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CALIFORNIA. 



the editor De Young was the murder of the 

 latter by Kalloch's son. 



The Board of Health in February declared 

 the quarter of San Francisco inhabited by Chi- 

 nese, and called Chinatown, to be a public 

 nuisance. The Health Officer of the city, Dr. 

 J. A. Meares, issued a proclamation, February 

 24th, declaring that at the expiration of thirty 

 days the officers of the law would be called 

 upon "to empty this great reservoir of moral, 

 social, and physical pollution, which is con- 

 stantly extending its area, and threatens to in- 

 gulf, with its filthiness, the fairest portion of 

 our city." A difficulty was anticipated in en- 

 forcing the sanitary regulations on account of 

 the great number of the Chinese, there being 

 about twenty-five thousand in the city, as it 

 was expected that many of them would have 

 to be arrested and provided with jail accom- 

 modations. There was no necessity, however, 

 of invoking the power of the law, as it turned 

 out, because the Chinamen immediately set 

 about renovating and purifying their dwell- 

 ings; and the only houses which remained un- 

 cleansed at the end of the thirty days were the 

 property of white men who neglected to carry 

 out the law. 



The new charter for the city of San Fran- 

 cisco, elaborated under the auspices of the Com- 

 mittee of Two Hundred, and adopted by the 

 vote of the Legislature, was rejected by the 

 people in the municipal election, held Septem- 

 ber 8th. The vote against the McClure charter 

 was overwhelming, nearly nineteen thousand 

 votes out of the total vote of twenty-three 

 thousand being cast for its rejection. A sec- 

 ond indictment was brought against Mayor 

 Kalloch, on account of threatening language 

 used with regard to the action of the Judge, 

 in impaneling a jury for the trial of his son on 

 the charge of murder. 



The Republican State Convention met in 

 Sacramento, April 29th, to nominate delegates 

 to the National Convention in Chicago, and 

 adopted the following resolutions, instructing 

 the delegates to vote for the nomination of 

 James G. Blaine : 



The Republicans of California, in State Convention 

 assembled at Sacramento, April 29, 1880, as expressive 

 of their views, do hereby resolve : 



1. That they reaffirm their adherence to the Repub- 

 lican national platform of 1876 and the California Re- 

 publican State platform of 1879. 



2. That the policy of resumption, which has made 

 the greenback of war days equal to gold in days of 

 peace, should be maintained. 



^ 3. That the amendments to the Federal Constitu- 

 tion, and all laws passed in pursuance thereof, should 

 be sacredly and jealously maintained and enforced, so 

 that every citizen of the United States, regardless of 

 color or condition, shall be protected in all his rights, 

 and a full, free, and fair election be held in all the States 

 of the Union. 



4. That the free public schoole should be guarded 

 and fostered by all the appliances within reach of the 

 State and national Governments, to the end that the 

 children of all may be educated to know, and thereby 

 to enjoy and perform, their full duties and privileges 

 as American citizens. 



5. That all peaceful measures should be used to pre- 



vent the further immigration of Chinese into the United 

 States, and to rid thc'country of those now here. 



6. That we will cordially support the nominees of 

 the Republican National Convention, whoever they 

 may be ; but we know that the six electoral votes of 

 our State are certain to be given for the Republican 

 ticket if James G. Elaine be nominated, wherefore we 

 do hereby instruct our delegates to the Republican Na- 

 tional Convention to vote as a unit, first, last, and all 

 the time, for James G. Elaine, and to use all honorable 

 means to secure his nomination for President of the 

 United States. 



The Democratic Convention to nominate del- 

 egates to the Cincinnati National Convention 

 met at Oakland, May 19th. The following plat- 

 form was adopted : 



The Democracy of California, by their representa- 

 tives in convention assembled, resolve : 



1. We reaffirm our fidelity to the principles enunci- 

 ated by the Democratic Convention of St. Louis in 

 1876. 



2. We denounce the fraud by which Rutherford B. 

 Hayes and William A. Wheeler were declared Presi- 

 dent and Vice-President of the United States, and the 

 fairly elected candidates, Samuel J. Tilden and Thom- 

 as A. Hendricks, counted out. 



3. We declare that among the leading issues of this 

 campaign are the vindication of the right of the people 

 to self-government ; the condemnation of the crime 

 against the ballot committed four years ago ; resist- 

 ance to imperialism ; the maintenance of the reserved 

 rights of the States, and opposition to Chinese immi- 

 gration. 



4. That the drift of the Republican party toward 

 empire, through the oppressive concentration of capi- 

 tal, is a fraud upon the voting masses, and an insult to 

 the men who carry the guns in defense of our liberties. 



5. We affirm our devotion to the Union, deprecate 

 all sectionalism, hold the Republican party responsible 

 for the agitation of dead issues, and regard the pres- 

 ervation of local self-government as necessary to the 

 perpetuation of the republic. 



6. That we regard with alarm the doctrines of cen- 

 tralization recently announced by the Republican ma- 

 jority of the Supreme Court of the United States_as 

 havino- been made in the interest of party, and in- 

 tended to blot out the last vestige of State rights, and 

 change the Federal Union to an empire. 



7. ^That we favor continual lawful agitation of the 

 subject of Mongolian immigration to this country, un- 

 til the Federal Government is moved to modify our 

 treaties with the Chinese Empire so as to prohibit it, 

 and thus save those of our fellow-citizens who depend 

 upon labor for support from unjust and degrading 

 competition. We condemn and denounce the veto of 

 Rutherford B. Hayes of the bill limiting Chinese im- 

 migration, and declare that there is no relief from 

 the scourge except through a Democratic Adminis- 

 tration. 



8. That the labor of this country is its capital, and 

 deserves the protection and guardianship of our Gov- 

 ernments. State and Federal. 



9. We impose no instructions upon our delegates to 

 the Convention to meet at Cincinnati, save and except 

 to vote for the retention of the so-called " two-thirds 

 rule" in nominating candidates for President and 

 Vice-President. 



The Workingmen's party of California, in 

 their Convention at San Francisco, adopted a 

 platform denouncing subsidies, national banks, 

 and monopolies, and favoring greenbacks, ad- 

 vocating female enfranchisement, compulsory 

 education, a public fund to assist the poor to 

 settle on Government lands, direct ballot for 

 President and Vice-President, and the election 

 of postmasters. A split occurred between the 



