Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-21

in one personality that combination OF
statesmanlike qualities, intellectual ca
pacitv and the highest business compe-
tencv which are so happily united IN
Governor Stanford. and have been exem-
plifed in his long and useful career lie |
came to the Gubernatorial seat the hrst |
choice Of the people in the infancy OF the |
State, whe., it needed his firm guidance,
because the people recognized In HIM the
man of all others best capacltated to adj
minister the affairs of State in the most
troublnus times the Republic has ever
known. He was chosen because of has
acknowledged ability, his patriotic devo-
tior to the principles upon which is based
the inseparable Union of Independent
States. and for bis far-sightedness, his IN
domitable perseverance and unfinching
courage. He came to that high trust at
the demand OF his party In the days of its
pristine purity, and as one of the men vho
aided in LAYING its foundations, broad and
deep, upon the eternal principles Of human
rights and human hopes, that have made
it the party of progressive intelligence and
the bulwark of human freedom. He has
lived to see the commonwealth, whose
swaddling clothes he helped TO mature
giant in its strength, and one of
the fairest sisters in the galaxy of States
He has lived to see the party of his young
manhood's choice become mighty factor
in civilization and political colossus in
government
He was elected Governor Of the
| infantile State when he was compar-
atively a poor man. Since then, by the
exercise of those eminent business quail
ties that have placed him at the head of
one of the greatest industrial enterprises
of the age, he has amassed wealth. But
| the man has remained unchanged, and the
party that attained maturity under his
wise administration, in the first national
defeat that has ever met it turns back to
him as the tittest and chiefest of its num-
bers to preside in its counscls.
The choice of Governor Stanford has Il
greater significance than party selection
can give it. 1t represents the wish of the
people in larger sense than has distin-
guished the selection of any Senator in
the State of California. This, so far from
being whimsical or phenomenal, is express
sive of deliberate judgment. 1t testifies
to the sober recognition by the people of
the personal integrity, high-mindedness
and worth of the man; to the implicit
confidence they have in him that he will
discharge every duty and administer every
trust in the highest judicial attitude, from
the most advanced standpoint of business
capacity, and in the wisdom of the best
thought and culture of the age, and with
a view to the best results for his fellow
men.
There will be those so short-sighted
as to estimate the selection Of Governor
Stanford as a railroad triumph. Nothing
can be further from the truth. On the
contrary, it is to be interpreted, if at all
in the light of local issues, as a nearer APP
proach to that harmony between produc-
ing and transportation interests essential to
the very existence of each. The years OF
experience of Governor Stanford as pro-
Queer and transporter fit him in the broadcast
sense to Judge of the necessities of each, and
to contribute to that final adjustment OF re-
lations which the whole country demands,
and the necessity for which would never
have existed had not narrow counsels pre-
vailed, and appeals to narrower prejudice,
been made the avenues to political prefer
ment 1t would be insulting to the iudg
ment of the citizens of California to think
that for Il moment the people have con
templated this subject in connection Will
the possible election of Governor Stanford
to the Senatorial office.
1t is not a victory, we repeat, in any
partisan sense, nor of any special interest
btil II II NiClpl III liiC oCiiSS liIttt IL II
triumph of all the high interests in whicl
every citizen of the commonwealth has
share-the progress of all material indus
tries, the development Of all material re
sources, and the injection into politica
affairs of the best methods for securing tn,
highest ends of free government.
The people of California, we say, ap
prove the choice of Governor Stanford
because in him human trust may
be reposed because of his capacity to rise
superior to selfish interests; because mer
recognize his character as a sure guaranty
that the trusts reposed in him will be dis
charged with that impartiality and regard
for the equities of all interests of all PEG
Pile that distinguish the pure man and tn,
honest jurist.