Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-02
FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1890.
AN INSPIRING CAMPAIGN AHEAD.

of the Democratic County Central Com
mittee yesterday. Arrangements were
made to energize the coming campaign;
it was declared formally opened and the
enthusiasm was unbounded. We have
never seen a canvass open under more
favorable circumstances. There is an
atmosphere OF victory in the State which
is equivalent to Napoleon's celebrated
Sun of Austerlitz. In California expert
enced politicians can generally forecast
political results. This commonwealth is
quite peculiar in that respect, and at no
time since the Stoneman campaign has
there been such a feeling of con-
fidence as exists today. An ele-
ment of great energy has been
projected into the canvass through
resolution introduced by Major w. R.
Burke, which was adopted by rising
vote, proclaiming Hon. Stephen M.
White the choice of the Democratic
party of Los Angeles for United States
Senator. The HERALD, on the End of
February, announced on the authority
of that gentleman himself, that Mr..
White would not be candidate for
Governor, and that in all probability he
would enter the field for United States
Senator. He was influenced in this de-
cision by the fact that he is the possessor
of a very lucrative law practice which he
could not afford to sacrifice As a SEN
ator of the United States our gifted
young townsman, following the prece-
dents established from the days of Daniel
Webster, and since illustrated by such
men as Senators Evarts, Voorhees, and
others, could very well hope to build up
a handsome practice before the Federal
courts in Washington which would COM
pensate him for the loss involved in the
REIMBURSEMENT of portion of his prac-
tice, at certain seasons of the year, in
Los Angeles.
That Mr.. White will be an element OF
great force in the campaign cannot be
doubted. There has grown up feeling
in this State that powerful corporations
ought not to be represented in the SEN
ate Of the United States by representa-
tives OF great corporations, such as Sen
ator Stanford. Without intimating any
thing disrespectful to that gentleman,
Mr. Huntington, one of his associates,
has pointed out the gross indecency of
the machinery at the corner of Fourth
and Townsend streets being employed to
elect man to the highest legislative
in hn In, l.
tween Mr.. White and Mr.. Stanford it
would be the struggle of young, alert,
progressive and brainy man against
great wealth and corporate power. A
canvass conducted ON such lines would
be pregnant with splendid possibilities
for our young and able fellow citizen.
Should Senator Hearst be reinforced by
Mr.. White, in the Senate of the United
States, the possibilities for this Coast
would be simply illimitable.
1t is generally understood that Mr..
White is not averse to making the cam
paign upon that basis. His fellow citi-
zens are great believers in his eloquent
efforts, and think that zone blast upon
his bugle horn isworth thousand men,"
The absolute withdrawal of Lieuten-
ant Governor White from the list
of gubernatorial candidates leaves
Mayor Pond, of San Francisco, the
most prominent aspirant for that
position. There is a general feeling
that he is in the line of legitimate
promotion, and that he would make
good and conscientious official. This
feeling is almost universal throughout
the State. He has his enemies, of course,
as every public man of any value that
ever lived has had, but the masses be-
ieve in him, as they did in Mr.. Bartlett.
The splendid support he has always
received in San Francisco shows that he
can poll an exceptionally large vote in
the region of California where the
population is largest and the results
most decisive. When he and Bartlett
ran together he even led that peerless
Democrat in the city in which they both
lived. With Mr.. White as the oratorical
Corypheus of the canvass, Mayor Pond
cannot fail to maintain his status as a
man who can poll an overwhelming
vote.
The outlook could not well look better
for the Democracy, and there will be no
rainbow chasing" in California. 1t
will be a solid fight for blood, with the
party Of Jefferson and Jackson on top.