Amador ledger., 1900-02-09
SECONDED THE NOMINATION
Hon. John F. Davis Made a
Pleasing Speech.
TOLD What BARD'S ELECTION AEANS 10 US
Our Representative In CALIFORNIA;
Senate Throws Flowery Re-
marks at T. r. Bard.

Speech of Senator Davis of Amador
county, seconding the nomination Of
Thomas R. Bard:
Senator's: Today we send message
to the citizens OF the commonwealth
that the Republican party is united.
That is to be the keynote of our ac-
tion today. Feuds and dissensions had
rent and torn it assunder, elimination
and re-crimination had depressed the
hopes of its friends and aroused the
enthusiasm of it's enemies. Already it
had begun to be whispered abroad
that there was not enough patriotism
in the party to meet the crisis and so
to meet it that we would all be to-
gether in the end. And yet despite the
detraction of its motives, despite the
misrepresentation of its acts, despite
the fact that the organs of the opposi-
tion had levied notice on the State that
this extra session would be saturnalia
of fraud and corruption, out of the
cal ambitions, the Republican forces
have concentrated on a man whose
candidacy is ideal, whose private and
public life have been upon plane so
high that scandal standing on tiptoe
cannot reach the sOles of his shoes. p"
We saw this extra session called to-
gether with general public misgivings.
We read the history of former extra
sessions and found no comfort in their
story. When the session was once
called, however, we hesitated no Ion
ger. Men must dare to achieve re-
suits.
"The mind that ever fears to err,
And yet is never nobly right,
1t never leaps to grand results.
But in some corner out OF sight,
Detects a spot Of hidden blight,
And o'er the impatient infinite,
Still haggles, bargains, and consults.'
The Legislature became more and
more inspired with profound convic-
tion that it had trust to perform
that California must have at Washing
ton the constitutional representation
to which she is entitled-and that the
faithful performance of that trust was
superior to any candidate and to all
candidates. For the first time in the
history of the State we have seen the
Office seek the man-an unparalleled
lesson in clean politics that has brought
us all closer together and closer to the
people of California.
We have seen the candidates them
selves catch something of the spirit of
the Legislature. We have seen Irving
M. Scott tell his friends not to consider
his personality or candidacy as against
the supreme interests of the Republi-
can party; we have seen U. S. Grant
instruct his close friends not to let his
name stand in the way of united and
rapid action; we have seen D. M.
Burns tell his loyal supporters not to
obstruct the will of the majority; we
have seen members of this senate put
their ambitions beneath their feet, and
all unite in such action as will give
20, 600 additional votes to the Republi-
can ticket in the coming campaign.
In the spirit of absolute indepen-
dence that has characterized the ac-
tion of this legislature thus far, in the
renewed sense of patriotism that in
spires its members, in the spirit OF har-
mony that will heal all heart -burnings,
let US proceed to nominate a SENATOR
one in touch with our people and their
institutions, one alive to the best inter-
ests of Californians, one that in all es-
sentials will uphold the hands of the
greatest President save Lincoln this
nation has ever seen.
Knowing his ability and his patrio-
tism, believing in him as a Californian
and as Republican, relying upon his
character as a man, second the nomi-
nation for United States Senator Of
Thomas r. Bard.