Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-23
A WHITE LANDSLIDE.

versy is rapidly losing all sensational
features owing to the almost assured re-
suit. The writer has made a hurried
trip to San Francisco; and, while en-
route to and from that city, and while
in San Francisco, he made it a point to
test the public sentiment and the gen.
eral trend of feeling amongst Demo-
Gratis. A casual glance at Mr.. Whites
headquarters was of course instructive.
He found there steady stream of the
leading Democrats of California, and
the confidence in Mr.. Whites success
was universal.
Anyone who should take his impress
sions of the senatorial outlook from the
attitude of the Examiner would be
away off the real situation. Without
desiring to make any invidious refec-
tions upon the course of that journal,
whose many newspaper merits can be
granted without necessarily conceding
it great political sagacity, its position on
the senatorial issue ia inexplicable on
many grounds. Generally speaking,
great journal would like to show that it
possessed considerable influence with
its party, or. at least, that it had fair
party standing, all other things being
equal. The Examiner early proposed to
itself the task of creating an artificial
opposition to Mr. White. With the
mass OF the party the issue was deter
mined the day it was known that the
Republican party was in q minority
of the California Legislature. In
ordinary years it would not be
hard to rally a great party fol-
lowing behind man like Hon. W. w.
Foote. But Democratic, and Republi.
cans also, for that matter, had made up
their minds that, taking into the count
all the circumstances of the contest two
years ago. Mr.. Whites attitude in the
late campaign, his exceptional qualifi-
cations and the long deferred claims of
his section OF the state. there was but
one Democratic candidate possible.
Even go commanding journal as the
Examiner ought to have recognized
these facts and stood in with the over
whelming preference of its party. But
instead OF doing that, it can scarcely
escape the mortification of showing that
it's power to injure or advance an indi
vidual, or to assist in shaping its party's
action, are not what great newspaper,
managed with ordinary sagacity, should
have right to expect.
Instead OF yielding to the clearly ex-
pressed popular preference for White,
the Examiner flew into q passion. Con-
fronted by An overwhelming preponder-
auce Of the Democratic press in the state
in favor of White, our San Francisco
contemporary, in effect, denounced the
Democratic interior press as railway
organs. Quite naturally such charge
has provoked an indignant protest, and
the Examiner now turns round and de-
MES that it made such charge. All
the same, any man OF sense could put
no other construction upon its language.
1t condescendingly admits that journal.
istic advocacy of Stephen NJ. White
does not necessarily stamp the writer or
the paper showing such preference to be
under the influence of the railway. 1t
would have been far better not to have
developed such silly line OF policy
originally. The attempt to make Mr..
White out the candidate of the railway
was neither wise nor tenable, and should
never have been made. The evidence
multiplies every day that he is in very
distinctive way the candidate of the
Democratic masses. The voters ac-
knowledge his leadership and cannot be
detached from his cause. They favor
White for various reasons, chief amongst
which are these:
CD He made the fight. It was
White and not Mr.. Foote or Mr.. Lynch
who met Estee on the hustings and
worsted him. He conducted himself in
that campaign in way to enlarge the
already high estimate which both polit
ical friends and enemies had Of his abil-
tiles. He did not thrust himself into
the front. but responded to the invita-
ton of the Democratic state central COM
mittee. 1t is universally conceded that
the committee acted wisely in falling
back upon White to champion the Dem.
ocratic cause.
(2.) Mr.. White was the choice Of the
Democracy tive years ago for United
States senator. He made the canvass
then and received the Democratic eau.
Gus nomination. Since then he has not
only done nothing to diminish his party
standing, or the estimation in which he
is held by the people generally. but has
done much to increase both.
(3.) Mr.. White is native son, and
although he would be the last man to
urge this argument in his own favor, it
is having and ought to have great weight
in the senatorial fight. OF course such
claims might be abused sometime in the
future. but why should not the young,
alert and progressive native born Cali
fernians have representative in the
senate of the United States, especially
when they have as their choice man
conspicuous for his abilities and party
services? If not, why not? We can as.
sure the friends of Stephen M. White
that the native sons are working like
beavers for him. and. their work is OF the
most effective kind.
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