The San Francisco call., 1898-11-10

We don't line the path of a trinmphal process sion which leads the fallen captive and cry, Woe to the conquered
 But in our civil there is for eXulta- ton when right principles prevail and the wrong go tc the wall Our contest against Judge Mcguire was not personal We made 1t solely his record. He
 made that record by many years of aborious activity ir, politics We presented it made by himself, in his own language statements and acts. Not one word of abuse of him was induged in, untruthful statement made.
 Judge Mcguire has been for years building Up a party on pessnism, on hopelessness, on a magnihed statement oi social conditions. and on intolerance of the equally honest opinions of others. It may be said as a truthful ascripton to his energy and influence that after he left the Democratic party in 1887, and returned 1t in 1892 he succeeded in destroying 1t as 1t was from the beginning He seized its erganl- zation and by his influence created party, with leaders who knew not Israel and principles opposed to everything the Democracy had taught learned and believed in for nearly century It great work, this carving over name and an organization to rep resent everything that under the party name had been opposed and battled against for generations.
 Mcguire knew that this remarkable reversal of principles practices and professions would ahenate a immense Democratic vote But, with the genius Of command. he reached out for allies to make good his losses and seemed to find them in the Populsts and Silver Republicans
 Now in it's essence his force consisted of all the pessimism in the old Democracy, and all the pes smists under the Populist and Silver Republican standards. For all Democrats who refused to follow he had one convenient and rather powerful designa- ton; he dismissed them as ''raroad hrelings and minions of monopoly" and sounding the charge on his buge, plunged into the fray, to go down in a most crushing and admonitory defeat.
 His movement was founded and propagated in a profound misconception of the American people. The unquenchable tendency of Americans is to op- timism and not pessimism, to hope, despair The Revolution was begun in hope, In hope were the foundations of the republic laid and the scheme and structure of our government finished Faith in the
 future peopled the wilderness of vast domain and dotted 1t with States, many Of which have peo- pie and more power than of the independent nations of the Old World Hope is still the guide oi Americans and when 1t ceases to be their master motive not merely parties will die, but the republic will be doomed. The optimism of California beat Ma guire and has killed his new party in its cradle
 The great result in this State is something more than rebuke to pessimsm It is repudiation gladly recorded of the political methods of Magures organ the Examiner The sheer brutality of that paper in text and cartoon felt by the people to be drawback to this State, stain upon it's name damage to its interests Judge Mcguire owes some thousands of the majority which the people hang like
 millstone around his neck to the brazen efrontery heartless falsehoods and vulgar brutality of that paper which he characterized as "the greatest paper on earth
 At its discomfture and the rebuke that stngs 1t like hard whip the people rejoice
 Babylon has fallen in California. The landowner owns his land. the miner the gold that he digs The people own their manhood and franchise A great danger has been safely passed All honor to the of all parties who saw and joined to avert it.