Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-14
MARKHAM NOMINATED.-THE DEMO
CRATIC DUTY OF THE HOUR.

MARKHAM NOMINATED.-THE DEMO-
CRATIC DUTY OF THE HOUR.
The Republican Convention yesterday
nominated Col. H. H. Markham for Gov
ernor on the first ballot. The HERALD
has always maintained that Markham
would be the choice of that body, and,
as usual, it was right.
campaign we shall have much to say
about the Republican nominee. With
in the lines of fair play we shall deal
him all the blows we can, and arsenals
to supply missiles ready to our hand are
within easy reach. But for the present
we shall not disturb the exaltation OF
his partizans. Their short-lived Joy will
do them no harm, and the progress of the
campaign will let them down gradually.
While Col. Markham is vulnerable in
places it must be admitted that his can
didacy has features of strength that can
not be prudently ignored. Throughout
the Southern portion of the state he has
large and enthusiastic following that
is just now elated with the idea that in
shouting for the Pasadena tall son of
Anak they are acclaiming the next Gov
ernor of California.
The Democrats have it in their power
to make this the idlest boast that ever
was made in the politics of California.
As against weak man Markham is
strong. AS against an ordinarily strong
man he can make a square fight, with
the issue in doubt. But, as against
Mayor E. B. Pond of San Francisco, Col.
Markham will go forward to certain
defeat.
The truth is, as the HERALD has often
said, the Democrats have candidate of
overwhelming strength. The issues of
this campaign, which derive most of
their vitality from local concerns, are all
in the line of honest and economical
administration, We have all along said
that the country would nominate the
candidate for Governor in both parties.
The Republican party has sustained our
prediction and the Democratic party will
undoubtedly follow suit.
In presenting E. B. Pond as their can
didate the democratic party will choose
as their standard bearer man who has
made an unexampled record in the re-
duction of taxation. He has not only
shown himself to be able, honest and
specially intelligent in all lines of tax
reduction, but he has demonstrated him
self to be inflexible of purpose, and sa-
gacious beyond the common in coping
with the people who seek to prey on the
taxpayer.
Both as supervisor, as chairman OF
the Finance Committee Of the Board of
Supervisors, and as Mavor, he has de-
monstrated himself to be the man OF the
hour. The people of California have
never been pleased at seeing their rate
of taxation railroaded from less than
so cents on the hundred dollars of valu-
alton to 72 cents. They do not like the
extravagant advances, and they have
fixed their eyes on Pond as the man who
can stop the wasteful legislative expen-
ditures. They believe that the man who
could make magical reductions in the
rate of taxation in the city and county of
San Francisco, can do good work for the
State They feel that the official who
has done so much for the city in which
he lives, can do still more for the State
with whose history he has been identi-
fed for SO many years.
Conceding, for the sake OF argument,
that Markham is popular in Southern
California, Pond is really no less SO in
the South, while, in the North, which
has the overshadowing population, Pond
is immensely more popular than the Re-
publican nominee.
The man who carried San Francisco
by nearly 5000 majority, when Blaine
carried it by upwards of 1000 is obvious
ly the candidate cut out by destiny as
the Democratic nominee. In other
words, to employ a phrase which the
genius of Charles Lever has made i'm
mortal, Mayor Pond of San Francisco is
the man for Galway"
With Pond the Democratic nominee,
we shall then be treated to the spectacle
Of the Pond lily overshadowing and
drowning out the Markham rose.
And that is just what the voters Of