CALIFORNIA. 



of San Joaquin ; Clerk of the Supreme Court, 

 Frank Gross, of San Francisco ; Justices of the 

 Supreme Court, John Hunt, Jr., of San Fran- 

 cisco, and S. C. Denson, of Sacramento. 



Congress First District, Paul Neumann, of 

 San Francisco; Second District, Horace F. 

 Page, of El Dorado ; Third District, J. J. De 

 Haven, of Humboldt ; Fourth District, George 

 L. Woods, of San Jose ; at large, Henry Ed- 

 gerton, of Sacramento and "W. W. Morrow, of 

 San Francisco. 



Board of Equalization First District, R. P. 

 Johnson ; Second District, L. C. Morehouse, of 

 Alameda; Third District, G. G. Kimball, of 

 Tehama ; Fourth District, C. W. Dana, of San 

 Luis Obispo. 



Railroad Commission First District, Charles 

 F. Reed, of Yolo; Second District, Charles 

 Clayton, of San Francisco ; Third District, E. 

 M. Gibson, of Alameda. 



Morris M. Estee, the Republican candidate 

 for Governor, was born in Warren County, 

 Pennsylvania, in 1833. At the age of twenty 

 he went to California. After following various 

 occupations, he was admitted to the bar of the 

 Supreme Court in 1859. He was elected to 

 the Assembly from Sacramento County in 1862. 

 He served one term as District Attorney of 

 Sacramento County. In 1866 he removed from 

 Sacramento to San Francisco. For the greater 

 part of his political career he has been a Re- 

 publican. He was Secretary of the Republican 

 State Central Committee in 1871, when New- 

 ton Booth was elected Governor. In 1872 he 

 came out for Greeley on the Democratic ticket, 

 and opposed the election of General Grant. In 

 1875 he was elected on the Independent or 

 " Dolly Varden " ticket to the Assembly from 

 San Francisco, and was elected Speaker of the 

 Assembly for that session. He was elected as 

 delegate at large to the Constitutional Con- 

 vention which framed the present Constitution 

 of the State in 1879, and was chairman of the 

 Committee on Corporations in that body. Mr. 

 Estee is a vigorous campaign speaker. 



The Greenback State Convention met in San 

 Francisco on the 6th of September. The plat- 

 form adopted is practically a reproduction of 

 that adopted by the St. Louis Convention of 

 the previous March, with the addition of a 

 clause favoring the Sunday law in a modi- 

 fied form. It nominated a full State ticket, 

 Thomas J. McQuiddy being the nominee for 

 Governor and Mrs. Marion Todd for Attorney- 

 General. 



The Prohibition Home Protection party also 

 held a State Convention in San Francisco, and 

 adopted a platform of principles, including the 

 following: 



We declare the cardinal principles of our party to 

 be the prohibition, by constitutional amendment, of 

 the manufacture of all alcoholic liquors not demanded 

 for medicinal, mechanical, or scientific use, and the 

 regulation by law, under severe penalties, of the sale 

 of alcoholic liquors for such use, and the absolute and 



We demand the enactment and enforcement of an 



intelligent and rational Sunday law, and especially do 

 we demand that all saloons or places of business where 

 intoxicating drinks are now licensed to be sold or 

 permitted to be sold on secular days shall be abso- 

 lutely closed on Sunday. 



We emphatically protest against all State subsidies 

 or other countenance to encourage the business of 

 making intoxicating drinks from grapes. 



We oelieve that the State should assume control of 

 the water-supply for irrigating purposes, and provide 

 at once by suitable legislation for the equitable distri- 

 bution of the same. 



We shall insist upon such amendments to existing 

 laws as shall fully and forever enfranchise the women 

 of our country. 



The following resolution, which was adopted, 

 brought on a warm debate : 

 ^ Resolved, That we hail with pleasure the cultiva- 

 tion of the grape in this State, as offering our people 

 a most pleasant, healthful, and remunerative occupa- 

 tion, and an incalculable and inexhaustible mine of 

 wealth for centuries to come. An unlimited market 

 will always be found for all the raisins, sirups, 

 canned fruit, and fresh grapes that the State can pro- 

 duce. We are assured from our own experience so 

 far, and from the past history and the present condi- 

 tion of the people who have prostituted the luscious 

 grape to the vile uses of drunkenness, that the wine 

 ana brandy manufacture is the most degrading, de- 

 moralizing, depraving, and pauperizing business which 

 has ever cursed the world. We point for the truth of 

 this to the utter ignorance, poverty, drunkenness, and 

 moral ruin which have enshrouded Spain, Portugal, 

 Italy, _ Sicily, Greece, Hungary, and the wine districts 

 of Switzerland ; to the vice, turbulence, drunkenness, 

 insanity, and suicides of France, and to the rapid de- 

 generation of its people. We point to the fact that 

 only one half of the young men of France are phys- 

 ically fit for military duty when they arrive at legal 

 age. We denounce the promises of wealth from the 

 production of wine as entirely baseless and false. 



A resolution was adopted setting out that 

 the loss to the State's revenue through pro- 

 hibition would be more than compensated for 

 through the diminution of taxes for the sup- 

 port of criminals and paupers, who will disap- 

 pear with the success of prohibition. 



A ticket was nominated by this convention, 

 headed by Dr. R. H. McDonald, of San Fran- 

 cisco, for Governor. 



The Farmers' Anti-Monopoly Convention 

 met in Stockton on the 7th of October. The 

 platform adopted related chiefly to the rail- 

 road question, and was in substance as fol- 

 lows: Railroads to be controlled by the State; 

 justice to both labor and capital ; railroads are 

 public highways, to be operated for the transit 

 of all persons and property on equal and im- 

 partial terms. Railroad operatives are com- 

 mon carriers, and their charges should be 

 based on "cost of service," against all kinds of 

 discrimination. Insurance no longer should 

 form a part of the contract for carriage, but 

 should be optional. Carriers by rail to be 

 liable as are bailees for hire. Railroad charges 

 are excessive. The management of railroads 

 by private corporations is a public trust. Pri- 

 vate tariffs and special contracts condemned, 

 and they should be made offenses before the 

 law. Favoring the Reagan bill. The Legisla- 

 ture to re-enforce the powers of the Railroad 

 Commissioners by enlarging legal remedies, 



