Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-24
"DOMNING MATERMAN.v
What the Stockton ssIndependent" has
Say Upon the Subject.

Say Upon the Subject.
The fear that Governor Waterman will be
a candidate for reelection, has caused the
inauguration of war upon him as man
and public officer, that though violent, is
only in its first stage, and is likely to he
come general with a class before mid
summer
The origin of this war is not generally
, known, as it is, as yet, confined principally
to the Examiner, but originated with GER
tain State officers who are represented as
feeling aggrieved at Divine Providence for
removing Governor Bartlett, even though
1t were to call that honest gentlemen to
heavenly home. Governor Waterman had
not yet assumed the Office when the plan
to harass him began to crop out and his
kindliest references to the dying Governor
were so distorted as to appear as express
slons OF impatience at having to await the
death OF that functionary before succeeding
him.
In pursuance of this plot the Examiner
has kept an agent close to the Governors
| office to seize upon every pretext to make
him appear ridiculous and to assail his in
tegriiy by placing an evil construction on
every official act where such construction
is possible. Though the plan was well laid
the plotters omitted one important factor
| from their calculation. The instrument
for carrying out the plan seemed to be well
chosen. Hewas gifted with gall, but lacked
discretion and herein lay the omitted factor
He went to work deliberately and with great
persistency haunted the executive office,
thrust himself in at times that were
convenient or inconvenient, rumaged
everywhere and made the most of his op-
portunities, but, taking unwarrantable
liberties, was snubbed, ignored, re-
pulsed and finally thrust out of
doors. In this he was disappointed, though
he had courted an assault, because the
bouncing act' was performed by Secretary
Maslin, while the Governor sat quietly in
his chair and smiled. In his rage at being
carried out of doors and set down like DIT
of cumbersome dirt, the correspondent
sought two-fold revenge, and here his
utter lack of discretion manifested itself
Not content with causing the arrest of Mas
lin, he sought revenge upon the Governor
by charging that the funds of the State
were being used for private gain, and de-
manded, in the interest of his employer,
10 be allowed to count the cash in the State
Treasury" The paper of his employer
with equal lack of discretion, published
this demand, and it went thence as press
| telegram all over the State and elsewhere.
Now, the funds of the State can only be
drawn from the Treasury with the knowl-
| edge and consent of the Board of Examin-
ers, of which Governor Waterman is the
only Republican member, and neither the
correspondent nor the Examiner seem to
have foreseen that this was an assault on
the integrity of its political friends and
co-operators in L" the plan" When the
publication was made there was chagrin
on the faces of the Treasurer, the Con-
troller, their fellow members and assist
ants, while the smile with which the Gov
ernor witnessed the dumping of the Jour-
nalistic excrescence extended into hearty
| laugh.
Something had to be done to down the
Governor and retrieve lost ground, and the
| next resort was even more insane than the
last. 1t was no less than plan to have
the Governor arrested as party to Maslin's
| alleged assault, on his return after brief
absence from the capital. A CLEAN of sanity
seems to have penetrated the minds of those
who suggested or counseled this course, and
II any complaint was filed the fact has not
come to light
| For long time previous to the success
sion Governor Waterman was represented
as hoor, an ignoramus and dolt, and
one object OF the scheme-conspracy is
harsh term-was to verify, if possible, these
representations. His course was assailed
| almost as soon as he entered the executive
office, but assailed in vain.
Governor Waterman is a business man.
unused to the ways of politicians and their
| circumlocuhon. His methods are direct
and open; his speech is plain, often forci-
bic and always practical. He has nothing
to gain by being Governor, beyond the. sat
isfaction of doing his duty well and impair
TALLY, in the interest of the State and not
in the interests of cliques and individuals.
By one of his independent acts be has
given mortal offense to powerful ring that
! has hitherto controlled the supply of grain
bags on this coast, by pushing the produc-
| ing capacity of San Quinten prison to its
utmost and causing it to be refused to the
ring, that bags may be sold to the farmers
direct at moderate profit and at such price
that the power of the ring to extort much
more from the farmer is broken. In doing
this the Governor is running public insti-
tuition in the interest of the public and re-
turning to the people the products of their
bag mills almost at their cost, and while
running the jute works to their fullest ca
pacity is not competing with any industry
conducted by free labor, but is competing,
but not unjustly, with a ring of monopo-
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