The record-union., 1891-05-30
A DIsGRACEFUL SITUATION.


altogether, beyond being very improb-
able lie, is the most disgraceful subter-
fuge ever urged on behalf of candi-
date. Mr.. Maxwell is small beer poll
tician from Los Angeles. He belongs to
that large class of political larva from
which boodlers are Matched. His kind
have infinite cheek and Unreasonable
faculty for obtaining positions. It is
enough for them and their supporters to
know that they want positions. Max
well belongs to very large class which
infests cities and who usurp the preroga-
tives of governing the country. They
parcel out among themselves all the fat
offices. They are office-seekers for what
there is in it. They are devoid of con-
science as to the public good, and from
tician, the ward striker, the professional
rounder, the voting repeater, and in legis-
lative positions the boodler. The ap-
pointment of politician at the behest of
the bosses, to the neglect of the horti-
culturists of this State, is about as great
an outrage as has ever been attempted on
the sober, right-thinking and industrious
classes of the community.
An interest of the first magnitude has
arisen in California. 1t is a great indus
trial interest, and its creation was due to
the intelligence, the energy, the sobriety
and the virtue of an agricultural class.
Honesty of purpose, earnestness of effort,
combined with thoughtful and intelli-
gent industry, have given to California
horticultural interest, producing an an
nual profit to the State of $40, 900, 600.
There are men who created this great
enterprise, but they are spurned aside as
if their lives had been contemplate, their
motive unworthy, their high endeavor a
reproach, and a small beer politician is
selected for the honor and emoluments of
a great Office, having in charge the highest
interests of this great industry. 1t cannot
be denied that this is an insult to the in
telligence of California, and when we are
informed that Director General Davis has
at any time said that California must take
an incompetent or nobody, we take the
liberty Of denying it absolutely. The
situation never existed which obliged
California to this humiliating alternative.
1t is kind of subterfuge which has been
used always in the promotion of bad can
didates. The skillful place-hunter secures
the nomination, however unfit for the
Office and however unworthy of public
confidence, and the members of the party
nominating him have the choice between
unworthy man to office. In all such stu
atoms it is the duty of the voter to repudi-
ate the candidate and lose the office.
When bad men are nominated for Office,
the party nominating them deserves de-
feat. Only men of enfeebled moral con-
viction and weakened intellectual per-
ception will contend otherwise. The
poor party-ridden wretch, who subordi-
mates the high dignity of his citizenship
to the behests of party discipline, and
conspires against good government and
the best interests of the whole people by
voting for an unworthy candidates is
about as great a fool as the farmer who
will eat the chaff because he has raised
the wheat.
IF the headship of the Department of
Horticulture has been forced into the
same position, it has been done in the
selfish interests of people who want to
control that department, and the threat
that California will lose it or force her hort
iculturists into the humiliating position
of being represented by incompetency
should deter no one in their opposition.
The worst impeachment the Pacific Coast
representatives on the National Commits
sion could possibly have is to admit the
truth of the statement that California
must accept an incompetent candidate or
be denied the position at all.
There are few things this people will
not forget, and first among these is that
California was entitled to the headship
of the Department of Horticulture, and
that decent respect for those who by
their diligence and intelligence have
given US this great industry demanded
that they should be consulted as to the
candidate. They were so not consulted. II
California loses the headship of the De-
partment of Horticulture, it will be be-
cause of an injudicious selection of can
didate, and not because the opposition to
the confirmation of that candidate is not
honorable and patriotic.
MEAN MISUNDERSTANDING