Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-26
JAMES McuLArcHY.

In the death of James McClatchy, senior
proprietor and editor.ir. chief of the Daily
Bee, the city of Sacramento loses valued
citizen; society a member who conferred
upon it honor, and journalism in Califor-
MIA one of its experienced minds, and
pioneer in the profession. There are
public men whose ambition is to satisfy a
passion for the ranking places in political
life. There are others whose relations are
as intimate with the public, but whose
ambition is answered within the field of
the business vocation they have chosen.
Such men live up to the doctrine that
man owes much to the community in
which he resides that there is due from
him 70 society far more than there can be
from society 60 him. OF such was Mr..
GoClstehy. His lfe's ambition was to be
an earnest working journalist, and as such
TO contribute all he could to the sum Of
human happiness, 1t cannot be said of
this lsuented citizen that ne had any
loftier pleasures outside the domestic
circle, where he was . loving hug
band and devoted father, than to labor
for the advancement and elevation of the
city where he 80 early planted his roof
tree. and where 80 many busy years of bis
active and useful life were spent. Sacra.
mento will write him down in her history
as not only one of the pioneer men who
hewed the way for the present, but as one
of her devoted spirits, who, though
proud of his adopted State, rich in
faith for her future, was, above all, the
unwavering friend Of the Capital City,
standing by her in her adversity, never
taltering in his devotion to what he con.
ceived to be for her interests and for more
than quarter of century doing constant
battle in her behalf. Sacramento mourns
. citizen lost whose place she will with diff
ficulty fill; friend than whom none was
closer an advocate than whom none could
be more earnest and sincere. In his daily
walk Mr.. McClatohy exempli6ed the
life Of the good citizen. He was a
man of positive opinions, of courageous
convictions, of earnest purposes and of
strong loves of undisguised animosity for
all Chat in his eyes was of the shadow of
evil, and of uuwayering hostility to every
scheme aud proposition that he deemed in
imicsl to the best interests Of the commu-
nifty and his country. He was a loyal
lover of the American Republic, an advo-
cate of the brosdest liberty consistent with
orderly government, and the most tolerant
ofrnen regarding the religious and political
faiths of his fellow men. He filed large
plscs in the history of this State. and
leaves memory and record that his
decendants may point to with loving
pride. 1t was as journalist that Mr..
McClAtchy was best known, and could the
desire of his spirit be expressed IS
it looks back upon the mortal life ended,
unquestionably it is as journalist that
he would prefer to be remembered. To
him journalism was field with never
ending duties and ever-increasing RESPONSE
bilisies, vocation calling for the very best
efforts men can make to advance the mate
rial welfare and happiness of the race. In
= conversation with him not long prior to
his death, he expressed to the writer his
sense of the vast Importance of the jour
nalis.ic life, of the weighty responsibility
committed to Its keeping, and bis own con.
viotion that it was a school in which the
NEST advanced may regard themselves still
as pupils. At that time MIR. McClatchy
advanced views of morals and life duties
that spoke Of the warmth of his heart and
bis sincere desire for the highest develop
ment of the pure snd Che good in this and
al communities. He dwelt with earnest.