1902 California gubernatorial election

none January 2025 January 2025 1902 California gubernatorial election presidential 1898 California gubernatorial election 1898 1906 California gubernatorial election 1906 no Flag of California (1864).pngborder November 4, 1902 GeorgeCPardee.jpg George Pardee Republican Party (United States) 146,332 48.06% Portrait of Franklin Knight Lane.jpg Franklin Knight Lane Democratic Party (United States) 143,783 47.22% 1902 California gubernatorial election results map by county.svg County resultsPardee: #ffb2b2 40–50% #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70%Lane: #a5b0ff 40–50% #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% Governor Henry Gage Republican Party (United States) George Pardee Republican Party (United States) The 1902 California gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902, to elect the governor of California. George Pardee won the election with 48.06% percent of the popular vote and was the Governor of California until 1907. This was the first time since 1863 that the Republican Party retained control of the governorship in California. Republican primary campaign At the beginning of the year 1902, Henry Gage the 20th governor was still favored to be re-elected, if not at least re-nominated.23 February 1902 STRONG PLEA FOR GAGE AMD PERKINS Hon George A. Knight Gives His Views on the Political Situation. Speaks in Glowing Terms of Our Senator and Praises Good Work He is Doing. Governor Has a Strong Hold Upon the People and Without Question Will be Re-Elected. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HTS19020223.2.33 2 February 2024 Humboldt Times LVIII 47 However, he and his administration were embroiled in a series of issues, the most prominent of which was the San Francisco plague of 1900–1904. His poor handling of the situation, alongside accusations of being a pawn of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, led to a steep decline in his popularity.Henry Gage https://governors.library.ca.gov/20-gage.html The Governor's Gallery California State Library 2 February 2024 Despite this unpopularity, Gage still held a significant amount of power within the State Republican Party, and observers noted that he might force his way through to the Republican Party nomination.SAN FRANCISCO HOLDS BANNER https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19020207.2.124 6 February 2024 69 San Francisco Call 7 February 1902 87 George Pardee sent out word early in the election year that he would be running for the Republican nomination.POLITICAL POTPOURRI https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19020104.1.2 2 February 2024 105 San Bernardino Sun 4 January 1902 15 He would later make his announcement official at a dinner in Oakland on January 27, 1902.Wants to Be Governor* https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19020128.2.89 2 February 2024 59 San Francisco Call 28 January 1902 87 At the time Pardee was working as a Regent of the University of California.George C. Pardee Papers https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4489n6tk/entire_text/ Online Archive of California Bancroft Library 6 February 2024 In the beginning stages of the campaign, many observers doubted the seriousness of Pardee as a candidate, with some thinking that he was a stalking horse candidate, or that his infighting among those in the Republican Party would prove too costly in the primary.BELSHAW SCORES PERKINS. Accuses Senator of Double Dealing With Stephen F. Kelly. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19020201.2.73 6 February 2024 XCI 63 San Francisco Call 1 February 1902DR. PARDEE'S CHANCES FOR GOVERNORSHIP He Has a Harder Fight This Year Than Four Years Ago When He Was a Poor Third https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MPE19020201.2.41 6 February 2024 XXII 264 Riverside Morning Enterprise 1 February 1902 The Republican State Convention would begin in San Jose on April 14, 1902.GETTING READY FOR CONVENTION https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19020411.2.61 19 February 2024 132 San Francisco Call 11 April 1902 87 Governor Gage was still the favorite to win the nomination, despite his political scandals. He received several endorsements from Republican groups, and even received cheers from the crowd at the convention.GOVERNOR GAGE IS WILDLY CHEERED BY CONVENTION OF REPUBLICAN CLUBS https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19020415.2.13 19 February 2024 XXIX 196 Los Angeles Herald 15 April 1902 However, as the convention continued, Gage received more negative press and more delegates were unclear as to whether they would support his renomination.GAGE'S CANDIDACY GOES GLIMMERING https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19020512.2.39 19 February 2024 163 San Francisco Call 12 May 1902 87 While Gage lead in the initial ballots at the convention, he would steadily lose support, until the sixth and final ballot when George Pardee was nominated, with 515 votes.PARDEE GETS NOMINATION Was Chosen to Head Ticket for California Republicans on Sixth Ballot. