Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-10
MAKING PUBLIC SENTIMENT.

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newspaper aspect of the senatorial con-
test. We have kept pretty careful eye
on the utterances of the Democratic
press OF California, and it is overwhelm-
ingly in favor OF our townsman. The
only two journals OF his own political
faith that are making a fight against
him are the San Francisco Examiner
and the Oakland Times. AS opposed to
these the newspapers from all sections
which advocate Whites election to the
United States senate are legion. On
this subject the Stockton Mail says:
The half dozen local Democrats who
are exercised over the fact that the Mail
is making Whites fght," as they
phrase it, might receive enlightenment
by calling at this Office and looking over
our exchanges of single day. They
would thereby learn that the whole
Democratic press of the state, with the
single exception of the San Francisco
Examiner, which is not recognized as a
party paper, is making Mr.. Whites
fight. Thus it will be seen that the
Mail has plenty OF company and of a
very good sort in its present enterprise.
The spontaneous output of unsolicited
literature favorable to the popular
choice for senator would be sufficient, If
it were collected ss we might have col
lected it in this Office, to paper at least
one wall of pretty large room. Not
single printed expression against Mr..
White, save such as have, by reason of
the despicable motive actusting them,
disgraced the mercenary columns of the
Examiner, has been published any
where. Is it not a. .herculean task to es-
say to turn tide of public opinion 30
tremendous as this?
Throughout the state there is quite
general admission that fair play both
towards Southern California and Mr..
White call, now that Democratic ma
jority has been secured in the legislature,
for the election to the senate of the man
who contributed so largely to the sue
cess of the Democratic party at the polls
on the Sth OF November. Mr.. White
had received the caucus nomination of
the Democracy when, it is true, success
was out of the question, but it is hardly
fair to assume that a great party will
palter with one of its recognized leaders
in double sense. AS he was the choice
OF the party then he is now. The whole
state ratified the fitness of his selection
to meet Estee in joint debate, and the
masses of the Democratic party every
where looked upon that selection as
settling the senatorial question in the
event of Democratic success.
Thursdays Examiner transfers to its
columns from the Oakland Times long
and elaborate presentation of the claims
of Hon. w. w. Foote On the United
States senatorship. We have heretofore
said that there are circumstances in
which it would give us great pleasure to
support Mr.. Foote for the place, but
those circumstances do not, in our
opinion, exist just now. The Times
says, in enforcing Mr.. Foote'S claims:
Alameda county has always been
called "the banner Republican county
of the state" but under the leadership
of the friends of w. w. Foote it has
been wrested from party heretofore
holding it in thrall as a political suzer-
ainty; by the efforts of such leaders the
Democrats have been able to divide the
legislative delegation and give the De-
mocracy enough votes out OF the Repub-
lican bailiwick to enforce ma ajority
that this winter will seat Democrat in
the United States senate as q represen-
tative of the state of California. Every
citizen of Alameda county, irrespective
OF party affiliation, is strongly and sim
cerely in favor of MIR. Foote, and if it
were matter to be decided by vote of
the people we do not believe there would
be ten dissenting voices in this section
of the state.
No doubt the Democracy of Alameda
county did nobly this year, and doubt
less Mr.. Whites joint debate with Estee
had much to do with that gratifying
success. But our contemporary over
looks the fact that Los Angeles Demo.
Gratis also covered themselves with
glory this year. They reduced Mr..
Harrison's majority OF $500 in 1883 to
2l07 in 1892. That the Democracy OF
Alameda county has deserved to be con-
graduated in no whit dims the laurels
won in Los Angeles county. Save for the
herculean labors of the Democracy here,
which have given Gen. John A. Mathews
to the senate and Hon. Frank G. Fin
layson to the assembly, there would not
have been a Democratic majority on
joint ballot.
The Times winds up its article ad-
vocating Mr.. Foote in the following
words: every citizen of Alameda
county, irrespective of party afilia-
"tion, is strongly and sincerely in favor
"of Mr.. Foote, and if it were matter
"to be decided by vote of the people
1--WE do not believe there would be ten
dissenting voices in this section OF the
Estate" Our contemporary is certainly
in error in this rosy forecast for its fa-
vorite. The boot in all probability
would be on the other leg if, by the ex-
preston "this section" any region out
side of Alameda county is intended to
be covered. Some Of Mr. Whites most
enthusiastic newspaper advocates reach
US from towns aligning the Bay of San
Francisco, and they certainly reflect the
sentiment OF the communities in W hich
they arc published.
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A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE,