Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-23

holding their names, within six months
after taking office reduced fares 81 per
cent, a reduction which, at the same vol
ume of travel would net loss to the roads
of over 100000 per year, and of course a
saving of that sum to the public.
Let not Mr.. Delmas, nor any gentleman
who mourns fee or is feeding moribund
reputation upon the credit of loss be-
slowed upon the INDECENT, question these
figures, for we have this percentage of re-
duction certified to by the Governor him
self, and the Governor is now the toast in
the circles illuminated by the lawyers and
politicians who demand that Carpenter
Humphreys and Ned Marshall be DESTROYED
for the crime of succeeding where every
body else failed.
Remembertha this reduction was adopted
and enforced within six months of taking
office, while all other Commissions had
dawdled into the sixth year of the system
before such reduction was proposed.
Going next to freights, the Commission
reduced the freights from tide water to the
interior an average of 35 per cent, and is
now at work on an average reduction of %
per cent. on grain, live stock, wool and the
States great staples from the interior to
tide water. AT this point Mr. Delmas adj
vises that the Commission he turned out of
office. 1t is getting dangerous-for Mr..
Delmas. He displays at his own belt the
scalps of his own clients the people. He
comes to the Union Hail platform to paint
the Great Monopoly" in high lights and
gigantic perspective, like a boy who meets
a cat and runs frightened home to describe
it as a bear He got worsted. and is of
course interested in magnifying the rail
road because it soothes the modification
of defeat. Having failed himself. he is
! bound that no other shall have the credit
of success, and so he comes forward as a
volunteer physician to the Democratic
party, advising that it lie about its own
elect, that it eXpel them from office and
throw them to the political wolves. With
the greatest seeming candor, he says it will
do no harm to let the Commissioners 90 to
the people again, and if they have done
their duty they will be indorsed The
proposition seems fair, but it is scoun-
drellv in its unfairness. All men in Cali
fornia do not travel or ship freight every
day. Two years from this time majority
of the voters will still be ignorant of the re-
! auctions made by the Commission, because
they will neither have travelled nor shipped.
Hence the people do not now know by eX-
perience whether the Commission is de
famed or not and ii is in the interest ofthe
pack that is around Mr.. Delmas and the
| Examiner to keep them from Knowing.
The Board of Equalization is i'll the same
situation precisely. 1t has done its duty.
When the results of its policy ripen in a
lower tax levy the people will by expert
ence know that its policy helped instead of
harming them. But because the people
now believe that this Board has badly
treated them; because besotted and ignor-
ant and lying newspapers, the Examiner in
the lead, have misrepresented them, accord
ing to Mr.. Delmas we should turn them
out of office and give a deceived people a
chance at them.
We know the size of Mr. Delmas fail
ure as an attorney for the people in the
Courts. 1t was as great as his opportunity,
and that was the greatest ever offered to II
private practitioner in California. His fail
ure as a political leader promises however,
to eclipse it and leave in him the same re-
gretfut memory that quavers in Mr. Hearst
| infrm defamation: We can't forget
what happened at San Jose"