Santa Clara number one, Santa Clara number two, Santa Clara number three, Jefferson, Cupertino, Saratoga and the Fourth Ward of San Jose. Districts. Fifty-seventh District-Portion of the County of Santa Clara not included in the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Sixty-first District-Portion of the County of Fresno not included in the Sixtieth District. Sixty-third District-San Luis Obispo. Sixty-fourth District-Santa Barbara. Sixty-sixth District-Kern. Sixty-seventh District-Portion of the County of Los Angeles comprising the following election precincts of 1900: San Vicente, Calabasas, Chatsworth, San Fernando, Lankershim, Burbank, Glendale, Garvanza, La Canada, Newhall, Acton, La Liebre, Del Sur, Lancaster, Palmdale, Llano, Pasadena numbers one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight. Sixty-eighth District-Portion of the County of Los Angeles comprising the following election precincts of 1900: Pomona City numbers one, two, three, four and five, Claremont, Lordsburg, Spadra, Glendora, Azusa City. Azusa, Covina, Rowland, El Monte, Monrovia, Duarte, Rivera, Los Nietos, Whittier and East Whittier. Sixty-ninth District-Portion of the County of Los Angeles comprising the following election precincts of 1900: Los Angeles City numbers sixty-four a, sixty-four b, sixty-five, sixty-six, sixty-seven and sixty-eight, Alhambra, San Gabriel, South Pasadena, Sierra Madre, Lamanda, North Pasadena numbers one and two, Fruitland, Downey numbers one and two, Norwalk, Artesia, Clearwater, Cerritos, Long Beach City numbers one and two, and Terminal. Seventieth District-Portion of the County of Los Angeles comprising the following election precincts of 1900: Catalina, Santa Monica City numbers one, two and three, Ballona, Hyde Park, Gardena, Wiseburn, Redondo City. Wilmington, San Pedro numbers one, two and three, Compton numbers one and two, Florence, Los Angeles City numbers seventy-two a, seventy-two b, seventy-three a, seventy-three b, seventy-four, seventy-five, seventy-six and seventy-seven. Seventy-first District-Portion of the County of Los Angeles comprising the following election precincts and parts of precincts of 1900: Los Angeles City numbers thirty-seven, thirty-eight a, thirty-eight b, thirty-nine, forty. forty-one, forty-five a, forty-five b, forty-six, all that portion of numbers fifty and fifty-one between Alameda street and the center of Los Angeles River, same being north of Ninth street, fifty-six, fifty-five and fifty-four. Seventy-second District-Portion of the County of Los Angeles comprising the following election precincts of 1900: Los Angeles City numbers forty-four a, forty-four b, forty-three, forty-two, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-six, thirty-five a, thirty-five b, seventy and seventy-one. Seventy-third District-Portion of the County of Los Angeles comprising the following election precincts and parts of election precincts of 1900: Los Angeles City numbers forty-seven, forty-eight a, forty-eight b, forty-nine a forty-nine b, all that part of fifty and fifty-one between Alameda street and Central avenue, Third and Ninth streets, fifty-two, fifty-three, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-three, thirty-four a, thirty-four b. Seventy-fourth District-Portion of the County of Los Angeles comprising the following election precincts of 1900: Los Angeles City numbers one, two, three a, three b, four, five, six, fifty-seven a, fifty-seven b, fifty-eight a, fifty-eight b, fifty-nine, sixty, sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, seven, eight, Cahuenga, Monte Vista, National Military Home numbers one, two, three, four and five. Seventy-fifth District-Portion of the County of Los Angeles comprising the following election precincts of 1900: Los Angeles City numbers nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven and sixty-nine. Seventy-sixth District-San Bernardino. Seventy-eighth District-Riverside. Seventy-seventh District-Orange. Seventy-ninth District-City of San Diego. Eightieth District-All that portion of the County of San Diego not included in the Seventy-ninth District. Democratic State Convention. The California Democratic State Convention met in Sacramento September 2, 1902. Six hundred and eightyfive delegates were in attendance. George S. Patton of Los Angeles was chosen chairman. The candidates placed before the convention for the nomination for Governor were Franklin K. Lane of San Francisco, James V. Coleman of San Mateo and Thomas O. Toland of Ventura. A roll call resulted as follows: PLATFORM ADOPTED. The Democratic party, in State Convention assembled, recognizes that as the nation grows older new issues are born of time and old issues perish; but the fundamental principles of Democracy advocated from Jefferson's time to our own will ever remain as the best security for the continuance of free government. Among these principles are: Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of conscience, the preservation of personal rights, the largest freedom of the individual consistent with good government, the equality of all persons before the law, the preservation