Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-14

low his profession, because Courts were not opel
ana Justice was summarily administered. H
aiterward embarked in mercantile adventures
and IN mining acquired what ut that dav was
great fortune. lie was the first Republican
GoVernoT OF California, elected 10 that positiol
IN me fall OF 1881. That State was about equal,
ana dlsunion. For q long time it trembled il
the balance. He came to the administration O
the government in that State in
THE HOUR or IT'S MOST DEADLY PERL.
civil war, as known upon the borders between
The North and the south, was child's play com
pared Nth what il would have been had strifs
broken out in that State. Almost every mar
within It's limits not only carried arms. but wa.
familiar with their use. Feeling ran high Men
were divided, giving in the main, their allegi.
ance to the section in which they were born
One ili-advisei act on the part of the Executive
would have precipitated the State in war and
lef. cities and towns in ruin. With an even
hand, with a conscience which could recognize
the fact that the sons of the South might stand
upon the other side, and each believe they were
IN the rght; with conscience that could APP
preciate the fact that 10 err was human aud
that rash judgments were not Christian he held
the sea es in equip1ise. while on the one side
ms state poured into the Golfers of the Union
the treasures from its mountains; while its gen
erous people gave to the sanitary fund M re
money than all the Union besides aud while on
the other nearly half of It's population were
b3unn in the hol!est ties to the people of the
South-yet his action is such that during the
term OF his office there was not within the linn
IT'S OF the state single disturbance based upon
these mighty
DIFFERENCES OF OPINION.
When the hour came in which at his OVID
cholce he was to retire from office, the Legislature
then in session, divided in its allegiance, did an
act unparalleled during the course of the civil
war. BY an unanimous vote of both housas II
returned to this now assailed man the thanks
OF a grateful people for the manner in which he
had administered his Office. He retired from
the political field to en- er with his associates
upon the great undertaking which has resulted
IN so much good to the Union and to civiliza-
tlon. he bent the energies of his mind To that
and against all obstacles, he and his associates
10 their everlasting credit. carried the work
through. When the Central Pacific Railroad
was completed il was about all there was of the
state of California. II is only natural that IFS
projectors and owners should for time have
milea an important place in public estimation
Inc antlTailroad feeling which swept over the
central W ST. must so distinguish rom the Pa
enc coast-naturally reached California He
ana MS associates bore the brunt of it. MANY II
man VINO then Inexperienced their motives
and their acts. and joined in the crusade has
since admitted the mistake, and striyen 10 re-
dress his wrong. With his associates he aided
III Inc development of that State, until ii now
promises 10 be one of the richest in the Union.
Its gold mines have been in a measure closed
but It's fertile fields are
DEVELOPING a WEALTH
Greater than its fondest son ever considered
possible The work of himself and his asso-
clates was not unappreciated there although
they were assailed for tine: but in the very
Inlust OF mat assault the sober second sense Of
tnat people came TO the surface, and with an ac-
cord never before known in any State they de-
manded, without regard to party, that the Legis-
latuse should make Leland Stanford one of the
representatives III the National Capital The
nrst man IN California to my knowledge who
proposed this was the Senator who sits as one of
the committee, and who with his associate. 50
truly ana well represents that growing common
wealth. The first newspaper was a Stookton No
per, an organ of the Democratic party, and con
Quoted by one of its first minds No sooner had
the proposition been made than il spread like
wlld,hre through the State, and nothing would
satisfy the people until he was chosen aud re-
luctantly accepted the most exalted position
the free offering of that brave people b ref by
deatn OF the son and support of his household
with age coming on him, richly did he repay the
tavdrs which his adopted State and its citizens
had shoWered upon him. Possessed as he was
OF immense tracts of land lying in the fertile
valley OF the sacramento, of others at the south
OF san Francisco, of bonds and stocks, horses
and cattle, of life and energy for the future
with one stroke of the pen, after making an
allowance which decent respect for the opin-
ion of mankind required him to make for his
immediate relatives and friends, he Lave all he
had, all he might hereafter acquire of prop
erty by
THIS MARVELLOUS EXECUTIVE ABILITY
To the foundation and endowment of a Uni
yerslty on the peninsula of San Francisco. The
declared purpose OF that University, endowed
as not one had ever before been, was to promote
the PUB &c welfare, exercising an influence in
behalf OF humanity and civilization, teaching
the blessings of liberty regulated by law and in
culcating Il love and reverence for the gieat
principles OF government derived from the in
allenabe rights of man to life, liberty and the
pursuit OF happiness. 1t is reported that Mr..
