The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 17, 1899, Page 1

The Tall VOLUME LXXXV-NO. 79. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1899. This Paper not to be taken from the Library. L3+ e S ———— PRICE FIVE CENTS. AGUINALDO WILL | SELL HIS PEOPLE Washington Government Not in the Market to Buy. Call Office, Riggs House, Washington, D. C., Feb. 16: ib,\' water. War De- J‘ complica- situation. It is believed at ‘the partment that there are tions in the Philippine This belief is based on the latest reports -from General ‘Otis, who | intimates t} 1e will not pursue an aggressive campaign until re- inforcements reach him. General have sent an expe O'Q"&'0‘000‘00'0‘0@*—0090~00-§~4\0@00:® Lo S supposed to [ ler i on against | / in size and Cebu, third c importance in Philippine | group and. the of the] island of the e. The department offic expect to hear at any time that Cebu is in American le to pre- ther or not the fall of the | possession forces, bu 1 be preceded by a battle. On top of all this| comes the informa-| tion that Aguinaldo| has expressed a will- ingness to call the| insurgents off for a| cash consideration. | None = o - of officials of & B al notification | ¢ f the rebel chief to ,; f at the expense of | + ernment and of the mis-| & s who are serving | 4 govern- the previous | ’resident - of the| the state- public” S O e e i S A g looked upon as more than g out to Spain and his ichery are too well however, by this Govern re is not the | that his | ion w ntertained. | said at the War Depart- ] 3 neral | ¢ e 1ow decided. He has no ‘,} immediate object in extending|é 1 ront, which already covers|? five miles. Probably this | : be impracticable against| ¢ vean troops, but it is safe| ¢ 1gh in the case of the Fili-| | atter would never| ¢ have shown the courage and ez-| ; ce they have if they had not | ¢ been misled as to the zlghtingif qualities of the Americans. It| ¢ uld be folly to drive the scat-}‘ ative army into the jungles | until Otis has reinforce- | Department officials be- is his intention to allow | inos to mass where they | 1 to strike and dis- | Every time he hifs | determined i 1 less O ] Our troops now{g 1burbs, in- g many . villages “in the | Island of -Touzon, lloilo and a|& number of hamlets he Tslands | & of Panay, and G al Miller-has ,‘;. probably tured or will soon & x 8 capture Cebu:: - These are the § three principal cities of the Philip- | & pines and the 7 points for the | & distribution of stipplies.. The pro- 8 lem of living will soon worry the ‘i:' ve troops. Tt will be practi- | & g cable to send our expeditions to destroy whatever:sources of sup- plies remain open to them, and already Aguinaldo’s deluded fol- lowers are begiming to ask whether he can feed: them, and it is believed they will soon desert | in large numbers. The navy will OSSOETOSIOLINES 183 | R s AR S804 83 XYBRCH STIOMBEH SRR XSOIREI0HEE TR 800X SR SR I0NBRA |cities against attack, scattering every considerable body of na- {making incursions into the coun- |try, the Americans will have an ‘opportunity to impress on the | minds of the Filipinos the mean- |ing and sincerity of the Presi- idem's proclamation. That they | see that supplies are not received | will eventually see the folly of re- | sisting American authority and Under this general plan it may |rejecting the generous offers of not be mnecessary to do much |this Government in the selfish in- fighting. By simply defending the | terest of Aguinaldo, all of the | ¥ tives that forms near our lines, | cutting off communications and| War Department officers firmly believe. NATIVE UPRISING ' PROMPTLY NIPPED Were Clearly Bent on Mischief. MANILA, Feb. 16, 6:10 p. m.—The ineffectiveness of the Mauser and other rifles in the hands of the Filipinos has not been better illustrated since the | fighting hereabotts began than it was | this morning. For five hours a large force of insurgents, which. had ad- vanced in the night from Pateros upon the position of General King’s brigade, kept peppering away without hitting a | single American. The enemy had evidently mistaken the withdrawal of the troops to the former position for a retreat.’ + When the insurgents appeared-this morning they came over the open fields |'with shouts of “Viva Republica’ Fili- | pma!” and made three vigorous at- tacks upon our lines, but were, each Continued on Fifth Page. = P iy DDA S S SO S PR S S S S S e a2 ol o ol e e o e e e o e e | The Tagals Within the City of Manila | ° | The Pasadena Senator Basely Betrays His ' Constituents and the State. SOLEMN PLEDGES BROKEN WANY 1 s AR\ ) - “Three old Sports out for boodle and lush, “WRIGHT, JILSON and SIMPSON, have joined Burns push.” CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Feb. 16.—On January 11, 1899, the Legislature of California met in joint session to cast its vote for United States Senator. At that time Daniel M. Burns, who at Secretary of State, and who upon the witness stand testified that he falsified the records of the Secretary of State’s office to cover up a defalcation—the amount of which is over $31,000, and has not up to the present time been paid back to the State——received twenty-four votes for United States Senator. Since that time, notwithstanding he has had the support of the Executive Commiittee of the Republican State Central Committee, the Southern Pacific Company and all the gamblers and criminal element of the State, he has suc- ceeded in adding but three votes to his original | list of unspeakables. chardcter of these accessions illustrates the character of the contest the Mexi- can candidate is waging. Burns' most conspicuous conquest is the discredited and Speaker, Howard E. Wright, who was convicted by the Assembly Investigat- ing Committee of accepting $1650 from U. S. Grant Jr., and then betraying every confidence reposed in him by voting for D. M. Burns for United’ States Senator. C. B. Jilson is second on the list.. He confessed in open Assembly to ac- 2 one time was The deposed - ex- -y | : LAt MR} ane mviavm ;g7 7% B B R e e e e e e e e ae aed cepting $400 of Grant’s money, but violated his obligation, betrayed" the peo- ple whom he represents and is now voting for D. M. Burns. 