The record-union., 1896-09-04
MR.. McGLASHAN's CREDENTIALS

c. F. McGlashan is the Populist can
didate for Congress. We are not in
formed as to who IL was discovered
that Mr. McGlashan possessed those
statesmanlike qualities which distin-
guished him above other cranks and
led to his selection as candidate for
member of the Congress of the United
States. Just what Mr.. McGlashan had
done to indicate the possession on his
part Of statesmanlike qualities we were
at loss to understand. Why any con-
siderable body of intelligent people
should have found in the personality,
the attainments, or the record OF Mr..
McGlashan anything to indicate that he
could legislate wisely for the people of
California, or that he understood the
wants of this people better than the av-
erage man, was very confusing.
But the whole matter has been
cleared up by Mr.. McGlashan himself.
He has furnished a clear explanation
for his selection to be a candidate for
Congress. He has with marvellous lu-
cidity pointed out those great qualifica-
tions which distinguish the statesman
from the common herd.
In the interest of fusion between the
Populists and the Democrats Mr.. Nc
Glashan was requested to hand in his
resignation to the fusion committee,
which, by a process of heads and
tails" would determine whether De
Vries of Stockton or McGlashan of
Truckee was to be the fusion candidate.
Mr. McGlashan declines to hand in his
resignation. He asks Mr.. De Vries TO
make that sacrifice, and he does this
because he claims to possess superior
qualifications for the Office Of Congress
man.
The first statesmanlike quality which
Mr.. McGiashan possesses is that he,
personally, drove the Chinese out Of
Truckee. There is great point in this.
What Mr.. McGlashan did for the ham
let of Truckee Mr.. Geary claims to have
done for the whole United States. Mr..
GlC6IdSHdu CIEdlGu Out q LONii oCI1dEc
his private citizenship did not give him
a wider sphere. Mr.. Geary excluded
the Chinese because the theater of his
act was as broad as the Nation. The
hoodlum who cleans out a single wash
house is a statesman on a small scale
and it should, therefore, not be a mat
ter of surprise that Mr.. McGlashan re-
cards the fact that he was instru-
Truckee as satisfactory credential OF
his fitness to be a member Of the Con-
gress Of the United States. The True
kee statesman further says that he Is
company frequently petitions his
highness for permission to introduce
Chinese, but that he resolutely resists
all Establishments by refusing TO have
anv Chinannan reside within his do
main. True, he allows them to pass
through on the trains, but whether thi:
is by virtue Of a treaty of amity and
comfy between his highness, the Kine
Of Truckee, and their highnesses, the
railroad kings, we are not informed
The second statemanlike element in
MIR. McGlashan's record, according tc
the list furnished by himself is that he
was a striker in 1894. He does not say
whether he was an employe and struck
against his employer, nor what the
merit of his contention as a striker was
hut as the members of the American
Railway Union claim TO have had nc
grievance whatever against the South.
ern Pacific Company, the people who
were not employed by the railroad com
nanv had lust as much right to strike
as those who were The strike of 1885,
entailed the loss of millions upon the
country. and entailed especially great
hardships upon the people OF Califor'
MA. For more than a month it arrested
the movement of the fruit crop, par
alvzed commerce, inflicted financial loss
unon every class of people, and at lasi
ended in an inglorious surrender by the
strikers themselves. If Mr.. McGlash-
ans record as a striker in 1894 entities
him to q seat In Congress. why was Il