The record-union., 1898-07-11
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MAN FOR THE TIME.


Record Union" that the next Gov
ernor of California should be chosen
from among nominees who are strong,
bold wise, discreet and assertive, that
he may secure to California al the
fruits of the extension of national terri
tory to which the State is entitled, the
San Jose Herald remarks:
The Herald from the other side of
the political field, indorses the propo-
sition. 1t is possible that our contem-
porary exaggerates the influence which
the Governor could WELD in forward
ing our commercial interests, but he
can do something, and at least he
could be a sympathetic, encouraging
and intelligent factor in the efforts of
California to grasp the headship which
will properly belong to her in this eX
pansion of American commercial in
terests. The Herald" favors the choice
of such a man as the Democratic can
didate on general principles 1t recog
niZes that the duties of the Guberna-
torial office are mainly executive, and
that a competent business man is re
Quired there rather than a lawyer or
politician. Not that we have any spe-
cial quarrel with the lawyers as a
class as candidates for the office Le
gal knowledge is a very good thing to
have in the Governors office, but it
should be remembered that the State
provides the Governor with a legal ad-
wiser. but it cannot provide him with
business ability If he lacks it himself.
1t can give him competent heads of
departments, but the best clerks in
the world will not bring head Of the
success. in a private business unless
the house has business sense, and it is
not otherwise in public business.
In the Judgment of the Record
Union" the calling of the man cuts no
figure in the case We care nothing
whether he is a lawyer, a business
man, a mechanic or a man Of leisure
and Of no calling, What California
wants at this juncture is the man. not
the profession or the calling We want
brains and boldness, assertion and
vigor, persistence and push, insistence
and tenacity, and yet the wisdom of
the wise with the cunning of the
adroit.
California is to occupy a heart, a
pivotal relation, if 1T chooses. to the
new conditions growing UP under the
war-one closer and more important
than any community in the country.
No State has so much to gain by wis
dom, nor so much to lose by folly, in
the acquisition of Hawaii and the Phil
ippines. The new policy will make US,
if we seize opportunity with a grip
that cannot be shaken off.
The Governor Of the State cannot,
of course, through advice as to State
legislation, do much to affect interests
involved in national policies. But if he
is the aggressive, shrewd and able man
he ought to be, he will be abla 10
keep California so well to the front, to
look so sharply after her interests, to
study so closely the moves upon the
chessboard of the coming days. that
California will lose no natural or polit-
ical. much less any commercial, advan-
tage the new order Of things promise
to US.
We want a Governor for the next
term who will become famous as the
California champion, as Morton was
for Indiana and Tilden for New York
one who will make it his pride and his
chief effort to place the State before
the nation in such a way that it will
be neither overlooked nor denied; be
made the tool of no policy but the
beneficiary of the best; who has wit
enough to know the proper time when
to speak and when to protest; who
Will study conditions and wiring from
them, regardless of partisan advantage
or party loss, the full dues Of this
State.
If we do not get such a man in the
chair Of State we will have deep and
sore cause to regret it in the coming
struggle for commercial primacy. The
chief reason that California has been
left SO often in the past is that we
have seldom had a unified delegati On
for anything TO send East; seldom
have agreed upon a favorite son; sell
dom have been able to impress the
State upon the official mind and East
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its wisdom and vigor high respect and
a seat at the council boards of busi-
ness politics or national concernment.
1t will be found not at all difficult
under a few moments reflection to
comprehend how great a factor the
next Governor of California will be in
determining the destiny of the State
We want the man, we repeat, the man
OF aggressive spirit, dogged persever-
ance, commercial wisdom. breadth Of
mind, shrewdness Of perception, intel
lectual grasp and mental strength, and
with enough of worldly wisdom, COM
bined with high character, devotion to
principle and tenacity of purpose, to
make him a powerful factor in the
right placement of California In the
new setting the Pacific Coast jewels
are to have. From each of the parties
the people have right to expect such
a nominee this year. What we want
now is the man for the time, and he is
to be had, since every time develops
the man for its need
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