Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-24
GUBHRNAToRIAL SNAIL SPITE

People have a right to presume that
the governor of a great state will be
loyal to and proud of every section of
his state, especially where it is orderly
law-abiding and prosperous.
But Governor Pardee comes down to
Los Angeles in the closing year of his
term as governor, and while a candi-
date to succeed himself, so thoroughly
saturated with the yellow prejudices of
bis neighborhood towns that he can
only view us from patronizing stand
point and express his conviction that
we are simply good advertisers. Per-
haps if he had stopped at that point
his provincial jealousy might have been
overlooked. But he proceeds to charge
us, in a bill of particulars, with mis-
representing other sections of the state.
Governor Pardee says, among other
things, that Los Angeles people took
photographs of the snow scenes in San
Francisco in 1892 and that they are still
exhibiting those pictures as living
proofs of the climate of Central Cal
fornia. This allegation will tickle the
governors home town of Oakland,
across the bay from San Fran
cisco, but so far as South
ern California is concerned 1t
will retire Governor Pardee from fur
ther participation in state politics. That
any person has done those things
charged by the governor, The Herald
has no means of knowing except
through the governors own statement
1t is quite possible that persons in Los
Angeles have in their possession pic
lures of the remarkable snowstorm in
San Francisco in 1892. and no doubt
they have at times exhibited them, as
they would a picture of the seismic
disturbances of Mont Pelee, but to
say that Los Angeles is regularly ex-
hibiting these pictures to indicate the
character of climate in Central Cali
fornia is to charge the people of Los
Angeles with Misrepresentation and
consequent fraud.
The Herald resents the insinuation,
especially since it comes from the gov
ernor of this great state. Los Angeles
does not need to misrepresent other sec
tions of the state. Los Angeles is a
permanent, prosperous, unique and an
enduring city. It has no competition.
II is in a class by itself, and it is glad
to recognize the beauty. attractiveness
and resources of all other sections of
California.
Governor Pardee had no right to and
no excuse for impugning the character
and motives of Los Angeles. IT is
doubtless a fact that the railroad
Republican machine has already
agreed not to give him any votes from
Southern California as a candidate to
succeed himself, but for this the people
of Los Angeles are not responsible.
The railroad Republican machine does
not represent the people nor consider
their wishes. The dignity of the gov
ernor's office should have warned Gov
ernor Pardee against condescending to
petty personal and political spites.
There are so many good and truthful
things, so many encouraging things he
could have said about Los Angeles that
we marvel how he could have avoided
all of them. But he did, and the best
he could say for us was that we are
good advertisers.
The public generally in Southern Cal
ifornia have regarded Governor Pardee
with some degree of compassion, more
on account of his negative qualities,
deeming him merely inoffensive. His
visit here this week has not heightened
or enlarged the general impression of
him as gubernatorial timber.