Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-19
PAR MOBILE FRATRUM.

Suppose George Hearst to be substituted
for Washington Bartlett to-day as Demo
cratic nominee for Governor. In what
light would he then be regarded Q) by
the people of the Sacramento valley and
the friends of river navigation; ~ by the
vast number of industrians engaged in
that growing business, the raising of fine
horned stock and the manufacture of but
ter and cheese?
The first would recall the fact that in
the United States Senate he invoked his
party colleagues to vote against the bill
projecting the Government of the United
States into the debris question, as an
intervenor, to rescue from impending de-
struetion the chief navigable river Of Cal
ifornia.
They would remember that after Nc
Kenna and Morrow and FELTON, and
Markham and Louttit had labored long
and arduously in the House to secure
needed relief for the Sacramento valley,
and the bill had gone to the Senate,
George Hearst, by representations mis-
leading and viciously false, induced the
committee to strike out the vital portion
of the measure.
They would remember that after Senator
Stanford and Congressman McKenna had
undone the mischief of this meddler with
justice and truth, and the bill came up in
the Senate, Hearst renewed his tactics to
emasculate the bill, and succeeded by
rallying the Democratic vote on party
grounds. Thereafter, feeling secure in
what he had accomplished, he absented
himself, and the friends of the valley and
river rallying, once more secured the rein
sertion of the matter Hearst had butchered
with his political AK.
The second class and the whole people OF
the State, would remember that there came
into the markets of the country villainous
compound of animal fat disguised and
doctored to very closely resemble butter
That this concoction, having not a single
atom of true butter constituent in its com
position, threatened TO drive out of exist
ence the entire dairy interest. The ma
chine-cow and soap-fat refuse were to take
the place of the "golden pats" of nu
tritious, "unetious butter" evolved, a.
poets phrase it, from the luscious cream O.
foaming milk" Of the " sleepy COW that
munches grasses dry and sweet"
To avert such a calamity and save tc
humanity the dairy interest, the House
enacted a law declaring that oleomargarine
shall not masquerade in the guise of but
ter, nor escape such tax as will prevent
it, in brief time, making butter an un
known luxury, butter-making a lost art
and milk relic of an era when such ;
generous beverage was said to have beer
known.
George Hearst over and over AGAR
voted for. bull butter. Perslstently-and
to do him justice, consistently-he voted
against protecting the dairy interests
against the perpetuation of butter, and in
favor of imposing upon the people con
coction of animal fat for genuine butter
Happily Hearst and his Democratic sup,
port went to the wall
These are but two of the things the
people would remember to the discredit
of George Hearst were he to occupy the
place Of Mr.. Washington Bartlett on the
Democratic ticket, and the latter gentle
man be freed from the embarrassment that
prevents his collecting his rents from a
Chinese tenantry.
Yet, were Hearst chosen Governor OF
California, he could not as such do one
solitary thing to iniure river navigation
TO food low lands with slickens, or to sub
stitute soap-fat for butter As Governor
he would be as helpless as babe for such
i'll. But as United States Senator in re-
mote Washington, removed from the at
mosphere Of California, he would be a
possible agency of vast ill TO California
Just as he was in his late brief and eventful
career as a Senator.
Mr.. Bartlett at least has fair intelli
gence he at least as Senator would
scarcely venture TO antagonize the dairy
interests in order to foster the product Of
the soap-fat cow He at least might be
trusted to deal fairly between the valley
and the threat Of burial beneath the de-
scending food of slickens. He at Least
might be relied upon to maintain dis
Greet and dignifed silence in the
forum where the voices Of Webster anC
Calhoun and Clay and Benton once echoed
and where Hearst so recently lifted up his
soul and gave birth to utterance that viii
forever grace American literature anC
adorn the English language. 1t was there
he paid lefty tribute to CALIFORNIA; deaC
Senator for refusing to be bribed by a bar
rel of whisky. 1t was there he declared
that such an example should be writer
on the mile-posts OF the highways, chiseleC
on the cliffs along the trails of the Rock,
Mountains, craven on the granite of tht
Sierras, hewn on the tall pines of the Pa
cifc slope, and commemorated in the flow
ers in the valleys of the dead Senator
adopted State"
And yet there is on foot to-day deIib
crate plan to return this man to the Unite,
States Senate, and to accomplish the en-,
by sacrificing the Republican ticket in tn
house of its friends.
This is to be done by votes for the Bart
Iett-Hearst ticket If effective, it vii
be because of votes cast for Nj
Washington Bartlett every one {
which means a vote also for Georg
Hearst, for the head OF the ticket usual
draws after it the body and the tail. Th
Bartlett head means the Hearst tail, anc
hould the head win, the tail will be tn
mightier portion of the Democratic-bun
butter slickens Chinese tenantry-anti
Observation-Disclosures whole.
From such fate the State, the valley