Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-02-02


inand made by kr. Sidney Lacey,
the Los Angeles member OF the Dem
ocratic State Central Committee,
pledge was made that the next Demo
cratic State Convention would be
held in Los Angeles. Mr.. English,
the chairman of that body, was one
OF the men who joined in this pledge.
An almost overwhelming majority OF
tho members OF the State Central
Committee were responsive to this
proposition. IL was quite natural
that the Convention should be held
in Los Angeles. To begin with, Los
Angeles was the ancient capital oil
Alta California, dividing this honor
with Monterey Disprized for time,
through the development OF the
mining industry and excitements, u
Is now the center OF the most colossal
immigration movement ever recorded
on the American continent, outside
Of Chicago and Kansas City, in the
heyday OF their development. 1t Is
the natural capital Of Southern Cali
fornia; and Southern California will,
within the next ten years, either be a
new State or the governing principle
in the old. long not fairly estimated,
1t is to-day the center Of the phenom-
email growth made possible in modern
times, when steam and electricity
have annihilated distance and made
regions Of balmy climate accessible
TO all persons Of means. In addition,
when it comes to considering where
the Democratic State Convention
should meet, IL is the region where
votes are accommodating most rapidly,
and where 1t behooves the Demo
cratic party Of California to make its
best impression. II il shall fail Of
votes here, its chances will be indeed
desperate. We advise our brethren
throughout the State at large that, mt
the next election--a most important
one--one which will give California
Governor, and six Congressmen-Los
Angeles county will poll the largest
vote, next after San Francisco, regis
tered in this State. Good sense and
sound political policy call for the con-
vening Of the Democratic hosts in
such i potential locality. During that
period q probation which may usher
in new State that would relieve Cal
ifornia from its intolerable geographic
cal disproportion, 1t is not only right
but 1t is exigent that the large new
vote Of this region should be concilia-
ted. II it Doe not, we wash our hands
OF the consequences. Let our Demo-
cratic brethren Of the northern and
central counties look well before they
fail to give 70 the growing vote OF
Southern California the graceful rec
ognition that would be involved in
such selectio, a The prize infamy
OF tho age I'd unaf there has never
been United States Senator
elected from the Southern countries.
This progressive and imperial n ion
will decline to wear q Gessler's cais,
Let the Democratic State Central
Committee heed the warning, and be
true to its we'll recorded promise.
There is nothing 80 inimical to DEM
ocratic success or prestige in the
orange groves and vineyards and
balmy climate Of Los Angeles that
solemn pledges should be violated in
order to make the Democratic State
Convention of this year revolve in
the same narrow orbit in which SINH
lar bodies have swung in the past.
Let us by all means have new de-
parture, suspicious, in this close year,
Of triumph for the Democracy--a de-
parture which would be completed in
the selection Of Los Angeles as the
theater for the c Convention. This peo'
Pile will hold out all the hospitable
guarantees incident to such natural
programme. They will labor to Sc
cure excursion rates from the railway
and steamship companies, which will
doubtless be readily accorded, and
they will hang out the hospitable latch
string to an extent Of which our
Northern neighbors do not dream.
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