Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1890-08-19
TUESDAY. AUGUST 10, 1890.
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.

THE'convention which meets at San
Jose today Will arrest the attention of
the whole state until it has completed
its work. But the great and absorbing
point of interest will be in its action
upen the head of the ticket. There are
six men whose names have been men
toned in connection with the nomina-
ton for governor. The principal ones
are E. B. Pond, mayor of San Francisco;
James V. Coleman of San Mateo; and
w. d. English, of Alameda. Besides
these gentlemen, Harbor Commissioner
A. G. Paulsell, ex-Congressman C. P.
Berry, of Suffer, and Senator Jones, of
Butte, are in the field. The main battle
however, will be between the three
first. We are assured by San Francisco
interest in Mr.. Ponds fight that he will
60 into the convention with two hun
bred votes that will stay with him from
first to last. Mr.. Coleman's friends
claim two hundred and fifty votes for
him on the first ballot Mr.. English
will have rising of one hundred votes,
andthe rest will be scattered among the
other candidates. Mr.. Ponds managers
assume that after the first ballot his
vote will be "a steadily increasing one,
and that seems to be the correct view.
The unknown quantity in this contest is
what direction the English contingent
will take when they find that their man
cannot get the prize. Naturally it would
go over to Pond, and the belief is that at
least large portion of it will go to him.
Ii that should be the caae, Ponds nomi-
nation will be assured The impression
amongst the. most sagacious politicians
is that if Coleman starts out with two
hundred and fifty votes, that will
be the full extent of his
strength, and that it will be
impossible for his managers to increase
it. On the contrary, it is believed that
it will disintegrate, if, after a few bal
lots, it is found that he cannot reach the
point of nomination. Ponds strength
his staunchest friends will be found
amongst the farmers, who keenly feel
the weight of the taxes that are being
piled up by the professional politicians.
They believe that Pond is the man to
bring the state down to basis of econ
omy, and to puta stop to jobbery and
extravaganza, and in this fixed opinion
of the best men of the commonwealth,
and in the fact that everybody believes
that Pond is the strongest man with the
people, lies the great prestige OF the San
Francisco mayor. His nomination would
be equal to an election OF the whole
ticket, and the general acceptance of
that as a fact seems to make his success
at San Jose unavoidable.
The mayor has refused to sign certain
demands made for regarding streets so
that the water mayrun off therefrom. The
mayor is of the opinion that there is
something rotten in that Denmark
where the city engineers office had it's
local hahitation for many years past.
He is of the opinion that the surveys
should be so made Gb dnitio that water
will run from all streets when they are
graded, and that it is a great hardship
when property owners have graded
the street that they should be called
upon to do the work over again be-
cause some incompetent incumbent of
an official position has been incompe-
tent to perform its duties. The
mayor thinks it is unless also hardship
to ask the taxpayers of the city en- masse
to bear this repeated, heavy and I'M
necessary expense. There seems to be
some merit in the view the mayor has
taken Of this matter.