The herald., 1894-08-24
A POLITICAL RETROSPECT.

w uiie We ueslfo to Do htrlcbly COurte-
GUS and good natured to Major George
s. Patton. the gentleman who has been
nominated for congress from the Sixth
congressional district. we can recall no
tunate as his, and we can recall every
congressional nomination that has been
made in the Southern California district
since We landed here in 1872, when Col.
E. j. @. Kewen was defeated as the
Democratic candidate for congress in
what WAS then sn Overwhelmingly DEM
ocratic district. There has been ia
tality attending this district for years
and years.
Major Patton, like Col. f. J. @.
Kewen, was fond OF sounding all the
depths and shoals of orstory. Like the
San Gabriel statesman OF today, Colonel
Kswen was fond OF denouncing people
who did not agree with him in describ-
ing other persons 90 tools of something
or other.
The fact is that the nomination OF
Nh. Patton for congress in the Sixth
district OF California is violation of o
rule which has prevailed in Democratic
conventions since the country has had
an existence. He was nominated, not
withstanding the fact that there was a
majority in his own delegation against
him, majority which would have been
much larger if four delegates, pledged
to Colonel Messmors. had not sold out
for-something. What that something
was we will not say until we find out,
and then we will say go fsarlessly.
There has never been an instance in
the history of Democratic congress
sional conventions in which man who
was in a minority in the votes Of his
own county delegation was preferred
before his opponent, who had carried
the vote of his own county. II there
has been one such instance there have
certainly not been two. What has
there been in the osreer OF Maj. George
S. Patton, who bulldozs1 the always re-
pudiated Csnnon-a man repudisted by
all persons today-upon the Democratic
party to justify this second bulldozing !?
If Cannon were a rightful Democratic
candidate two years ago, as George Pat
better candidate in the present year Of
grace. AS neither Democrat nor Popu-
list will now touch Mr.. Pstton's csndi-
date of two years ago with a forty-foot
pole, it seems to us that he has su-
preme degree of egotism to suppose that
people are going to fall over each other
voting for Mr.. Patton himself this fall.
Now We will just add that we like the
comely statesman Of the San Gabriel
valley ourselves-not too much, but just
enough. We could find it in our heart
that he should prove himself to be man
OF common sense. and would thus re-
frain from abusing everybody as tool
of some railway or other, or as myrmi-
don OF all kinds of wickedness. IfGeorge
would get himself decently nominated on
almost any kind of platform we should
be glad to support him. But he cannot
exercise this constraint. He was made
Ol " ubnutOLuo oAboIlOi huu ppionotlS
temperament, and he is obliged to scold
in spite of himself. As a conseq uence,
he will find that he will make much
such canvass as the Hon. Reel B. Terry
made once upon a time. Reel was elo-
quent and impulsive. and ever ybody
remembers the majority which Gen
Vandever gained over him in 1888.
We do not wish to unduly discourag,
Major Patton. Neither do we wish t
enact the role of Casssndrs. WI
merely desire to suggest political ret
respect, which may contain lesson.