of the federal government in its constitutional vigor and the support of the states in all their just rights, economy in public expenditures, maintenance of the public faith and opposition to paternalism and all class legislation. The Democratic party ever has maintained and ever will maintain the supremacy of law, the independence of its judicial administration, the inviolability of contracts and the obligation of all good citizens to resist every illegal trust, combination or conspiracy against the just rights of property and the rights and liberties of the citizen, in which are bound up the peace and happiness of the people. THE TARIFF DENOUNCED. We denounce the present unjust protective tariff imposed upon the people by the Republican party, and demand such a revision of our tariff laws as will result in the removal of all unjust burdens, and the placing of trust made goods and the necessaries of life upon the free list. We believe in a tariff for revenue only. We are opposed to all schemes of tariff legislation the design of which is to collect large sums of money in excess of the actual requirements of the government, economically administered. OPPOSED TO THE TRUSTS. We denounce private monopoly in every form and are emphatically opposed to those combinations or aggregation of capital commonly called "trusts," whereby the price of commodities is arbitrarily enhanced, without ieference to the factors of supply and demand, and price of production is regulated by the same agencies. We believe the continuance of these combinations to be inimical to the best interests of the people, and likely, if not effectually checked, to prove subversive of the government. We demand the proper and rigorous enforcement of the present antitrust laws and the adoption of such further measures as may be required to effectually check this great menacing national evil. We denounce the efforts of the Republican national administration to injure the growing and important beet sugar industry of our state by unequal and unjust tariff arrangements entered into at the dictation of the sugar trust and designed for its advantage. Leaving to the courts of the United States the interpretation and construction of the Constitution, we nevertheless are in favor of securing to the inhabitants of our insular possessions the same personal and property rights as are guaranteed to the inhabitants of the several states by the Constitution, and accord to them the same measure of civil and political liberty as it has been the practice of our nation to grant to the inhabitants of the territories thereof, taking care, however, that the final settlement of the Philippine problem shall be such that the United States shall be freed from the existing danger of an enormous Oriental immigration therefrom. CHINESE EXCLUSION. We unqualifiedly favor the complete exclusion from all American territory of all Chinese, of either whole or mixed blood, according to the terms of the bill presented to Congress by the American Federation of Labor and the California Commission, and we denounce the Republican majority in Congress for their treason to the working people and the Pacific Coast in rejecting this bill and passing the present weak and inadequate law. THE NICARAGUA CANAL. We are in favor of the speedy construction of the Isthmian canal and the taking of all such further measures as may be requisite to its earliest possible completion. ELECTION OF SENATORS. We favor the election of United States Senators by the direct vote of the people. NO GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION. This must be a government by law and not according to the will of officials. We therefore demand the enactment of laws, both state and federal, prohibiting the issuance of injunctions in labor disputes infringing upon the rights of free speech, free assemblage, full freedom to organize and to quit work and trial by jury, to the end that such rights may be maintained in complete integrity. We favor the eight-hour day for public work, whether done directly or by contract. THE BUILDING OF WARSHIPS. We favor the construction of government vessels in the government's navy yards, and we pledge our candidates for Congress to use every effort to secure the immediate construction of such a vessel at the Mare Island navy yard. STATE LABOR BUREAU. We favor the establishment of a state free labor bureau in connection with the State Bureau of Labor Statistics, to the end that the laborer seeking employment may be furnished with reliable information of sources of employment without cost. STATE POLICE. We recommend the amendment of the act relating to the employment of state police for railroad and steamboat corporations, so that the privilege accorded corporations to employ special police for the enforcement of order shall not include the right to use an armed force under the pay of a private corporation in cases of labor difficulties which may arise between employers and their employes. ONLY UNION-MADE GOODS. We are opposed to the present practice of purchasing state supplies partly or wholly manufactured in state prisons, reformatories or asylums, and to