The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1900, Page 1

/ The Eall — (XVII-NO, 64. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BURNS REPUDIATED BY THE VOTES OF HONEST MEN: BARD LOOMS UP AS THE WINNING CANDIDATE e [n His Downfall Burns | Carries With Him| McDonald of Ala- meda, Wade of Napa and Merrill of San Francisco, ; . + + . . + + . + B > B . + + + + [ ] SETTLEMENT WILL COME TO-NIGHT ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Feb. 2.— The contest for United States Senat in every rea- able bability will end ght, and the man who be chosen to succeed en M. White as United States Senator to represent alifornia will be Thomas R. d and not Daniel M. Burns. early hour this morning ul canvass shows that may rely upon 27 votes g M. Scott 22 votes, combined " make the ns forces of 49 votes. 4 o’clock this afternoon forces will meet in con- to settle upon a can- late to oppose Burns. ‘While tt deeply desires the honor e equally desirous that all prevail in the 4444040 B party. and - that sh. be elected. gers concede that complimentary will receive 27 d the shipbuilder by calculations can than 22 votes for He is also charitable view that the south e representation in It is practically fore, that ‘when Sacramento hear of what be a certain s the situation this morn- ts to the end est in which had a candi- and was y by no other to whip a rascal and . defeat to win new h to commit few ow to £l R B R g S S S O R R R R R R R O e e e L e i i i B o e S S e B S 2 o 40 b o o g i th g et 4424224444400 4444 AT \ 5 H A DO = L) And ago. egradation and dis s fellows and bear s livid face the the purchase that made s in.a man. He was McDonald of Alameda | ¢ ng the men to himself there eer of contempt that led. They with him. m to his own shame | treats a lackey whose fa- been bo but whose | ; 1S resent- )éen an excit- and with it ends the am- of D. M. Burns. The ‘in- pendent men who pride their ove price and care| re of their State have | the votes that thrust| out of the contest. | dembnstrated to- > is absolutely an im- | pos He has lost. His cas-| tle of cards has crumbled about | him and the decent ]egislatorsf have finished with him. He has| in his r]m/-:nia]] carried three more | e or famili ¢ he night ha n o T ST S PP [ men-of Califorr honor had been | men with him into a‘disgrace that | will never leave them, but he won othing by demanding. his terri- = sacrifice. f thirty-one votes and there :he stood, ‘the mark of ridicule -and derision, provoked by: his _own boasting. The triumph, which will not be forgotten as long as ‘good gov- @ +E 0000 +000-0-09¢g * be J ® JupgE creuahc . INDULGES- . IN > CRCUS™ S LEMONADE P e e e ON HIS WAY T9 THE CAPITOL . @+ eisioieieieie® ernment administered by pure of- ficials “is ‘an ideal of ‘the public ia, has been well The Mexican was beaten at -every. turn. . His demoralized forces lost the organization of the caucus, being forced to:heg from won. their - victorious. opponents. the poor boon of @ secretary. . The touts of the Mexican, twenty- seven in number; had met during the afternoon in “secret The lash of factional -authority, I spur Southern Pacifi¢ ats and ‘bribes:the cajoling of SESSI0M: of agers could not: drive more than the ridiculous twenty- seven into the meeting. The bombast of -Burns had be- The = boasted irtink into . twen- ty-seven, -and men:-whose votes been - claimed - and - whose sullied by the un- ance of Burns in false list were t$ indignantly de- Mexican's inso- he twenty-seven come - burlesque. forty-five had s had exampled arrog making pu about the stre nouncing the lence. 3ut t went into the corral and decided that they would fight for the or- anization, insist upon a practi- formal organization of the Monday night. thclr' bitter cost that they cannot|decent men had won- a victory | pective = success. dominate the decent Republicans | that will long be remembered in | Paterson opened with two votes of the Legislature. During the afternoon the anti- | Burns forces also met and decid- ed that they would not only or- ganize the caucus, but would in- sist upon. several ballots and re- fuse emphatically to adjourn to a time later than to-morrow night. After these preliminary skirm- ishes the opposing forces met in caucus. It was the Waterloo of the Mexican. He lost the organ- ization and was forced to expose his pitiable and absurd weakness in six ballots. He did not dare He reached a limit| BROTHER SAM 0K 166 00 COTE SO SO TROXY GLIOTID LHoid (0 06 BT OIS0 SO L 0 6 LOLIT LS HOYSD T 0 a0 40K 2 THE SIX BALLOTS FOR SENATOR. g | } | 2 |3 First. | Second. | Third. | Fourth. ‘ FALE: - | 8inth g b3 e . | t 2ElE | b c} e ; iyl e A ol a8 |8 |7 o ’? BARHAM [ 2 a | | z |9 BARNES ... I E f | 3 l 5 30 30 30 30 30 { 81 g 20 | 18 | 17 13 14 ‘ 11 £ PATERSON g 2 2 . 