The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-30
MAoUIRE AND STANFORD UNIVERSITY


has never said done put in issue by Cages
didacy II Gage had ever written said word or
done thing in favor of the Southern Pacific Rail
road or taken professional fee from that corpora
ton, does any believe that Mcguire would fail to
use it as an issue? Does any one believe that he
would fail to hold Gage responsible for it. read it and
demonstrate it in every speech he makes?
OF course every one knows that Mcguire, while
lodging his own record, would greedily seize upon
any such fact i'll the record OF his opponent That he
can find no such thing in Cages record is proved by
hi. mot using it.
In default OF such material he has busted himself in
manufacturing record for Mr.. Gage to prove him
railroad man. The work is not credtable to Judge
Mcguire, but he is an expert in office-seekng and
stops at nothing that will keep the public treasury
open his salary seeking hand. So he assumes to
invest Mr.. Gage with record he never made, with
intentions he entertained, with acts he never
performed, with relations he sustained
At the same time Mcguire denies responsibility Tor
his own uterances intentions and relations to which
his record for years commits him.
While he was making speech in the House Or the
5th OF July, 1893 the Pacific railroad debt, Nh
Hopkins asked him whether his position on that CUES
ton had changed to which Mcguire replied: 1T is
the same to-day it has been all previous occa-
sons I do not recall any change in my opinions on
fully Incorporated in the Record" Now, in that
same speech Mcguire said that Stanford, Huntington
Hopkins and Crocker guilty OF gigantic frauds
x The original directors OF the Central Pa
cifc Company in defiance and violation OF every OBJ
legation they owed trustees either to the company
they Immediately represented or to the Government
OF the United States diverted $50 to their
pockets Alter this tremendous peculation OF these
directors disclosed the act OF 1873 was passed II
upon foreclosure OF the Central Pacific the sale shall
fail to produce an amount sufficient to pay the claim
OF the Government l have no hesitation IN saying
that the Government has a right OF action against
the living directors and against the property of the
dead directors who diverted these assets provided OF
course that the property OF the dead directors be
found in the hands of persons who acquired not by
purchase, BUT BY GIFT OR BY SOME MEANS
OTHER than purchase. 1t so happens that of the
original directors OF the Central Pacific who diverted
all these assets one is still living, his es-
tate is within reach of the courts, The other three
are dead but it happens that all their estates are
in such positions that the Government reach them.
Charles Croker is dead, but his estate before his
death put by gilt into corporation known the
Crocker Estate Company That great estate, made
up largely OF the fruits, in many cases the direct
fruits OF these diverted assets, stands there to
if under the principles of equity jurisprudence and
the laws OF the land his estate is liable believe it
is. The Hopkins estate is in the position prac
tcaly The other estate, that OF Leland Stanford, has
passed in part to the widow OF the deceased and is
held by her very largely in real property In the dis
ct1sson of former funding bill it suggested that
as Stanford had devoted his fortune, however
CURED to quasi-pubc in the establishment OF
magnificent university in California, it would be
against public policy to disturb it, but it has no
relevancy as an argument in favor of funding bill.
CHI do "A in tha CO1le
ton of its claims the Stanford University likely
to be crippled or closed or made less useful to the
public than it is now not at present prepared to
saw X If this bill should pass you
then wipe out all collateral obligations attaching to
the original contracts, including those arising out Of
the gigantic frauds and breaches of trust to which
have all too briefly and incompetey referred. The
directors and their successors in the enjoyment of
colossal fortunes largely based upon these fraudulent
diversions of trust assets will be Immediately set free
from all liability the Government and their oenses
condoned and compounded
Now, there is recent, direct and explicit charge
that Stanford University is founded and endowed
the fruit of peculaton gigantic fraud and crime and
that not only it, but the Hopkins Art School, given
to the State University, the Croker Old Peoples
Home and Mrs. Stanford's kindergartens, the fine
conservatory in Golden Gate Park the lake and other
creations in that park, and all and sundry the many
public gifts of millions of dollars given by the orig
ina four directors OF the Central Pacific, the di
rect fruit of crime There is the direct assertion that
the Government OF the United States seize all and
singular these properties, and that Mcguire is mot
prepared to say" what should be done il Stanford
University SIS crippled closed by such seizure.
Recently Mcguire has told certain students that he
will take Stanford University under his wing"
Governor, and by the demagogue arts of which he is
past he is wooing votes in that institution
But will he go that university and standing in the
great court where its founder lay in death and thou
sands his obseques, repeat his speech and his
charges of last July?
He said in the speech that upon this subject
his opinions have not changed Tor five years. Have
they changed in three months? Does he still be-
eve that Stanford stole the endowment of that uni
versity and that may be crippled closed by seizure
by the Government?
This is something that concerns the character of