The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-02-12


would go no further, and stuck to
their own man to the bitter end.
The quarrel was finally adjudicated by
the logic of Republican votes. The
having a United States
Senator to elect, could not afford to
their own man and went over to-the
''read-outs'! So after long wrangle,
in which not man of either party
seems to have been inspired by any
dtviner motive than the meanest con-
sideration of partisan expediency or
personal advantage, the Senate was
organized in the railroad interest. |
The Assembly had been in working |
order from the start.
The candidates for the position of |
United States Senator to succeed Mr..
Farley, whose term was expiring, |
announced them selves early. They |
were ex-senator and ex-Minister
Sargent, Ex-Governor Perkins, and
Mr.. Estee CThe Democrats, not being
able to elect, did not put up candi-
date until few days before the bal
loting, when they pushed forward
Mr.. Hearst, the owner of their prin-
cipal newspaper, a millionaire, a
'tstraight-out," and a nobody; and he
was, of course, promptly knocked
out.") Of the three Republican as
pirants, Sargent was backed by the
more powerful and wealthy corpora
tions, and Perkins by all the others.
Each had some reason to expect the
support of the kingpin monopoly, the
Railroad, but for some mysterious
reason neither secured the advantage.
Estee had the backing of motley
haracter-Original anti-monopolists
loyal to his past, personal friends in
different to his present and Railroad
jokers amusingly preparing his
future. The object of these latter
gentry, it soon became apparent, was
to keep all the candidates about even
in strength, so that none of them
could be elected. Their master, Lee
land Stanford, was himself secretly
aspiring to the toga!
Think of it. Leland Stanford-the
brains and soul of the Railway
power! The man whom hardly more
than two years ago the leaders of both
political parties had competed in de-
nouncing with the entire wealth OF
the vocabulary of indignation! The
man who dared not walk the streets
of San Francisco unattended for fear
of an enraged populace! The man in
whose defense no newspaper cared OF
dared to utter word that it was not
paid with his gold to utter! II
seemed like joke too imaginatively
, exaggerated to be funny.
Mr.. Stanford did not go to Sacra
mento. He remained in San Fran
D cisco giving off column on column
of newspaper interview relative t.
his intentions as philanthropist anC
: public benefactor in founding and en-
downing a countless multitude o
| charities, universities and museum:
y detailing to a reverent press thu
l various large benevolences to which
he meant to devote the remainder o
his life, and a carefully unstatet
J amount of his fortune. AS for tn
i United States Senatorship, he not onl.
" did not want it, but had promises
y both Sargent and Perkins not to be
candidate against them. In tn
Z meantime, however, there was
> regular dispatch line between hi
z. Mob Hill residence and Sacramento
u with statesmen passing up and dow
u like angels on Jacobs ladder. Not
q movement in his favor was made tina
P he did not personally direct throug
: the man Vrooman, previously mer
J, toned. From the moment that hi
II candidacy was made known, tn
g other aspirants had not 'the ghost {
v a show"
; It is needless to recount the inc
;, dents of the struggle, By NEAR
y which anyone can conjecture for hin
D" self. Mr.. Stanford received the caucr
nomination, and yesterday, in joir
l. convention of the two Houses Of th
N Legislature, was elected by a majcrit
re of thirty-eight votes in one hupClre
~ and eighteen-one Republican bein
IN excused, and one studiously absen
D. ing himself
N Such, in bald outline, is tt
at "strange, eventful history of tt
s. anti-raiIroad crusade in California
~ Such have been it's mutations al
o. vicissitudes. Such is the end of
~ apparently, and preferably. I'll
u curtain which less than three yea
a ago rose upon this political spectacl
ST revealing a tableau of terror al
~ storm-the robber barons 1eeir
ne from the vengeance of whole Peep
Sc in arms-falls upon peaceful pictu
Sc of the chief maIefactor, his foot upC
40 the neck of PROSTATE and penite
ne instruction, his hands clasped plot
as ly before him, and his eyes lifted
ne alteration of his own greatness. T
nc feelings of Mr.. Estee as he confer
ne plates the show, and reflects upon /
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