prevent this practice we demand that such laws shall be enacted that the union label must necessarily be on all goods purchased by the state. AMENDMENT NO. 14. We favor Constitutional Amendment No. 14, which provides for local option in the use of ballot machines in the cities and counties of this state, as we believe it would tend to improve the conduct of elections. INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM. We favor the submission of a constitutional amendment providing for direct legislation by means of the initiative and referendum, in state, county and municipal affairs. FOR A YOSEMITE HIGHWAY. We condemn the inaction of the Republican members of Congress from California in failing to procure an appropriation for the construction of a model highway leading into the Yosemite National Park, as recommended by the Yosemite National Park Commission. We pledge our nominees in Congress to an active effort to secure an apppropriation for that purpose, sufficient to secure the construction of a safe and easy highway leading into Yosemite valley, free to all. THE STATE WATERWAYS. The waterways of the state, being the main distributing arteries of commerce, are of the first importance to our citizens. We demand of Congress a fulfillment of its obligation to the state to maintain our navigable waters in navigable condition, and that our Congressmen exert their utmost efforts to secure sufficient appropriations made for such purposes, and further demand that after such appropriations are secured that they see that the same are actually used for the purposes for which they are made. HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION. → We favor legislation providing for a system of permanent highway construction. Under existing laws over $2,000,000 is expended annually upon our roads, chiefly in making temporary repairs. We believe that a portion of the money annually raised for road purposes should be used for permanent highway construction. We favor liberal appropriations for the maintenance of state and district agricultural fairs. MUNICIPAL CONTROL. We denounce Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 28, by which it is proposed to take from municipalities and counties the control of water works, lighting systems, street railroad or any public utility whatever, and to vest in a state commission to be appointed by the Governor the sole right to fix rates charged for public service. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. We favor the placing of all public appointments, state, county and municipal, which are not administrative in their nature, upon the competitive merit basis, and we strictly advocate the passage by the Legislature of such enactments and the adoption of such constitutional amendment as will be necessary to accomplish fully this reform. A FRANCHISE TAX. We believe that all public service corporations should bear their proportionate share of taxation and that they should not be permitted to have one value for the purpose of fixing rates and another for the purpose of taxation. We believe the most important question now before the people of this state to be the assessment and The failure properly to assess this character of property is a taxation of corporate property, including franchises. crying evil, which throws upon the owners of real estate and the farming community undue and unjust burdens. We condemn the action of the Republican majority of the State Board of Equalization in not assessing railroad property in proportion to the assessments imposed upon the small property holder. THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. Realizing that the ultimate welfare of our commonwealth depends upon the education of its people, we favor the careful development of our public school system and the enactment of a practicable compulsory education law. We commend the officers of the University of California for the wise administration of the increased appropriations voted the university by the last Legislature, particularly in their promotion of the investigations in dairying, irrigation and forestry, in the assistance rendered in the destruction of the peach moth, the grasshopper and other pests, the development of the farmers' institutes, the organization of the college of commerce, and the extension of university education throughout the state, and we pledge the nominees of our party to provide for the growing needs and functions of the university from permanent sources of revenue. We indorse State Constitutional Amendment No. 4, and recommend its adoption. We favor a management of state educational affairs that will give the public full value for money expended for school text books, and more suitable and better books at less cost to the children. THE MINING INTERESTS. We recognize in the mining interests of the western states and territories a factor of immeasurable prosperity. Believing that all mining claims will be endangered if pretended agriculturists, under the guise of scrip locations, may be permitted to dispossess honest miners, we condemn as vicious and special legislation House Bill No. 14,898, now pending in