The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-11


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The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Drop the fake caucus.
Get down to straight business.
Elect Senator worthy of the Office.
Sooner or later ability always arrives.
No one denies the merits of Samuel NJ
Shortridge.
What has Senator Perkins ever done il
the Senator
The Office should go to the man who cal
fill it worthily.
Merit may be Knocked at by those WHIT
lack it, but it wins.
Take the dummy off the track and gc
forward to new things.
The Senator from California should bt
able to speak for California.
The people of California expect a Sena
tor who will cham pion all the interests o.
California.
Senator Perkins has been tried in the
Senatorship an what does The trial bal
ance show?
In the great arena of National debate
California should have a champion able
to maintain her caase.
There are those who say that for merit
to aspire is ridiculous, but as a rule they
are ridiculous themselves.
If the attempt OF the Examiner to
worry" Senator Perkins into selling a
ship" is not ridiculous, what is it2
Why did the men who claim to have
been instructed for Perkins go into eau
Gus to decide for whom they should vote ?
Samuel u. Shortridge is supported for
the Senate upon his merits ana not by
reviling, ridiculing and denouncing his
opponents.
Why does not the Examiner point with
pride to some of its candidates merits,
achievements or services to the Republi-
can party?
a man who has been tried in a partcu-
lar office and has fallen below the measure
of its duties is certainly not deserving OF
reelection.
The fake about the necessity for Perkins
to "meet bribery with bribery" was eYi-
IDENTIFY published by the Examiner for its
own benefit.
AS the Examiner of yesterday had moth
ing to say about bribery, it is doubtful
whether Perkins has sold his ships OF
burned them.
There are two essentials for right service
in high Office, one is ability to perform the
work and the other is fidelity to every
duty it imposes.
The advocacy of a blackmailing sheet
may stain the canvass of Senator Perkins,
but that of Mr.. Shortridge will remain
clean to the end.
Samuel NJ. Shortridge has advocated
and worked for the Republican party in
season and out of season and has merited
vice in its behalf.
Judge Daily declares there can be no eau
Gus of a less number of persons than are
required to effect the purpose for which
they have gone into caucus. Who dis
putes that propositions
Intelligent Republicans will not miss
the significance of the fact that the CHIEF
opponent of Mr.. Shortridge is a Demo
cratic Doodle organ, whose manager is
known as Long green"
Hiring Democratic Doodle sheet to as
sail the honesty of Republican mem bers
of the Legislature may be good way to
hide the defect OF the candidate it advo-
Gates, but it does NOT advance his merit.
The Republicans of California should
send 10 the Senate man who is capa BILE
of defending in debate the great principles
of protection against the free trade Sena-
tor WHOM the Democrats have sent there.
All forms of political machinery have
their uses, but they should tend to the
election of the man best fitted for the
OH1NS ~ NhAOA AS oSpACos w nCu lncF
have any other tendency they become
abuses.
According to friends of Senator Perkins,
the National capital is no place for any
but the rich, and yet every student of our
history knows it has not been milhonaires
who have won most distinction there OF
rendered most service to the Nation and
the people.
No man in the State Is more intelli-
gently devoted TO the great mining inter
ests Of the country than Samuel NJ. Short
ridge, and when in the Senate he can be
counted on to promote the cause of the
miners by advocating the appointment OF
a Secretary of Mines with a seat in the
Cabinet.
Having been trained in the public
schools of the State and having rendered
service to them as a teacher, no man in
California is in closer touch with the great
body of men and women who have been
educated in those schools than Samue M.
Shortridge. He shares their pride in Cali
fornia as well as their National patriotism.
and in the United States Senate will give
utterance to their sentiments and main
taip their welfare