Littler, one OF the Commissioners, when he re-
turned from California, said to reporter of
Chlcsgo paper that they, the Commissioners,
were treated with contempt in California that
Governor Stanford seemed to own the whole
state. Mr.. Litter perhaps knew not the tribute
however Just 1t might have been. which he was
paying 70 this man, for while Mr.. Stanford now
owns nothing of material value in that State or
elsewhere, he is rich in the priceless possession
of the hearts of its noble and generous Deople
Three OF his associates in this great work have
passed beyond the river of death. They were
brave men in their ways. Monuments reared
by a grateful people mark their resting places,
and in the memory of these people they are
as the highest types of the all
powerful race to which they belonged
CHARLES CRocKER,
One OF the living associates the one who, when
in the Serras three years, risked his life in the
storms OF the Slerras, and commanded in person
and in the field the army which was combating
nature itself, with calm fortitude and an exalted
courage facing danger as great as the dauntlesS
picket met on the nights of Gettysburg still
"a
by all who know him. 1t has been my fortune
10 be most intimate with him to bear toward
him relations as sacred as the physician or the
con essor bears to his patient or the dying to
advise him in his daily affairs to draft the pro-
visions III his will which would make the dis.
position of his property when he had ceased to
be. From my boyhood on the frontier, brought
in contact with men of every aspect, can and
will bear testimony to the fact that in the whole
of that life have never met a man whose sense
Of justice and right was so exact as that of
Charles Croker. Human, he is quick and i'm
petuous, often wrong, perhaps, but never CON
scious,y offending. His charities have been
silent, but thousands of homes i'll his adopted
state bear loving testimony that the fortune
that came to him and to his rested in worthy
hands.
OfC. p. Huntington, the other living associ-
ate, it has been my lot to know less. In the
early days of California he was merchant. He
still is a partner in the commercial houses which
yet in sacramento and San Francisco bear in
part his name-houses which FOR more than q
third OF century have stood the embodiments
of commercial credit. He has lived for more
than twenty years in the city of New York,
handled the financial affairs of the company
there, and has been engaged in many other en-.
terpriseS. Knowing less of him personally than
his associates-for lived upon the Pacific coast
and he upon the Atlantic-I Can assert, how
ever, from the history Of the times that no obi
CATION of his has ever been unperformed, no
promise made has ever been broken. When, a
few years ago, a panic reached Wall street, he
was the coolest man there. His reputation was
such that he was able 10 throw himself in the
breach and, almost single-handed avert a cri-
sis which otherwise would have ingulfed al
most every business concern in the United
States and brought disaster widespread. Sur
and supporting these men are the
general manager, the engineers, superintend.
ents, heads OF departments, agents, and Others
engaged III the business which they carried on
men of whom | may justly say, excepting only
the head of the law department, their names in
my adopted State are the synonyms of honesty
and integrity. Thus briefly 1 have glanced at
the
LIVES OF THE MEN
1 could if it were needed, but it is not throw
their reputation and standing for many long
and eventful years in the scale; to that reputa-
ton without fear could | appeal. Integrity is
a time. can never be broken, and at last Away
constitutes a defense against SANDER. these
men are not here, nor here as their representa-
tive to ask for any settlement or adjustment.
They have kept all their contracts, public and
private They have performed their obligations
which is now due. No man dares to say that
when the time comes they will not as they have
in the past, performed all their obligations. am
authorized by them to say that If the Govern
ment of the United States were to subm a
blank sheet of paper upon which to write the
terms of moneyed settlement and adjustment,
they would reject the offer. They cannot afford
to tarnish their regulations and dishonor the
names of their dead associates. Although they
are under no obligations whatever to the Gov
eminent, although ten years must elapse before
they can come under any obligations, they are
willing now TO fairly meet every question that
has bsen presented. They are willing not only
not only as trustees, but under the responsible
ties of a guardian. For every act they have