Congress. and purporting to grant an appeal from the Secretary of the Interior to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia in contests arising under such scrip locations, and we earnestly urge our representatives in Congress to work for its defeat. Of the mining industries of this state, that of petroleum mining, although in its infancy, has already become we commend the courage and industry displayed by the one of our greatest wealth-producing resources, and petroleum miners of California. We recognize our indebtedness to them for the remarkable development of this industry and urge the defeat of all legislation having for its object the discouragement of the bona-fide miner for petroleum or other mineral. We favor the creation by the general government of a department of mines and mining, the head of which shall be a member of the Cabinet. We favor continued liberal appropriations by the general and state governments for the building and maintenance of barriers for the purpose of restraining the debris from mines, and to protect the navigable streams of the state. THE IRRIGATION QUESTION. It was framed by a Democratic representative and We rejoice at the passage of a national irrigation bill. supported by Democratic votes in both Houses as a distinct party measure, in the face of the opposition of the We demand a much larger appropriation for this purpose in the most conspicuous Republican leaders in Congress. early future. We declare that in California to-day. the commonwealth. We declare that the remainder of the public domain must be saved for the benefit of the American people, Under existing laws it is rapidly passing into the hands of private syndicates and corporations. whose heritage it is. the storage of flood waters and the preservation of forests is the foremost economic question The early solution of this mighty problem is vital to the continued growth and prosperity of To this end we recommend the retention by the state of all denuded forest lands acquired by means of We declare the ownership of water should vest delinquent tax sales, and the purchase of other such lands by state authority under proper legal regulations. We are opposed to the private monopoly of public streams. in the user. We favor the creation of comprehensive public works for the storage of flood waters for the distribution of irrigation supplies and for the drainage of lands subject to overflow. We denounce the veto of Senate Bill No. 7, which provided an appropriation to be expended by United States engineers in co-operation with an unpaid state commission in exploring reservoir sites, investigating irrigation problems and planning a comprehensive policy of forest preservation. We demand the prompt re-enactment of this measure by the next Legislature. In common with all citizens of this nation, we deeply deplore the death of the late President William McKinley, and we tender our heartfelt sympathy and condolence to his beloved and devoted widow. Governor-Franklin K. Lane. THE DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. Los Lieut.-Governor-Isidore B. Dockweiler. E. C. Farnsworth. Secretary of State-Alex. J. Rosborough. .San Francisco Treasurer-Samuel H. Brooks. BOARD OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS. Location .Bakersfield Location. Yolo Los Angeles Location. DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. The Democratic State Central Committee was named by Assembly districts, as follows: .Dr. D. B. Fields Thirty-ninth. T. F. Quinn Forty-second. .P. C. Cohn Sixty-first. P. J. McCormick Seventy-sixth. . Charles A. Sweigert Seventy-ninth. FROM CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. District. .J. F. Coonan and A. Caminetti Fifth. Name. Henry C. Wilber ..J. C. Sims Hanford B. Griffith .C. F. Look Names. .V. A. Schemer and Donzel Stoney .W. R. Jacobs and W. T. Jeter .John T. Gaffey and Martin C. Marsh Thomas A. Rice and Robert F. Garcier Republican State Convention. The California Republican Convention met in Sacramento August 25, 1902. The convention consisted of 830 delegates. The first contest came on over the chairmanship, Jacob H. Neff being put forward as the candidate of the forces opposing Gover, the nomination of Governor Gage, Victor H. Metcalf being the candidate of a combination of the Gage and Pardee forces. The ballot resulted: Neff.... .4231⁄2 Metcalf. ..4061⁄2 Three ballots for Governor were taken August 26, and three on August 27. The candidates were Governor Henry T. Gage of Los Angeles, Thomas Flint of San Benito, George C. Pardee of Alameda, J. C. Hayes of Santa Clara, and E. B. Edson of Siskiyou. The six ballots resulted as follows: Hayes.. Necessary to choice, 416. The roll was called by Assembly districts, the first and sixth ballots in full being as follows: THE FIRST BALLOT. THE SIXTH BALLOT. Gage. Flint. Pardee. Edson.. Del Norte, 1st Dist. Trinity Humboldt, 2d Dist. " 3d Dist. Shasta, 4th Dist. Sutter Nevada, 9th Dist. Placer, 10th Dist. Flint..... Gage..... Delegates. :: 2831882303 Del Norte. Humboldt, 2d Dist. Humboldt, 3d Dist. Shasta.. Modoc 11 Lassen Tehama Plumas Sierra Mendocino Butte Yuba Sutter |