The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-07
THE PROFLIGATE CANDIDACY.

HE crocodiles of Egypt and the alligators oil
America are imperviouS to ordinary weapons
They are types OF the corruptionsts who are
sweating in their desperate effort to unite the rotten
elements of politics in order to force the election OF
Dan Burns the Senate OF the United States These
equally destitute OF honor and of shame
They without national patriotism or State pride
Their armor OF infamy is impenetrable 1t is said
that crocodile occasionally can shed tears but no
sentiment faze their stolidity They without
real intelligence They know that their chief pos
sesses qualification and every disqualification for
the Office to which he has the Arctic GOODNESS to
aspire, but that knowledge is only derived from his
analogy to themselves. They have no conception
and no desire ability to acquire conception OF
what good citizenship means The interests OF Cali
fornia the welfare of the country only excite their
derision and their contempt. They indifferent
even to appearances before the million and half
a our people, the eighty millions of the Union
and the seven or eight hundred millions of civilized
mankind. The great Republican party to them is not
living organization, with national soul and ma
t1onal history, but Juggernau car OF the poorest
construction fitted exclusively the railroad track
its axles creased with unclean drippngs and its
motive power combination of venality and cunning.
These men are traitors to the divided sovereignty
that preserves the equilibrium OF institutions and
tc the reserved sovereignty OF the people. They are
traitors to truth, to honor and to decency. Their
function in life is to maintain ''the cohesive power OF
public plumber" Obstinately bent on the accomplish
ment by any means OF their foul and most unnatural
purpose, they absolutely glory in the hope that
they may carcaure and degrade the State before the
Union and before the world.
For weeks they have held the joint legislative
convention in their loathsome grip. Will they ulti-
rnatelv SuCCeed9 That tbe 70 he
by the ninetyfou legislators who control the stua-
ton. These gentlemen have before them pointed
object lesion from the State of Indiana There the
political machine burst into shreds and the
best precedents in American history and the concen-
raed instructions OF the American people followed and
obeyed. The Indiana Legislature rebuked the rising
arrogance of wealth, turned from its proper use into
the channels of political prefer1nent by eectng to the
Federal Senate young who, like both of our
martyred Presidents, emerged from poverty and
from obscurity and by labor by perseverance and
by integrity, made for himself shining fame and
reached the elevation OF American craftsmanship.
Such record and such recognition constitute a
splendid vindication OF the lifting power OF Amer-
institutions
The example and the warning are definite and
prominent. Will they be needed? Let not ninety-
four but hundred and twenty legislators respond
The Call has opposed Dan Burns because his
election would be triumph for evil and reproach
to the State. In lesser degree, but with frmness
it has opposed Ulysses S. Grant IT, because he
has violated the ethics of candidacy and his only
manifest claim is hereditary distinction 1t has in
sisted upon candidate OF its own 1t has protested
for the public good 1t now repeats the memorable
and loud demand OF the people for the prompt
election of a Republican, statesman and gentle
man