The record-union., 1893-04-10
SACRAMEN1O'O GOOD FRIEND.
Colonel Fred Croker Opposed to
Removing the Capital.
He Also Talks About the Hawaiian
Question and the Pacific Mail
and Panama Road.
Is. F. Examiner. April 9th


Fred Croker. He does not want to see it
lose the Capital. The Colonel arrived
home from the East yesterday at noon ac-
companied by Irving NJ. Scott and Mr..
and Mrs. r. II. Pease, aId in talk about
the question of removing the seat of
government TO San Jose, he said he was
sorry the matter had come up. In his
opinion there is no necessity for change,
and he cannot imagine what general good
to the State is to be obtained by giving
the Garden City that honor. But he
spoke good words for San Jose, and, in
fact, sounded its praises in such fashion
as would please the most enthusiastic
San Josean. For all that, however, Sac
ramento is good enough Capital for him,
and will have him as warm adherent in
its fight.
Colonel Croker was born and reared
ln-Sacramento, and there is not a nook or
corner of it from Lake Como to Oak Park
that he Is not familiar with. He did not
contrast the beauties or the various
claims of excellence of the two cities, nor
did he say that if he were 10 move
away from San Francisco he would pre-
Ter living at Sacramento. AS matter of
TACT he never expects TO live at either
place, but as the Capital now is con-
Venlent location, in his opinion, and
readily reached from the various points
OF the State, he did not see who would be
penehted by its removal to San Jose, eX-
cept some owners of real estate at the
Garden City.
he did not pretend to know what Sem
ator Stanford thought about the subject,
nor whether Mr.. Huntington had any
preference. Neither did he intimate
what, II any, preference the railroad COM
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he look the trouble to say he was simply
giving his personal views of the subject,
and from what information he had he did
not think there was going to be any gem
eral demand for the removal OF the Capt.
tai from Sacramento.
RETICENT ABOUT POLITICS..
Colonel Croker was very shy of politi-
cal matters, stating that he had no am
bition in that direction and was not in
terested in politics, gave but little atten-
ton to the subject and preferred
to attend to his business and have
as little publicity as possible. He
was contented to go along quietly with
his own work in his own way. And
as he spoke his appearance showed that
he was the very picture of contentment.
He is getting little bit stout, and the
clear look of his blue eyes shows him to
be in the best of health and spirits. He
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was the first time in long while that he
has been away from the West.
Travelling homeward he read with in
:erest Judge Kicks decision declaring
| the boycott of the Lake Shore roads en-
gineers against the Ann Arbor road il
legal. He thinks it highly proper rul-
ing. He said: I'm it's simplest ANALYSIS
the decision merely makes a rule work
both ways, for if the employer is held &C.
countable to a certain line of conduct
there is no reason why his employe, so
long as he remains at his post of duty,
should not do the work he is paid to do
and by which the employer can alone full
fill his legal possibilities. If man
does not wish to do the work he is hired
to do he certainly has right to quit, but,
if he remains, the man or company that
hires him has a right to insist upon his
performing the duties he is paid to per-
form. If a corporation is bound by law
to do certain things and is unable to do
them by reason OF the misconduct OF it's
employees, it looks to me reasonable for
the courts to deal with the wrong-doers
in the same manner as If the owners were
the ones at fault"
HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.
DEPRESSING to the topic OF gathering in
the Hawaiian Islands he exhibited con-
siderable enthusiasm in favor OF annex
alton. The islands should be annex ed :"
he said, "for the commercial advantages
that would ensue and because of their
strategic importance in time of war.
find the feeling at the East generally
favorable to annexation. Many say that
as it will benefit the Pacific Coast more
than any other part of the country, peo-
pie out here should especially champ ion
the scheme. | think SO, too. l remem-
Der the protests that Grant encountered
when he suggested the annexation of San
Domingo. The fact that there appears to
be general approval of annexlng the
Hawaiian Isles is significant of change
in public opinion as TO the attitude of the
country on such subjects. Surprising
Commissioner Blount should make re-
port showing under the most unfav orable
conditions the illiteracy and incapacity
for selt-government of the natives, do
not think that we should refuse to annex
the islands for the reasons 1 have already
given"
The young railway magnate spoke of
the North American Navigation Com
pany: 1.-The impression exists in New
York that it will be short-lived, but of
my own personal knowledge 1 would not
say. L was given to understand that the
North American Company had failed to
comply with the conditions the Panama
road specified within the time agreed
upon and had asked for an extension of
time. | was also informed that the Pana-
ma road was now in a position that it
could contract with the Pacific Mail with
out being liable in damages to the new
company, and that, in fact, the Pacific
Mail and the isthmus road are very near
some sort oil an understanding.
THE PANAMA ROAD.
LAS am in no way interested in the
Pacific Mail, l am not speaking authori-
tatively, but am repeating what has been
told me. 1 think the Pacific Mail and
the Panama road will settle their differ
ences, but how they will do it and what
effect it will have upon the new company
1 cannot say, L do not regard the new
road as hurtful to the overland lines. 1t
is a part of the rambling, inconsistent
agitation that is being engineered by Mr