Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-08

As noted yesterday, the Examiner has
sought to show that Mr. Pond was so well
known he could not carry the delegation
from San Francisco in the State Conyen-
tion, but that votes "trickled" in for him
from Siskiyou, Humboldt, Placer, Fresno,
Santa Barbara, etc. The other candi-
dates had well-defned position at home,
and were able to, command their local
delegations. They were the candidates of
the localities where they were best known,
and where their fellow-citizens had the
best opportunity of judging of their fit
ness for the great Office to which they
aspired Mr.. Pond, however, according to
the Examiner, was the fortunate favorite of
piddling votes from all over the State,
from Siskiyou to San Diego. OF course,
the people of Siskiyou, Placer, Fresno and
Santa Barbara, the localities from which
the piddling votes "trlckled," were highly
qualified to Judge Of Mr.. Ponds character,
and to form Just estimates OF his fitness.
But behind all this "trickling" and pid-
ding, stood Buckley with IA votes in a
solid delegation, with which he could
have made any one of the candidates sue
cessful. He cast the entire vote solid for
Pond when it became time to do SO, and
when this food was added to the votes
that "trickled" from Siskiyou and San
Diego, it constituted majority OF the
Convention. The simple reason that votes
" "trickled" from Siskiyou, Humboldt,
Placer and San Diego, was because the
people from these remote localities had
observed from the surface indications. as
set forth in the metropolitan journals,
that Pond was in the habit of vetoing
Buckley's bills before the Board of Super
visors. They saw, however, if they OBJ
served with any degree of acumen, that
the bills always passed over the veto, and
this because the city was under the feet of
the great boss. The vetoes had similar
motive, since it was known that the meas
ures would be passed over the veto, and
there was no one that knew this quite so
well as Mr.. Pond himself. And so the
little drama, which was to present Mr..
Pond in the light of a champion of honest
municipal government, was rehearsed for
weeks and months, preparatory to its pre-
eentation on the floor Of the State Conven-
tion. The curtain was rung up, and Pond
was in the gallery, pencil and paper in
hand to tally the votes which "trickled"
to him from localities where he was least
known. We do not doubt his sincere hope
that the "trickling" would be sufficient.
He knew that the nomination was already
arranged, but, above all this, he desired to
avoid all appearance of the truth in his
case; he desired the secret and illicit re-
lations with Buckley and the open pre-
tense of opposition. At last, however, the
passion of the play eliminated in the tri-
umphant nomination of Pond, with the
solid delegation from San Francisco at his
back, and the curtain was rung down on
the humiliating exposure of the partner
ship which has so long existed between
the Democratic candidate for Governor
and the great leader of the party. Buckley
and Pond were conjoined like the Siamese
twins, and the EreDsiper is engaging daily
in the fruitless task of performing the
surgical operation which shall separate
them at once in the minds of the public.