The record-union., 1896-08-02

dignanty as he marched off. will be a
precipice, my dear SIR
But all the poor are not for silver by
a good deal On North Pacific Coast
train the other afternoon 1 heard an
Irish laborer in the smoker-an honest
chap in overa1ls, and with his cotton
shirt showing through the elbows Of his
sunburned old coat-earnestly, even
angrdly. declaring against Bryan and
1O to l. What we need" he an
nounced, sis protection and prosperity,
and the workingman that's led away to
vote against the tariff and good wages
deserves to so hungry, as I've been do
ing good part of the time since that
fat old fraud Cleveland got in"
Desiring to ascertain the state of opin-
ion among the aristocracy, / accosted a
friendly Episcopal minister and his re-
ply was conundrum. What, "he asked,
lis the difference between free silver and
free lunch? You give it up? One is 16 to
l and the other is II to 2 Ha! hal 1t
flashed upon me only yesterday as sign
before saloon caught my eye. Serious
iy though, there is going to be great
landslide of Bryan the greatest the
country ever saw. All the Democrats of
my congregation with whom / have
talked say they are going over to Nc
Kinley, but 1 shall vote for Bryan my
self Never thought I could vote for a
Democrat, but I shall. It's a landslide"
So far as my observation has gone
the conversions from Democracy to Re
publicanism occur chiefly among profess
sional and business men. and the con-
versions the other way among those low
er down in the social scale.
Colonel Samuel NJ. Shortridge, who
was for silver, is how for gold and the
United States Senatorship. The almost
formal announcement of his candidacy
this week appears to have taken thepub-
lie by surprise. AS a matter of fact the
gifted Colonel has been in the field since
May last. The day after the Republican
State Convention honored itself by
choosing John D. Spreckels as a dele
gate-at-large to St Louis Colonel Short
ridge congratulated the General in the
Cali on that triumph. The article, by
reason of its noble rhetoric, could have
come from only one hand Editorially
the Colonel predicted that hereafter the
General would be to the Republican
party of California what Platt is to the
Republican party Of New York and
L
the grand results to flow from the mas
tership Of General Spreckels (whom the
Cali acknowledged to be a great man)
was that "a brilliant orator may be sent
from our glorious State to grace the SEN
ate chamber and illustrate the genius of
California" That was as plain as a
poster to the politically initiated-Col-
onel Shortridge had nominated himself.
Where are those who wonder why the
General does not go to the Senate him
self instead Of sending his lieutenant
there. Such as these take low views of
human nature. The General has a pro-
found admiration for the Colonel and is
susceptible to the ardors of unselfish
friendship. Lawyers not SO successful
as the Colonel may sneer at him and say
that his knowledge of law is fragment
airy and superficial; rival orators may
enviously affirm that the Colonels elo-
quence is all sound and pomposity and
never reveals a thought which is not
threadbare commonplace; newspaper
men, who being themselves vagrants
from the broad, fair highways of re-
spectability, have no reverence for the
dignitieS of life, may take advantage of
the CoIonel's statesmanlike absence Of
humor and guy him to his grandly un-
conscious facial these peevish critics
may aver that the Colonel does a large
business as a public man on an astonish-
ingly small capital of brains, but Cen
eral Spreckels knows that his ablest
counselor and dearest friend is a deep
thinker and a splendid orator That is
why the General sinks any personal as
pirations which may have entered his
own bright mind and backed genius with
his money.
But If General Spreckels imagines
that, should there be a Republican Leg
islature, no opposition to the Colonel will
dare to manifest itself. it is to be feared
that he deceives himself. Senator Per-
kins will want to go back to Washing
ton, and Mr.. Estee will be mentioned for
the place. Further, there is General de
Young He has become almost q resi-
dent of Paris, and it Is commonly IN
ferred that his love for that city betok-
ems All abandonment of his efforts to
reach the Senate. Possibly so, but /
have heard another explanation. 1t
seems that General de Young after his
last defeat went to the late w. w. Stow
and asked him to clear UP mystery and
give advice. "How is it," the Cen
eral is said to have asked that while I
am respected in the East and abroad |
don't seem, somehow, to be honored at
home?"
"First-rate men seldom are thought
highly of where they live" Mr. Stow is
said to have said. "They excite jeal-
ousy. and mediocrity is always ready
to take revenge on brilliancy. That IA
miliarity which does not breed esteem
is against you here. What you need
is popularity, Harry, and the way to
get it is to hold yourself aloof. You
can't do that without getting the repu-
tation of being proud and naughty If
you stay at home. What you should
do Is to travel. Go to foreign lands.
years"
If it be true that General de Young
is acting on this profound advice he
may be looked for to arrive in Sacra
mento to dispute for the prize, all glis-
tening with French polish and loaded
down with his savings and accumu-
lated popularity. And Colonel Dan
Burns can be counted on to answer
present when the roll of the Warwicks
is called. The Colonel will be for any
body-Estee, Perkins, De Young or
dark horse-rather than the candidate
OF his former partner, Spreckels. The
length to which the Colonel is prepared
to go that he may have vengeance for
having been politically divorced by the
General, and then denounced in the
Cali as a sinful boss, was shown q
week or so ago when he came UP from
his Mexican mines and told the news