The record-union., 1899-02-25
EFFECT OF DEADLOCK.
More Expressions Of the Press De.
manding an Election Of Senator.
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Ma4O106 an 61ecC1On OF senator.
Oakland Tribune)
Party principle is at last properly
asserting itself at Sacramento, for the
developments of the past few days
make it Certain that the Legislature
will not adjourn without electing a
Republican United States Senator. A
caucus is of course now inevitable, for
it is the only feasible method by which
the difficulties can be adjusted and the
members are bound to drift to it soon
er or later
FORCING Al DEADLOCK.
CLOS Angeles Express.)
AS the session of the Legislature
draws toward it's close it becomes more
and more evident that there is a dog
in-the- manager purpose on the part CT
a number of members OF that bodg to
force a deadlock and deprive this State
of it's representation in the Senate
rather than give up their own candi-
date. That certain candidates who pro-
fess to be stanch Republicans and de-
voted friends to the best interests OF
the State participate in this intention
is most painfully evident. The people
of California will, in the event of a
deadlock, hold those legislators, and
more particularly those candidates, re-
sponsible for the unhappy outcome of
the fight.
ELECT A SENATOR.
(Humboldt Standard)
But ten days of the sixty for which
our legislators can draw pay yet re-
main, and apparently the Legislature
is as far from choosing "a United
States Senator as it was the first day
the joint convention assembled. SEN
ators and Assemblymen assure US that
they will not adjourn without electinS
a Senator. The STANDARD" hopes they
may agree and elect a Republican to
the United States Senate, but we wish
to say to them, in all candor, that
rather than leave. the State unrepre-
sented by second Senator, if Republi-
can office-seekers are too stubborn to
yield if the Legislature cannot agree
on any Republican, they would better
cast their votes for Stephen M. White
and elect him, for he will be reelected
two years from now in case no Sen
ator is elected at this time. The State
will then go Democratic, beyond per-
adventure, and we may as we'll have
Mr.. White with his anti-annexation,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. views now, as to
accept him two years later at the hands
of the Democrats.
WHAT THE EFFECT WILL BE.
(Monterey Era)
Whom the gods destroy they first
make mad" While every sane MEM
Der of the Republican party in the
State of California recognizes the abso-
lutte necessity for a caucus of their rep
resentatives in the Legislature as the
only proper method by which the dis
graceful Senatorial deadlock can be
broken. those representatives = under
the influence of a madness which VIII
surely result in their political destfuc-
tion-continue to block the way, re-
fuse to submit to the will of the ma
jority, and withhold from the Repub-
lican party the fruits Of its great vic
tory at the polls. So blinded are they
by their determination to have their
candidate elected or none-or by the
miserable dread of the lash of the two
San Francisco Republican papers That
are SO traitorously striving to wreck
the party they profess to support-that
thew cannot see the full effect OF their
obstinacy either upon themselves or
fheir party. The effect will be for
themselves political burial beyond the
possibility of resurrection, and for their
party disruption, discredit and dis
honor. Let the caucus be held, and II,
then. a choice cannot be made, let these
pusillanimous Republican Legislators
frankly declare that they are unfit FOR
the trust reposed in them, and ask the
Democratic members to choose a sue
oessx,r. To Stephen M. White.