Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-17
Governor Stanford.


The position of Governor Stanford in
reference to the Presidency is at least dig
nified, and has the merit of being under
stood, and is the same to-day as it was be-
fore he became Senator of the United
States. One of the things most attractive
IL the character of this gentleman is that
he has not been spoiled by wealth nor DO
hucal honors. He was the same amiable
person when merchant, and not wealthy:
ne was the same, when private citizen as
when Governor and Senator, and will be
the same, whether the highest honors of
political place crown his ambition. or
whether he shall again Withdraw himself
to private station. Governor Stanford was
not candidate for United States Senator.
but said, :. if the honor is rendered me. /
shall not decline it; if the duty is imposed
upon me, shall not shirk it." He ex-
pended not the value of box of cigars for
election to the Senate of the United States
never was member of that body more
cleanly chosen. He says now. and has
said to all his friends before. II am
not candidate for the Presiden-
tial nomination if it comes to me
honorably and unsolicited, shall esteem it
most distinguished honor, and shall not
decline it. If defeated, | shall have re-
celved compliment from many millions
OF the best of my fellow citizens. and shall
be content. If elected, so long as NV Office
endures and my life is spared, the country
Will have my best endeavors for its honor
and welfare of all its people," Whether
Governor Stanford may or may not be
nominated, and if nominated, whether he
will be elected, we are not the one to ex-
press an unbiased opinion. That he will
nave the delegates of all the States and
Territories of the Pacific coast in the Ma
lonal Convention is most certain; that he
would carry all these States in the
contest at the polls is equally certain. Why
he would not carry New York as well as
MIR. ChauDcey Depew. or receive as strong
support in Ohio and at the South as Mr..
John Sherman, or be as popular with loyal
men in Northern States or as acceptable to
honorable men in Southern States
as any other Republican candidate,
we do not know. That he would
be available in New York, where he was
born, and in Indiana Connecticut and New
Jersey, we are quite confident. He was
Governor of a loyal State during the war !;
he die not fight rebels in the civil conflict
but he did fight the SHOWS of winter and
the storms; he did contend against and
conquer the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
and over its chasms and through its rock
ribbed sides carried the first great transcon-
tinental railroad that united our States by
indissoluble bands of steel in an imperisha-
bic Union. He has devoted his colossal
wealth to an institution of learning for the
benefit and within the reach of all he has
made the people of the land where he ac-
quired his fortune the residUary legatees of
his vast estate. In every relation of life
husband, father, citizen, friend, employer
OF labor, manager of great properties, Gov
ernor and Senator-he has performed all
universal sentiment in hoping that he NAV
be nominated for and elected President of
the United States.