The San Francisco call., 1898-12-17
NO sENaToRSHIP FOR SALE.

candidacy contessedy originated III the East It was
 decided upon in council of politicians who have the reputation of growing poorer in the public ser
 vice. and whose health does not require the use of office as sanitarum. Its first appearance in Caifor nia was Mir. Grants request for the support of the Southern Pacific Railroad Upon being refused be- cause that corporation had other Senatorial suckers to fry he publicly admitted that he had applied and consoled himself for the denial of his application by pointing with pride to the support of the Santa Fe Railroad These guileless admissions demonstrate that Mir Grant was of the opinion that California has little voice in her affairs that her in the Senate disposed of by or both of two foreign railroad corporations, upon request of Eastern politicians who render equivalent to the porations in the shape of favorable railroad legisa ton in Congress.
 This is a naked analysis of Mr. Grants method. It consisted in Eastern bargain, and the presentation of grant, bargain and sale deed to the office for which equivalent had been promised.
 There local nor personal nor party reason why Mir. Grant should be Senator If the selection who is bold enough to say that Mir. Grant would ever have been thought of? He not in the Sen atoria class. No act of party loyalty or State ser vice had put his name on the eligible list The first trace of his attempt to influence politics is found in feeble nhdelity to Republican principles and disoy alty to the national ticket in 1890.
 In the hot fight of that year. while the right of the party to live at all trial and while it identified itself with certain great principles of finance call to its side allies out of the Democratic ranks where was Mir. Grant? When his brother was pro- claiming from the housetops, and boosting from po-
 tical Gath to Askelon, that if their father living he would be supporter of Bryan, did this aspirant to Republican seat in the Senate deny it? Did he vndicate the great that being degraded by that unlia zeal? Did he declare that General Grant was sincere believer in the sound money and re- sumption measures which the glory of his terms ill the Presidency? Did he declare sons faith that General Grant not pretender and hypocrite when he said in his fourth annual message to Con- greSS: The preservation of national credit Is of the highest importance; next in importance comes the solemn duty to provide national currency, of hNed unvarylng value, as compared with gold, and convertible into gold at par? In his first message General Grant had said: T earnestly recommend to you such legislation as will insure gradual return to specie payments and put immediate stop fuctua- tons Ill the value of currency; in his fifth message
 We can never have permanent prosperity until a specie basis is reached; in his sixth message: "It IS easy to conceive that the debtor and speculative classes may think 1t of value to them to make so- called money abundant until they can throw DOT
 
 message: That additional power be given the Sec rotary of the Treasury to accumulate gold for final redemption" When his good faith in these sound money texts and the arguments by which he en- forced them impeached by the declaration that he would support Bryan ii alive, the Republican party vindcated his memory by sustaining the principles for which he stood. II did that duty unaided by the sympathy of the who now conjures in his name for the party's greatest honor in California
 Heredity and family, and the support of an Eastern junta and the opposition of one and support of an other foreign railroad corporation make up the peadings of Mir Grant, upon which he asks judgment m his favor Heredity IS repugnant to republican in sttutions. No American has any right to great things because his father did great things Ancestry gives no claim upon those rewards which each genera tion bestows upon its exalted characters In | England there has been presented repeatedly the spectacle of blackguard bearing the hereditary honors of the house of Marlborough because its founder, John Churchill, gorhed the arms of his | country at Blenlleim and Malpaquet The same IS l true of the noble houses founded by great men in the high and mighty times from the crusades to the ac cession of the Brunswickers. Oftener than other wise their descendants have discredited the names they bear.
 We do not say of Mir. Grant that he tarnishes the name o his family, but that he does and will not add to its luster. What this living generation de- mands IS that the recipients of its honors must come in their right and title with their escucheon en- bazoned with their deeds and not quartered with the acts of their forebears
 The Senate IS not a kindergarten in which to train | statesmen in the rudiments o their craft It IS not museum III which to put on exhibition the de | scendants of past greatness Ii is not directory in which to print historical names It IS not body to which small junta in one section of the country and foreign corporation in another delegate their rep resentatives It is the greatest parliamentary body on the planet and in 1t are not inherited. nor are they to be bought
 The people of California have too much State pride and personal selfrespect to submit the common wealth to the base uses of strangers.