Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-29
RCCENTRICITIRS OF NBWSPAPERS-MR.
WRITR AND HIS OPPONENTS.


thing for the San Francisco Examiner
and Report and for the Oakland. Times
if those journals had maintained to the
present date the opinions respecting
Mr.. White that they formerly effusively
developed. A good man gone wrong is
frequent spectacle and good journal
ist is not impeccable. The fight made
by the Examiner against Mr.. White
has been fair at no stage, and we take
the liberty of telling it that the public
generally ascribe its attitude to resent
ment at Mr.. Whites quasi hostility to
the senatorial candidacy of the late
George Hearst. The fact that there was
supposed to have been some friction in
that quarter would of itself have die
tated course either of abstention or of
extreme moderation. The Examiner
made its cardinal mistake when it held
up Mr.. White as the railway
candidate. and denounced the re-
markable journalistic unanimity in
his favor as dictated by the railway.
The day is not remote when there was
the same unanimity in the Democratic
prees OF California in favor of Mr.. Foote.
His friends would scarcely claim that
that was the outcome of railway infu-
ences. This splenetic departure of the
Examiner was unfortunate, and was in
line with the highly absurd attack which
it made upon Mr.. White at the San Jose
convention, when it held him up ee the
young Erostratas that was about to fire
the Ephesian dome Of Democracy. Mr..
White met the situation then with con-
summate ability and force. He was so
clearly the victor in the struggle that
the Examiner itself could not fail to con-
cede his triumph. There is the time
when it ought to have ceased its opposi-
ton and Joined in with the mass of the
Democracy in recognizing the just
claims OF the young Southron. That it
did go partially is shown by the follow
ing from the editorial columns of the
Examiner OF August %, 1890:
"Does not even Mr.. White, as he
thinks cody about the situation, feel
that he is in better position than he
would have been in if he had had his
way? Would he exchange that mag
nifcent ovation which none who wit
messed it will ever forget-that sponta-
neous and united tribute coming straight
from the hearts of the massed Democra-
cy OF California-for formal nomina-
ton extorted against the protests OF
sggrieved rivals"
Our versatile friend Moffitt, of the
Oakland Times, on that occasion, rose to
a trae comprehension of the situation
as disclosed at San Jose. In his paper
of date identical with that of the Ex-
aminer as quoted above, he said:
''If ever man rose to the emergency
Stephen M. White attained that emil
nence on this supreme occasion. He
withdrew his name from the considers
ton OF the convention; he would not, he
said, risk the loss OF single vote for the
Democratic party through any act OF
his; and this he did in opp osition to an
honest ambition, in opposition to the
openly expressed desire Of majority of
the convention. In the face of the fact
that bis endorsement by the Democratic
party az it's candidate for United States
senator would mean thousands of Re-
publican votes for the head of the Dem
ocratic ticket in Southern California, it
was sacrifice that was not equalled by
the result of the leap Of Curtis into the
great chaem that yawned through
the Roman forum. 1t was a sacri-
flee OF immediate personal ambition that
has strengthened the Democratic party
more than all the campaign oTatory that
will flow from now until the day OF cleo
ton. 1t was an act that has furnished
text for every newspaper on the Pacific
coast; it was an act that will ne dis
Guessed and commended in every city,
village and hamlet from the pine clad
hills of Washington to the fruitful val
leys of San Bernardino-Stephen M.
White has laid the foundation of a
greatness that will at some future day
rise above the hucketering and barter
ing of seats in the United States senate
and place him where he belougs-in the
halls of the national legislature, man
honored by his peers and beloved by his
constituents. Stephen NJ. White has
made no mistake in this, the greatest
effort of his life, and the people will
gladly reward him when the opportunity
occurs" -.
The third journal in the trio that is
now belittling Mr.. White was no less
emphatic in acclaiming him in 1890.