The record-union., 1891-03-28
Weather Forecast.
A MILD-MANNERED SUGGESTION.

We wish to say softly to our esteemed
contemporaries of San Francisco, to wit,
the Examiner, the Chronicle, the Bulletin
and the call, that all illusions made by
them to the practices resorted to in the
election of the present members of the
Assembly and one-half of the Senators,
are ilf-timed. There is not single fea-
ture of that election which was not well
known at the time of its procedure to our
esteemed contemporaries, the Examiner,
the Chronicle, the Bulletin and the Call.
We wish to say still more softly to
these, our esteemed contemporaries, that
their pretense of discovering railroad in
reference in the recent Senatorial cleo
ton is all pretense, deserving less mild
characterization. but which for the pres
ent we will characterize as pretense.
There is not one single iota of truth in the
statement that the Southern Pacific Conn
pany took any stock in the recent Sena-
torial contest, and we again mildly sug-
gest that our esteemed contemporaries,
the Examiner, the Chronicle, the Bulleti,
and the call, know this. They know be-
sides this great many things they do
not publish. They have known in the
past many things about which they have
kept entirely silent, and their silence thus
operates ..as an estoppel upon their ex-
preston now.
When the delegation from San Fran
cisco nominated and elected by the Re-
publican party was so nominated and so
elected, our esteemed contemporaries, the
E'cdn1ner, the Chronicle, the Bulletin and
the Call, knew every step that was taken
in the premises. They knew the manner
of the nominations they knew the in
strumentalities used to secure election:
they knew the ultimate object to be OBJ
tanned; and all, except the ETanliq,eY, not
only condoned all offense in the premises,
if offense existed, but actually and heart
lily indorsed the ticket and gave their en-
tire journalistic influence to its support.
The Republican majority in the late
Legislature of California was there be-
cause of the assistance of the CaU, the
Bulletin and the Chronicle, and the man
ner of the election of this majority, if
there was anything wrong in it, was
thoroughly well known to these papers.
They sought party triumph and they
achieved it. They knew the probable ag-
gregate character of the body to be
formed. They knew all that was worth
knowing in the premises. They have
learned nothing since the date of the
nomination of the Legislature. The Er-
om''ler knew quite as much, but the
Examiner is not a Republican paper. 1t
advocated the election of quite another set
Of fellows, but we take the liberty
of declaring that the Examiners list of
candidates for the Assembly and Senate
were not in any respect better than those
of the Republicans; were not selected by
any more respectable means, and neither
their selection nor their character afforded
the slightest guarantee that had they been
elected they would have done better than
the Republican majority lately in control
OF the Legislature.
What we find contemplate in all this
is the sudden outcry of the Chronicle, the
Bulletin and the Call against railroad
interference in politics "a sudden
awakening to the methods by which can
didates to legislative positions are nomi-
mated, as if yesterday or to-day they had
for the first time heard of illicit methods,
when it is well known to them and quite
as well known to the public that during
the entire campaign they were not in
ignorance of any material fact or thing
bearing ON the character of the men to be
elected, or the methods of their selection.
Hypocritical pretense is always con-
temptible, but inconsistent hypocrisy is
even more than contemplate, it is pitt
abel.
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