The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06
A RECREANT GOVERNOR.

T HE Examiner and its Canadian always
have the latest OF the imperial progress of
C. P. Huntington throughout the State. AS he
sits in his carriage with the despotc expression of an
oriental potentate throwing contemptuous glances on
either side he always feel confident that the latest
dspensations OF his providence have been duly
promulgated
Among other press deliveries for which the public
should be duly thankful is the information that the
acquisition OF Governor Gage by Mr. Huntington has
been thoroughly established. 1t is always advanta-
geous to know the exact truth and while it is not
for qualification but for regret, The Call ac-
cepts due service OF the confirmation of the belief
it has for some months entertained that, within
reasonable time, the present executive would throw
aside the mask OF respect for his constituents and
reveal the hardened features OF a tool OF monopoly
Mr. Gage accepted the nomination of Republican
State Convention and passed through the entire
that preceded his election on the distinct
pledge that the railroad OF politics and with
the general belief that he possessed such mental in
dependence such strong character and such pa
trotic devotion to American institutions, that not
doubt need be entertained that his admins
tration OF the high office to which he aspred would be
an honor to his party and to the State.
He had scarcely been inaugurated when his per-
sona1 announcement that he favored the candidacy OF
pie and especially among faithful advocates of Re
publican principles, who had supported him with
earnestness and with sincerity So long, however as
he did not the patronage at his disposal to
troll the political situation he not only exempted
from criticism for his individual disregard OF
popular sentiment that practically unanimous but
he commended for his passive recognition of the
right OF a separate branch of the State government
When Dan Burns was defeated however and the
Legislature had adjourned, the suspicious previously
entertained ripened into certantes. Mr. Gage now
presents himself as a Republican Governor prepared
to exert all the power OF his office aid the railroad
design to throw California out OF the Republican
column in the Presidential election OF 1900 No
sooner had Matt Quay received the formal but void
appointment to succeed himself as Federal Senator
from the Governor OF Pennsylvania than Mr. Gage
declared his intention to appoint Dan Burns, if our
highest national council reversed its own precedents
and violated the fundamental law from which its ex-
istence was derived As might have been expected
the Examiner, professedly Democratic organ hav-
ing nsdiously helped the railroad during the entire
Senatorial deadlock at Sacramento, was favored with
the first opportunity print this declaration OF in
tention, which has been followed by repeated evil
dences OF set purpose to deliver the State to Mr.
Huntington.
The Call Loyalty and effectively aided Mr Gage in
his campaign. not for moment supposing that the
treacheries which are now being demonstrated were
possible even conceivable Its first duty is to its
country-its second to the Republican party The
true and permanent interests OF both are identical
The welfare OF neither can be promoted by corrup-
ton, by fraud, by masquerading by combination OF
outrageous assaults upon popular government visible
the MONDAY sun and conceived in iniquity and
brought forth in dshonor Therefore, because The
Call meant exactly what in 1903 because
utter insncerty of Mr. Gage has now be-
come apparent, because the executive depart
ment OF the State government has been deeply
cauterized by the railroad brand because there
IS manifest determination that the lower elements
OF politics shall control the organization of that
great party which received its baptism OF glory when
it was consecrated to Liberty and Union, one and
inseparabe, we warn the Republicans OF the State
against the disrupng Vaccinations OF the corruption
lists OF all parties and urge them in their primaries
and by every form OF personal and collective in
fuence, to prove that power OF resistance which the
Republican majority in the Legislature successfully
asserted and, in their primary capacity to enforce
their right OF absolute control.
The battle now being waged throughout the Union.
by great Republicans, backed by their ncorruptibe
fellow citizens, suppress fraud and treachery within
their party and to unite national patriotism for
the ascendancy OF American self government in equal
antagonsm to monopoistic dogmatism and obstinacy
the one side and to every form OF proetarianism
on the other is one OF the noblest pectacles Of the
century The contest of 1900 cannot be won by
chcanery, by vacation by infdety to principle or
by the denial OF the profoundest truth ever expressed
in Roman naxm-that the safety of the republic
/, the supreme law
NATIONAL SIPFPVISION NEFDED