Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-05
Our Candidates as Viewed
AbrOah.
GEO. A. JOHNSON,

GEO. A. JOHNSON,
Who is the candidate selected by the
Democracy for the responsible position
of Attorney General, is a native of Sal
isbury, Maryland, where he was born in
1929. When he was barely Of age, he
moved 10 Indiana, where he entered the
office of Judge Elliott and read law.
He then went to Yale College Law
School and was gradutaed. He then
roved to Kentucky, and for some time
was connected with college at Glennon
Springs as teacher of Greek and Lltin.
He then commenced to practice law, and
was appointed Circuit Judge of the
Twentieth District of Indiana by the
late Thomas A. Hundreds, and in 1874
he came to this State and settled in
Santa Rosa, where he has been engaged
IN the practice of his profession. In
1878 he was elected Mayor of that city,
and resigned to take part in the Con.
stitutional Convention. He served as
State Senator in 1882 and 1884. He is
citizen OF the highest standing among
his friends and acquaintances, and no
one doubts that if elected he wil&'per
form the duties of the high Office to
which he now aspires with credit to
himself and honor to the State.-GS. +.
Wasp.
A REPU BLIcAN OPINION OF A DEMOCRATIC
NOMINEE FoR THE SUPREME COURT.
Byron Waters, of San Bernardino, has
been prominently named as candidate
fer delegate-at-large to the Constitu-
tional Convention from the Fourth Con-
gressional District. Mr.. Waters
achieved On enviable reputation during
the last session of the Legislature as an
incorporating foe to every measure
that had the least taint OF wrong about
it, and was particularly conspicuous as
the leader of the minority which made
gallant but hopeless fight to curb the
aggressivenesS of the railroad corpora
tions. He is a good lawyer, a ready
debater and close reasoner, and, above
all, thoroughly honest. If the people
of the Fourth District return him TO the
convention, they will have at least one
representative upon whom they may
always depend as in their interest
against the corporations.-[S. f. Chron-
icle, May l3, 1878.
Let every voter see to it that his
ticket includes the name of Byron
Waters, one of the candidates at large
from the Fourth Congressional District.
Waters was the leader of the minority
that disputed every inch of groand
gained by the monopolies in the last
Legislature. His name is synonym
for honesty. = Chronicle, June 10.
1878.
Joseph d. Lynch, editor of the Los
Angeles HERALD, has been nominated
for Congress by the Democrats of his
district. 1t is pity to ruin such good
newspaper man by sending him to Con-
gress, but if Joseph D. Lynch does go
to Washington as legislator there will
be martial music in the Democratic
camp when anything goes wrong. Mr..
Lynch is man of sturdy mind and as
honest as gold coin. Nature intended
him to be q good Republican, but be
was born when his father was Demo.
cratic postmaster of Pittsburg, and that
spoiled the whole business. He began
his newspaper career on the Pittsburg
Dispatch, and his trenchant writing
there made him so formidable that he
was under the necessity of thrashing q
few objectors who sought to eliminate
him from the newspaper population OF
of the city. Removing to New York he
established legal journal, for the con-
duct of which a thorough education in
law had eminently fitted him. He also
took material interest in Wall street,
and made some successful ventures in
Erie stock about the time that the
Sickles syndicate recovered the road
from Jay Gould. After recuperating
rom a severe illness, Mr.. Lynch
made q tour Of Central and South
America, visited Japan with DR.. Henry
Gum, for the purpose of investigating
social conditions there, and on his re-
turn to the United States settled in Cali
fornia. Mr.. Lynch is fair, fat and about
forty. Besides being brilliant writer
and a finished speaker, he is an accom-
plished raconteur, and as Congress mar
will about fill the bill OF combination
OF Ben Butler, Sunset Cox and Tom
Ochiltree. In Jse Lynchs district nom
ination means election. n.-Schenenkt tady
Union.