Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-25
The United States senatorship.

rs. r. Call
The Legislature about TO be elected will
fill the vacancy in the United States Senate
to occur on the fourth Of next March. The
public interest in the State election centers
largely upon the canvass for members of
the Legislature. The contest is one in
which the Call has no interest other than
that which rightly belongs to any reputa-
bic journal; an interest identical with that
of the whole people, and which begins and
ends with a desire to see the state repre-
scented at Washington by mai of ability
and integrity; a man who will protect the
interests of California, and whose term of
office will be a credit to himself and TO the
people he represents. The contest for Sen
ator presents the peculiar spectacle OF two
journals ostensbly acting in political oppo-
sition to each other, which make common
cause to secure a majority of the Legis-
lature, pledged to elect the proprietor OF one
of these journals Senator. The influence
which brought these two journals into the
same cause may be imagined. The question
for the voters to decide is if q Senator shall
be elected by such combination. M. Hearst,
as owner of the Examiner, controls the
policy of that journal. In sharp contrast
to his use of such control is the action of a
Los Angeles editor, who, on being noml
mated 10 Congress, severed his connection
with bis paper during the campaign. Mr..
Hearst not only puts his paper at work in
his own interest, but apparently secures
the cooperation of another paper of gen
orally opposite political views of course,
the so-called Republican paper conceals its
diversion in favor of the enemy under pre-
tense of working for the puolic good, but
the fact remains that The only possible re-
suit of defeating the Republican legisla-
ok ot will ha hn ole ion. Of nav,
ocratic Legislature pledged to Mr.. Hearst.
Republicans, perceiving this treaehery to
their party, and resenting the brazen tactics
which are intended to force legislative can
didates to render an account to the self-ap-
pointed censor, on pain of being declared
''enemies of the State, are aroused to the
danger of the situation. A small detection
from the ordinary Republican vote will de-
feat Republican candidates in close dis
tricts, and il is not impossible that the con-
troll of the Legislature may depend upon
two or three votes. There are present in
dications that the treachery of the Repub-
! lican organ will be overcome in respect to
results, by the action OF Democrats who are
not satisfied with the efforts of Mr. Hearst
to make himself candidate Of the party.
There has been no public demand for Mr.
Hearst TO be Senator. On the contrary, the
| few weeks of his services last summer
demonstrated bis unitness for the position
His vote against the clause in the river and
h.rbor bill authorizing the Secretary of
| War to commence suits to stop hydraulic
mining where such work was filing up the
rivers, and his vote against the oleomarga-
rine bill, which had been petitioned for by
the farmers and dairymen OF the State, are
examples of his inability to comprehend
| the true interests OF the State, which good
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! peated in the next Congress.