Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-24
BUCKLEY FOR GOVERNOR.

The nomination OF h. b. Pond, by Boss
Buckley, of San Francisco, is political
event of the most sensational character.
The people of the State have been treated
to spectacle of the deepest and most
far-reaching cunning that has ever dis
graced public annals. E. B. Pond, the
supposed Mayor of San Francisco, has
been playing the part of antagonism to
Buckley. Every scheme of rapacity and
plumber which could possibly have been
invented has been carried to Buckley's
political agency for the purpose of secur-
ing its passage through municipal and
State Legislatures. Pond has pretended
to be the enemy of these schemes The
people of the interior, not being we'll in
formed, have regarded Pond as sort of
a watchdog of political virtue, gigantic
guardian of public treasures, the honest
opponent of political roguery. The peo-
pie of San Francisco, however, have for
some time suspected that the "Solid Nine"
in the Board of Supervisors of that city
has been cunning device planned by
Buckley and this enabled Buckley to
carry all his schemes through the Board
of Supervisors, and to keep Ponds virtue
unstained and thus put him in training
for the Gubernatorial race. 1t is well
known to thousands of citizens in San
Francisco that privately Buckley and
Pond have been friendly during the en-
tire period of their apparent arrangement.
Ponds vetoes of thieving franchises and
their subsequent passage by the "Solid
Nine" acting under Buckley's inspiration,
were just as much part of political
scheming as the coy by-play which re-
served his nomination to the fourth ballot
in the San Jose Convention. Mayor E.
B. Pond, the pretended friend of the
people, the cunning dissembler of
opposition to political bossism, stood
revealed in the San Jose Convention in
his true light. Buckley tried in every
way to secure his nomination without
showing his own hand. At last the part
nership between Buckley and Pond had
to be disclosed, and E. B. Pond stands be-
fore the people of California unmasked as
the most contemplate hypocrite that has
ever aspired to honorable office. He will
receive at the polls the most signal and
well-deserved defeat that has ever been
accorded to political scoundrelism. Dur
ing all the days of his pretended virtue
he was merely veneering for Buckley
When the latter established headquarters
at Sacramento for the purpose of filching
from the State treasury five millions of
dollars, Pond was the silent partner of the
firm. Before the disclosure of the rela-
ton between Buckley and Pond, the peo-
pie of California would have hailed with
pleasure the advent of man of his sup
posed character as a candidate FOR Gov
ernor. State Government had grown
more and more extravagant Political
thlevery had become more defiant, and
had found less and less occasion for con-
cealment. Bossism, with all its dishonest
methods, stood clearly disclosed on the ad-
journment of the last Legislature. A
raid on the peoples money had been
planned and executed, and five million
dollars had been wantonly squandered.
Christopher A. Buckley is chiefly charge
able for this great crime, but during all
the time of its preparation E. B. Pond
was his silent partner. His election as
Governor would be in every respect the
full and exact equivalent of the election
Of Christopher A. Buckley. Between
these two inen there is no distinction of
honesty, no separate purpose. They are
twins in character, in purpose and in in
tent.