The San Francisco call., 1898-08-11
OUR LOCAL BUNSBY.


 the Hoffman House the arrival of MT. Moses 'A Gunst-" Mcguire has came" Having came he spoke of course His speech was barren of reference ito the Chicago platform, 10 to l, and government by Injunction. Of 1t sumptuous in its treat ment of the railroad issue, and was incidentally de voted to attacking Senator Morgan for yielding to corporate influence in his support of MT. Hunting tons funding bill Loud and Barham were also mildly roasted but the Judge failed to explain why he still and omitted the objection which, as explained by Senator Perkins, would have beaten the .measure Perhaps the Judge wanted it passed in der to have grievance that would be useful to him and his daily organ, the Examiner.
 When he came to speak of the proposed colonial policy, however the Judge rose the full height of Bunsby. He said: What shall be done with these islands intimately not prepared to say, but this l do say concerning them, that they should be dis posed of according the best interests of coun- try limited only by the consideration of the rights of the people of the several possessions rights that country recognizes and accords to all, at home or abroad. In the settlement of these questions those interests alone shall be considered and respecting the rights of the people there those questions shall be settled according to final judgment of what is the best interest of our country, without foreign in reference"
 There you have it. We are first to seek our inter ests limited by the rights of the people conquest Then settle the matter by considering these interests (the rights of the conquested) alone Then to settle it all according final judgment of what is the best interest of country regardless of any limitation by the rights of the conquesed
 This enables the Judge to hit the settlement or miss 1t. He carefully omitted what the people expect of all public now, an expression of his own opinion of what the interests of this country are and what the rights of the conquesed He avoided saying whether he thinks the people of this conquested ritory shall be made members of body politic be- come our fellow citizens and enjoy franchise and through 1t representation in our Government; or whether they shall be excluded from our body polite and that shall pay the cost of governing them; or whether shall tax that cost to them and deny to them representation Upon this burning question he was silent while pretending to speak
 After shuffing off this fine coil of meaningless words he plunged up his Is into the railroad issue emitting to explain his failure to enter the parliament tary objection that would have killed the funding bill He indicated wild desire for railroad competition He mouTned that under the funding bill the people .ot California are to be oppressed by Mr. Hunting ton until they either build competing railroad or secure the building of one by somebody else"
 In this connection one is driven to recall the re- cent situation in this State. Some one else" put up the capital, not the Magureans, and built competing line which ends "the dominion" of Mr. Huntingdon
 
 ing No sooner had this competition been secured than Judge Maguire's daily organ the Examiner be- gan ibeling the projector of this competing road, whose credit and capital had made it's construction possible. The Judges organ treated this gentleman on more hbelous level than 1t had attacked Hun tngton upon, with the result that Maguires friend Hearst is exiled from California and dare not show himself in the State for fear of punishment for his low hbels against the protector of competition to Huntington.
 In the closing sentence of his speech the Judge brilliantly illustrated the illogical and contradictory character of his mind He said: ''In my opinion public operation of railroads is not necessary, and under the Democratic idea it is not proper unless it is necessary to destroy the monopoly but must be done ii the Government IS to preserve its indepen- dence of corporate dominion It must be done if the people are to maintain the rights which alone can secure to them individual freedom"
 We leave the Judge to explain why thing that is not necessary must be done
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 Some foreign writers to believe there is