

CALIFORNIA. 



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debts of the Central Pacific Railroad Company to 

 tin- United States Government as an unusual and 

 vicious act of favoritism to a powerful corporation, 

 the effect of which will be to extend for a long 

 period the Southern Pacific Company's monopoly of 

 railroad transportation in California. We also 

 denounce the proposition to further extend the 

 period of payment of said debts. We reiterate 

 (lie position repeatedly asserted by the Democratic 

 party that in the limitation of freight and fare 

 charges by the State Railroad Commission no allow- 

 ance should be made for interest on any fictitious 

 capitalization of any railroad companies." 



The administration of G-ov. Budd was approved, 

 and it was declared that "although the tax levies 

 of the three last years of his administration aggre- 

 gated over $1,300,000, under the pledges of the 

 platform upon which he was elected the rate of 

 taxation for 1896 was the lowest in the history of 

 the State, and the rates for 1897 and 1898 would 

 have been still lower, had not the assessed valuation 

 of property been decreased." 



Opposition was declared to the surrender of any 

 territory acquired by the war, and to the assump- 

 tion of any part of the Spanish-Cuban debt. 



The ticket, on which the offices were distributed 

 according to the plan given above, follows : For 

 Governor, James G. Maguire; Lieutenant Governor, 

 E. L. Hutchinson; Secretary of State, Robert A. 

 Thompson ; Treasurer, William S. Green ; Control- 

 ler, T. W. Maples ; Attorney-General, II. P. An- 

 drews ; Surveyor General, Irving M. Mulholland ; 

 Clerk of the Supreme Court, H. A. McCraney: Jus- 

 tices of the Supreme Court, Walter S. Van Dyke, 

 William M. Conley ; Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction, Christian Runckel ; Superintendent of 

 State Printing, Everett I. Woodman ; Railroad 

 Commissioners, First District, H. M. La Rue ; Second 

 District, W. M. Hinton ; Third District, J. L. Dry- 

 den. Board of Equalization, First District, John P. 

 Dunn ; Second District, Thomas Scott : Third Dis- 

 trict, R. H. Beamer ; Fourth District, Thomas 0. 

 Toland. 



The Secretary of State refused to recognize the 

 fusion of parties on the ballot, but the matter was 

 carried to the Supreme Court, which decided against 

 him. Mr. Slianahan then came out with an address 

 to his party, advising them to vote for Mr. Gage, 

 since, by the action of the fusionistsand the decision 

 of the court, the People's party had been put out of 

 existence, for at the next State election it will be 

 impossible to show that it polled as much as 3 per 

 cent, of the vote at this election. 



The State convention of Republicans met at Sac- 

 ramento Aug. 23. The number of delegates appor- 

 tioned by the call was 789, of whom 57 were to be 

 at large. Among the measures advocated in the 

 platform were the following : Increase of the Ameri- 

 can navy ; the retention of Porto Rico and the 

 Philippines ; construction of the Nicaragua Canal ; 

 enforcement of the law for the collection of the in- 

 debtedness due from the Central and Western Pa- 

 cific Railroads to the Government ; amendment of 

 the immigration laws so as to "prohibit absolutely 

 the filling of the marts of labor in America with 

 laborers from foreign lands " and " the enactment 

 of such legislation regarding Hawaii, Porto Rico, 

 and such other territory as may be acquired by the 

 United States as will protect American workmen 

 against contract Chinese, Japanese, and other con- 

 tract labor found therein, and will prevent any 

 further influx or extension thereof ; and also an 

 exclusion act prohibiting further Japanese and 

 coolie immigration, that such exclusion act pro- 

 hibit both the Japanese and Chinese now located 

 in the Hawaiian islands from entering the United 

 States " ; economy in State government ; generous 



treatment of war veterans ; improvement and pro- 

 tection of river navigation in the State ; construc- 

 tion of storage reservoirs for purposes of irrigation 

 by the General Government ; laws for preservation 

 of the forests ; protection of the dairy interests by 

 laws against imitations; good roads; Slate aid to 

 district fairs; the use of the Allied Trades printing 

 label on all printing as a guarantee that the work 

 has been done by competent craftsmen under fair 

 conditions; protection against competition by con- 

 vict labor ; the employment of convicts upon the 

 public highways; and "the passage of a law by 

 Congress confining the sale of goods, wares, and 

 merchandise manufactured by convict labor to the 

 State or Territory in which they are produced " ; 

 "a law regulating the primary elections of all 

 political parties, to the end that the same protec- 

 tion that was extended by the Australian system to 

 general elections be now extended to primary elec- 

 tions "; liberal support for the State University; 

 legislation in behalf of the mining industry ; and 

 the creation of a national executive department of 

 mines and mining. The soldiers and sailors were 

 praised and thanked, the President's policy ap- 

 proved, the nation congratulated on the disappear- 

 ance of sectional feeling, the Administration com- 

 mended for its efforts to secure an international 

 monetary agreement, and the refusal to consider 

 the assumption of the Spanish-Cuban debt, the war 

 revenue measure approved, and attention called to 

 "the fact that since the return of the Republican 

 party to power the balance of trade has changed 

 from more than $400,000,000 against the United 

 States to about $880,000,000 in our favor." The 

 platform further opposed the doctrine of the single 

 tax, deprecated " the attempt by the Democratic- 

 Populistic fusion party of California to stir up 

 hatred of the judiciary and contempt of laws," con- 

 demned " the action of the Democratic Senator of 

 this State, and the present Democratic nominee 

 for Governor, then in Congress, for opposing the 

 annexation of Hawaii and wholly failing to repre- 

 sent the interests or wishes of the people of this 

 State in that regard " ; and denounced " the action 

 of the present Governor in vetoing the appropria- 

 tion for the support of the State printing office as 

 unwise, unnecessary, contrary to the spirit of the 

 law, and injurious to the interests of the State," the 

 inevitable result of which " has been to cripple our 

 splendid State schoolbook system and the common 

 schools themselves." 



The ticket follows : Governor, Henry T. Gage ; 

 Lieutenant Governor, Jacob II. Neff ; Secretary of 

 State, Charles F. Curry ; Controller, E. P. Colgan ; 

 Treasurer, Truman Reeves; Attorney-General, 

 Tirey L. Ford ; Clerk of the Supreme Court, 

 George W. Root : Justices of the Supreme Court, 

 W. C. Van Fleet, T. B. McFarland ; Surveyor Gen- 

 eral, M. J. Wright ; Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction, Thomas J. Kirk; Superintendent of 

 State Printing, A. J. Johnston ; Railroad Commis- 

 sionersFirst District, F. B. Edson ; Third District, 

 N. Blackstock ; Board of Equalization Second 

 District, Alexander Brown ; Third District, H. O. 

 Purington ; Fourth District, George Arnold. 



The following were candidates of the Prohibition- 

 ists : For Governor, J. E. McComas : Lieutenant 

 Governor. Robert Summers ; Secretary of State, J. 

 W.Webb; Controller, T. L. Hierlihy; Treasurer, 

 C. B. Williams ; Attorney-General, J. H. Blanch- 

 ard ; Surveyor General, Green Spurrier ; Clerk of 

 the Supreme Court, W. P. Fassett ; Superintendent 

 of Instruction, Fanny M. Pugh ; Superintendent of 

 Printing, Leroy S. Atwood ; Associate Justices of 

 the Supreme Court, T. M. Stewart, Robert Thomp- 

 son. 



The Socialist-Labor ticket was: For Governor, 



