The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-02-12
The Railroad In Politics.
LCoNcLUDED. /
SAN Francisco, Jan. 30, 1885.

LCoNcLUDED.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30, 1855.
The next act in this extraordinary
political drama was the Democratic
State Convention to select delegates
to that party's national convention
for the nomination of President and
ice-President. The members of this
body, smarting with sense of injury,
not only re-affirmed the anti-mon-
Opoly principles of two years before,
but formally tread out !" of the party
the two recreant members of the Rail
way Commission, whose impeach-
ment and removal their representa-
tives in the Legislature were unable
the State Senate belonging to their
party, who by combination with the
seven Republicans, had caused the
failure of the extra session, together
with other of their own State officials
who had contributed to the same, no
result. They denounced all these
men by name, and declared them no
Democrats.
The corresponding Republican Con-
vention, of which Mr.. Estee was
chairman, was fierce and eloquent in
it's denunciation of the failure of the
extra session. The platform adopted
by this Convention was in singularly
significant contrast to the Sacramento
resolutions of two years before. In
| place of the ringing indictments
of the Railway was single
"plank " relating to the matter, and
it meant anything, everything, or
nothing, just as one might choose to
interpret it. With the exception of
the tariff plank" the national
Democratic platform adopted at Chi
cago, no such feat of verbal jugglery
is of record. In short, the leaders of
the Republican party in California
had, in two years, abandoned every
foot of the advanced ground upon
which they had been forced by public
opinion, had laid down their arms,
and hunbly submitted to the enemy.
So complete was their surrender that
they placed upon their electoral ticket
the name of Henry Vrooman, the
| State Senator under whose leadership
the forces of the Railroad had de-
feated the objects of the extra session,
and every act of whose public career
has had the single aim of advancing
| the railroad interest. This man, how
| ever, was afterward pulled down by
the State Central Committee in com
, pliance, 1t is said, with the demand
of an illustrated newspaper which
: threatened to bolt.
The Presidential election in Cali
: fornia did not, of course, turn upor
local issues. The Blaine electors were
successful, and they ''pulled through
nearly the whole State ticket will
| which they. were associated-Con
gressional and Legislative. Whel
the returns were in, it was found tina
the political complexion of the Legis
lature had changed. The Assembl.
had three-to-one majority of Repub
licans, and the Senate was equal.
| divided, not counting the Lieutenant
, Governor, who presides, and is
: monopoly Democrat of the strictes
sect. Only one-half of this latter bod.
had been chosen at that election; tn
others "held over" Among thes
were five of the Democrats who's
subserviency to the monopoly ha
: caused them to be tread out " of tn
= party by the Stockton Convention, a
= related. They are known as tn
= read-outs," and their Democrat
y anti-monopoly colleagues as tn
=. straight-outs.' The Lieutenant
: Governor is also read-out."
Directly on the meeting of the Leg
t islature, the Senate became the seen
; of pretty quarrel, which soon grey
e to an absolute deadlock, and for som
n two weeks all attempts to organic
= were futile. 1t all turned on tn
o election of President pro tenaport
d an officer of no kind of Importance
!. There were three candidates: a RI
r publican, ''straight-out' Democra
IS and ''read-out." A majority of a
e the votes being required to elect, n
d one could be chosen. The ''read
g outs'' insisted on their man bein
l. given them in recognition of their di:
puted Democracy, and as a saIy