Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-29
JOINT CONVENTION
FOR THE ELECTION OF UNITED
STATES SENATOR.
Gov. Leland Stanford Chosen
on the First Ballot, Receiving
Seventy-nine Votes.

Ex-Gov. Leland Stanford Chosen
on the First Ballot, Receiving
Seventy-nine Votes.
The Joint Convention of the Senate and
Assembly met yesterday in the Assembly
room of the Capitol to elected United
States Senator, to succeed the Hon. James
T. Farley, whose term expires on the 4th
day of March next Promptly at II o'clock
the members of the Senate entered the AS
sembly-chamber, led by President Daggett
and President pro tenn. Knight. They pro-
ceeded down the center aisle in double file,
and were met at the bar of the House by
Speaker Parks, who escorted President Dag
gett to the chair, and took a seat by his side.
The other Senators were provided with seats
at the desks of members.
President Daggett called the Convention
to order The roll was called, and all the
Senators and members Of the Assembly,
except three, answered to their names.
AT the instance of the President, Secre-
tarv Smith read the Act of Congress pre-
ing United States Senators. He next read
the minutes of the Senate of the preceding
day relative to the matter of voting for
Senator.
Chief Clerl, Ryan read the proceedings
in the Assembly on the preceding day IN
relation to the same subiect-matter.
President Daggett then announced that
both Houses, voting separately, having
failed 10 agree Oh choice for United
States Senator it became the duty OF the
convention to proceed TO the election of a
Senator for the term commencing March
t, 1855. He then stated that nominations
were III order.
LELAND STANFORD NOMINATED.
Speaker Parks took the floor and said:
Mr.. President The election of suitable per
son to represent sovereign State in the United
St4tes Senate is one OF no small responsibility.
1t is one that requires deiberatlon. 1t Is one
that requires our best judgments. sometimes,
in thu, selection Of gentleman to fill t-'at high
and honorable position, il comes about alter Il
long and pIotracted political! struggle, or per
hans facIiOnal struggle within the dominant
party. ard il is more the result Of maueuvering
than of elaboration; but believe that the one
that We are about 10 make now IS the result OF
the deliberate Judgment OF the citlAenS OF Ca!l-
fDTuiA have been selected TO present 10 tHls
! Convention the name OF gentleman VINO, when
I do present his name will call so freshly IL
memory the history of this state Tor the last
twenty-five years that he will be known without
any eulOgy from me, without any eqIoSy nom
any member of this Convention. No politicdl
act no great advance has been made III this
| State: no act performed that was calculated 10
elevate the citizens 10 place them al upon an
even plane-the rich and the poor 4IlGe-lh thls
state has been enacted without the co-opera-
ton of the gentleman whose name i
shall present. l regret. Mr.. President,
that ! shall be unable TO command
1 l.. l,f.f..r .sg,rt tll Nt4t,r1l 4
| like but trust entirely to his having such Il
| thorough acquaintance with each and every
one of You 10 take the place OF Il speech from
me. The gentleman whom shall present came
to this state in an early day, private clllZen,
ard was engaged in mercantile pursuit at that
| time He distinguished himself as merchant.
| His far-seeing vision reached out to extend
! trade, and Looking after the resources OF the
| State. assisting our commercial relations, mold
! ing and developing the policy OF the State gov
ernlnent in its infancy, part OF his business
a part of his business, say 1t was part OF his
| pleasure to take part in all things that inter
| Cstcd this sovereign State. Successful as mer-
chant respected as q citizen, he was called
| from the counting house to the Executive chair
by the Republican party, at It's first success IN
| this state. and. sir. | believe that we may say
with all candor that twas fortunate selection.
To him, perhaps, more than any otncr person IN
this State. is due the credit that whilst the bal
ance of the States were engaged III the conflict
OF civil war, this State escaped that dlShOnOr.