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DCS19020827.2.2 20 February 2024 XXII 156 Colusa Daily Sun 27 August 1902 Democratic primary campaign At the beginning of the year, the favorites for the Democratic nomination were Barney Murphy, Washington Dodge, and Franklin K. Lane. Franklin Knight Lane was the San Francisco City Attorney at the time of his campaign announcement.Barney Murphy is Favorite https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19020409.2.91 20 February 2024 130 San Francisco Call 9 April 1902 87 Despite not being favored to win the nomination at first, Lane would become the favorite to win by August 1902.Sizing - Up Their Strength are the Political Leaders of the State. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=ET19020804.1.1 20 February 2024 110 Evening Transcript 4 August 1902 8 On September 3, 1902, Lane was officially nominated by the Democratic Party, doing so on the first ballot.IT IS LANE. He Will be the Standard Bearer of the Democracy In the Coming State Campaign.--Was Nominated on the First Ballot. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HJD19020903.2.25 20 February 2024 IX 105 Hanford Journal (Daily) 3 September 1902 At the convention the Democratic Party would develop a progressive platform, which included low tariffs, the direct election of U.S. Senators, and support for the use of referendum, recall, and initiatives on the ballot in California. The party also supported the exclusion of Chinese immigration, as well as the establishment of a mine bureau, and labor bureau.Olson Keith W. BIOGRAPHY OF A PROGRESSIVE Franklin K. Lane, 1864-1921 1979 GREENWOOD PRESS 0-313-20613-9 Third party campaigns In September 1902, the Socialist Campaign Committee of California nominated Gideon S. Brower for Governor of California. Brower was born in New York in 1849. He moved to California in 1886 and began working as a carpenter in Fresno. He joined Carpenters Union, Local 701 and became a member of the Socialist Party shortly after.Socialist Candidate for Governor https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/class-struggle-advance/020920-advance-w424.pdf 20 February 2024 424 Advance September 20, 1902 On August 28, 1902, the Prohibition Party nominated Theodore D. Kanouse as their candidate for governor.Prohibition Convention - Nominates A Governor https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19020829.1.1 24 February 2024 156 San Bernardino Sun 29 August 1902 16 Kanouse was a former Civil War veteran, who served as a musician in the 6th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment and in the 3rd Wisconsin Light Artillery Regiment. After the war he retired to California, where he was active in the temperance movement.Theodore D. Kanouse Biography http://www.prohibitionists.org/History/votes/Theodore_D_Kanouse_bio.html Prohibitionists.org Partisan Prohibition Historical Society 24 February 2024 In September 1902, the United Labor Party nominated Carl Browne, a former leader in the Workingmen's Party of California and Coxey's Army, for governor.STATE CAMPAIGN TO OPEN MONDAY https://www.newspapers.com/image/1237467483/?terms=%22Carl%20Browne%22 15 November 2025 San Francisco Chronicle 10 September 1902 San Francisco The following month, secretary of state Charles F. Curry denied Browne and his party a place on the November ballot on the grounds that their name was too similar to the preexisting Union Labor Party (who supported Lane) and that the signatures the party collected were invalid.BROWNE IS BATTED OUT OF THE BOX https://www.newspapers.com/image/623711550/?match=1&terms=%22Carl%20Browne%22 15 November 2025 The Evening Bee 7 October 1902 San Francisco General election campaigns After both parties selected their nominees, newspapers around the State of California