Governor Pardee’s Response to Crisis
By Editor
California's chief magistrate, Hon. George C. Pardee, did able and faithful work during the days of California's severest trouble. He immediately went to Oakland, took up his office in the City Hall, and was there day and night during those days of awful agony in San Francisco, responding to the city's every need so far as the human could respond. We talked with the gentleman who rents the governor's house in Oakland. He told us that he had offered the governor entertainment, the best that he could provide, but the governor could not accept it. His duty was at that place where he could be easily reached and could most quickly respond. His disposition of the national guard for police duty seems to us to be highly commendable; his action in declaring legal holidays eased the half-crazed and despairing people over what would have proved to many financial difficulty and ruin; and the extra session of the Legislature, called at an opportune time, seems to be doing efficient, needed work. Thank God for government; thank God for a good governor.