Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-01

Southern Pacific Railway, which this ben
Gifted section has been cursing and snarl-
ing at for years.
Thecapabilities of Southern California are
as yet by no means thoroughly exploited
The soil is one of the richest under the
sun. Even the mesa lands, which few
years ago were commonly regarded as
worthless for any purpose, are capable of
growing anything under irrigation, and
there is no difficulty in irrigating them.
Indeed, this is the land CT irrigation, and
there can be no question that under the
improved methods of tilling now being
adopted, it will within twenty years be-
come one of the richest regions in the
country. There is literally no limit to its
productive capacities, and henceforward
there..will be no limit to its market either.
Hitherto the want of market has been
the most serious hindrance to progress in
the Southern counties. 1t has damped
enterprise, discouraged industry, and caused
many pecuniary undertakings to shrivel up
and die. But the advent of the railroad
has changed the geographical relations OF
Southern California. Before, it was con-
nected to the southwark with deserts and
barrenness generally. Arizona afforded
little trade, and there was nothing beyond.
Now there is rich and growing country
of unlimited extent to fall back
upon, and this with practical mo-
nopoly in the hands of the Southern
Californians. They could not compete
with the South and East in supplying their
new market with general merchandise, but
when fruit and wine arc in question they
have nothing to fear from any rivalry
Chicago, st. Louis, New Orleans, Calves
ton, are all equally at disadvantage when
Los Angeles comes forward with the
special products of which she is the agent
and representative. Nor is there any like
lihood that her advantages in these re-
spects will be wrested from her. On
/ the contrary, the brilliant promise now
held out to that section of the State through
the improvement Of her communications
must attract large accessions to the popu-
lation, and cause the present staples to be
more generally cultivated than even now.
Fruit and wine will long continue to be the
special productions of the southern coun-
ties, and there is no reason why they
should not become as celebrated as the
fruits and wines of Italy. The people of
Southern California are beginning to see
that the Southern Pacific is beneficial
enterprise, and we do not think they will
retain any desire to 'cinch the capital
invested in that undertaking hereafter.
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THE REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.
There can be no doubt that the Republi-
can State Convention faithfully represented
the predominating public sentiment in in
structing the delegates to Chicago to vote
for James G.. Blaine. The determination
which the majority in the Convention
showed to bind the delegates to this pro-
gramme beyond the possibility of escape,
may be regarded as the natural conse-
quence OF former infdelities to the party
will. If in the ironclad resolutions which
were adopted on this occasion there is
anything repugnant to the spirit of politi-
cal independence, those men who in former
years cheated and misrepresented the Re-
publicans of California must be held respon-
sible for it. The spirit which led to this ac-
ton is identical with that which in New
York has produced that Independent move
ment known as the Young Scratchers'
movement, which was forced upon self
respecting citizens as the only pos
sible means of resenting the tyranny
of the machine. It has now been
made manifest in the plainest way that the
California Republicans will submit to no
more manipulation of the kind which has
more than once before caused the defeat of
the party in this State. The party here
is for Blaine Its members feel confident
that the State can be carried for him, if he
receives the nomination at Chicago. They
do not feel confident that it could be car
ried for Grant, and therefore it was alike
their duty and interest to make the ex-
preston of sentiment in the Convention as
pronounced and emphatic IS possible Nor
will this positive and unmistakable decla-
ration be without its influence in other
States. We believe it may be asserted
that upon this question the view taken
by the California Republicans is the view
taken by a great majority of all the
Republicans on the Pacific slope.
On this side of the mountains Blaine
is the favorite, and no other
candidate can evoke anything |
like the enthusiasm his nomination would |
produce. 1t may be well for those poll
ticians in other States who are now work
ing so hard to prevent the free expression
of the popular will in this connection, to
pause and mark the increasing signs of |
restiveness and impotence which are gath |
ering around them. The indications that |
no candidate who is not Endorsed by the |
rank-and-file of the party before the NOM
nation can obtain full party vote at the
polls, are SO unmistakable that persistence |
in the machine programme already suggests
a doubt whether the managers are not in |
clined rather to throw the Presidency into |
the hands of the Democrats than to forego
their purpose.
But the instruction of the delegates for
Blaine was not the only significant Incl
dent in the State Convention. The speech |
of Mr.. Pixley, in which he asserted that
he had been unable to represent his own
ward in San Francisco because he had re-
fused to put himself at the disposal of a
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