The record-union., 1893-06-24
SENATOR STANFORD.
Some Comments by Interior Journals
On His Death.

some Comments by Interior Journals
On His Death.
Stockton Independent: California has
lost the best and most powerful friend it
ever had. In the death of Leland Stan
ford 1t has suffered a bereavement that
few States have ever endured. Thanks
to the wisdom and benevolence of the
great man the loss was made as light as
possible, for he made every provision for
the carrying out of his great and noble
phllanthropic work after his death. The
loss is therefore one by which the hearts
OF the people are the more deeply panied
that such man could not have lived to
enjoy a fuller realization of noble pur-
poses.
San Jose Mercury: In all of the vari-
Gus enterprises that he undertook either
for pleasure or profit for himself, or for
the advancement of California or the
welfare of humanity. Senator Stanford
exhibited the ardor and the mastery Of a
vigorous and a capacious mind. He
undertook nothing in which he did not
achieve a success far beyond even the
ambitions OF most men. He made him
sci renowned a railroad builder, as
manager OF vast corporations, as a states
man, as breeder of horses, as a grower
OF vineyards, as an exponent of California
hospitality, as philanthropist as a
broad d-mlnded patron of science and art
and as founder of the most extensive
scheme Of education on earth. None of
these great successes came to him with
out labor, and in their accomplishment
we may best measure the strength of the
vital force that inspired his body and his
brain, enabling him to toll while
others slept, 10 succeed whore others
failed, and thereby reveal himself as a
truly great man because he could do
great things. While the death of the
great Senator will thus be felt every
where as q loss to the State and to the
Union, it will be particularly SO in this
county, Of which he was citizen and
where his muniticence has raised the
greatest of its institutions. By the outer
world he Will be regretted ouly as great
man gone, but in Santa Clara County he
has been known to many who will forget
his greatness in the sense OF loss of per-
sonal friend. Ever genial and kindly, he
has made for himself in the hearts OF our
people an abiding memory. Many there
are who will cherish the remem brance of
his unrecorded acts of goodness not less
faithfully than his most conspicuous pub
lie deeds, and will say of him that he was
not only a great man but good man, a
kind friend and altogether honorable and
lovable in every walk of life.
Oakland Times: Senator Stanford was a
man of remarkable ability in certain di-
rections, and his influence upon the des-
tiny OF the commonwealth, through his
connection with the Central and South
ern Pacific Railroads, was very marked.
Whatever may be the final judgment
rendered by posterity regarding the ben
etlts conferred upon the community by
his personality and the policy pursued
by him in the gigantic enterprise which
he so successfully forwarded from its in
ceptlon, it can never be denied that he
has left the indeHble impress Of his enor-
nous wealth-he has erected for himself
mlnder OF his existence to succeeding
generations until the memory Of his other
achievements are dim traditions pre-
served in musty tones and ancient his
tory.
Santa Rosa Republican: A man of re-
markable enterprise, of broadest patriot
ism, Of most generous liberality- with
brain to plan and will to eXecute-Leland
stanford has made a most enViable rec
ord. He began at the foot of the ladder
and in business and politics climbed to
! the very top. The people of California do
well to mourn the death of such a man.
| Let his virtues be initiated, and if he had
any faults all true people Will be disposed
to cover them with the mantle of charity.
| Leland Stanford lived and died the great
| est, the most influential Californian.
| Marysville Appeal: His successes. his
| satisfying of ambition, his personal adj
vancement, always tributes TO his worth
and Keen foresight, meant public good.
For, when Leland Stanford acquired, he
in turn spent, and his expenditures meant
development. To him, more than to any
individual, cooperation or political organ
| izatiOn, is the State of California indebted
for her present proud position in the
Slsterhocd OF States. He foresaW the
greatness of the country and put his
energies to the achievements of results
which all Calitornians are proud of, and
are ever willing to extend the proper
credit to their author.
! Santa Cruz Surf: The life of Senator
Stanford has been an open book before
| Calitornians toI forty years, and not
! withstanding aRthe asperities of politics
and the friction engendered by railroad
! building and railroad management he
enjoyed the confidence and esteem Of his
tellow-citizens to higher degree than
any public man in the State. AS the first
President of the Pacific railroad, and as
the founder of the most generously en-
dowed institution of learning in the
world, his name will survive in history
long after the incidents of his political
career have been fogotten.
San Jose Record: The news of the
death of Leland Stanford is read with
sorrow and regret in every part of the
country. For thirty years he has been
the most prominent man in California,
and for the last fifteen years be has been
one of the most prominent in the United
! States and one of the famous men of the
world. He will always be known as one
| of the builders of the first transconti-
mental railroad across the United States,
| but that achievement will gradually lose
some ofits significance in the rushing
| tide of industrial development and in the
net work of other roads and gigantic en-
! terprises, while his fame as founder ofthe
! Leland Stanford Junior University at
! Da14 10 I., ,e-t-,- l i
ever increasing possession.
Selma Iryigdtor: Senator Stanford
! founded the University at Palo Alto Of
his own free will, and the memory of his
| noble generosity will never cease to thrill
with gratitude the hearts of befriended
| and grateful people.
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