Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-12
LETTERS FROM DEMOCRATS.
The Governors Action and Inspector Boggs
Defended.

| EDS. REooRD-USIoN In your journal
you have seen fit to assail Governor Stone-
man and the State Board of Horticulture
| and, as l think, without sufficient cause. L
make bold 20 address you this letter, with the
hope that the fairness you have always
claimed to exercise will secure it place IN
your columns. It may be that occupy an
unpopular position in defending party but
permit me to say that, az read the history
Of our country, party hiss nodded the highest
types Of character which the Union has given
birth TO, and by party division the grand
principles OF seltgovernnent have grown and
prospered I am, l confess, party man !;
but in saying this 1 do not yisld TO you or
any other one jot or little in the matter Of
adherence to a republican form of govern
ment or attachment to the principles of pure
democracy. l am Democrat, not because my
father was, but from settled conviction that It
ID the party more nearly Of the whole psople,
aad the Republican party that os section.
The one is a party of broad and liberal senti.
merts and representing government by ths
people, and the other OF antagonisms and
prejudices, and tending to centralzation and
ruling class.
voted for Governor S.oneman because his
Democracy was uDimpeachsble, and possess
ing that quality be was elected. Now bs-
cause he mas seen proper to appoint members
of his own party upon the State Board of
Horticulture you have taken occasion to at.
tack him. This, it seems to me, is the sole
cause for the position your paper has takef
against him. protest against this, and, if |
may be pardoned the thought, it is to I'D,
vance your own party interests that you thus
sharply critieise the action of the Executive
and the Inspector of Fruit Pests which has
been elected by the new horticultural Board.
THIS do not think comports with the dig
nifed fairness which the RECORD. u MON has
assumed to hold when the Republicans were
in power, but savors of hypercEiticism. Can
you show that MIR. Coronel, General Vallejo
Mr.. Wilson or Mr.. Boggs fall in any respect
below the standard Of good citizenship set by
Governor Perkins in the appointment of the
members of the old Board? Are not the
former the peers Of the latter? l hardly
think you will reply n the negative and you
viii admit, therefore, that these men were as
well chosen as those selected by Governor
Perkins Admitting this, you have no reason
Tor assailIng the members of the present
Board n5r impugning their motives in select
ing Mr.. Boggs for Inspector.
But you claim that it was wrong for Gov
ernor Stoneman to recommend Mr. Boggs to
the Board for that position. 1 do not know
that be did SO, but If he did, what wrong is
there in that? Does the Governor lose the
right TO indorse q mans character because he
has been elected Governor? It seems to me
the higher the position the better the indorse-
ment. IL Governor Stonemsn believed him
competent hadn't be g right TO say 60? am
told the Governor repeatedly declared when
the bill was before the Legislature that he
wanted the very best thing done for horti-
cultural interests, and did not care for
politics in the matter; and 1 be-
lieve that was the sentiment that
governed his appointments upon the Board
You, yourself, published the fact that he so
told Commissioners Chaplin and Gillet. Why,
then, do you now impngn the motive Of the
Governor? I think, sjrs, that you have been
actuated in this matter by partisan motives
yourselves, and that you wish Republican
Inspector retained or appointed. You fail to
see, If l may be allowed to say SO, that this
fact appears patent to others. and that your
position is that Of sorehead. You claim that
Mr.. Boggs is Incompetent. 1 do not know
him personally, but l assume that the Board
that elected him knew him and what they
were doing. [ do know that Mr.. Boggs is a
pioneer citizsn; is familiar with the whole
State; is undoubtedly intelligent, and with
the law before him can enforce it ss well as
Republican. All this talk about entomology
and knowledge of micros copy is mere bosh
The law mentions neither the one nor the
other as necessary qualifications for an In
spector. l do know that the names Of some
as much interested as any in the State upon
the subject OF horticulture were upon his
recommendation fer the place.
And now, sirs, to conclude this matter
which you have SC magnifed, let me say that
when the people chose Democratic admin
istration they expected to have Democratic
officers throughout to represent them, and
Mr.. Boggs had warrant for aspiring to the
place and working for it. I venture to say
that If the same Board had elected Repu6-
lican Inspector, whoever he might be, its
action would have met with your most cor
dial approval. I respect your outspoken
manner and Independence, but I protest
against your assumption of improper motives
upon the part of the present administration.
Peealume. April g.. 1888, S. W,