The San Francisco call., 1898-12-13

If they did so 1t would be a public
 calamity
 The Senatorial candidacy. of U. s.
 Grant Jr. is becoming almost as great
 a stench in the nostrils of decent peo- pie as that of Colonel Burns. His agents openly boast that he has written pledges from certain members of the Legislature and that these pledges
 were secured by him prior to the elec-
 tion in return for money given the
 members to promote their candidacy
 It Is something of a shock to decent
 people to hear that man who aspires
 to represent the State in the upper house of Congress boasts that he owns
 certain legislators by reason of the
 money he has given them; that he car
 ries in his pocket the written evidence
 of their servility, and that they dare not break their chains for fear of the
 law. It is not likely that the men whose honor MT. Grant boasts of haV-
 ing purchased will come forward and confess their infamy and their slavery
 before the public, but it may be that 1T
 they have the hardihood to carry out their part of the illegal and disgraceful compact there will be others who will relieve them of the task and at the same time perform public service.
 It is an old rule in politics that the man who will buy vote can himself be bought It may be that candidate who has purchased votes expects to re- imburse himself, in the event Of his election, for money he has paid to leg islative candidates and members elect by placing his own vote at auction up- on his arrival at the national capital. To all outward appearances such man seems to be statesman who IS spending his mothers money, the free gift of a generous people, and trading on an honored name for the purpose of personal gain. For this purpose he wishes to represent in the national Congress the people of a State in which he has lived so short a time that he is not familiar with it's geography, its needs or it's people.
 Before and since the election Grant has had in his employ small army of political heelerS who have been in- trusted with the work of distributing his money through the different coun- ties of the State for the purpose of in- f1uencing the votes of Legislators. Grant publicly declares that this money has been spent for the sole purpose of promoting his Senatorial candidacy, d fact that he sets forth as one of the principal reasons why his claims should be recognized by the Legislature. He recently admitted in an interview that this money was furnished him by prominent friends in the East. It is also known beyond doubt that one branch of the Southern Pacific Com pany's stockholders is seeking to se- cure his election. This interest is rep 1 resented by First Vice President Hub l bard in New York and is supplemented | by the owners of the Santa Fe road.
 With Burns and his record and the | c. P. Huntington end of the Southern Pacific Company on one side and | Grant and the Hubbard end of the Southern Pacific on the other the. good people of California have small show i of an honest representative in Con- gress to succeed Senator White. It Is party in this State will permit either of these worthies to attain the object for which they are aiming.
 MT. Grants services to the Republi- can party in this State consist of knif- ing the State ticket in San Diego fully that in the event of a close vote he would have succeeded in defeating almost the entire State ticket. It is possible that some one knows why MT. Grant has a claim on the party sufficiently strong to entitle him to consideration as a Senatorial candi- date If some one of his salaried agents will come forward with one reason-save that his name Is Grant why he should be elected United States Senator The Call will gladly publish the same.
 It does not seem within the range of possibilities that the people of this State wish to be represented in the national Senate by stranger who is trying to purchase his election with Eastern money and whose interests are the interests of Eastern men who have nothing in common with Califor- mia or Californians.