The record-union., 1893-03-09
THE MAYoRALTY AGAIN.


tanned as good citizenship as any party
| convention ever gathered in Sacramento.
That body was unanimous for Mr.. Stein
man, because it was it's belief that the
city needs just such man. Mr.. We'll, a
Republican, did not come before the con-
vention; he announced no desire to have
the nomination, and it does not lie in the
mouths of his supporters, therefore, to
charge that Mr.. Steinman is tied-up,
pledged and fettered nominee.
The Republican party, in nominating
B. U. Steinman, reflected not only the
business sentiment ofSacramento, but the
desire of the great mass of wage-earners
and artisans. They were for him then,
they are for him now, and will be on
election day.
Merchants, with their natural and
traditional reticence, say little aloud about
the election, but overwhelmingly they are
for and will vote for B. U. Steinman.
Workers are more free in expression,
and, with frank independence, declare
for Steinman almost unanimously.
All the shameful mud throwing in
dulged in by disgruntled few can do
Mr.. Steinman no harm. Neither he nor
his supporters retaliate in kind. Neither
assailed as has been the Republican
nominee. 1t is proof positive that his
strength is known and feared by the
hybrid elements opposing him.
The charge that MIR. Steinman is tied
up with bosses and pledges and contracts
and capitalistic enterprises, he has laid
out cold and dead with so manly, en-
phatic and clear-cut denial and full ex-
preston of his opinions and aims, that
even his opponents have not been able
to place a fingers tip upon a weak spot
in his declaration.
The RECORD UNION is for Mr.. Stein
man, not that he is a Republican: not
that he is partisan; not that he is inter-
ested in industrial works; not that he has
money and invests it at home; not alone
that he is the product of self-helpfulness
and courage; but because he is now what
he is, a competent, clear-headed, far-see-
ing business man, who has perfectly de-
fined perceptions of the duties of a Mayor,
of the needs of the city and how to meet
them.
We are for him because he is not
pledged, mortgaged, tied up, bound to, or
under the COW of bosses, would-be bosses.
schemers or taxeaters.
We are for him because he made first
class and fearless Supervisor: because he
has refused utterly to promise, pledge, or
even indicate what he would do in filing
places or dispensing city patronage ex-
cept that city economy, good service, the
most for the money, square and above
board dealing, improvement along the
whole line to the limit of capacity with
out oppressive taxation, will be the rules
of his administration.
NJ OluGI CdhulQdl6 udS Sdl(l as
Mr.. We'll, who is whooped up against
Mr.. Steinman, has not had a word to say
in expression of his ideas of municipal
conduct, municipal advancement, city
needs and how to meet them. The truth
is that the whole city recognizes B. L.
Steinman, as of all, the strongest candi-
date, and hence it is that the contingent of
bobtailed Democracy, unable to find
anyone to train under its colors, has
named a candidate who is not a Demo-
crat, and who cannot accept the support
of the scaly leaders of the so-called
regular Democratic party, as he has
done, and deny the obligation.
1t is no wonder that the whole pack of
opposition, the hodge-podge of malcon-
tents, are yelping in concert against the
Republican nominee, who fights in the
open and refuses to blister his reputation
by consorting with the gang that has
hoisted Mr.. Wells name i'll default of
decent Democrat to accept its nomina-
ton.