Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-07-26
Currens Polis,cai Notes.

The Examiner, after paying
handsome compliment to Judge
Morrison, speaks thus of the rest of
our judicial ticket:
The candidates upon the Demo.
cratic ticket for Associate Justices
are more or less popularity or wide
" known, and each bears the just
bride of an unblemished name, and
merits the award OF excellence in
every qualification for the Supreme
Bench. Already the Examiner has
published concentrations of Judge
Reardon, of Judge Stoney and of
Major Ross, copied from the Dem.
oOratic newspapers of their respect.
i've localities, and more will be said
In rishtful praise of these gentle
I men during the campaign. OF
Justice McKinstry, now of the
State Supreme Court, whose home
10 In this city, Of Judge Thornton,
Of the Twenty-third District Court,
here, and Judge Mckee, Of the
9hYfd District, who resides in Ala.
media, it can be truly asserted that
on no other ticket are their equals,
certainly not their superiors, to be
found, aside from political cOnsid.
eFations, and with respect solely to
their merits as profound lawyers
and upright, fearless, able Judges.
most experienced in the legal profess
sion, have lived in California many
years, and have won the ripe hon.
on they bear by their worth and
mastery ability as lawyers and
lodges. Their election is also as
good ~ assured. They are Demo-
Gratis, but IL is more because of
their high character as citizens and
their commanding qualifications
for the Supreme Bench than on
account of their party faith, that
they have been placed in candidacy
for that lofty and responsible sta
tion, to become the arbiters of the
property, the liberties, the rights,
and the lives of their fellow-citi-
Gems. With the Judicial ticket
thus composed, the Dem ocracy cam
not reasonably fail to win the tri-
phi which Is now confidently
edictsd.
The editor Of the San Jose Herald
not a strong believer in Mr.. Per-
klns's anti-monopoly views, or in
the virtue or patriotism Of Mr..
McClatchy, of the Sacramento Bee,
- witness the following:
In answer to letter from Nc
Clatchy, editor Of the Sacramento
Bee, Mi. Perkins has declared him.
self opposed to land monopoly; say
ing that he occupies on that subject
the same position as McClatchy
himself. McClatchy Is an unmiti-
gated demagogue, and is only re-
strained from Communism by his
subserviency TO the Central Pacific
Railroad Company, which holds
him In check. The settlers on rail-
road lands, more than any other
class Of men in California, have
suffered from land-grabbing. Hav-
Ing gone on to ursurveyed lands,
many Of them have found after
improving their farms, that they
had settled upon lands set apart to
the Railroad Company, and have
been compelled to either vacate
them, losing the labor OF years ex'
pended In Improvements, or else
purchase that corporations title al
3 rulnous figure. McClatchy ant
Perkins are dumb IS oysters on thil
matter, and have no sympathy fol
the sufferings of this large class o
settlers. But DIR. Glenn owns 6
large landed estate, purchased il
large bodies from land spectators
to which no settler has an adverse
claim founded on occupation ant
Improvement, and McClatchy an6
PoFkins-in the interest of Perkin,
---deuOunce him as a land monopo
list to the great injury Of thu
State! Perkins and McClatchy, al
enemies Of monopoly of any kind
with their present affiliations, viii
out , sorry figure before the people