The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-27
IS INDEPENDENT.
Edward q. Waite's Adj
dress to the People.
Some Reasons Why He Should Be
Elected Secretary of
State.

To the People Of California: AS an in
dependent candidate for Reelection 10 the
office of Secretary of State | address you.
Confined TO the Office by duties | must not
neglect, am compelled to reach you in
this manner. My time belongs to the
State. l have no leisure before general
election TO make a personal canvass.
pioneer of '49, have lived among you
for fOrty-ive years continuously. l have
seen the growth of the State and have
been identified with it, 1 have held sew
eral important positions and am not
ashamed OF my record; but what | have
done III the public interest would better
De told by others.
was voluntarily Endorsed by about 100
newspapers as proper candidate for re-
election before the State Republican con-
Yentlon which met IN June. Popular SEN
tlment seemed To Indicate that my nomina-
ton wouli be certain in that convention.
but the primary elections ia San Francisco,
Sacramento and Other large ceuters of
population were disgrace 10 any civiliZa-
ton. This is common knowledge and
common shame. 1t was evident when that
extraordinary June convention assembled
that the larger delegations were under
control and here for trade. They had, as
meb, scarcely more volltion than so maDy
chips upon gamblers table 10 be used 10
common knowledge and common shame.
The eXtraord nary spectacle was presented
OF asplranls for tie SGpreme Court who
did not stand out in relief Ia the minds of
the bar or the people, eminent enough for
so great an honor, bargaining, dickering
ana trading, barbaruusly hustling a
pure ana able jurist from the bench, and
changing the character OF the State ticket
10 satlate selfish am bition. The will of
The Republican party was ignored. There
ought 10 be sacred spot some where in
politics, and If bnt one, its halo should be
seen about the Supreme bench. All men
know there Is already more than Sus-
plci0n about some of our courts of justice.
Is mournful fact OF our times. When
confidence in the Judiciary is Slapped we
nave fallen on perilous days; but If snch
disgraeefu proceedings as characterized
the Republican State convention are to be
sanctioned by the votes of a people claim
ing to be free, how soon will the spotless
ermine which is supposed fifty worn by
Judges, BIZ associated In tue popular mind
with the bedraggled rabbIskin robe on
the back of a frowsy digger.
have been Republican from the morn
Ing time III the history of the party when
IL was dangerous to be one. have written
and contributed to the cause 10 every cam
palgn, and / am lain TO say that still feel
yearning for that early love which will
only be eXtineuished with my last breath
But when the party OF Lincoln in Califor-
MA has fallen under the domino alton of
unconvicted felons, and the fact is univer-
sally recognized and not denied, to that
spirit or want of spirit which crayenIy
submits, may | live and die in nothing its
debtor. L am impressed tina. true repub-
llcaniSm is TO emulate the great virtues
and exalted deeds of the immortal heroes
OF the party, rather than live on their
reputation, practicing in politics the scul-
dnggery that BELTS only men without con-
scleDce-wlthout even the honor which is
supposed to be in vogue among thieves.
There is something higher than party.
violence ana wrong In politics undermine
Tree Institutions, aud no American is a
patriot who gives TO his parry what be-
longs to his country. How great the crime
when parry is ridden and damned by
bossing robbersi
The Republican State convention ignor
ing the plain will of the party, as il un-
douotetiy did, refused to have my name
submitted TO 1t, knowing the extent to
which the barter of ignoble bosses had
gone. and l am bold TO say that my nomi-
nation by &c, GOO free ard untrammeied cit-
lzens is more honorable q than If OBJ
tanned from a convention of $50 majority
OF whom represented nothing, not even
themselves, but only the will of brszen
hucks'ers.
FellOw-citizens. my candidacy is in ODE
dlence to friendly requests. 1t is pro-
test against scoundrel management in the
RepublIcan party and politics in general.
Inc complaint is almost universal that
affairs of government are badly managed.
have tried to administer all the Offices I
nave ever held on true business priuci
pies, and L challenge any one 10 examine
my record. | am candidate to
demonstrate il the people care for an officer
who lab0rs for their interests. Indor,ed
as was by mere that 100 newspapers of
Inc State. 1t is an opportunity to learn if
the press that calls itself independent, and
whose only apology for exiS tence, as safe
and good guides TO the people. is its indie
pendence, prefers its own choice for
public Office, or chooses to subordinate il
TO the bartering result of public plumber
ers. / expect no support from scoundrels.
hunkies or towards. | will get no votes
from the things who believe that THE
public Is goose. and he is fool who does
not pluck feather" Not a vote is likely
t1 he cast for me by one who wakes up in
the night and can truthfully say to himself
there is nobody in this bed"
But know there is abundant manliness.
abundant American spirit left which alone
gives promise of a purer ana better era in
governmental administration, and to that
manlineSs and that spirit / make NV
appeal. E. q. WAITE
Sacramento, October %. 1894.