Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-25
MIR. Heilman for senator. Z

MIR. Heflman for senator.
1t is very gratifying thing to note
the very wide. spread recognition Mr..
1. w. Hellman's claims for the U.
S. Senatorship are receiving. This
qualification is all the more marked
in the fact that this recognition is
not by any means confined to the Sec
ton where the gentleman lives.
Here in Southern California the
preference for our distinguished
townsman is universal. Every paper
in the lower counties is for him, and
every prominent man encountered
stands in with the proposition con
am0re.
Without in the least abating one
lot from the merits of other candl-
dates, we must say that this claim
for the Senatorship for Southern Cal
ifornia is entirely just one. Since
California has been a State, the hon.
ors OF this position have been claimed
by the center of the State, by a pre-
scriptive-we might say as if by a
divine right. Either the Bay City, or
the mining counties, have had every
Senator who has represented JUS at
Washington. This part of the COM
monwealth is entitled to have her
claim heard at this time. She has
come forward from an inconsiderable
sheep pasture to be region OF great
prominence, with varied and pecu-
liar interests. in the past two years
the bulk of the increase of population
in the Golden State, has been south
of San Francisco Bay. That increase
is represented by nearly 20, 900 voters.
The Democracy of the State owes it
to the party to give special attention
to this claim OF the South. 1t had
been held that the party's strength
lay mostly in the metropolis. Los
Angeles and her neighboring counties
have been given up as being heavily
Republican. This county was looked
upon as safely Republican by about
1000 majority. How greatly the
swelling proportions Of these political
wings by which that party was to take
SO high fight, were trimmed down
on election day! Instead OF 2000, the
best results for the State officers on
the enemy's ticket were a meagre
few hundred majority, while some OF
the Democratic nominees pulled out
of the race length or two ahead.
But for the gallant manner in which
Los Angeles county came to the res
cue of our party every man on the
State ticket, with possibly one or
two exceptions, would have been
buried beneath a big majority.
That was certainly doing well
in the "bannern Republican county
of the State!
When one comes to look for the
prime cause which has lifted Los An
geles SO high in the rank of produc-
tive industries, which has de-
veloped her phenomenal resources,
he will find the main spring
of the activity very close
to the right-hand of Mr.. I. w. He'll
man. He has been instrumental,
perhaps, above any one factor in the
pros perity of this city and county.
Los Angeles only led the way in this
march to wealth. Her example
proved contagious, and what she did
the other counties proceeded to do.
Thus Mr.. Hellman's influence ex-
tends over the entire southern tier of
counties.
In the great political achieve
ments of the last campaign, he verify
carries off the honors from us all.
A consistant and energetic Democrat
for years, indeed, during all the years
of his life, in the present instance he
put himself at the head of the for
lorn hope, led the attack on strong
ly entrenched, and too confident,
enemy, and "They were his.'
Horse, foot and Dragons, he put
them to rout, and camped upon the
conquered field. But for 1. w. He'll
man, in the last campaign, the party
would not have secured an Office in
this county, and scarcely one in the
State government.
Now, by all means, let the north
do the proper thing and concede a |
Senator for the first time to the south. |
Let the Democrats do what they
should do, and give this honor
% the section and to the man that !