The San Francisco call., 1898-11-10
THE NEXT UNITED STATES SENATOR.

H REPUBLICAN Legislature elected on i / \ Tuesday. Next January it must choose Sen ator of the United States from California to serve for six years.
 In making this choice great care and discrimination must be used. The Democratic Senator to whom a successor must be elected, has taken front rank among the members of that body and has com manded the respect of his political opponents and the attention of the country The Republican party must not send there who by contrast will merely serve as foil to him and his record for po- tency and ability and so denote the State rather than promote it. A man should follow him who will stand ill equal attitude o strength representa- tive of the Republican faith of California and the pirations of majority of her people. We take occa- say now, early in the contest that this State must not after name, must not run away from substance to grasp shadow.
 There is fairly well organized movement here to gratify family pride and make play in the line of gratitude and patriotism by electing the Senate Mir. U S Grant Jr. of San Diego. We speak of MT. Grant with great personal respect and stress of circumstances can compel do him any injustice. But protest against his candidacy and his cleo ton to the Senate from California under the illuna ton of the great name of his father.
 In this republic men stand for what they are not for what their fathers This rule cannot be spicuousy violated without reversing wholesome republican idea, which in its essence IS at with the whole theory of hereditary honor and position.
 General Grant, lapsing into obscurity after his resignation from the army, emerged from that obscur ity llumby, took subordinate place an officer of Illinois volunteers, and thence by sheer force of genius made vital by circumstance and opportunity. fought his way to command of the Union armies and series of victories that put him among the world great captains, with Alexander Caesar, Marlborough, Frederick the Great and Napoleon. He took nothing from his ancestors except the latent genius that made him the man of the hour and the military prrnate of the age in which he lived
 It sheds no luster his fame and in wise adorns his name for California to shut her eyes to the lack of experience the improved qualifications, the brief and uneventfu citizenship of his son, and pitch him ill among the giants of the Federal Senate, where his sole title to respect and distinction will be that he bears his fathers name!
 A son of General Grant, or descendant, may add to the fame of the victor of Vicksburg and Appo- mattox in way only, by fighting his way to the front in politics, arms or learned profession, and proving that ability to do so and to win is in the fam
 fly blood
 We indulge in Encouragement when we declare that the gentleman whose claims discuss has not heretofore shown any sign of the original quality the power of initiative which would make people forget him for his name and rally around him for himself.
 Therefore it will dignity his fathers in1perish able memory. nor in any way advance California, even benefit him, to waste upon him an honor that belongs to original qualities, training, fitness and presence among men, rather than to merely inherited honors and name on which he has not conferred the slightest distinction.
 We say these things in all possible kindness, but with great frmness and hxity of purpose, to stand gainst the un-American theory Of hereditary obli gatons in the selection of men for the foremost places in this republic