The morning call., 1892-10-23
HOW ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN CAR
RIED.

The following paragraph, which aD-
peared in THE CALL on Saturday morning.
may be read second time with profit, as
it refers to matters which will ere long
prove of more than passing Importance:
In circles claiming 10 be we'll Informed 1t IS
stated that an appropriation OF $1,000 OF rail-
road money has been made for eaeh OF one nun
bred districts, TO secure the election oil memoir
favorable TO De Young, and that The latter Is
under bonds. II he is elected, 10 vote in the
Senate as Huntington directs.
THE CALL does not vouch for the truth
fulness of the assertion that De Young is
to be elected United States Senator under
such bargain as the above. for we do not
believe our railroad managers care very
much who becomes United States Senator.
provided he will do dirty work for Hunting
ton, Stanford & CO. But rs to the truth
fitness of there being money raised by the
oyershad owing corporation in order to con-
troll the next Legislature, we do not doubt
| it, for is il not of piece with what has
been going on for several years past?
Rere it is suggested that 100000 will be
distributed in one hundred districts
prior to the election, enough to secure
members of the Legislature, with what
the railroad company now owns, TO domi-
nate that body. Does any person doubt that
the railroad company will distribute even a
much larger sum Of money than that indi-
| Gated TO defeat the movements of the Traffic
| Association in their efforts to change the
| State constitution, and to remove the Rail-
! road Commission? We certainly do not,
! Tor what has been the policy of the organic
alton, even when the company had but little
| at issue in comparison TO what is now in
controversy? The railroad company has
! been employing political managers from the
advent of William B. Carr, some twenty
years ago, to the present time. 1t has been
one boss after another. until they can be
! counted up by dozens, some of whom are
credited with being quite wealthy. There
has been Carr, Stow, Buckley, Higgins,
| Crimmins and we do not know how many
others. Mr.. Stanford appears to believe il
to be a perfectly legitimate business to en-
| ploy agents to distribute money prior 10 an
election, to purchase the nomination of can
| didates for legislative and other positions
who are so utterly void Of principle as 10
betray their constituents.
We have seen what such prof gates will
! do when assembled in legis capacity,
| time after time. THE CALL does not be-
lieve that the public requires any argu-
ments to prove that our railroad managers
have been plundering the people by the use
of men sent to the Legislature by the use Of
money. 1t is the commonly conceived
opinion Of Caifornans that the Central
and Southern Pacific railroads have been
fraudulently managed for many years past
II is the belief that men have been en-
ployed-men like Buckley. Crimmins, Hig
gins and others-by these companies for th'
express purpose of filing the Legislature
with men entirely unworthy Of tie conf
dence CT the public. Is this business Il
continue? Are our citizens to be told tba
they are pOwerless to elect a Legislature
which will right their wrongs? For this i
what has been done in the past. Two year
ago we sent men TO the Legislature
nearly all OF whom betrayed thei
constituents-voted directly in violation
Of their pledges. Efforts ara now beinl
maze to pledge men who have been nomi
mated for legislative positions by such per
sons as have been employed Icy Stanford
g. Co. in the past. Can they be trusted
when in Office if pledged? THE CALI
thinks not for it believes they will TAX
railroad money aud snap their fingers a.
cur citizens and the Traffic Association
The CALL believes that the better class
of San Franchises citizens desire to Sc
the city prosper and TO be rid of tn
understandable policy, which seems t
be almost above board. How can thi:
be done? is the question. 1t can sesrceIl
be expected that the inhabitants of I
great city like San Francisco will be plum
dered indefinitely by men placed in Office
by means of money extorted from them
selves, for this is too much for human
nature to bear. Consider the idea Of Stan
ford. Huntington & Co. taking money from
US in an extortionate manner and then Civ
ing portion Of that very money to the mel
they have hired to betray us.