The record-union., 1899-02-15
Weather Forecast.
LOCAL APPLICATION OF A GREAT
PRINCIPLE.

LII an luteTVltW petWeeIl DdFiu otdii
Jordan, President of the Stanford Uni
'Nersity, and Lord Beresford, DR.. Jor-
dan, with his eye on a California Leg
lislature struggling to choose Senator
for State, said:
Now we have in this country a good
deal Of what we call politics, meaning
personal favoritism. Men gain support
Efor a candidate by promises of one
kind and another. For instance, it is
possible for a candidate for some inn
(portant position to promise that he will
r1se his influence toward getting men
into the civil service, sending men out
ito the Philippines, and one thing and
another What effect does that sort of
thing have in colonial management"
Provincialism may be defined as ac-
cepting the local for the universal
standard. DIR. Jordan was talking to a
distinguished representative of the
great empire of the earth, an empire
having had the broadcast possible ex-
perience in colonial management. Dr.
Jordan makes the mistake of present
ing to the English statesman a condi-
ton Of things existing in American
politics and to which is referable Sen
tions of sman-minded selfishness. DR..
Jordan asks the English statesman how
England has been able to manage its
vast colonial possessions and to sur
mount difficulties which he no doubt
honestly thinks he perceives in colonial
management on the part of the United
States.
The English statesman enlightened
the UhiversityPresiden and announced
principles which have application in the
ford said:
That is SO totally different from
what we have that could not tell you.
YOU MUST HAVE MEN CHOSEN
FOR WHAT THEY ARE AND NOT
FOR THEIR RELATIONS TO SOME
ONE ELSE NOT FOR ULTERIOR
REASONS OF ANY SORT. We should
never choose a man for ulterior rea-
sons; never"
This is the declaration Of profound
principle of Government. You must
have men chosen for what they are.
Let no man aspire because his father
was something. Let no man aspire
because he possesses great wealth and
is able to corrupt somebody. Let no
man aspire because he has rendered
pot-house party service; but "let men
be chosen for what they are. not for
their relations to some one else, nor
for Interior reasons of any Sort It is
the observance of this principle that
makes a nation great, and it is also
Through ithe observance of this princi-
pie thatsparties deserve to live.
Let each member of the Legislature
who has been charged with the duty
of selecting a United States Senator
for the State of California ask himself
the question, whether in making the
choice of his candidate he has been
guided by the principle Of choosing
man for what he is and not out Of con-
eideration for his relations with other
men, or other Interior reasons If a
Republican member of the Legislature
wants his party to live and wants his
q Senator who in his honest judgment
will best serve the interests of the
people of California; and above all, he
will see to it that a Senator represent
ing the principles of the Republican
party is chosen. Every Republican
member of the Legislature is in the
discharge of a trust, trust reposed
in him by the rank and file Of the Re-
publican party-a trust conferred upon
him at a period in the history of the
crisis. influencing its future destiny.
Failing in this duty he will prove
traitor to the party which chose him
and demonstrate his utter unfitness
for the discharge Of a great trust. In
choosing a Republican, he does not
want to make choice of one who will
holds his hands out tamely to receive
the tmanacles of legislative instruction
He wants to make choice Of mas
cuEine Republican, one with intellectual
and with the stalwart attributes Of
,znanliness requisite to the courage of
such convictions.
The candidates for United States SEN
ator will do we'll to consider the great
principle announced by the English
statesman. You must have men
chosen for what they are; not for their
relations to some one else and not for
Interior reasons of any Sort Now let
each candidate for the United States
Senate, whose egotism and vanity have
been famed into a white heat, and who
is willing that the party shall be de-
feated unless his miserable contempti-
BILE, personal ambition can be gratified,
ask himself the question whether his
experience of legislation. his knowledge
of statecraft, his familiarity with gov
ernmental principles, justify him in be-
lieving that in his choice, the Legisla-
ture will conform to the great maxim:
You must have men chosen for what
they are"
Republican legislators who have for
several weeks been voting for the SEN
atorfal candidates who receive the
smaller number of votes. held a caucus
yesterday. or a council or consultation
whatever 1T may have been. Now,
If it was right, proper, advisable and
commendable in them to caucus, how
much more is it the duty of all Re-
publican legislators to do likewise and