Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-04
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
4 POLITICAL CARD.
To Patriotic Republicans of
California.

| Preceding every important election there is
| stage of common thought within party lines,
| which may be denominated the preliminary or
| partisan campaign of the year. Such cam
| paign is now in progress, and within the lines
of the Republican party has developed con-
dition which is without parallel in the his
tory of American States. section of the
State, embracing less than one fourth of the
territorial area and less than fifth of the popu-
| lation of the whole State, has demanded IS
concession to it as geographical section the
choice of a candidate for Governor. The
Southern portion of this State styling itself
southern California" and using the adjective
Southern in a declaratory sense of sentiment
rather than geographical significance, has de-
manded, as its peculiar right, the naming of a
candidate for Governor on the Republican
ticket. 1t asks this concession at the hands of
the Republican State Convention, not because
it can present the man. who in himself stands
before any other man in California as the en-
bodiment of Republican principles, or as the
ablest exponent of those principles, or as
statesman rejecting the best opinions and ira
ditions OF the party. but up 10 this time the sole
argument in favor OF the selection of candi-
date from the south is based on the clear in
ference that there is Southern California;;
that it is district having interests and aspira-
tons separate and apart from the rest of the
State, and that this segregated integral portion
of this commonwealth shall have recognition
as separate, political and geographical entity.
The portion OF the State from which this de-
mand comes is represented in the Congress of
the United States by General vandeyer, who,
l i,,O nod - ~
ment at home, introduced bill for the division
of the State. He is known to have declared his
disapproval of the measure he introduced, and
to have distinctly stated that its introduction
was in obedience to popular opinion among his
constituency. The irrefragible evidence that
he was not mistaken is found in the fact that
the introduction OF the bill has not met with
rebuke. The production of any sentiment from
the public press of California. or from any
speaker representing the southern portion of
the State, or from any political convention
held within that section, indicating the slight
est disapproval of General Wanderers course,
, may well be challenged. If such rebuke has
found public expression through any medium
or channel devoted 20 the expression of public
opinion, let such expression now be made
known. 1t cannot be cited, simply because it
does not exist.
Thus the representative OF Southern Cali
fornia" in the Congress of the Nation coolly
and deliberately proposes the dismemberment
Il of this commonwealth and threatens its terri
, torial integrity, with the apparent concurrence
, and approval of his constituents. Following
this. and in consonance with its spirit, the
Republicans of Southern California declared
the existence of such a section within the
boundaries of the State, and necessarily i'm
parted by this declaration all that the political
segregation or the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the com.
monwealth implied.
The claim set up to Gubernatorial honor. dis
tinction and concession, for Southern Califor-
mia" is further based upon the consideration
that it is section casting very large Republi-
can majority; that it must be depended upon for
victory to the Republican side at the approaching
contest, and that theref re it is entitled to PEI
culisr consideration. II the Republicanism of
Southern California" is of that species whose
party fealty must be purchased by the hopors
and emoluments of office, 1t is an unpatriotic,
self seeking, debasing species of Republicanism,
which deserves rebuke rather than reward
The chief consideration of the matters III der
consideration, however. lies in the fact that the
nomination of that gentleman, named exclu-
sively by one section of the 81 ate, viii be a
recognition by the Republican party of Callfor-
mia of a sectionalsm offensive in its significance
and menacing to the territorial integrity of the
State. The people of California have before them
the incipient beginnings of State division, even
beyond the incipieney of such beginnings They
have 1t first In the persistent maintenance of a
| geographical designation, rising readily to the
lips OF Southern California orators, and flow
| ing freely from the pens of southern Cslifor-
| MIA editors. Seetionalism always has its be.
ginning in sectional jealousy; from this point
/ the first natural Sep is to sectional demand
I But in this instance Southern California" has
done something more than profess sentiment:
! its Congressman has taken the bold initiative of
State division, with every appearance Of con-