Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-11
Gov. Waterman's extraordinary
Attitude.

II there is one point upon which all
Southern California at least are alb
stractly agreed it is that there ought to
be State of South California. Gov.
Waterman does not seem to share this
general sentiment of the people OF this
section. In his long, labored, often
foolish and quite frequently redundant
and pleonastic message, in which every
rule of the English grammar is violated
so often that the iteration of illiteracy
becomes positively damnable, the
Governor says:
More for the purpose of feeling the
public plGse than any serious attempt to
carry it into effect proposition has been
made to divide the State; and l am glad
to say the experiment has been more
than successful, in the fact that it has
been found that the public pulse makes
no response to the pressure resting upon
it's arteries. The people are opposed to
q desecration of the kind mentioned, and
will not submit to so great wrong; for
such, indeed, it would be. All the glory
and magnificence and renown that rests
upon and surrounds this the Empire
State of the far West, has come to it as
California; and neither the one born
upon the soil nor the one who has be-
come citizen by adoption desires to be
known, so far as their state is concerned,
save as Califcrnians. There is no reason
for such an act, and the day is far dis
tant, if ever, when the dividing line will
be drawn that separates the people OF
California under different State colors
The world knows this vast domain as
California, and as California only and a
division, even if there was remote pos
sibility of such conclusion, would ig-
more the value and importan of both.
There is and can be but one California,
and it's manifest destiny is as clear to tue
eye of the thoughtful and loyal as that
the sunlight succeeds darkness. AS Cali.
fornia she took her place in the sister
hood of States, and as such, though the
frosts and SHOWS OF ages may rest upon
her brow, she will retain to the end the
beauty and loveliness of her maidenhood.
There has been in certain quarters an
occasional doubt as to whether Water
man or Boruck is the real Governor.
There will be no such doubt in the fut-
ure. The same polished, neat and ele-
giant" style, to employ the language OF
Professor Blair, which distinguishes Mr..
Boruck in editing his "hoss" paper,
characterizes him in writing the guber-
material message. There is in the ex-
tract which we have quoted, as there is
in the whole document, that same hardy
and contemptuous disregard of the tram
mels OF the English grammar which
always, in his journalistic moods, char
acterized the handsome and insouciant
Boruck. To him the ordinary relations
which ought to exist between verb and
it's nominative are abhorrent, while the
delicate distinctions between demon
strative adjective pronouns and other
pronouns are treated with cold
disdain. Boruck makes his man Water
man trample upon the aspirations of the
people OF this section for new State Of
South California. This is nothing at all
surprising. There never has been any
thing in common between Governor, by
grace of accident, Waterman and the
section in which ne lives. 1t voted him
down heavily. In the overwhelmingly
Republican precinct of Mojave-the pre-
cinct nearest to his San Bernardino
mines-he did not get one vote-not
one-a thing unexampled in American
political history. We can inform the &C.
cidental Governor that in so actively and
Extensively antagonizing the projected
State of South California he has extin-
guished the last chance he may have
ever possessed of being the Republican
nominee for Governor next time.