stated that Pardee was likely to win. The Santa Cruz Sentinel stated,"Pardee's majority over Lane will be nearer 40,000 than 20,000. This is a Republican year on the Pacific Coast."How California Voted https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19020906.1.2 17 March 2024 122 Santa Cruz Sentinel 6 September 1902 37 George Pardee opened his general election campaign with a speech in Oakland, where he stated, I am glad whenever labor adds another cent to its daily wages, and I rejoice when the laboring man is able to cut off another hour from the time that he spends at his daily toil. I am glad and I rejoice over these things because I know that the more wages the laboring man gets the better citizen he will be, the more able he will be to send his children to school and to our university, and to make of them our future great men. For it is a fact that our greatest men have sprung from the common people. And I rejoice when the hours of labor are shortened because I know that with shorter hours the workingman will have more time to give to his wife and his children. And I know, from my own experience, that the more time a man can give to his wife and children the better man he is. And I believe that shorter hours and higher, wages will give us better citizens and make us all more prosperous. And I am convinced that there is but one way for the working people to gain their ends, and that is by a wise, intelligent and firm organization. There never was a better exemplification of the motto "United we stand, divided we fall" than in the case of the working people. For this speech, Pardee was praised by standing ovation from a supportive crowd.GEORGE C. PARDEE DECLARES HIMSELF THE FRIEND OF LABOR AND STANDS ON HIS RECORD ADVOCATE OF A SHORTER WORK-DAY AND BETTER PAY FOR THE TOILER https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19020906.2.2 17 March 2024 98 San Francisco Call 6 September 1902 87 Franklin K. Lane opened his general election campaign on September 22, 1902, in the city of San Diego. It was there that he addressed a large crowd and statedI am extremely pleased that I came here to open my campaign. I am pleased that I decided to begin at the bottom and work up as I have done in many other things. I am glad that I have done this because I have gained a larger conception of the state as I came down through the mountains and the valley and broke through the foothills at last onto the inimitable surf line which lands us here. My ideas have grown and I have expanded on the trip and have a larger idea of the state which I would serve. It is a wonderful state, with her high mountains, deep valleys and remarkable scenery, and I feel tonight that I would be a governor for the whole state and not for any section of it. My eye is not fixed on San Francisco as some have said, but I have my eye looking as from Eagle Peak at the Yosemite, looking broadly over the whole state. I would not be a man of the narrow kind. I would not be a governor of the narrow kind.FRANKLIN K. LANE'S CAMPAIGN PROPERLY OPENED DEMOCRATIC RALLY ON THE PLAZA LAST EVENING WAS FULL OF INTEREST. Addresses by A. W. Andrews, F.Q. Finlayson, A. J. Rosborough and the Gubernatorial Candidate —No Pictures on the Wall. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDDU19020923.2.46 17 March 2024 San Diego Union and Daily Bee 23 September 1902 Both candidates pledged to campaign "cleanly", with no mudslinging to occur between the two campaigns.WILL CONDUCT A CLEAN FIGHT https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19020911.2.7 17 March 2024 103 San Francisco Call 11 September 1902 87 Lane and Pardee would cross the state, speaking in major cities and looking for support and endorsements from newspapers, civic groups, and labor unions across California. Towards the end of the campaign, and near the date of the general election, many papers believed that the election of George Pardee was likely if not inevitable.PARDEE CERTAIN OF VICTORY. