Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-08
TEE CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND THE
INTERIOR PRESS.

The Republican State Central Committee
IS pursuing a suicidal policy-iust such a
policy as has characterized most business
methods originating in San Francisco. 1t
may be termed with appropriateness the
absorbent process, or less pleasantly, but
more effectively, the sponge system, by
which San Francisco absorbs. sucks no and
appropriates all that is worth having to the
exhaustion and encouragement of the in
terror The committee is advertising the
appointments of speakers for the campaign
mainly in the San Francisco Daily bulletin.
II is scarcely necessary to say that the poo
pie of the interior do not read the San
Francisco Daily Bulletin. If the Central
Committee must substitute the paper, how
ever, lei it do SO outright, but distribute its
advertising patronage where the matter is
intended to nc read. OF what earthly ac-
count is it TO the party that there should he
advertised in the Daily Bulletin the appoint
men;S OF speakers for towns in Sacramento
county, which has eight papers widely cir
culating? Why should all announcements
for all speakers and meetings, from San
Diego TO Siskiyou, be advertised in the
Bulletin, when III every county there is a
local press through which the people of the
locality may be. and expect TO be, addressed?
HFe do not esteem tie press of the interior
so meanly as to say that its energy for party
is measurable by the amount of party pa
Jronage it receives But there are certain
prophecies to he observed, and the sooner
The Central Committee awakens to rcali-
cation OF the fact that its present system of
advertising in the campaign is worthless
expenditure, the better for party harmony.
San Francisco is not the place-no matter
what the papers selected-in which to ad-
vertise appointments for mass meetings in
Sacramento. Red Bluff Stockton, Los An
geies, or any other interior point. The San
Francisco papers thus fed party pap do not
even do the committee the common Justice
OF calling attention 10 its advertisements,
as Is the custom of all the interior press
The san Francisco press evidently does not
deem these announcements TO possess news
quality sufficient to warrant the customary
local mention. The committee may possess
the right TO substitute the Bulletin with " fat
advertising and make it q party organ,
but the exercise Of that right is one of ex-
ceeding bad judgment, especially when
the substituting process is carried on
10 the practical exclusion of the country
press. The committee must be possessed
Of an unusually long purse when it can af-
ford 70 run from day to day in the Bulletin
paid notices of meetings 10 be held at re-
mote points III he State, while the press of
the locality IS practically ignored. As in
stances Of this miserable and miserly pol
icy, We find advertised in The Bulletin OF
October LIST announcements to run three
fines Of meetings 60 be held in Layton
vile, cahto and Willctts from October 4th
TO October 9th. So too, in that paper Of
the same date is advertised beginning Sep
tember 29th) meetings to be held Septem
Der Goth, October 81 and Sd, at Elmira,
Vacayille, Suisun and Lincoln. Could
anything be more farcicai But, worse
Yer, nCCtlnSS arc dufCFuSeu IN -tne same
issue October tst) TO ne held away
up in Alturas, Modoc county, Fall
River Mills, Burney Valley. etc. So, too,
there stands fat al for assemblies to
be addressed by Mr.. Louttit in Congress
sional district that does not even border or
San Francisco bay, as in lone, Plymouth
Placarville, Auburn, etc. 1t is possible
that the COMMITTEES is unaware of the ex-
istence Of the daily and weekly press in the
Second District. Let there be an end Of
this Substituting ard sponge policy, and q
rendering unto Cesar of the things that are
C:Hsar's. Let the committee do its adyer-
Using among the people to be reached-the
only sensible ard busincss-lIe method.
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