2 2 2 2 scorr e { B s o w Fhiiy 8 g CUTTER . sasenseiase | o { e i o { 2 { 2 ’ o 8 GILLETTE: . . oivis L et | 0 ( o o o 1 ‘ 1 & i S | i & Totals . Necessary LTS TOL S0 SURYVEY?R GENERAL WR ASSEMBLYMAN - WHITE HEART TO- HEART - TALH SENATORS: ASSEMBLYMEN: SON, KELLEY, K MARVIN, geles; PIERCE, @0 100 HHINT G 0O Ito -ask for an adjournment until: Monday. - The ‘fight- ‘had been fought and he had lost. - His op-] ponents. decided 'that. the caucus shall - ‘meet “again:: to-morrow. ARNERICH, BARRY, IGHT - AND HAVE = A BETTMAN, HOEY, LAIRD, LEAVITT, SHORTRIDGE,; SIMPSON, WOLFE—TOTAL, 7. BEECHER, , KENNEALLY, COoBR, BEVOTO, LUNDQUIST, ELSE MeKEEN, A. H, MERRILL, MILLER of San Francisco, MILLER of Los An- OWEN WADE, $ 0 GO0 DIT S DD SREDIT FOCLIDIHINe 0000 G DI DL N SHEVHIOILL VA0 SRS DAV S VTL OO IO S0 RICKARD, EUGENE SULLIVAN, scoundrelism to accomplish their purpose. The six bailots that were taken'| in caucus to-night. were deeply significant, not: only ‘in- signing | DIBBLE, WILLIAM MecDONALD of Alameda. SLEEPING ON _THE ) tmean No SOME SIDE LIGHTS OF THE LEGISLATIVE SHOW. § GO OO SIB B ST SN LD LT SHNY LS B N0 GITH0 DER DT LB T LEGISLATIVE ROLL OF DISHONOR. HENRY, JILSON, JOHN- WRIGHT—TOTAL;, 24. lot. - Gillette and Cutter received scatterinig - votes. that possessed no significance, except that they would not be given to Burns and | were: not yet. ready to be regis- | night, and Burns was forced to. the death warrant of Burns but|tered anywhere else to- count. acquiesce. Ina very few minutes-the news | was all” over: the city. .-On - the |position “which" - the .. Mexican |surprise of the night.. He opened| Of “the - Teading “candi- | on.first ballot with thirteen votes| streets and in: the corridors men | @+ e ied Ve B R T R WM. M’DONALD OF ALAMEDA. B | the capital of the State. The men | who have so valiantly withstood | the terrible stress of bribe, threat |and entreaty deserve.the highest | {meed of praise. They have placed under obligations the peo- ple of the State for an act worth- ily done. They have refused the bribe money of the Southern Pa- cific Company and have resented its offer. They have been proof | against the threats of ruin in business and social life, for so des- | perate were the supporters of Burns that they stooped to any| TRAITORS TO PARTY, D S S e S S SRS S S S in L e el ] as pointing a way to the selection ; The -latest aspirant in-the field, | of an honest and ‘able man for the- sought. OWEN WADE OF NAPA. STATE AND Barham and and neither gained nor lost to the end. Barnes received nine votes on the first ballot and gradually lost until he closed with three votes. Bulla began with three votes and increased his showing | to eight votes, and after a great deal of fluctuation ended with eight votes. Grant received the compliment of twenty votes on the first bal- lot, but one by one the men who insisted upon remaining with him drifted away, until only eleven were left on the last bal- {"Thomas R.- Bard; created .the N e e R e e e e e e o ] + D R S A. H. MERRILL OF SAN FRANCISCO. CONSTITUENTS. B e B e jcaucus and an adjournment to | were discussing it. The bubble| dates Barham, Barnes, Bulla,;and closed in an increasing and : Jefore the even- | of Burns had burst, the great po- | Paterson and Scott played no im- | swelling boom ing was over they had learned to | litical prophet was of straw and | portant part on the lines of pros- with nineteen votes, only twelve behind the| Mexican, and the second in the race. And now for the votes given to the Mexican. For five ballots he received thirty votes, each voice snapping its choice with a ring that could not conceal hu- miliation, but with a force that showed the bravado of one who has committed a contemptible act, but is nerved to brazen out the sneering lips and scornful eyes of those who are not igno- rant of the character of the act. During these ballots the scene in ‘the caucus chamber was dra- matic. For five ballots a Repub- 4 STEPS Ilican “Assemblyman sat among| his fellows and would not vote. He was in a predicament that shamed and confused him. He seemed powerless to act. On one side was his future, his home;, his | reputation and the good opinion | | of his friends.: On the other was political suicide; the conscious- | ness of a dishonorable act com- R s-o-+ooQ @ e e e » HARM - bededereisiei e e * e FAT THE HACKRMAN GOING * THE OTHER Ay — POV SN Rd @+ ot 65 0beiedeie® mitted under circumstances-that aggravated ‘its commission and | held its perpetrator up to the | scorn of his neighbors and of the Stateas a man who had sacrificed his:good name, thrown away his future and exposed himself in all the -nakedness a - chattel—a purchasable- thing which had been ‘bought and:sold and deliv- ered to thé highest bidder. | That man was Assemblyman | William: McDonald of Alameda. For hours he struggled with him- | self ‘against the ‘delivery of the manhood. . he -had sold. He had - much . to- lose from his shameful- -bargain. . He knew that his shame means his ostra- cism . among the people with whom' he ‘must live and from whom he hoped again to ask a public trust. And he paused and did not cast his vote on the first ballot.. The eyes of every man in the caucus chamber were upon | | him, and he knew it. The strain | became too great. Men must be | hardened ' by degrees to the {shameful traffic and barter of | their honor. They cannot look decent men in the face while the bargain: price is yet jingling in their ears. And Assemblyman William McDonald arose from his seat and left the caucus chamber. He had not voted and could not vote. | But he was not to escape so eas- ily. Traders in men possess no more sentimentality than do buy- ers of hides, and Assemblyman McDonald = was - captured - and brought back to the scene of his shame. Again he was compelled to bare himself to the shafts of scornful, sneering eyes, and this time he was commanded to pay the price. . : He said he would and on the | sixth ballot he cast his vote| for D. M. Burns. The Mex-| ican had exacted a terrible | bond. He had demanded mercilessly a man’s honor as a sacrifice to a greedy of G+0+0404+040404C40404040404 040+ 0+ O+ OHOHSHO40404040+0+0+ O ¢ 0000006000 DIOIO+0+ 0+ 0+ O+ CHO404040+ Stalwart Southern California States- man Likely to Be Selected o Suc- ceed White in U. S. Senate. bougt and'it s cheek ‘b | Tt shadows with su 3 : During the régular s vote for D. M. voted did not dare to vote for th then, a: ASSEMBLYMAN WADE THE DISGRACED answered h yourself. 1 ition ruin at M r Bu to-night Mexican he knew that men wer to support the cause gs an honest man to jowl with purchased ct spicion 3 nd in such com 1 CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Feb. 1.—If the constituents of Assembly- man Owen Wade do not call upon him to resign and come home it is because there is no room left for him in Napa County. It cannot be doubted that the vote which to-night he cast for Dan Burns was due to no mistaks of judgment. Wade is well known for a sound business man of affairs who is not addicted to mis- takes of such magnitude. The ballot which he gave to the Mexican was cast deliberately and of his own volition; there were no instructions from his home people; there was noreso- lution adopted by the political body of his county. Wade went over of his own accord, and after duly weighing in the balance against the inevit- able consequences the consid- erations for which he gave his vote. What those considera- tions may have been, only Wade can tell. Those who know him say his ballot to- night was the death knell of his political aspirations and chances in Napa County. The voters of his district are of the best class and have always been unanimously and unal- terably opposed to the Mexi- can; it is Rardly likely they will reward hirs by promoting him to the Senate. “I have had no instruc- tions,” said he to-night after the balloting. “I went to Burns because he was the highest man and we thought we could elect him, but it seems now somewhat as though we were mistaken.” Mr. Wade’s excuse for his vote was ambiguous. What he meant by Burns being the “high man’ does not appear unless it was that by his de- falcations the Mexican had become the highest in the list of the debtors of the State which he seeks to represent. Tt is more likely, however, that Wade, in his zeal for the Mexican’s cause, overlooked that little matter of §31,- 738 59 or lost sigt of it in the sheen of something closer at hand. Poor old disgraced Wade! POHOIOHOOHOHCHCHID 40+ O+ O+ OHO4CIOICHCHOIOID 4O + O+ O+ O+D4 04 HCHO4O40+ 0+ 0+ O+ CHOICHOICHOIO OO +04 0+ O+ O +0O4 @+O+0+0+040+ O +0+0+0+040+9