The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-08
Dan Burns.
CEronn the Stockton Dali

(From the Stockton Daily Mail9
Who is this man, the most talked
about Of all in California to-day, the
foremost candidate of the Republican
party for Senator, the millionaire mine
owner in Mexico, the astute politician,
the horse fancier?
For one thing, Dan Burns is the man
with the largest head in the Republican
party of this State. He has proved this,
and it has been acknowledged to him
by the other and lesser leaders and by
the common consent of the rank ana
file. He has been the one single d.
rector of the party's campaigns, his
authority and his ability being unques-
toned. Without him the result of the
last campaign, as to much of the leg
islative ticket, at least, might have
been different. He has earned distinc-
ton by his faithful and valuable SER
vice to the party, and it has been freely
accorded to him.
Now that Mr.. Burns aspfres to the
honor of being Senator, however, he is
another kind of Burns altogether. We
take no stock in these delayed criti-
cisms He is the same candid, straight
forward, true man and faithful friend
that he always was and that he was
particularly when those who denounce
him now, because he has presumed to
get in their way, were only too eager
for his counsel and his friendship. His
word then was as good as his bond, and
so it is to-day. So it has been all his
life No one who knows the man has
ever questioned that.
According to the recognized rules OF
politics, Mr.. Burns has earned the dis
tinction which he seeks from his party
He has right to ask it to make him
lSenator, and the people have right to
think he will make a good Senator II
he gets there. He is endowed with all
the natural qualities, except probably
the single one of oratory; but in these
latter days oratory does not count for
so much in the Senate as political
acumen and business ability. He is
rich, and according to the testimony
/ of Senator White, who declined long
ago to be a candidate for reelection be-
cause he couldn't afford it. man
should have an ample private fortune
to discharge all the direct and Indirect
duties of Senator satisfactorily. Sen
ator White says it costs him S15,OOO
year to be Senator, and that is why
he gave it UP. A Senator, according to
this authority in order to fully meet
the demands of his constituents and do
himself justice should have a corps OF
five or six Secretaries and clerks. Thus
have the cares and duties of the office
enlarged since the earlier and simpler
DAYS of the Republic. No one who
knows the man doubts that Mr.. Burns
would use whatever portion of his vast
income might be necessary in attend
ing to every little detail of demands
coming from his constituents in the
ordinary course of official business.
Those who find Mr.. Burns in their
way protest that he is a race-horse
man. Well, if it is disqualification to
own race horses, how did the late Sen
ator Stanford ever get in? He was the
greatest promoter of the race-horse IN
dustry that our country had at that
time Senator Hearst, as any other
gentleman might who could afford the
| luxury. had a string of race horses with
which to divert his mind in the interim
| of the sessions of Congress. Yet
nobody ever objected to either Stan
ford or Hearst upon this ground.
| They say also-those who wish either
| to be the Senator themselves or to
name the man who shall be-that Mr..
Burns came by his Mexican mine in
way that would not stand the test In
! Sunday-school circles. All that need
| be said in answer to this is that II the
subject OF how the rich mine-owners
got hold of their properties is to be
opened up fully many a hitherto Spot
| less name will be in danger. We
venture even to think that honest old
George Hearst, If the good old man
were still with us, might move to lay
the whole matter on the table. 1t may
be suggested also that If the early his
tory of the Senators now sitting should
be gone over with a fine-tooth COMP
for youthful indiscretions committed in
the distant past, very few regulations
would be found without blowholes in
them somewhere.
! The fact is that Dan Burns is just az
good as those who are protesting the
loudest that he is not good enough, and
that he is qualified in every way to
make a capable and influential Sena-
| tor.
He has long head, and knows where
he is at! all the time
He is by the judgment of his own
party and the concurring opinion of the
other side the most astute politician in
California.
He is true to his friends, whom he
never forgets.
What he promises he performs.
He is a square man, in the true
meaning Of that expressive Western
| phrase, whose word is as good as his
bond.
| This is the opinion which everybody
along with the newspapers which arr
now abusing him, held of Dan Burns
until he got in somebody's way by as
| piring to be Senator
We know this is a grntuitous inter
| ference in the affairs of the Repub-
lican party. but 1t seems to be justified
| If not demanded, by the interests OF
common Justice and fair play.
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