Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-31
TIE YoTR OF CALIFORNIA.

TIE V0TR OF CALIFORNIA
We are indebted to Hon. E. G. Waite,
the secretary of state, for a neatly
printed brochure giving the result of
the vote in the late election OF the state
of California. The figures have been
substantially presented to our readers
by telegraph. These returns embody
more eccentricitiee than have ever been
noted in any previous contest in this
state. The vote for president falls
about ten thousand short of the total
vote cast on some of the other officers.
Those who failed to vote were, ofcourse,
in great measure, Republicans. They
would not vote for Harrison and they
had not yet been educated to support
any man who stood on the Chicago
platform. All other things being equal,
with candidates acceptable to the party,
this state could hitherto be fairly
grouped as Republican. Harrison's
majority of four years ago was in all
likelihood the fair stand ard. allowing for
possibly a slight Republican inc ease
since then. Few men who desired to
see Mr.. Cleveland elected failed to go to
the polls, allowing for casualties. Ii MIR.
Blaine, in perfect health, had been the
Republican candidate for president,
most of these absentee voters would have
put in an appearance. A singular circum-
stance is that the presidents ostentatious
tour of this state really diminished his
vote. There is no question of this fact,
and we say it in no spirit of personal
unkindness. During his tour of Cali
fornia, to our knowledge, many Repub-
lcans declined to even be presented to
Mr.. Harrison. No man who ever occu-
pied the pi esidential chair commanded
less of the popular enthusiasm, retained
less of it, and created less of it, than he.
If Dir. Cleveland had ever visited Cali
fornia the trip would have increased his
vote by thousands. There is precisely
that difference between the two men.
During Mr.. Cleveland's four years occu.
pancy of the White House no man ever
paid call upon him that did not result
in personally pleasant impression OF
the man. We do not mean that it either
converted or tended to convert the caller
from any political views which he may
have strongly entertained. because that
wosld be absurd, but it made marked
change favorable to the president if his
views had been previously hostile, and
confirmed to white heat the sentiment
where personal preference had previ-
ously existed. With Mr.. Harrison the
case was diametrically the opposite.
He seems to repel people in an excep-
tional degree.
There is no doubt in our mind that
we have reached the point of new de-
parture in California politics, such as
followed the Broderick-Terry duel and
the exciting incidents that led up to the
war. II will not be characterized by
the effervescence of that history-making
period, but it may prove quite as i'm
portant and lasting. Politics in this
state in the past have shown marked
tendency to harmonize with the party
in power, and the politicians OF this
state have shown great shrewdness in
seeing which way the cat was going to
Jump. Before California went for Lin
coin, in 1860, you could have nominated
two Democrats for governor, and one of
them would have been pretty sure to be
elected. From 1850 until 1880, Califor-
MIA voted the Republican ticket in pres-
idential years. and in the latter
year she voted for Hancock,
largely, we are afraid, because
she thought he was certain to be sue
cessful. 1t was no impeachment of her
sagacity that she did 60 think, for Han
cock was surely the winner three weeks
before the election. Garfield was only
saved through the herculean efforts Of
Grant and Conkling ard the clarion
notes of Blaine, all working in unison.
Her accustomed shrew dness has been
shown in her ranging herself with Mr..
Cleveland and the Democracy in this
year of grace 1892. The Populiet party
has disintegrated the Republicans, and
that organization will principally be
used hereafter to point moral and
adorn tale. Hereafter the west and
northwest will be divided between the
Populists or come other new tangled
party and the Democrats. The Democ-
racy will as surely have most OF the
eastern and southern states and-Cali
fornia. The HERALD rune no risk what
soever in outlining this horoscope as
warranted to cover the next twenty