Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-25
A GRAND OVATION-A CORRECTION OF
SOME ERRORS,

No man who had the privilege of
standing in Horticultural hail, in San
Jose, and witnessing the magnificent
burst OF enthusiasm that greeted the
nomination of Hon. E. B. Pond as the
Democratic candidate for governor, could
doubt for moment that the able mayor
of San Francisco has taken deep hold
on the representative men of the
Democracy. 1t was the most magnlti-
cent ovation ever rendered public man
IN this state, and the writer has never
seen it surpassed in the United States.
The plaudits, loud and resounding, were
echoed and re-echoed for fully five min
utes, and sober men almost seemed to
become delirious. There was no pur-
chased clacque in that hall who had been
brought there to acclaim the Democratic
nominee. On the contrary, if such men
were there, their appointed Office was to
boost other candidates. The demonstra-
ton was tribute to the worth and
unblemished record of Mayor Pond, and
it was SO enthusiastic and energetic as to
indicate all too clearly that the man for
the hour had arrived. The writer has
seen great many governors and other
high officials nominated in California
and in other states, but he has neveryet
seen that spectacle OF unstinted popular
appreciation even approached.
AS its readers know, the HERALD has
always contended that Mayor Pond
would be the Democratic nominee for
governor because he ought to be. This
journal, of course, takes a reasonable
pride in its own prescience. All through
the state the tributes to Pond worth and
availability are heard, and from persons
whose favorable verdict carries great
weight.
Two San Francisco journals are just
now busily engaged in trying to create
the impression that Mayor Pond owes
his nomination to Buckley. We allude
to the Chronicle and CAL. When Mayor
Bartlett was nominated for governor, in
1886, the latter journal had nothing to
say as to Buckeyes having been of any
assistance to him, and yet the Boss's
case with his course at San Jose. The
Democratic nominee has always been
singularly free from any entanglements
with the great San Francisco wire
puller. That the latter desires to
strengthen his local ticket, goes without
saying; and he would naturally, in the
end, throw such weight as he pos
sesses into the scale of Pond. But
not until the sentiment of the country
delegates had been demonstrated in
manner positively electrical. did Mr..
Buckley exert any influence in favor of
Pond. He acted in the present conjunc-
ture exactly as he had done in the
instance of Mayor Bartlett, and for
precisely the same reasons.
There is great deal of the artificial
in the by-play of politicians. The jour
nalists who write this rot know per-
fectly well that there is nothing in it,
but it serves to raise a dust.
They know, also, that it will
probably not influence vote, and that
Mayor Ponds character for personal
probity and political honesty is what
has made him SO strong with the people.
The writer has no hesitation in pre-
dieting, from what he has seen and heard
throughout the state, large portion OF
which he has traversed during the past
ten days, that the present campaign on
the Democratic side will be one of I'M
usual enthusiasm. Not only that, but
that it is as clearly outlined as success
full one as was that of Stoneman in 1882.
There are shrewd politicians who believe
that Ponds majority in San Francisco
will be simply unprecedented. Here
and there the agents of some corporations
are heard to sneer at him, but this very
fact makes him strong with the masses.
These gentlemen are in the habit of
calling Mr.. Pond cold and bloodless. 1t
is worthy of remark that no man who
has ever lived in the state of Ohio has
ever received more compliments OF this
kind than John Sherman, and yet no
man has ever had more uniform record
Df success. But while the charge would