The herald., 1898-06-11
THE CALL AND CONGRESSMAN
MAGUIRE

The daily attacks in the San Francisco
Call upon Congressman Mcguire have de-
Z veloped into farce, and are disgusting
! all fair minded readers. Some time ago
the Call published a garbled report of the
remarks of Mr.. Mcguire upon certain
matters connected with the war. He was
quoted as characterizing certain acts of
the war department as amounting to
piracy, and making certain other criti-
cisms, the effect of which was to show
that Mr. Mcguire was either, a knave or
traitor.
> Mr., Mcguire has denied making the
statements published in the Call, and, in
q letter which from the circumstances the
Call was forced to publish. he points out
how his statements were garbed and how,
I, through this garbled report, he was made
to say the very opposite of what in fact
he had said.
Notwithstanding this complete denial
and refutation on the part of Mr.. Mcguire,
the Call still persists in it's TRADE of abuse
and Misrepresentation, and maintains thu
accuracy of its report.
This dispute, at any other time, might
be left to the people as jury 10 decide
between the Call and Mr.. Mcguire. The
people would arrive at the truth from an
impartial consideration of the motives
which inspired the one to accuse and the
other to deny, taking into account the
rIg nd 70
tions Of both Of them.
To say that Mr.. Mcguire made the re-
marks attributed to him would be to ac-
cuse him as a lawyer of being ignorant
of well-known rules of war, recognized
and practiced by every civilized nation
in the world, as we'll as to place him alone
in opposition to every other well-informed
man in the United States. And in gen.
eral, it may be said that to accuse him
of having made any of the statements
attributed to him by the report in the
Call, would be to assume that he has
changed his nature, lost his mind, re-
versed every principle he ever espoused
and adopted a political code in exact op-
position to his record of twenty-five
years. No jury, the members of which
know Mr. Mcguire. would assent to such
assumptions.
The motives of the Call in garbling the
statements of Mr.. Mcguire and it's daily
affirmation of their accuracy and truth
fulness. when it has in its possession the
evidence of their falsity, are easily ex-
planned. The Call, as the usurping
molder of Republican politics, and the
would be dictator of Republican men and
methods in this state, sees danger ahead
for its party in the man whose political
reputation it is, and has been, attempting
to destroy. The Call sees in Mr.. Mcguire
a tower of strength as the union nominee
for governor; it knows he is popular with
the people, that the people have faith in
him, and finally that the people will vote
for him if they have the opportunity. In
it's anxiety for the election of Republi-
can governor close to itself, it has
searched the public record of Mr.. Mcguire
in vain for campaign material, and as al
campaign ammunition, in order as it
thinks, to remove a most formidable
gladiator from the arena of state politics.
Mr.. Mcguire may or may not be the
union nominee of the silver and reform
parties. The Herald is not the advocate
of any man for public office. 1t believes
the state conventions, at the proper time,
will select the best man as the nominee
for governor. But The Herald will not
pass unchallenged an unfounded and un-
Just accusation against a man so emf
nently well qualified and equipped to
fill the executive chair of this state as
Mr.. Mcguire.