Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-07-23
sTRoNs ENDORSEMENT OF SEN.
ATOR FAIR AND THE "sEN-
TgNEL,.,

ATOR FAlk AND THE "SEN.
TINEL."
The Oakland Times, edited by General
John P. Irish, and the San Francisco
Alta, edited by Ex-Governor johnson,
are the great leading Democratic organs
of California. They belong to that wing
of the California Democracy which was
ostracised and read out Of the Stockton
Convention last Fall. There is reflected
glory for the SENTINEL in the disinter.
ested Endorsement of Senator Fair by
these great journals, as we shall hope
to show further on. The Times pays the
Senator the following well-deserved com.
pliment:
"Senator Fair, OF Nevada, represents
a small State, it is true, and 80 did
Bayard, but his influence is widely felt
in the Senate. and as the only Demo-
cratic Senator from the three Coast
States, his position is one of peculiar
power, and in the hands of a weak man
it would be abused. The Senator has
shown the strongest sense and the real
quality Of statesnanship that consists of
foresight in all his actions since a DEM
ocratic Federal Administration came into
power. While others have sel6shly sought
their own immediate ends, regardless of
the permanent interests Of the party and
the country, he has bravely stood by the
obligation Of a Senator to treat the Presi-
lent honorably, and SO in all things his
voice and Influence have been for those
men and measures calculated to broaden
the hold Of the party upon the friend
ship of the country. By the fault and
folly of the leaders deprived of a Senator
at this important time, the Democrats OF
California count themselves happy in
having as good a neighbor as Senator
Fair"
"My Son." of the Alta, feelingly IN
ours in the annexed truly merited trib-
ute.
"The Alta fully indorses what the
Oakland Times has to say about the con-
sentative and praiseworthy course pur.
sued by Senator Fair since the beginning
of the Democratic Administration. Soon
after the 4th of March Senator Fair rec
commended certain changes in the Federal
offices of Nevada and they were made.
They were the first changes in the offices
of the same grade made anywhere, and
that the work Of reorganization should
have commenced in the little, far-off
State of Nevada was strong enough testi-
mony to the degree of confidence which
Senator Fair succeeded in establishing
with the President. But having accom-.
plished this much. which lay directly in
the line of his duties, Senator Fair left
Washington and since then, 80 far as
known, he has scrupulously refrained
from obtruding his views on the Presi-
dent. This is p~raiseworthy modesty on
his part, but we would not have the
President forget that Senator Fair is the
only Democratic Senator from the Pacific
Coast, and that he will be a safe coun.
selor to call upon at any time when he
wants light on affairs west Of the Rocky
Mountains"
And now it is the S~ENTINEL's urn to
add a word. The SENTINEL was the first
journal on the whole face of the earth to
discover and point out in the Senator
those statesmanlike qualities which all
the world is now but too ready to &C.
knowledge. 1t was this widely.circulated
and highly-infuential journal that first
brought the Senator to the attention of
ais fellow-citizens as the very best man
in the Great American Basin to succeed
Senator Sharon in the United States
Senate. The SENTINEL has continued to
stand for him and to pat him on the
back, SC to speak, all the way through
his brilliant official and political career;
and it only remains to be said. at this
time, that our pride of opinion is stimu-
lated 10 an inordinate degree to find the
other great journals of the country com.
ing around to the same exalted view of
the Senator which the SENTINEL has
always entertained and expressed.