Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-19
RArTL1NG THE REPUBLICAN BONES.


The reception which Mayor Pond has
received in Los Angeles is one of which
any man should feel proud, and yet that
distinguished gentleman has received no
more than is due to one who has full
filled high public trusts with a fidelity
and a conscientious regard to duty
which is the exception amongst public
men today. Having administered the
affairs of the great city of San Francisco
with an ability and an integrity which
has drawn upon him the eyes of the
whole state, his party has
naturally called him to higher
and more distinguished field of useful
ness. Nominated to the Office Of chief
magistrate of the State, he finds in the
warm and enthusiastic welcome of the
people everywhere the reward for his
faithfulness. He is honored not only
by the members of his own party, but
citizens without distinc ton of party de-
light to pay him the tribute of respect.
He is tried and true, and these merits
are the passports to every honest heart.
Mayor Pond will leave this city
realizing that he has troops of
staunch friends here, and that,
however reponderating may be
the national political majority of the
party to which he is opposed, he will re-
ceive the highest vote that could posi-
bly, be cast for any Democrat in this Sec
ton. Indeed, we are convinced that
there is no man in the state who could
bring to his ticket the strength which
Mayor Pond will bring to the ticket upon
which he is running. 1t has been
claimed by our Republican friends that
they will carry Markham over the Te
hachepi with from five to eight thousand
majority. That claim is now badly
punctured. If they 60 beyond Mojave
with twenty-five hundred votes to spare
they may consider themselves lucky.
The fact is, Colonel Markham is losing
ground in his own section. For some
reason, which we shall not now attempt
to explain, that gentleman fails to wear.
There is an artifciality about him which
the people are quick to perceive. His
magnetism is on the surface. 1t has no
depth. 1t is like the thin veneering to
a grand piece OF furniture. 1t hides the
common wood beneath, but soon disap-
pears with friction.
On the other hand, Mayor Pond grows
on one. He is the real stuff through
and through. He is not polished up for the
occasion, but stands out as clear-cut and
we'll defined today as yesterday. He pre-
tends to be nothing but what he is-a
plain, blunt, honest business man, who
applies the same principles and devotes
the same energy to the business of the
people as he applied to his own business.
He believes that the rules that govern
the conduct of a mans private business
should be applied to the conduct of pub
lie business, and it is simply in consci-
entiously carrying out these rules that
he has met with the same success as a
public official which he has met as a
private citizen.
The people have not been slow to see
these points, and they have consequent
ly come to yield him confidence which
is not evanescent or subject to capricious
change, but which is firm and lasting.
The men who are not tenacious about
party-that large class of men who vote
independent of party-and in this state
they hold the balance of power-will all
be attracted to Mr.. Pond. Solid worth
is the magnet which acts as their load
stone, and the Mayor of San Francisco's
record settles the matter with them.
The good impression which he has made
in Los Angeles will add to the popularity
which his public acts had already
achieved for him before he came here,
and these will send him out of our
county as near a majority candidate as
that relative strength of the two parties
will permit.
The splendid demonstration of the
Democracy on Wednesday night has
thrown CONSERVATION into the ranks OF
the Republican mossbacks. They
thought they had walk-over, but they
now admit they have hard and diff
cult fight before them to even hold their
own. This is their tronghold-their
Gibraltar. But strongholds are not al
ways impregnable, and the safety OF
which they were so confident a while
ago, is not now so assured safety as
they believed it to be few days
since. There will be rare Strengthening
of lines from this time on. The weak
ening ones will have to be stiffened up
the wavering to be infused with fresh
courage. This is the work our Republi-
can friends have in hand. In the mean
time they may rest assured that the
Democrats will not be idle. They will
lose no point gained for the want o.
well-directed, intelligent and energetic
action.
THE ouality of modesty is not strained