The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-30
THINKS SCOTT
IS THE MAN FOR
THE EMERGENCY
Why Davis Gives Him
His Support.
CALIFORNIA; OPPORTUNITY
FUTURE OF THE GOLDEN STATE
HANGS IN THE BALANCE.
Will Be the Greatest Beneficiary of
the War if She Selects a Compe-
tant Man to Guard Her
Interests.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, Jan. Ex-senator John F. Davis
OF Amador County, together with Assem-
blyman Dunlap of San Joaquin, have
been, since the balloting commenced on
the Senatorship, supporters of the candi-
dacy of Irving NJ Scott. Senator Davis
states that he will stand by Mr.. Scott to
the end. This being the case, his rea-
sons for continuing to support Mr. Scott
are of interest
us it true that you never met Irving NJ.
Scott till he came to Sacramento lately?"
Call representative asked Senator Davis
this evening.
THAT is the fact" replied Senator
Davis, except that eight years ago
heard Mr.. Scott reply to a toast. at a
banquet given by the Oakland Alliance
Club, when, after the election of Governor
Markham, the Los Angeles delegation re-
turned the flag to Alameda County as the
banner Republican county of the State.
Why have you given Mr.. Scott your
support"
man for the crisis
DO you object to specifying in what
respect2'
Spain, though begun merely for the
amelioration of humanity, has left us a
legacy of the most momentous problems
that have ever confronted the republic.
Great commercial establishments have ir-
reSiStibly come upon us, and California
is destined, If proper advantage is taken
of her opportunity, to be of all the States
the chief beneficiary of the war Let US
look at this matter not as partisans, but
as Californians. California has now the
opportunity for which she has been wait
ing for quarter of a century. The
war has already given us the Hawaiian
Islands, has settled the point that the
Pacific railroad debt must be paid, every
dollar, principal and interest, and that
the Nicaragua canal is as certain to be
built as the programme of the Mckinley
administration can make 1t. Vast groups
of islands. whether as colonies, protector
ateS territories or otherwise, are to form
Stepping-Stones to greater Oriental trade.
The construction of the Nicaragua canal
will reVolutioniZe the conditions of trade
on this coast. The inevitable result will
be to force the clutch of monopoly from
off the throat of our merchant marine.
San Francisco and San Pedro harbors are
destined to become hives of activity, and
in the resultant creations of new indus
tries and the development of old ones on
this coast the commercial stagnation of
the last twenty years will have gone for
ever. The questions of the immediate flu
ture for California are, in short, essen
TALLY those incident TO commercial ag
grandiZement."
you feel. then. that a man connected
with commercial industries, rather than
9, POLITICIAN or lawyer, should be
''Weif. the Legislature should bar no
one on account of his profession or bust
ness, provided he is alive to the situa-
ton. I cannot help feeling, however, that
Irving M. Scott would under the exist
ing circumstances, be just the man for
the State. Here is a man who is a world
beater. He has climbed from the foot of
the ladder. By his own unaided genius,
by the power of his own brain and skill,
against almost inconceivable odds, he has
risen from being a draughtsman in a
small foundry till to-day he is the en-