Show I 1 TWO GREAT MEN I 1 I 1 people who are under the absolute discipline of political bosses never k know ow to what extent they are being ri ridden d den til till I 1 the bosses fallo quarreling relin g then the business rises to the surface 0 this fact is called to mind by the warfare now going on between senator stanford and mr huntington these A persons have run the stae state of call calf I 1 fornia almost as they would run their railroad for what there was in it I 1 when stanford became patriotic and took unto himself the 0 sir huntington was said aid to be displeased with ith the action this was a long time ago and the Z wear of years has not mellowed the I 1 displeasure huntington had bad a man I 1 I 1 chosen tor for the place vi ho as the lepor report t i runs was about such a person as mr huntington I 1 lunt ington would want to see elected bat but defeat then only made sweeter I 1 revenge now so wh when enAIr mr huntington made his official olTi cial declaration on an the occasion of liis his acceptance so cep tance of the presidency of the southern pacific railroad it naturally created considerable comment when the 1 public put the natural construction upon his remarks I 1 however 1 1 i he lie made something like an e effort f 1 I to correct the impression how far he be has las succeeded in in doing so we leave the reader to decide here is il bis language in a letter aletter addressed to senator stanford on the our views when at variance have been freely anil and it Is needless to allude to them further urther than to by say that we bate have each of us u agreed to disagree the ali remarks i that I 1 recently made at the southern board meeting were ere intended only aa as a I 1 e expression of 0 my view 8 1 uon 1 on 1 I 1 these le all M my y words A and nd especially I 1 1 ly r the phrases which related to ca uses 1108 of the companas comp t anys funds or aj as I 1 expressed it putting hand into the treasury of the th coin com to defeat the peoples choice have alny been ell construed in oine me quarter quarters aa AS a per r w 11 attack on oil you allow me to gay say that I 1 greatly regret thi impression since I 1 did p not ott intend tend to tomake make such au an attack or to charge that you had used he the company comp anys s money to adi advance ance your personal peri ional interests luk reala brinan oran any improper manner and I 1 am catl fled ill that ll 11 you ou bate have nat not done BO so A allow flow me ins 10 lo 0 to express the wish th that hereafter our r r ret it allom t ahe n s 41 may a y continue an As friendly he a s t they y have bee been n heretofore just how much mr huntington is it regretful of the construction the public put upon his words i may ay be better determined by his actions in the coming I 1 campaign than by an equivocal denial there ia is a prospect that when the time comes he lie will be in I 1 I 1 the field that he be will be the moet most ponderous figure there and that he allbe will be no more conspicuous forthe for the modesty of his political methods than is usual for him if he talks stanford for the next senator or even for the next president then the public may be reasonably sure that he regrets the impression mp they may have received from bis his words before the directors and stockholders of his a road 1 1 |