The record-union., 1898-10-18
Mr.. MAGUIRE''S RECORD.
AMOUNT HE HAS RECEIVED
FOR OFFICE HOLDING.
Facts and Figures Showing q Most
Remarkable Political
Career.
(From the San Francisco Call.)

| tfrOm the san FRANCISCO Ca1l.)
| Judge Mcguire has presented himself
as one who learned sympathy for the
poor as a toiler and mechanic himself.
| We have heretofore said that he quit
work very young and went at once to
holding Office and drawing salary, and
| has stuck to it since with a zeal and
constancy that mark him as the cham
pion place-holder and papsucker of
California, not excepting John P. Dunn,
who has fitted from office to office, like
honey bee from flower to flower.
Judge Mcguire began at-the age of 19
as a clerk to E. F. Preston Republican,,
appointed as attorney to collec delln-
quent street assessments. Mcguire
held this office and drew down $40
month until January, 1876, when, hav-
ing got another Office as member of the
Legislature, he went to Sacramento and
drew down a legislators salary, mile
| age, etc, for the months of January,
February and March, 1876. When he
returned with his salary in his pocket
he stepped back into his old office of
attorneys clerk, John B. Weller having
meantime succeeded Mr. Preston in the
| collection of delinquent street assess
ments. In 1878 the office of attorney
ticing at the law, with no conspicuous
success. In 1882 Buckley nominated
and elected him to the Superior Bench,
where he sat six years, drawing sal
ary of $4,000, and most Of the time
abusing the man who made him Judge
and boiling the party on whose ticket
he was a candidate.
He left the party in 1887 and the
bench in 1889, and lived on his accum-
uated salaries until 1892, when he
came back to the party and was elected
to Congress, and has held office and
drawn salary ever since.
No man has been more conspicuous
for using a party for selfish ends and
treating it with disloyal contempt than
Mcguire.
He has lived on office since he was
10 years old and has never hesitated to
bolt desert and defeat the party to
which he owes his bread and the butter
that spreads it. No office-holder ever
returned less service to the people for
the salary they have paid him. He has
drawn his salary in gold and paid for 1t
in words, words, words. The following
is a correct list Of his offices held and
salaries drawn since he was 19 years
old:
Clerk to Preston. 1926. ........ 50, 900
Legislature, January, February and ooo
March, 1876 ......:..... 9U0
| Clerk. to Weller, April l, 1876, to ooo
Superior Judge, January, 1888, to .. am
Congressman, March, 1893, to March,
Mileage ................. 16, $50
Total ..............................s78,8 SIC, SEQ
Mcguire is now 45 years old. His
official salaries, therefore, amount to
exactly S1,70S per year for every year
that he has lived.
We challenge the record for any other
man in California who has been paid a
salary.equa to 81, 70S a year, or S142.33
a month, or S4.75 day, ever since he
was born. The account stands:
Mcguire born in 1853.
Mcguire 45 years old in 1898.
Maguire's salary ...................s76,s6 $50 00
Per year, Is years. 1,tUS W
Per month, $40 months ............. l42 So
Per day, 1920 days ................. 40
What service has he rendered for it?
He has come high, and what has he
returned to the people for a salary of
S4.75 for every day since he was an
infant mewling and puking in his