Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-29


expressions of doubts and fears regarding
the results of this choice, among
the timid of the Republican party.
But in no single instance
and we have carefully scrutinized
all such representative they been
based upon any lack of faith in the high
character of the new Senator, his I'M
fiinching integrity or his broad capacity?
These are conceded; it is granted that he
is thoroughly representative man, a
patriot in the truest sense, the advocate
of all that is pure and eleyating, the tried
champion Of progressive principles, intel
iectual culture and the interests of the
best civilization. They suggest doubts only
because he was one of those whose genius
conceived, and who have been these many
years intimately related to one of the
gigantic industrial enterprises of the age,
and which has visited upon California ben
eits of immeasurable value.
That great undertaking and its accom-
plislment- stupendous and marvellous
influence Of which upon the destiny OF the
land will only be impartially and faithfully
recorded by the historian writing in
the unclouded atmosphere Of future
ca!m-worked radical changes in the
economy Of the commerce Of this State.
1t took California out Of condition
wholly at variance with that of the great
East and brought her into close relation
with the trade and civilization of the sis
terhood of States and the world 1t was
expected that such Il sudden transition
would be accompanied by apparent hard
ships, and would generate 4 friction that
would develop the antagonists of local
Interests. The tar-sightedncss of Gov
ernor Stamford taught him that such az
outcome was inevitable. But narrow
preiudices and, to large extent, pardon
able blindness to the true relations that
must exist between producer and trans
porter, engendered Il bitterness of feeling
that was not wholly expected and was
well nigh irresistible, and that took on
forms Of control of transportation interests,
which, if carried out to the extent de-
manded by prejudice and failure to COM
prehend the equities and logic of the
transportation problem, would have estab-
lished system Of measuring rates for
carriage by the selfish standard Of every
shippers greatest advantage and the great
est gain 10 every locality, irrespective OF
the interests Of the carriers, or of competing
communities
The agitation growing out of this attri-
ton Of ideas, and interests and passions,
developed political demagogy which
seized upon the occasion and the heated
state Of the public temper, to ride into
power and to compass unworthy personal
and party ambitions
But the inherent sense of justice in the
people of California; the rightness Of the
great heart of the citizenship of the COM
monwealth, in time signally rebuLed the
effort to make the common interests of the
people Of California the cat Jaw for greedy
ambition y Legislature was returned
that can be no otherwise considered than
as the embodiment of a rebu}le, and the
decisive expression CT the people that the
settlement Of these grave questions should
not proceed upon any other plan than that
of eyen-handed justice and high regard
for the Interests, alike Of producer and
transporter shipper, passenger and carrier,
and the commercial rights of every local
ity. II is the Judgment of the people of
California that these intricate questions
shall not be made the agencies of destruc-
ton of the common interest and common
dependence which exists in all these re-
lations
Before the candidacy of Governor Stan
ford was suggested by his friends, these
things had come to pass and these judg-
ments had been decreed They were fol
lowed by the Spontaneous protier OF the
high Office of Senator to Governor Stan
ford, tribute paid to the man as a publ
cist-an expression Of confidence and trust
in his rectitude, on the part of the repre-
sentatiyes of the people, that gave the
procoundest guaranty of unsellshness, and
was the highest testimony possible to be
given Of the dawn Of an era in State poll
tics in which patriotism shall rise superior
to policy, representative character above
mere party tactics and commanding abil-
ity and nalindependenee shall take the
place of ring dictation and subseryiency to
political bosses. There is nothing clearer
or more significant in all this matter than
the fact that, from one end Of this State to
the other, the people are exclaiming,
q" Here IS a man to whom none will as
sumo the right to GO with the command,
do this" or. refrain from doing that
save the State of California, by the
recognized methods of expressing it, will"
As we said on the day succeeding the
nomination Of Governor Stanford, 50 we
rcpeat-now that his election is an accom-
plishcd fact-that while his selection testi-
iies, as he has himself so aptly put it, to
the fact that the people are tired Of con-
tention, it Is not to he esteemed a railroad
triumph, and Governor Stanford Is the last
man of ali others to measure it by 50 mar
row a standard. 1t is rather the triumph
Of the harmony Of the common interests
of the people, by the unity of which alone
can California attain the position by ma
ture and by right She i entitled to fill IN
the sisterhood Of States. 1t is victory
not of one special interest over another,
but of reason over passion, of the unity of
interests over the clements of inharmony.
Very much will bcexpected Of Governor
Stanford - indeed. the anticipation Of
speedy results to flow from his election IS
already leading public desire to expect
more than any human agency can accom-
plish. We must not by exaggeration of
desire and hope Of result cripple the
ability ne possesses, by reason of his busi-