Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-30
A MANLY STATEMENT.
Extract from a Speech of NJ. D. Boruck,
Independent Senatorial Candidate.


In opening his campaign as an indie
pendent candidate for Senator from the
Twenty-second Senatorial District, the
Hon Marcus d. Boruck delivered an adj
dress defining his position on various ques-
tons. For years Mr.. Boruck has been
known as partisan of the railroad. Dur
| ing all the period of unreasonable assault
upon the transportation interests of this
State, Mr. Boruck stood bravely by his
convictions regarding the transportation
system of the State, and it is pleasing to
note that his candidacy for public office
has not destroyed either the courage of his
convictions or the manly expression of
| them. On the subject of transportation he
said
"a citizen of the State of California from
its earliest history to the present time,
recall the early days of our isolation, and
contrast with sentiments of high gratitica-
ton the present condition of intimate COM
munication with the rest of the civilized
| world. Contrasting the past with the pres
ent, recalling the days OF pony express,
| with which my memory makes me per-
fectly familiar tonight; with the old stage
coach; with the slow communication be-
tween the great throbbing heart of civili-
zaiion in which we live-I would be recre-
ant to every sense of duty did l not
reflect with pride that in the great contest
for the establishment of an overland sys-
TEN of steam transportation by rail, and the
| development of a railroad system in the
State of California, with all the awakening
powers inseparable from such development,
| stood consistently for that greatest of civ
ilizing insirumentalities of modern times.
| When the issues growing out of that class
of questions were before the people they
! inciGed great intensity of feeling. The vignr
of resistance is always proportionate TO the
| ferocity of the attack, and the ferocity of
the attack upon the transportation interests
of the State of California was such as to
leave no conservative middle ground. l
would be indulging in uncandid pretense,
did | not anticipate a charge of Subservi-
ency to railroad interests. | meet that
charge by declaring that l have forever en-
tertained an unqualified admiration for the
splendid energy, enterprise and capacity on
the part of our distinguished fellow-citizens
who constructed the first great overland
railway, and who built up the inland sys-
tenn of railroads in this State.
making our city the focal center
of converging commercial rays by
sea and inland, and comforting
Upon US much of the commercial greatness
/ oil which we proudly boast. Greeting you
| with entire candor. / have the right to
| claim at your hands entire justice but
! when l recall the splendid achievements Of
| the railroad builders of this State, l do not
End in my mind the slightest temptation
20 retIact anything | have done or said as a
| private citizen, as public advocate, or as
q journalist, which may have contributed
an humble aid to the accomplishment of
| that great work. The first great overland
railroad was projected amid the throes of
afAaila fal
| the exercise of the highest craftsmanship.
| The territorial area of nearly one-half of
this country had separated itself from the
| other. A great civil war followed. The
| natural impulse of weak administration
| would have been in the direction of circum-
scribing and restricting national effort but
Abraham Lincoln was at the head of gov
| Ornamental affairs, backed blythe ablest Cab
| met that has ever been formed by any Presi-
| dent of the United States Tosuch men bold
! conception and energetic execution was a
natural impulse, and that policy, which
| will go down through history as the boldest
| conception of the time, will forever relate
| to the grand schemes of internal improve
ment which, begun in that era, have borne
such unprecedented fruit in our day. De-
| termined to sohdify the territories of the
| United States. to cement all parts of the
country, TO open the great territories living
westward to settlement, thereby encourage
enterprise, invite immigration, ana thus
enlarge and augment every attribute of
national strength-the administration of
Abraham Lincoln listened approvingly to
the proposition to connect the Atlantic and
the Pacific by great military and postal
railroad. / am proud that citizens of our
own State were found to possess the reaui-
site capacity, energy and enterprise for this
great work. l rejoice in their success; l
acknowledge for them that degree of
friendly regard which would make any
right or interest of theirs safe ia my hands
al legislator"