The success of the Labour party in California has roused
the alarm of the general population of the State, and the autumn 'elections have gone heavily against them. Mr. Perkins, the Republican candidate for the Governorship, has been elected by a majority of 23,000, and all four members elected to Con- gress are Republican. The only important office secured by the Labour party is the mayoralty of San Francisco, which has been filled by the election of the Rev. Mr. Kalloch. The effect of this defeat is to• enable moderate men -to initiate the laws required to make the new Constitution work, and avoid such blunders as the double taxation of 'profits earned by Companies, and special taxation upon :absentees. It should not be forgotten that while one temptation to vote for the new Constitution was the power conceded under it to prevent Chinese immigration, another was the right it eon- ferred on the Governor of vetoing special clauses in Bills,—that is, practically, of vetoing jobs inserted in useful Acts.
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