The San Francisco call., 1899-02-26
THE INTERESTS OF REPUBLlcANIsM.

-EHE few manipulators and selfish farmers OF the
opportunities of Republican power are trying to
secure their own ends, to the destruction OF
party primacy, by declaring that The Call, under ad-
verse party management reflects the aspirations OF
the minority in this State and seeks to advance ITS
interests by fighting against Burns.
This statement should appeal to no man OF con-
science and sense and to no Republican who con
sders at once the principles and the mission OF the
party 1t is statement which carries with it the
necessary admission that Daniel NJ Burns is the
most mertorious and deserving Republican in this
State and that he is so much the party that to op-
pose him is to oppose the party itself
Now in all candor we ask any who stands for
this statement to answer what would have been the
result if this preposterous claim had been made be-
fore the last election? What would have happened If
the Republican State Convention had announced
Burns as the partys sole candidate for Senator?
What would have happened if the candidates, from
Governor down. who did such useful work on the
stump had announced in every meeting that Mr.
Burns was to go to the Senate as the first and mgh
est fruit OF Republican victory? What would nave
happened if the Democratic manager OF Repuohcan
politics for the Southern Pacific had proclaimed be-
fore election that Mr. Burns the Republican can
didate of that corporation for the Senatorshlp!
We ask any thoughtful Republican, who knows
why he is a Republican, to appear before himself IN
the court Of his own conscience and ask which taS
stood for the highest, best and permanent in
terests of his party, the Southern Pacific road IN
backing Burns or The Call in opposing him. There
is not one such Republican in California who does
not know in his heart that the success OF Burns
means the defeat of the party.
We have seen much bad-tempered criticism of The
Call. and some antagonsms have arisen which we
will long regret but brought to the test OF party
LOYALTY. measured by the things which make for i'm
mediate and future Republican domination in this
State, we as yet lack the condemnation of a single
Republican who looks to future Endorsement OF the
current party action.
The Call stands in position peculiarly marked by
unselisfness and by a desire for continued Repub-
can primacy for it has candidate for the Senate,
it represents no personal greeds, grudges nor am
bitions, and stands in good company it would
elect to stand in no companionship at all,
for the party which received such generous mea-
sure OF public confidence last November and in all
fairness and decency should deserve that trust and
merit its repetition by having aspirations above the
gutter, candidates outside the iogues gallery, and
purposes higher than the ambitions OF the vulgar and
indecent
This is position which prefer to hold, sub
hitting our course to the calm judgment of those to
whom politics represents principles rather than
spoils,
The truffe hunting pigs who want to swallow what
they can OF party victory have sent abroad
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return OF Stephen NJ White to the Senate. Against
this fasehood we set the truth that it is desire
to have the Republican party prove that it has in its
ranks man to succeed that Senator who will be his
peer, that it may not be said that in electing sue
cesso- to him California Republicansm has only per-
petuated the vacancy left by his retirement.
If there is Republican who deserves public re-
spect in this State who is in dscord and disagree
ment with our position he has not yet been heard
from