The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-04-29

Mr.. Grant, who has the necessary &C
quaintanceship to secure at the hands
Of Congress attention to measures val
liable to this commonwealth?
In the estimation Of his friends, Mr.
Grant is a superior kind Of being to
whom California owes the exalted posi-
ton of United States Senator simply
because he has deigned to become
citizen Of this State.
The Grant Senatorial prospectus men
tons him as "a true American, as
lover of California, and this love he has
proved by his having cast his lot with
her people"
Scanning the circular, we reach the
point where his services to the country
are set forth. The sum of these SER
vices is embraced in the following re-
markable statement;
He has served the State as Delegate
at-Large to the ST. Louis Convention
in 1896. where he went to help nom
mate Mckinley"
1t is perhaps not forgotten that the
State of California had declared itself
in favor of Mckinley before it had
heard of Mr.. Grant. There was gen
eral uprising in this State in favor OF
the candidacy of Mckinley, and popu-
lar opinion set so strongly in that dl-
rection that the State Convention in
structed it's delegates to cast the vote
of this State for the Ohio candidate.
Mr. Grant and other members OF the
delegation who served the State quite
as effectively as he, upon being IN
structed, simply recorded the vote OF
this State in the ST. Louis Convention
in favor of Mr.. Mckinley. The state
ment in the circular is almost pathetic
in it's impoverishment. There are one
hundred men in California possessed of
vastly more commanding abilities than
Ulysses S. Grant who can present
longer list of services than this.
Among the earlier and better tradi-
lions of this nation is one that per
sistent and importunate office seeking
is disreputable. The prospectus of Mr..
Grants Senatorial candidacy moves on
a low plane. It offers no suggestion as
to the kind of services Mr.. Grant would
render to this State 1t presents no
issues of which Mr.. Grant is the en-
bodiment and exponent. 1t makes no
suggestion as to how he will serve the
State-as to what measures he will pro-
pose. 1t represents the craftsmanship
of the time as so enfeebled intellectu-
ally that measures in Congress are not
considered upon their merit, but are
successful only by reason Of the per-
sonal intimacy of those who propose
them. Throughout it has the flavor OF
hunting and Importantly, and
reaches a climax of arrogant assump-
ton by the declaration that Grants
candidacy viii add strength to the leg
islative as well as to local tickets in
every county of the State.
This Senatorial prospectus, introduced
for the first time into political methods
in California, will not be received with
favor by men of high intelligence and
dignified character. Conscious merit
modestly waits for recognition which II
its due. Mediocre ability alone is ca
pable of obtruding itself upon the at
tention of the people of a State in a
self -laudatory circular. No man TT fol
the great office of Senator from Cali
fornia would be a party to this species
Of arrogant assumption. 1t is wanting
in the manliness Of modesty, deficient
in judgment as to the effectiveness OF
political methods, and by its impoyer-
ished catalogue of virtues and services
it will utterly fail of its purpose.