CALIFORNIA. 



119 



There was an estimated yield of 1,500.000, 

 pounds of walnuts. 500,000 pounds of almonds, 

 and 250.000 pounds of peanuts. 



The vintage of 1887 yielded 13,900,000 pal- 

 Ions distributed among the counties as follows : 

 Napa, 2.700,000; Sonoma, 1,500,000; Santa 

 Clara and Santa Cruz, 2,220,000 ; Alameda 

 and Colusa, 1,000,000; Fresno, 2,000,000 ; Los 

 Angeles and south, 2,000,000 ; Sacramento and 

 north, 1,000,000 ; other counties, 1,500,000. 



The total acreage of vines in the State is esti- 

 mated at 150,000 acres, of which about 100,000 

 acres are in bearing. 



Chines* Immigration. The number of Chinese 

 arriving and departing through the port of 

 San Francisco during the period from, 1852 to 

 Nov. 17, 1880, the date at which the restric- 

 tion act went into effect, was 253,035 aad 

 123,061 respectively. 



From Kov. IT, 1330. to Au<r. 5, : - 



Arrivals '. 45.665 



Departures 13,414 



From Ausr. 5, 1>S2, to Dec. 31, 1 - 



Arrivals 1?.7(>3 



Departures 40,221 



For the year ending Dec. 31, 1S36 : 



Arrivals 6.T14 



Departures 12,267 



For the year ending Dec. 31. l-"7 : 



Arrivals 11.572 



Departures 9,'J19 



The collector of the port says: "Our Chi- 

 nese population, notwithstanding the statistics 

 indicate an excess of departures over arrivals 

 since Aug. 5, 1882, in fact shows no diminu- 

 tion, being recruited through the underground 

 viaducts, across the borders from British Co- 

 lumbia and Mexico." 



Political. The only State officer to be regu- 

 larly elected this year was a Chief-Justice of 

 the Supreme Court. The Prohibitionists nom- 

 inated their candidate, Robert Thompson, on 

 April 4, at a convention which also chose dele- 

 gates to the National Prohibition Convention. 

 The Democrats on May 17 nominated Niles 

 Searls, also at a convention for selecting dele- 

 gates to the National Convention and presiden- 

 tial electors. The Democratic platform adopt- 

 ed at this time indorses the administration of 

 President Cleveland, favors tariff reform, free 

 coinage of gold and silver, the election of 

 United States Senators by a direct vote of the 

 people, and the establishment of a system of 

 postal telegraphy by the Government. The fol- 

 lowing portion relates to State issues: 



Resohed, That we favor the enacting of such meas- 

 ures as shall place our various industries on an equal- 

 ity before the law in the use and distribution of the 

 waters of the streams of this State for irrigation, min- 

 ing, milling, and other beneficial purposes. 



We commend the action of our Democratic State 

 officials in pressing the California tax cases toward 

 ultimate decisions, and hope this most important issue 

 will not be permitted to rest without final adjudication 

 upon its merits. We once more condemn the acts of 

 those corporations which have persistently refused to 

 pay their lawful portion of the public revenue. This 

 failure to respond to a just demand has seriously con- 

 tracted the public-school fund, and must render our 

 educational system less effective, until collection is en- 

 forced, or the honest tax-payer is compelled to contrib- 



ute beyond his proportionate share. The Republican 

 party, ever sincere in its professions, has finally dis- 

 avowed all intent! ;he demands of its cor- 

 porate masters. It riL'niatize their encroach- 

 ments or to question their misconduct, but, on the 

 contrary, as the action of it.s late State Convention 

 demonstrates, yields ready compliance to their dicta- 

 tion. While fully appreciating the l>enefits of organ- 

 ized capital, we declare that the protection of those 

 privileges which our Constitution declares are the 

 common heritage, is paramount to the increase of 

 individual wealth. 



I t-ed, We believe that the public should be pro- 

 tected from the great non-tax-paying trusts and cor- 

 porations which "now challenge the authority of the 

 Government. The Democratic party was founded to 

 maintain the interests and liberties of the people. It 

 alone is competent to resi>t those encroachments which 

 imperil the safety of the State. The Republican party, 

 while professing to be the friend of labor, has demon- 

 strated by its uniform action that its tendencies are 

 toward th'e creation of monopolies and trusts, through 

 whose instrumentality alone it hopes to perpetuate 

 its existence. The Democartic party emanated from 

 the people. Its aim has always been to care for the 

 weak and to be just to the strong. While it is ever 

 ready to promote industries and to stimulate enter- 

 prise, it never will permit wealth to shirk its rightful 

 obligations or to impose upon poverty the expenses 

 of a Government formed for the benefit of all. 



No nomination was made by the Republicans 

 at their State Convention in May, which was 

 merely preliminary to the National Convention, 

 but a second convention was held in August 

 for that purpose and for the purpose of nom- 

 inating presidential electors. Before this date 

 the resignation of Judge McKinstry created a 

 second vacancy on the Supreme Bench to be 

 filled by popular election. The convention 

 nominated AV. II. Beatty, formerly Chief-Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court of Oregon, to be 

 Chief-Justice and S. D. "Works to succeed 

 Judge McKinstry. The following platform, 

 prepared by an indorsement of the work of 

 the National Convention, was adopted : 



Itesolced, That we declare that the welfare of Cali- 

 fornia demands, and the dignity of labor and the in- 

 terests of capital require, the maintenance by the Na- 

 tional Government of the American system of a tar- 

 iif for protection, under this policy which has been 

 constantly supported by the Republican party since its 

 foundation. . . . AVe arraign the Democratic party 

 of California for supporting the national Democratic 

 partv, which stands upon a platform that declares for 

 British free trade as promulgated by the Mills Bill, 

 and view with alarm tuis assault upo'n our American 

 labor. AA'e insist that the success of this British policy 

 would destroy the growing industries of our common- 

 wealth, especially the grape, raisin, nut, wool, lumber, 

 borax, lead, quicksilver, sugar, beet, and cereul indus- 

 tries ; also our manufacturing interests, and would 

 reduce the wages of our workingmen to starvation 

 point; and we further believe that the legitimate 

 efforts of organized labor to protect itself against cheap 

 and contract labor, is a direct step toward the per- 

 petuation of the American protective tariff system 

 sustained by the Republican party ; also, that proper 

 apprenticeship laws should he adopted. 



Rtfolred, AVe pledge to the American people, and 

 especially the people of California, that our candidates 

 for Congress if elected, will sustain the protective 



Solicy of the Republican party, and will oppose the 

 ritish and Solid South policy of the Democratic 

 party : that our American industries shall be protected 

 for the benefit of the American people, and that Amer- 

 ican labor shall be fostered and protected as against 

 the competition of foreign labor ; we denounce as un- 



