Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-10
GOVERNORS IN CESSATION.
Some Candidates for Governor and what
the Politicians are Saying of Them.

politician. The yielding carpets are soft
and velvety, the great plush easy chairs
yawn lazily, large-sized State secrets lurk
uneasily about the big old fashioned safe in
the corner, and the silent porter whisks in
and out bearing large envelopes addressed
to q His Excellency" Albeit, it is a mighty
| comfortable place, and there are scores of
patriots already in training who will, at a
tap on the back, or the very faintest sug-
| gestion of their respective conventions,
backed by sufficient majority, be willing
| to sacrifice themselves upon the altar of
| their country. There are whole dozens of
| him willing to settle down to the exhaust
i've daily routine of mounting the guberna-
| torial chair, and disposing himself right
/ side up comfortably therein, to seize
mammoth quill and write right across the
paper the name of him which conveys to
one unfortunate the sad intelligence that
the insinuating hemp will not be interfered
with to another, that he is sentenced to be
| Harbor Commissioner for four years with
out labor, at two hundred dollars per
| month.
Now the ambitious philanthropist and
| perspiring patriot loves just such onerous
duties, and it would be cold and cherries
| day indeed when he would refuse 70 drape
about him his gubernatorial toga and
Chamber -up over his secretary and swarm
into his throne to fill out fat commission
for a political friend. The genuine patriot
| loves the fatigue of such duties He fairly
yearns for them. Hence there are a great
many patriots just at this particular mo-
ment yearning and as the Conventions APP
proach and grow more dangerously immi-
nent there will be great many more of
| them to assist the patriots, yearn that are
already in the field and that are at this
early day yearning single-handed and COM
| paratively without help. But sufficient are
already named by both parties in connec-
ton with the Governorship to keep the
tongues of the politicians wagging. and the
| Republicans profess quiet satisfaction at
the appearance of the political horizon that
smacks of confidence.
A well known Sacramento Democratic
official, who seems TO be thoroughly posted
upon matters pertaining to the Democracy,
in conversation yesterday with a reporter
| of the RECORD MON, had this to say re-
garding the gubernatorial aspirants of his
| party: The Democracy, with its usual
enthusiasm, is far in the lead of the Re-
publicans in point of number of candi-
dates, starting out with some twenty odd
names for Governor, in which San Joaquin
figures as the modest claimant of some
thing like four-Langford, Paulsell, Bald
win and Budd. Should they all persist in
their candidacy it would seem as if it must
destroy the chances of all, as neither could
go into the State Convention with solid
delegation from his own county severe
handicap, that would foreclose them all of
their equity Of redemption. As matter of
| fact, it is already stated that no one of
those mentioned can secure the solid San
joaquin delegation. As to Baldwin, it is
said pretty authoritatively that he will
| compromise Oh the Attorney-G eneralship,
| and thinks Marshalrs easy-chair is good
| enough for him. But there is no compro-
mise as to the rest-they want Governor or
nothing. LangfOrd, relying on his Senatorial
record and personal popularity; Paulsell
hoping that the same lightning that came
out of the heavens one clear day and strik-
ing him tiatwise projected him into Har-
Dor CommissiOnership will strike him
again, and Budd relying upon his anti
| Chinese record. Budd's friends claim that
he took such mighty fine care of himself in
Congress that he did not antagonize either
| faction of his party; that his anti-Chinese
record is so clear and well understood that
he has the entire sympathy OF the laboring
| element of San Francisco, and that he is
one of the very few Democrats in the State
that can command O'Donnell's following.
But even were that true, his own county is
| his greatest obstacle if report is half true
| from that section.
| Another Harbor Commissioner Qrwin)
| is also reported as having a weakness for
| the office that once knew him. He was
supposed to be posing as a possible dark
| horse but he was too big to remain long
hidden, and his outline is beginning to
loom up III the horizon among the galaxy
of candidates.
~ E'y- C,Onuressr m a n Srp, n on. ,,,as fDro Il
while after his defeat for denomination at
Stockton, urged vigorously for Governor by
| his friends who rallied and Stormed at the
methods that encompassed his defeat. But
| the healing hand of time seems to have
softened their asperities, and they are either
out now for somebody else or themselves,
and little is heard at the present time of
Sumner, although he may figure as dark
| horse.
White, of Los Angeles, is mentioned in
the same category with Sumner. While
there is no special movement or particular
strength in Whites candidacy, he is looked
upon as another possible dark horse. in
which event his ringing voice and apt ex.
preSsions are not expected to count for
naught
| Berry's friends are again pushing his
| claims with some color of title bv reason
of the formidable nucleus that gathered
around his standard at San Jose in 80.
! But politics is hard school that learns not
the good neither forgets the bad, and as
| against Berry it is stated that away back
yonder while a member OF the Legislature
he voted on some Sunday law or temper
ance question III such a way that his can
| didacy would probably antagonize the
| League of Freedom and the attitude of the
Democracy toward sumptuary laws.
| Berry's friends assert that he is now right
on that question, and adduce facts, figures
| and records to prove it. Be that as it NAV.
Berry seems to have strong contingency.
but with that one thorn agitating the CEN
ter.
Hearst's friends have as yet made no
sign as to his intentions. Doubtless they
DO not know themselves what his inten-
tons are, hence Foote and Tarpey are like
wise unknown quantities in the guberna-
torial race. 1t was whispered among
knowing ones, after the last election. that
an arrangement had been effected between
English, Greathouse, Delmas, Foote and
Tarpey, by which they were TO combine on
Tarpey as the nominee for 1886, but if
another rumor is correct, when Delmas.
English, Foote and Greathouse were last
up to the lakes in the Sierra Nevadas rus
ticating together that slate was broken,
and the cohorts, it is reported, will rally
around Foote. But Tarpey must have
been placated in some way, for it would be
almost indispensable to success to have
Tarpey, with his solid delegation, cry out
at the head of the roll call, Alameda votes
20 for Foote.'
ut starts a fight with a vim and a snap
and enthusiasm that augurs well. But until
Uncle George Hearst says yea or nay, for
obvious reasons, it is wild speculation as to
who the Examiners candidate will be. Oc-
casional mention is made of Will s. Green,
of the Colusa Sun, as a possible candidate
| and they even go as far up as Shasta, where
Clay Taylor's friends, although quiet
are keeping one eye uncovered, and at the
first suspicion that the candidates in the
lead are getting short of wind, or are liable
to lose their feet, will rush Clay out on the
track, and they expect him to kick the
sawdust around right lively. Taylor's
friends are not making any noise, but they
have him well groomed and blanketed, and
laying low for a fighting chance to pull the
slips and let him run.
Mayor Bartlett, of San Francisco, is
supported by some personal friends
who maintain that his candidacy will re-
ceive the support of the Bulletin and CdH,
but it seems to be an open question as to
whether that is an argument in his favor