'Ever since his treachery was exposed Mr. Jilson-has-been on an uninterrupted spree.. The moral revulsion in his case has been manifested in something closely. resem- bling mania a potu—a state which peculiarly fits him for association with his Mexican confreres. The third accession, Senator C. M. Simpson, is equally as discreditable, being a combination of imbecility and alcoholism: Simpson has been’ a spec- tacle for days, his condition exciting the keen disgust of ‘his colleagues. The abstention from drink imposed by the laws of Pasadena, his home, has, it is said, impelled him to break all bounds since he came to Sacramento. His hilarity, however, has not obscured the fact that, in winning him from Bulla, the Burns gang has made him violate his sacred pledge and cover himself with everlasting” dishonor.” They have taken a mean advantage of an old man out on a jamboree. These are the representatives who have been won over to Burns: by what methods the people may judge. They typify his entire campaign for the Sena- torship. ‘It is a campaign of boodle and booze. How do the people like the pic- ture? Can the Republican party survive a campaign of this character resulting in the election 6f D. M. Burns?. / DIPID 4O EOE Pt Ot Ot O tO IOt VIOt D40 404000000000 t0+DIDtPtPt00It-PeIeIPPeDe SO eO+d+0edede the : | : SHAMELESS SIMPSON DESERTS TO BURNS Plied With Liquor Un- til He Was No Longer Capable of Realizing ool - - INSTRUCTIONS ARE [GNORED 090990000900 THE ROLL OF : _istow | HOWARD E. WRIGHT, Alameda § C. B. JILSON, Siskiyou I C. M. SIMPSON, Los Angeles 900000 0 © CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 16.—At one stage in a career of repulsive conduct which has been the open scandal of the Senate during this session of the Legislature Senator C. M. Simpson of Pasadena to- day cast his vote for Daniel M. Burns for United States.Senator. He did not act as a man in his sober senses, impelled by an honest motive, would have acted. Such a man would have ' consulted : Melick and his col- leagues from Los Angeles, who are bound with himself to Bulla by a pledge that cannot be broken honor- ably. Hé has broken it dishonorably and against the wishes of a constitu- ency which he has betrayed. Had the respectable and honor-loving people of California witnessed the dem- onstration in the Assembly chamber, in which all the low and despicable ele- ments clustering about the Capitol participated, they would have blushed for the fair commonwealth. Simpson, in spite of his viclous tastes, low surroundings and obvious weak- nesses, maintained, until to-day, the outward respect of many of his fallow- men, but since his disgrace was pub- licly proclaimed in joint convention his old companions and friends regard him as an object to be pitied and despised. At his home in Pasadena,. Senator Simpson poses as the exponent of the moral and prohibition elements of so- ciety. He shudders at the thought of men becoming intoxicated. He is the champion of the observance of the Sab- bath, and introduces in the Legislature the petitions and bills for a more rigid observance of the Lord’s day. He re- | ceived his nomination for the Senate because his opponent, George Phipps, had the reputation of looking on the wine when it is red. The moral people of Pasadena supported Simpson on the ground that he was a man fitted by his conduct in life to give expression to their advanced ideas of morality. Early in this session of the Legisla- ture Simpson got into bad company. The society of depraved touts seemed agreeable to him. Step by step he went from bad to worse until his presence | in the Senate Chamber became a re- proach to the honorable body. If the people of Los Angeles County for a minute doubt the truth of this statement of The Call let them send to Sacramento a committee of Senator Simpson’s neighbors to Investigate it. Should these neighbors come here and make fair inquiry they would ascertain that Simpson, before breaking his sol- emn pledge to stand by Mr. Bulla, went to General Barnes and promised the general that whenever he left Bulla he would go to Barnes and stay there un- til the finish. They will find that he made a like promise to support Grant. They would ascertain further that the “moral” Senator representing the Pas- adena constituency has been boasting of his own vices and sounding the shame of his own debauches. ‘When the joint convention of the Legislature adjourned to-day Simpson was immediately surrounded and con- gratulated by the swarms of touts now infesting the Capitol. The people of Pasadena should have seen the gang that commended their Senator. Never before was such a disgrace cast upen a constituency of honest people as that ‘which Simpson to-day inflicted upon the good people of Pasadena. : In one sense the Senator is not re- sponsible for his conduct, as he has ‘seldom been sober since the Legislature convened. The touts knew his weak- | 'ness and ministered to it. They did | not permit him to get sufficiently | sober to enable him to judge between | right and wrong. He is now landed |in the Burns corral and herded with | Wright and Jilson. His public career | closes in disgrace. | The fact has been known for weeks that he intended to desert the stan- éard of Mr. Bulla, but Burns ex- pected to shield him under cover of a secret caucus. The caucus scheme, however, has failed, and the “colonel” is now forced to the cruel extremity of dragging his followers out in the open | light of the joint Assembly. Several others may be dragged out | in like fashion, but the end has come | for the Candelaria candidate. The | Simpson episode gives cohesion to the anti-Burns elements. Public judgment expressed in every county of the State may now demand a consolidation of all the elements of the Legislature opposed to the election of Burns. This evening the story is circulated by the touts that all the followers ot Senator Bu.la, save one, belong to the rallroad and that they will go into the Burns corral when Herrin gives the | signal. There is not the shadow of fact @ >ededo