Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-27
BUCKLEY FOR GOVERNOR.

BUCKLEY FOR GOVERNOR.
The Alta, edited by John P Irish, the
Democratic candidate for Congress in this
district, says: ave warn the Republican
organs that they will not be permitted to
assail the private character and impugn
the personal integrity of SO upright and
unblemished a man as Mayor Pond with
impunity."
1t is extremely kind to be thus fore
warned, and very generous on the part Of
the Alto to inform the Republican organs
as to what they will not be permitted to
do. The only assault which any decent
organ will seek to make will be upon
| those elements of personal character in
Mr.. Pond which will indicate his fitness
for the discharge of a great public trust
1t is now as well known as any other fact
that the last Legislature appropriated
100000 more than was required for the
legitimate uses of State Government. 1t
is equally well known that Christopher A.
Buckley was the party who projected those
assaults upon the public treasury. The
Alta will not have the hardihood to deny
that Mr.. Pond is Buckley's candidate for
Governor, that Buckley has more than or
binary good political sense, and IS there
fore not mistaken in his candidate that
Mr.. Buckley is ''boss," which is simply
another definition for political venality
Mr.. Buckley is the head and front of the
Democratic party. He has placed Mr.
Pond in command of the Democratic
party. Mr.. Pond is, therefore, sailing I'M
der Mr.. Buckley's colors, and they are the
black colors of political piracy. When
therefore, the Alta warns the Republican
organs that they shall not be permitted to
assail Mr.. Pond, it is indulging in bonn
bast, quite unbecoming in a journal of its
stature. Mr.. Pond will be assailed at
every point at which he is assailable, and
his most conspicuous weakness is the fact
that he was nominated by Mr.. Buckley,
and will prove the creature of the man
who made him. He is, therefore, the en-
bodiment of Buckleyan methods, and is far
more unfit to be trusted with the office Of
Governor than Buckley himself, because
he will cause Mr. Pond to commit acts of
which he would not himself be guilty.
And now does the Alto deny that Mr..
Buckley is the great head of the Demo-
cratic party in this State? Does it deny
that Mr.. Buckley nominated Mr.. Pond ?
Will it have the temerity to deny that Mr.
Buckley influenced the last Legislature in
the direction of its acts? Will Mr.. Pond
in the coming campaign declare that he is
not in any respect in sympathy with Mr.
Buckley or Buckleyan methods? VIII he
repudiate that Democratic leader and de.
clare that if he is elected Governor he
will have no political sympathy with the
leader of his party? Will he denource
the acts of the last Buckley Legislature
viii he repudiate Mr.. Buckley's leader
ship of his party?
| Whatever Mr.. Ponds private character
and personal integrity may be, he is the
tool and the instrument of the very worst
elements in politics that have ever dis
graced State or city. We shall not
ask permission of the Alta to say these
things or to prove them to the full salts
faction of the meanest comprehension.
| The United States Circuit Court has de.
cided the Bingham Ordinance of San
| Francisco to be in contravention of the
Constitution of the United States and the
existing treaties with China. The ordi
/ nance required that prior to given date
all Chinese in San Francisco should re.
move to sections outside of certain limits
and that it should be an offense for any
Chinese thereafter to reside or do bushes:
in the city within the prescribed terri
tory. When the ordinance was passed this
journal expressed the opinion that il
would not stand a moment when tested IL
any Court, and that it was farcical to pu
such measure upon the municipal statute
books. We do not believe that any intel
| ligent person in or out of San Francisco
has for a moment entertained the idea
that the ordinance was valid, or that it
authors expected it to pass muster in the
Courts. 1t was bit of demagogry, anC
nothing more.
| OPPONENTS of capital punishment insist
that the death penalty does not deter mel
from doing murder. Here. they say, i
evidence Of it. Within two days of tn,
execution of Kemmler murders and muir
drous assaults were committed in three o
the principal cities of the Union. Let u
look at the other side A Portland pape
has hunted up the statistics and finis tina
in Perry county, Kentucky, where capita
punishment is prohibited, 500 murder
have been committed in seventy years
and but one conviction for the crime ha
been had in all that time Let us add, a
an offset to the statement, that murde
was committed in New York the very da,
Kemmler was executed that so, too, was
murderous assault made in Michigan OF
that day In Michigan the death penalt,
is not inflicted in punishment for murder
THE San Bernardino Tines Inder say
it had long been heralded throughout tn,
State that Pond was fighting Buckley ant
that Buckley was fighting Pond. TIL
eyes of the people have now been opene
, to the hollowness of the claim. As GU
, contemporary says, the boss nominated tn
head of the Democratic ticket. 9TH
was done after a full understanding be
/ tween Buckley and Pond. Buckley is i
; politics to make money. He has got ricl
out of the political patronage Of the cit
: of San Francisco. He would not throl