The record-union., 1899-12-24
"CHRONICLE' AND "EXAMINER'
METHODS.

The San Francisco Chronlcle' Is
much disturbed that the Record
Union" should have the temerity to
treat Of the necessity for additional
wharf room on the water front of San
Francisco as one reason for converting
the Legislature in extraordinary ses-
sion. 1t assumes to see in the fact a
covert purpose.
There is no more unworthy reply in
debate than assault upon motive. The
Record Union treated the matter
upon the basis laid by petition OF a.
large body of representative business
men of San Francisco. a petition for
warded to the Governor by them, ask
ing for the Legislature to be convened
and for the express purpose OF consider
ing the wharf facilities question. That
petition made the subject a State ques-
ton 1t has received from Governor
Gage respectful reply, who takes oc-
casion to speak Of the memorial as a
remarkable one in Its representative
character, and as bringing the ques-
ton of an extra session to his atten-
ton in a manner justifying his earnest
and immediate consideration.
The Record Union" treated the Pc
tition as but one of the reasons for an
extra session. It assumed that the bus
mess men of San Francisco know better
than others their needs, and the neces-
ri+ he sic IN
The Chronicle" however, by its criti-
cism of the petition practically asserts
that it's judgment is superior in the
matter, and that the merchants Of Its
city do not know what is best for them
and the State. The San Francisco Eek
aminer'' comes to the aid Of its contem-
porary by directly assailing the judg-
ment of the chief representatives of the
commerce of the port, and gratuitously
insults them by attempts to belittle
their appeals to the Executive.
The Record Union" has at no time
concealed it's purpose in advocating a
call for an extra session. It has held,
and SO continues to assert, that it is Of
first and vital Importance that the rep
resentative corps of the State In Con-
gress should be filled; that 1t imperils
State interest of supreme Importance
for California to be deprived of a single
vote, in this crisis, in the United States
Senate. The Record Union has like
wise shown, and it has not been con-
troverted, that failure to fill the vacant
chair will be play into the hands Of
| the Democracy and therefore score a
| loss of the legitimate fruits of Repub-
! lican victory, and thus commit a po-
litical crime, for which the voters of
| the party will visit it with dire pun
ishment if the miserable mistakes and
contentious of the late regular session
regarding the Senatorship are not i'm
mediately rectified.
1t has shown also that there are other
| than partisan interest. to be conserved
by an extra session, namely, that re-
ciprocity treaties now pending in the
Senate assail the citrus fruit, wine and
wool interests of California, and that a
single vote may determine the fate of
these industries as well as the future
of our interests in the commerce of the
new Pacific" 1t has treated the ap-
peal of the San Francisco merchants as
an additional reason for an extraordin-
airy session, cumulative of the necessity
for a legislative protest to Congress,
voicing the sentiments of the whole
people through the only agency they
can use, outside Of the Congressional
delegation, against the threat to dis
mantle and destroy three important
State industries.
| These combined reasons have actu-