The San Francisco call., 1898-02-20
THE HORIZON IS WIDENING Political Aspirants Are Looking Outside the
 County. Alameda Realizes That the Rest of the State Has
 a Voice. New Phase Comes Over the Family Struggle for the Governor
 ship.
Oakland Office, San Francisco Call,

oakland Ofnce, San FrdnclSCO Cdil,
 sos Broadway, Feb. 19.
 A new complexion is now worn by the gubernational situation in this county and it has added additional in- terest to the family complication. The political managers have at last ac- knowledged that to nominate a man for Governor is the business of a State convention and not the preroga- tive of a county tea party.
 It has taken the politicians long time to realize this, but the point has been reached at last and although the balance of the State has for long time considered Alameda County as a factor in the State fight, it has only just dawned upon Alameda that the balance of the State is factor also. The lines along which the battle will be fought will henceforth be different than in the past.
 While the Pardee men are proposing harmony between the two candidates for Governor, the Davis men are de- clining to notice any such overtures, and both are working steadily ahead. The Pardee men have great hopes of carrying the county and believe that II they can go into the State convention with the one cry of Pardee they will be able to make trades that will land their man a winner. This is, how ever impossible, for l.. H. Brown mas already done some work in the inter- for of the county and more than one of the townships is claimed, and not without some reason, by the Dav1s forces.
 The Livermore Herald, which eAer- cises a big influence in that end of the county, raises the name Of DAVIS al the head of it's editorial page and IS making an aggressive fight for its man. The other interior papers are discreetiy non-committal Their position was thus described by a township editor this week: we are on the fence, he said. "as between Davis and Pardee, because we have an eye to the county feht and cannot afford to be too inde- pendent regarding the Governor. All of which means that the support or the interior papers will depend largely on | the combinations between the State and county tickets.
 This is the way a political writer in the Davis camp expresses, the situa- | ton:
 | What Alameda County needs to do just now. however, is to broaden its horizon 1 One swallow never yet made a spring l This little local delegation is not going to nominate anybody. It cannot nominate a | Governor ali by itself. Alameda County has spent so much time looking at itself | that it is losing sight of the greater po- | litical horizon of the State.
 It is time the politician was asking some pertinent questions. What are the other l fifty-six counties of the State willing tS | do9 What do they want? How far will | they help? | It is high time Alameda County begar | to recognize the rights of the sister coun | ties and to get a proper adjustment ol | her relations to the whole State.
 l This is just what Alameda is doing 1 and it remains to be seen whether work in the county almost exclusively, oi 1 work outside the county will be more successful at the State convention