Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-27
HUNTINGTON VERSUS surpo.
How His Record Compare, with that
of the Mayor of san Franciscc.

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Mr.. Adoph Sutro is the mayor OF San
Francisco. Mr.. C. p. Huntington but every
| body knows what Mr. C. p. Huntington is.
These gentlemen have the misfortune to be
blind; they cannot see any good in each
other. From his home in San Francisco,
overlooking the celebrated Seal rocks MIR
Sutro sends to congress good deal of writ
ten and printed matter that is not pleasant
reading to Mr.. Huntington, and before the
Pacific railroad committees OF both houses
Mr. Huntington stands up tall and eypounds
the general unworth Of Mr. Sutro. Among
other particular allegations OF demerit Is that
Of promoting human badness by conducting
gambling hels. shady shows and bawdy
house-which is all untrue. The accusations
made by Mr. Sutro against MIR. Huntington
are, in part, that he and his associates by
criminal practice in connection with the
building and operation of western railroads.
put into them pockets many millions of dol
lars that did not belong to them--which Is
undoubtedly true. To the truth OF II Mr.
Huntington Is himself testifying day by day
before the congressional committees named
sometimes frankly, sometimes unconscjously
always reluctantly. On his oath he has al
ternately denied and confirmed nearly every
thing that Mr.. Sutro, speaking for the
people of California, has charged him with.
The trouble" between the two men grows
out Of Mr.. Huntingtons ambition to be
permanent debtor to the United States. He
is not conspicuously patriotic. but he loves
his country well enough to wish always to
bear that relation to It, Owing 1t some
$50 900 900, which they have no intention to
pay. he and his associates demand 100 years
grace in which an intention Of that kind
may terminate and be nurtured. To this
the people of the Pacific states strenuously
object averrng Through Mr.. sutro and
others the fragility OF the Huntinstonan in
tentlon to pay unavoidable debt-the inten-
tion being always outlasted by the debt
The points Of contrast between Mayor
Sutro and Mr.. Huntington are many; the
men are similar, however, in this both have
executed works of considerable magnitude
and public Importance. The Central Pacific
railroad with its heritage of scandals 10
monument to the enterprise land morality
Of Mr.. Huntingdon; the Sutro tunnel, drain
ing the great Comstock lode, attests the
energy of his antagonist. 1t was not 50 great
a project as the other. but it was enough for
one man. and Mr.. Sutro pushed 1t through
alone; whereas Mr.. Huntington had assist
ance from 1.-The other thirty-nine" and all the
host of disreputabes and detestables that are
always eager to take service where the re-
ward is sufficiently sure and the work suf-
ficiently dirty.
After many years of difficulty az great and
opposition as disheartening as those that con-
fronted the railroad man, Mr.. Sutro walked
out of his completed tunnel into the sunshine
of publicity with clean hands No taint OF
scandal we believe, attaches to his name.
He is not compelled repeatedly to go before
government commissions and congressional
committees and. sQuirming like an eel In
frying pan. iterate the old familiar evasons
and falSehoods. spectacle for gods and men.
Mr.. Sutro's wealth has not come so high as
Mr. Huntington's; he has not paid for it the
respect and good will of his fellow-men.
True. he does not enjoy the esteem Of Mr..
Huntington; but neither would he IL he had 1t.