Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1890-08-21
THE CONVENTION.

The HERALD's regular dispatches to-
day give very full and graphic review
of the proceedings at the Democratic
convention now in session at San Jose.
The main points of interest are Mr..
Whites position as to the United States
-senatorship. the platform and the
relative chances Of the several aspirants
for the gubernatorial chair.
As to the first, Democrats of all classes
hereabouts will regret that Mr.. White
has found it necessary to withdraw
from the position he had taken at the
instigation of the Democracy OF this end
of the state. As we said yesterday
morning. Mr.. White merely proposed to
return to the old-time methods OF his
party, made honorable by the exam
pie of a host of the great men
who shed lustre on the party and
on their country in the past. He made
no radical innovation in what he was
attempting, but merely proposed to
return to true Democratic precedents.
General John M. Palmer is now play
ing in the same exalted role in the state
of Illinois. Gwinn and other great men
played in the role in California in the
early days. There were great combina-
tions, no doubt, made to force Mr..
White to retire, but the effort he made is
not lost. 1t is good seed sown in fruit
full soil, that will bear good crop later
on. Mr.. White will be heard from again
in this connection.
The platform may be found complete
in our dispatches. The Republican
party in the thirty years OF its existence
has so often made promises in its plat
forms, and failed to keep them in its
administration of the government that
the people at large have little faith in
papers which they have too generally
learned to regard as molasses
to catch flies.' 1t is unfair to pun
ish the innocent for the crimes of the
guilty, and the Democratic party should
not suffer for the perfidy of their politi-
cal opponents. Our party has generally
meant all it has said in its platforms,
and has kept to the letter the promises
it made in its conventions. 1t prom
ised to revise the tariff schedule that all
the people of the country know and
acknowledge ought to be revised, and
it kept that promise so far as restrictive,
unprogressive and corrupt Republican
members of congress would permit.
1t promised to pass law for the free
coinage of silver, and tried with all
honesty to do so, but was frustrated by
the Republicans in congress. The
platform adopted at San Jose will be
found reiteration of sound Democratic
principles worthy of the perusal of all
members of the party.
1t will be seen that two
ballots were taken on the NOM
ination of candidate for governor. In
both of these Mr.. Pond led all his
competitors, which was more
than his friends claimed for him in the
first ballot. While he made but small
gain on the second ballot, and while Mr..
Coleman made larger increase of votes,
there is nothing significant in that. Mr..
Coleman's friends claimed nearly $50
votes for him ON the first ballot, and the
other side conceded to him at least 225.
His managers seem to have instructed
some of his friends to scatter at
first, and then to rally, in order to
show rising vote, with the hope
of creating a stampede after the fashion
of Markham's men at Sacramento. 1t
is probable that today, when the third
ballot is cast, Mr. Coleman's vote will
take another upward movement, and
then reach its highest point-too low to
nominate by at least seventy-fve votes.
On the contrary, we may expect to see,
perhaps, slow but steady accretions to
the Pond vote, until it fills and overfows
the measure of success. The English
vote is composed of great deal of in
telligent, independent material, and SO
is that which stands for PaulselPs fol-
lowers. From these sources Mr.. Pond
will draw heavily as well as steadily,