Ii was through his prudent firm, and intelligent
foresight that, whilst we have mixed popu-
idtOn fIom all parts of the Union, firm in every
conviction he yielded nothing, asking nothing
OF any citizen that could not well be granted,
and carried Us through his administration
safely. at the same time assuring the nlted
States Government that this state would remain
! loyal to the Government, and that no troops
would be required on this coast to guard and
protect her interests. lie assured them further,
that the finances required Of her would be forth
coming, and provisions were promptly made TO
Il 4 g h..- I ~
say that will rot be accused Of eXGggeTution
when say that he retired from the Governor $
chair one Of the most popular executive officers
who has ever filed that honorable position in
this State. When offered the denomination
again by his party he said No,
I would rather build the Central Pacific Rail
road than lie President of the United State"
During the tenn OF his Executive Office he had
made a study of the wants of this State. He
Saw that we were TOO far from the base Of civil
zGtion; that We had no communication We had
no facilities for the development OF or State,
and what We wanted was speedy transportation.
Acting on this theory, he organized a company
of Intelligent gentlemen, who associated to-
gether and undertook that gigantic work. It
was far from being an unanimous opinion that
Ii ever could be executed, and he has prose-
cuted il with that vigOr and intelligence and
honesty that have brought praise from every
honorable man who recognizes right and Vlltue
II only requires the unfolding of the map OF the
United States to comprehend this gigantic
enterprise that was undertaken by the gentle
man whom propose to place before YOU. First
OF all was to connect the great metropolis OF the
Atlantic with that of the Pacific. That DONE il
occurred to him that Il line of transportation
between great cities, without means OF feeding
that line, Inust necessarily be failure. He
therefore organized Il plan whereby he built
other, from the mountains to the valleys. This
company has completed the plan successfully.
Not content with this-as / heard him say
many years agO-he thought that the
system never would be complete
and ne never would cease his efforts
until he could sit in his own private residence
train OF cars from New York; there is another
about to arrive from the Gulf OF Mexico there
is another which VIII soon arrive from our sister
Republic OF Mexico. When these, and all other
tributaries are complete, shall consider that
have performed what have undertaken to do
and not before This was enterprise which
has involved hundreds Of millions of dollars
and been carried to Il successful completion
without Il failure 10 meet its obligations every
month, from its inauguration to its completion :
without failure to meet every coupon that
has ever been detached from 1. bond
at its maturity. 1t is thing too
and it must be left for the historian. the bio
grapher. the artist or the poet to complete it,
Its grandeur can only be cOmpTehcndcd by Il
close examination of the gigantic enterprise
that has been 50 successfully carried ont Fail
ing in nothing. he called around him such adj
vl,ers aud such associates with whom there was
no Silt-il NOI1 as Itli. iJuTiNG all Inns IOlg
time, when he was fighting for success in these
grand enterprises, il was not surprising that
jcalouSics and contrary Interests should arise
as they did and sometimes almost threatened
to defeat every object that the people them
selves sought. S;atesnan-like. he had nothing
like retaliation, nothing like bitterness, for
those who had mistaken their own interests.
He went on until success crowned him. and If
there j. any one thing well settled beyond CON
troversy it is to accord to the gentleman whom
shall name, ard his associates, all that Is their
due in this great work. No man IS so insane to-
day as to say that it IS not one Of the greatest
enterprises ever undertaken upon this CONT
nent. Not contented, gentlemen, with the
grand system of railroads that he has con
structed he ard his associates declared il would
be incomplete until the iron ship should have
an opportunity 10 meet the ear a; the wharyes of
san Francisco, and to-day his enterprise
covers more than thrce-quarters of the globe.
During all this time the gentleman has gone ON
and on iill he has reached that point where he
has concluded III his own Judgment that he can
entru>t the details 10 younger and more Yigor-
Gus men than himself And what Il grand SPEC
taCle Is presented to us to-day After his con-
clusion to retire from the active management of
TINS gigantic enterprise, and only looking to
what lac could do with the money he had ac-
CumulGtCd during all these years TO the best
advantage OF The people, and while in his own
c1uuting-hOuSe dcyiSing the means by which
he could return to the citizens of this State
every dollar he has made in il, and to increase
their happiness unknown to the citizens of the
State, a dag arrives for the selection of some
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