The San Francisco call., 1899-04-22
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN TRIUMPH.


the United States this year, two OF them in CALI
fornia and Pennsylvania, in each OF which the
deliberate attempt was made and ineXoraby pressed
to substitute the will OF corporations for the Will OF
the people, but in each of which, also in the face OF
such concentrated influence has never been pre-
vousy equaled the integrity OF the Republican party
has been vindicated
The analogy between the protracted contests in
Pennsylvania and in this State is incomplete in two
particulars one OF them discreditable to each COM
monweath In personal qualifications for the Fed
eral Senate emitting the moral clement Matthew
Stanley Quay is immeasurably superior to Daniel M.
Burns Mr.. Quay has served in the Senate OF the
United States and he is of strong intellect, of
fair education and of diversified experience in heavy
business which brought him into contact with able
and strong men In all other respects than integrity,
though far from great, he is qualified to hold his
own in the discussion and solution of national ques
tons On the other hand, Dan Burns possesses very
moderate intelligence and during his whole life, so
far as known to the public, has manifested no ca
pacity that would raise him above the level OF an or
dinary Supervisor. His range, even in boss training,
has been narrow and mainly confined to municipal
politics. and in other respects he has been identified
not with large rings heavy operations but with the
demoralzed racetrack and with other kindred degra
datiOns
AS between these two favorites of monopoly and
corruption therefore Pennsylvania had the advantage
OF California. In other particular they sub
stantiay alike Dan Burns had been tried for NAL
versaton in office and acquitted by throwing the
blame on his deputy who in his turn secured his own
freedom by making his principal responsible Matt
Quay was actually on trial for the fraudulent use OF
State funds deposited in a bank while his partisans,
the representatives OF every element that nsuted and
derded the people steadily voting for him. His
acquttal by jury, though technical eXoneration,
will rot remove the unfavorabe impression from the
people.
Throughout the entire struggle however, the Re-
pubcans Of this State stood higher than the Repub
licans Of Pennsylvani Matt Quay started with II3
votes and ended with %, either number constituting
majority OF the representatives of the party in the
joint convention. Here Dan Burns began and closed
with minority, and at no time had more than half
enough votes to elect or more than one-thrd
or thereabouts OF the Republican legislators
II there could be degrees, therefore, in party honor
California holds the post of vantage, from which it
is unlikely that she could be dslodged, even by an
extra session. if the fatuous subservency to the rail
road OF Governor Gage should lead him to that sui
cida extremity or though he should initiate the
example of the Governor OF Pennsylvania by assum-
ing the right to appoint when the Legislature has
failed to elect But the central and dominating fact,
which deprives the Bryan Democracy OF their chief
slogan is that in both States the corporations and the
other corrupt political manpulators beaten by
the voice OF the people expressed by incorruptble
Republicans. The result has proved that though
sometimes deceived the Republican party as a body
be trusted, and that all public matters it
fuses to submit to corporate dictation.
This outcome OF the Senatorial deadocks is recog-
nized not only in the United States but in Europe,
where for example, referring to those States in
cluding California, which through party honesty and
frmness have been temporarily deprived OF half their
representation in the Federal Senate, so influential
and well-informed newspaper as the London Daily
Chronicle says: They are probably better without
Senators than with OF the class who try to brbe
themselves into Office This passage was written be-
fore the legislative defeat the gubernator success
OF Matt Quay, and the same paper, not anticipating
the possibility Of the combination in his favor being
beaten, added: 'In other States-notably in Penn
sylvania, still under the sway of Boss Quay-Sena-
torial elections have OF late been Disgrace
The successful disregard OF public opinion by Big
Boss Quay and by Little Boss Burns is over, and the
outlook for 1000 against the rag-tag and bobtail
Democracy, representing every un-Amercan element
in the country and led by William J. Bryan, is pro-
pitious for the Republican party.
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