Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-15
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT
GROVER CLEvELAND,O of New York
FOR vICE-PREsIDENT-
ALLEN G. THURMAN. of Ohio.
To enforce frugality in public erpend'-
tssres and abolish unnecessary taTatton.
FOR CONGRESS. SIXTH DISTRICT
REEL b. TERRY, OF Fresno.
A MAN of Note Gone.

The death of Charles Crocker is a quite
notable event. He was man OF mark
in many respects, and his native abilities
were unquestionably of the first order.
Beginning life at the foot OF the ladder,
with nothing to rely upon but stout
heart and buoyant American energy,
he discounted in his career the fascinat-
ing story told by Dumas of his ideal
Monte Cristo. His career had all the
dazzle of the life-narratives OF John
Law, Sir Morton Peto and Pereire, with
none of their instability. In our notice OF
the death of this remarkable man, we
shall take no account of the controversies
which the corporations with which he was
identified have had with the people
of California, or with the Govern
ment of the United States. In those
issues this journal has always taken
what it believes to be the side of the
people. But the fact remains that
Charles Crocker and his associates were
the originators of the most colossal
schemes of development ever recorded
of any people, making other gigantic
projects feasible. Admitting that, in
carrying them out, they received the
subsidy of the Government Of the United
States, that their great trust may not
have been administered as it should
have been in all respects, they were new
ertheless the instruments in erecting an
empire on the Pacific Coast and in Great
ing conditions of agriculture, horticulture
and general business which have enabled
the people Of this Coast to tide over the
decline of our mining interests. There
are hundred things which the Messrs.
Huntington, Stanford, Crocker and
Hopkins might have done which
they failed to do, and they
have done many other things which
we should not have counseled. But the
impulses of personal ownership of vast
property are not always responsive to
the incest suggestions of public spirit. 1t
is natural for man to err on the side OF
self-interest, and we are now seeking to
end out what was good in the late
Charles Crocker, and the research is re-
warded by much that was genuine gold.
He possessed an overmastering energy,
q spirit of enterprise without bounds, a
specially gay and amiable temperament
and a dauntless pluck and will-power
that were always equal to any occasion,
however perilous. There was fine
generous strain in the man and splen-
did fiber of fidelity to his business obli-
cations and friendships. Years ago, when
the Southern Pacific Railway Company
sold its Mojave branch to the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, when the
purchase of the Galveston, Harrisburgh
and San Antonio Railway and the Nor
gan line of steamers and the general de-
preston in railway securities had en-
barrassed Mr.. Huntington in New York,
Charles Crocker drained the Coast of
ready cash to sustain his partner, and
not only enabled him to pull through but
to emerge in few months with enorm-
GUS profits. In the early days of the
Central Pacific projects no man had a
LOUDER laugh, d uOIo CLCOAlhS AAuiFiuu-
ality, or a more unfagging zeal and hope
chan Charles Crocker. He always had
sonfidence in the projects with which he
was identified, and he is under
stood to have been the heaviest
owner in the Southern-Central Pa
cific Railway systems. He leaves
= number of SONS, amongst them Colonel
C. F. Crocker, who has been trained
from youth to a knowledge of the great
responsibilities which will devolve upon
him, and who is said to inherit his
f.ther's genius for affairs. Inthe shadow
cast by the grave many of the dead mag
Mates most inveterate enemies will be
ready to acknowledge his many sterling
points of character. He was probably
one Of the half-dozen richest men Of the
world, all his investments having been
characterized by marked sagacity. In
N interview which the deceased had