George Pardee won the election with 48.06% percent of the popular vote and was the Governor of California until 1907.

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.

[10] However, as the convention continued, Gage received more negative press and more delegates were unclear as to whether they would support his renomination.

[12] 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.

[15] At the convention the Democratic Party would develop a progressive platform, which included low tariffs, the direct election of U.S.

"[20] 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.

[21] Franklin K. Lane opened his general election campaign on September 22, 1902, in the city of San Diego.

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.

[23] 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.