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19021025.2.26.3.2 19 March 2024 147 San Francisco Call 25 October 1902 87 Results California gubernatorial election, 1902California Blue Book, or State Roster 1903 California Secretary of State State Printing Office Sacramento, California 332 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112118419602&view=1up&seq=364 18 July 2024 Republican Party (United States) George Pardee 146,332 48.06% -3.62% Democratic Party (United States) Franklin Knight Lane 143,783 47.22% +2.19% Socialist Party of America Gideon S. Brower 9,592 3.15% +3.15% Prohibition Party (United States) Theodore D. Kanouse 4,636 1.52% +0.03% Scattering 130 0.04% 2,549 0.84% 304,473 100.00% Republican Party (United States) Democratic Party (United States) -5.81% Results by county County George C. PardeeRepublican Franklin K. LaneDemocratic Gideon S. BrowerSocialist Theodore D. KanouseProhibition ScatteringWrite-in Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % # % # %Alameda13,91557.54%9,02237.31%1,0094.17%2380.98%00.00%4,89320.23%24,184Alpine8761.70%5236.88%10.71%10.71%00.00%3524.82%141Amador1,37650.98%1,29047.80%160.59%170.63%00.00%863.19%2,699Butte2,27149.64%2,17147.45%571.25%761.66%00.00%1002.19%4,575Calaveras1,72653.47%1,45645.11%351.08%100.31%10.03%2708.36%3,228Colusa60633.74%1,15864.48%231.28%90.50%00.00%-552-30.73%1,796Contra Costa2,12249.82%1,95045.79%1553.64%310.73%10.02%1724.04%4,259Del Norte36850.97%30542.24%435.96%60.83%00.00%638.73%722El Dorado1,16045.53%1,32051.81%491.92%190.75%00.00%-160-6.28%2,548Fresno3,67744.17%4,08049.01%3714.46%1962.35%10.01%-403-4.84%8,325Glenn54037.60%88061.28%110.77%50.35%00.00%-340-23.68%1,436Humboldt3,44757.54%2,31638.66%1352.25%871.45%60.10%1,13118.88%5,991Inyo43547.80%42746.92%252.75%232.53%00.00%80.88%910Kern1,74839.92%2,53957.98%661.51%230.53%30.07%-791-18.06%4,379Kings95646.98%99949.09%512.51%281.38%10.05%-43-2.11%2,035Lake63643.83%74751.48%322.21%342.34%20.14%-11-7.65%1,451Lassen54053.62%43443.10%292.88%40.40%00.00%10610.53%1,007Los Angeles17,47156.07%11,12135.69%1,1403.66%1,4024.50%260.08%6,35020.38%31,160Madera73742.63%92953.73%462.66%160.93%10.06%-192-11.10%1,729Marin1,64657.47%1,16840.78%441.54%60.21%00.00%47816.69%2,864Mariposa52638.23%82860.17%151.09%70.51%00.00%-302-21.95%1,376Mendocino2,12946.67%2,34051.29%440.96%491.07%00.00%-211-4.63%4,562Merced74237.16%1,17959.04%552.75%211.05%00.00%-437-21.88%1,997Modoc47843.77%59254.21%121.10%100.92%00.00%-114-10.44%1,092Mono29250.43%27848.01%71.21%20.35%00.00%142.42%579Monterey1,92448.03%1,95748.85%360.90%892.22%00.00%-33-0.82%4,006Napa1,94154.08%1,56343.55%451.25%381.06%20.06%37810.53%3,589Nevada2,00048.65%1,90146.24%1423.45%681.65%00.00%992.41%4,111Orange2,33854.41%1,53635.75%1944.51%2295.33%00.00%80218.66%4,297Placer1,80049.09%1,72246.96%1042.84%411.12%00.00%782.13%3,667Plumas66956.89%49842.35%10.09%70.60%10.09%17114.54%1,176Riverside2,21663.44%80723.10%3148.99%1564.47%00.00%1,40940.34%3,493Sacramento4,66145.66%5,15450.49%3103.04%810.79%10.01%-493-4.83%10,207San Benito68040.84%94556.76%120.72%281.68%00.00%-265-15.92%1,665San Bernardino3,10355.76%1,93234.72%2915.23%2374.26%20.04%1,17121.04%5,565San Diego3,18249.26%2,51738.97%65710.17%971.50%60.09%66510.30%6,459San Francisco24,10640.13%33,74356.18%1,9933.32%1640.27%610.10%-9,637-16.04%60,067San Joaquin3,41348.14%3,48849.20%1201.69%680.96%10.01%-75-1.06%7,090San Luis Obispo1,62843.56%1,97252.77%531.42%842.25%00.00%-344-9.21%3,737San Mateo1,42650.25%1,38348.73%280.99%10.04%00.00%431.52%2,838Santa Barbara2,15052.43%1,72241.99%1784.34%511.24%00.00%42810.44%4,101Santa Clara6,07849.40%5,74546.70%2091.70%2652.15%60.05%3332.71%12,303Santa Cruz1,81944.84%2,00949.52%1273.13%1012.49%10.02%-190-4.68%4,057Shasta1,74141.53%2,29154.65%1202.86%400.95%00.00%-550-13.12%4,192Sierra70858.03%50641.48%50.41%10.08%00.00%20216.56%1,220Siskiyou1,64344.20%1,99853.75%561.51%190.51%10.03%-355-9.55%3,717Solano2,36645.83%2,41146.70%3106.00%761.47%00.00%-45-0.87%5,163Sonoma4,19248.95%4,09747.84%1822.13%891.04%40.05%951.11%8,564Stanislaus1,06940.96%1,45855.86%391.49%441.69%00.00%-389-14.90%2,610Sutter81552.61%70445.45%150.97%150.97%00.00%1117.17%1,549Tehama1,13845.98%1,25550.71%451.82%371.49%00.00%-117-4.73%2,475Trinity56545.38%66253.17%161.29%20.16%00.00%-97-7.79%1,245Tulare1,68338.56%2,39754.91%2235.11%621.42%00.00%-714-16.36%4,365Tuolumne1,22740.44%1,68255.44%943.10%311.02%00.00%-45515.00%3,034Ventura1,84454.01%1,40541.15%1153.37%491.44%10.03%43912.86%3,414Yolo1,44744.41%1,69552.03%752.30%401.23%10.03%-248-7.61%3,258Yuba1,12951.46%1,04747.72%120.55%60.27%00.00%823.74%2,194Total146,33248.06%143,78347.22%9,5923.15%4,6361.52%1300.04%2,5490.84%304,473 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Inyo Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Kings Sacramento San Francisco San Joaquin Santa Cruz Siskiyou Solano Trinity Yolo References 30em 1902 California gubernatorial Category:November 1902 in the United States