California Election by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 11, 1879

California Election.

By Editor

THE canvass in this State, on the 3d inst., resulted in the election of George C. Perkins, Rep., Governor. There were three candidates; Dr. Glenn, who was the nominee of the Democrats and of the New Constitution party, received the smallest vote of the three. The Republicans have had success throughout the State beyond general expectation.

Mr. Kalloch, Workingmen’s candidate, is elected Mayor of San Francisco by a majority of nearly 1,600. There seems to be a quite general opinion that he is indebted, for his majority, to the sympathy created in his behalf by the murderous assault of the editor of the Chronicle. This is not satisfactory evidence of his superior fitness, but it is gratifying so far as it shows that the people do not intend that vituperation and blood-shedding shall yet rule in politics. Four days and nights were consumed in counting the votes in the city, as there were four tickets in the field and 86 offices to be filled, State, county, and city, and the tickets were “scratched,” to an unusual extent. Party lines were not followed very closely. The vote against Chinese immigration was nearly unanimous.