. He would not state under what conditions he signed it nor his reasons for doing so. FIDELITY MUTUAL AID ASSO- CIATION—J. L. M. Shetterley, secre- tary of the Fidelity Mutual Aid Asso- ciation—I signed the petition on behalf of the firm. Three of my personal friends came to me and asked me to do so. Two of them were men who would do any favor for me and I would do anything for them. When I stated that I was a Democrat they asked me as a citizen and not as a partisan to sign the thing and I did so. Burns is not my choice. There are other men whom I would rather see in the halls of na- tional legislation, but as they are not prominent in the fight I did not con- sider that I was harming any one. H. LEVI of the firm of H. LEVI & CO., grocers, 117-119 Market street—I did not sign the pe- tition nor do I know anything of it whatever. Jacob Levi Sr., the other member of the firm ated emphatical- ly that he had nev heard of the peti- tion before. ED W. McCARTHY of the firm of McCARTHY BROS,, tea and coffee im- porters, 113 Front street, declined to discuss the matter. He said he did not consider that the petition meant any- thing or that a person by signing it urged the election of D. M. “There are many other persons whom I would rather see United States Senator than Burns,” he aid. of the firm N & CO. 0 Market . Cluff as a personal favor to sign the petition. I would not have done so under other conditions. He is a friend of*mine and 1 considered that I should do it for him. So far as I am concerned, I am not in politics and would like to have my name left out of the affair. I might say that at the time of signing there were but two candidates at the top of the list, and I considered that strength must be thrown with one or the other to break a deadlock, since I believed my signature would « » no harm. EDWARD KLAU of HAAS BROS.— I did not sign that petition. Perhaps some other member of the firm did, but I do not know. Dan Burns is not my preference for United States Senator. 1 have not discussed the matter with the other members of the firm, and 42 not know their preferences. MAURICE ROTHCHILD, president of the Wertheimer Company, is in New York, was there when the petition was circulated, and consequently could not have signed it. Morris Feintuch, sec- retary of the Wertheimer Company, said: “I did not sign the name of our company to that petition. I do not know who did. Personally I have no preference for Dan Burns. One of the directors of the corporation may have signed it, but in that case it would not indicate the opinions of the others.” ACHILLE ROOS of ROOS BROS. am a Demotrat, but I believe a Demo- crat can sign a ‘petition to the Legis- lature without interfering in Repub- lican party affa even if the Legisla- ture is Republican. Personally I have no preference for D. M. Burns, and the petition does mnot really indicate any. It says “without prejudice to the other candidates.” It is o loosely worded that it means almost nothing. FRANK D. BATES of BATES & CO. I want to see the deadlock broken, and while perhaps Dan Burns is no better than the other candidates he seems to have the best chance, and I think he is as good as any of them. LEON GUGGENHEIMER, of MACK & CO.—I did not sign the petition and have really no particular choice among the candidates. I believe, how- ever, that some member of our firm did sign the paper, just to oblige a friend who was circulating it—I do not remember who it wa; EDWIN B. CUTTER of CUTTER & MOSELEY—I have no particular in- terest in the Senatorial fight and cer- tainly have no preference for Dan Burns, but I signed the petition to oblige a friend who was circulating it. My own choice would be Irving M. Scott or Dr. Pardee. The petitiort was presented to George W. McNear and strong efforts made to induce him to add his signature, but he absolutely refused, even when it was urged that the signing of a petition has but little significance. Henry Crocker was the “friend” who presented the petition to each of these gentlemen. WILLARD BROS,, MORRIS WILLARD—I never signed the name of my firm to any paper pro- mulgated in the interest of Burns’ candidacy. I am a Republican, but I want no Dan Burns in mine, for I don’t consider that he would make a fit representative for the State of California. If the firm’s name is signed to the paper it was done without my authority. The only one besides myself who is empowered to sign the firm name is my brother, Jules Willard, the junior member of the concern, and I do not think that he would do so in a case of this kind without consulting with me. How- ever, he may have done so on his own responsibility as expressing his in- dividual feelings in the matter, but I certainly was not a party to it. Had ADVERTISEMENTS. Think of liv, ing a year or two after one is dead; dead to all practical in- tents and purposes,— dead, with the auto- graph of death in- scribed on brow and cheek and lip. Thousands of women live for a year or two after all help- fulness and happiness have gone out of their lives. When a woman becomes hope- lessly helpless and _ unhappy she is practic- ally dead. 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