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Show The influence of railroad corporations on the politics of California for some years has been paramount to all other agencies in controlling elections and the conduct of the executive officers of the state. In reviewing the principles recently enunciated be the Republican State Convention, the San Francisco Chronicle says: And now we say to this Convention in all seriousness and with perfect confidence, that if it nominates men for Governor, Controller, Railway Commissioners and State Board of Equalization as sound and healthful on the main issue as the platform is, there is as good a prospect of electing the ticket as there was of electing the Booth ticket in 1861. But if they give only the platform to the people and the nominees to the railroad, it will be as surely defeated as the sun is sure to set this evening. |