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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-24
CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSION

THERE must soon come time when the peo-
pie who patronize such entertainments viii,
from experience, become disguised with them,
and then slogging as fine art will cease for
lack Of patronage. Francisco Post, on
sullivan and Ryan.
We are afflicted in this city with class of
bcaming philanthropists, who never tire in
spending other peoples money Their benevo-
lence is as broad as the treasury. They are as
ready to dispense the funds Of the taxpayers as
ever Artemus Ward was to give up his wife's
relatives TO tha war for the Union BY the eff
forts Of these gushing individuals we have sue
ceeding in duplicating many of the State insti-
tutions, and that without doing much to pro-
mote either the cause of morality or benevo-
lenCe We have an Industrial School, set up
great many years ago. 1t was designed for the
reformation of the bad boys of the city and
county Of San Francisco. If that institution
ever reclaimed a wayward youth we have yet
to hear Of it-fSal Francisco Bulletin, on Tn
necessary Implications of State Institutions in
san Francisco.
THE same Being who established the law gov
erning the planets and everything else in ma
ture has provided law by which healing
power may be exercised in a manner which
men call miraculous for want of an understand
ing of the means by which the cures are accom-
plished. FAITH is an essential part of that law.
Authority to act in the name of Jesus
Christ is another essential to that law and with
out il men are liable to fail as did the seven sons
of Sceva. That authority has been re-
stored to mankind in this age and it is held by
the Latter-day Saints, and in accordance with
their faith the healing power is exercised
TDeseret News tMormon) on Miraculous Healing
YEAR after year for at least quarter of a cen
tury appeals have been made by the Executive
ana the press by forestry associations, and in
short By all competent authorities, to have some
action taken to stop the depredations which are
constantly in progress; but every year the legis
lators ignore all such counsel and do the bidding
of the lumber lobby, which comes down to Al
bany from the northern Counties New York
Post on the New York Forestry Question.
SLoGGING has had boom for the last year or
two, and 1t is high time that it should be dis
countenanced and consigned to oblivion The
manly art, as personally exemplifed by the
conduct and character of john L. Sullivan,
would disgrace refractory mule.-[Stockton
Independent.
GENERAL GRANT is said to be overwhelmed
with debt We hope there is not a Southern
Congressman so narrow minded or short-sighted
as to refuse to sanction any measure for the
Generals relief. proposed by his best friends
[Yieksburg Herald,
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ELECTING A PRESIDENT.

In the North american Repier Senator
Vance, on the question How shall the
President be elected takes the very
strongest position that can be assumed in
favor of the Electoral College system, when
he contends that the Electoral College was
given US by the wisest and purest states
men connected with our country's history
and unless ii can be shown that it is hurt
full to the peoples liberties, it ought to be
many year before it is abolished to ap-
pease a senseless clamor He puts that
side Of the question in a nutshell when
he declares that the real danger resides
not in the Electors themselves, nor in such
representatives of choice being selected,
but in the methods of ascertaining and
pronouncing what Electors have been
chosen. He should have gone further and
have shown that the root of all danger
under any possible system lies in political
party management. The machinery pro-
vided by the law for the required as
certainment is not the best human wisdom
can evolve, but its perversion, avoidance
and violation by party managers creates
the danger, not the system itself. In three
great crises the methods of the law have
endured successfully the most intense strain
and the people have shown the depth OF
the vitality Of self-government by yielding
to those methods without seriously endan-
gering the republic, save in one instance.
But even then the electoral system was
not at fault per Sc. To the States is com
mitted a grave duty in ascertaining who
are chosen Electors, and in the inadequacy
of their laws there is danger and room for
broad reform. Honesty, however, even
under the faultiest of the State systems,
would secure satisfactory results. No mat
ter what change We might make in the
electoral system, it could not insure hon
esty of voting and counting in the States
Morals are moi to be legislated into mems
lives, nor is honesty the creature of statu-
tory law.
President Barnard, of Columbia College,
Is one of the disputants in the same jour
nal, and his conviction is that the only
assured security for the future possible TO
us against the formidable dangers that
surround the question, is to be found in
return to the plan of placing the election
in the hands of the National Legislature"
But even he is forced to admit that but for
party. this would not be his judgment; at
least practice might have corresponded
more nearly with the expectation of re-
suits to flow from confding The selection
20 "the wisest, virtuest, discreetest and
bcs." Of the nation. Even if the Electoral
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placing one of their stanchest members in
the United States Senate.
For once the honor has sought the man
and not the man the honor. When Gov
ernor Stanford's name was mentioned for
the position to which he will be chosen ON
Tuesday next, 1t struck sympathetic chord
IN the popular heart of the people of this
State which was irresistible, and there
came rushing to his support men from the
ranks of all the aspirantS
That California will be ably represented
1t Is unnecessary for US to say. That Mr..
Stanford will be = position To do much
for this State is concluded fact. That he
will do much. no one for an instant doubts
His election will leave no ranking feeling
among Republicans. but will rather tend
to cement their ranks still more firmly
together. We are still better pleased TO
know that his election will please our Dem
ocratic friends more than that of any man
that could have been chosen from the Re
publican party. So. for once harmony
prevails in all ranks,-[Oakland Tribune.
NOT A PARTISAN.
The effect of such choice upon the
legislative adjustment of great business
questions will be watched with much inter
est by every student of our economic stu
alton. Governor Stanford is a party, but
not a partisan, man. and perhaps stands
alone amongst our great railroad owners in
his genuine culture. In natural force and
energy and executive ability he is all that
Dean Richmond the first Vanderbilt,
Henry Keep, Garrett and Thomas Scott
were, while in scholarship, classical culture
and the grace and finish of education he is
the equal of Lamar, Cox, Tucker, Bayard
and the present Congressional leaders who
hold their primacy by the superiority of
their learning.-LOakland Daily Times.
FAITHFUL AND EFFICIENT.
No man of sufficient intelligence to dis
Germ the difference between prejudice and
reason will for moment apprehend that
Mr. Stanford will prove other than faith
tul and efficient representative of the inter
ests OF the State or that his official acts
Will III any manner be guided or controlled
by the interests of the railroad company of
which he is the head.-[Gridley Herald
GOVERNOR STANFORD WINS.
The CAUCUS nomination of Ex-Governor
Stanford for United States Senator is sur
prise to great many. That he will work
diligently for the best interests of the State
no one can deny, tor by so doing he is
working for his own interests. His good
or bad fortune is iuseparably bound up
with that OF California aud he is too far
sighted man to do any act which is calcu-
lated TO bring his interests into antagonism
with that of the people Of this State.-rMo-
desto Republican.
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College were abolished, would the act nit
igate the evils of our present political
party systems? Obviously, we should
still demand and need reform of party"
There can be accomplished nothing
by substitution for the Electoral College,
we fear so long as political control is what
it is Even the direct system would not
be less open to objection than that OF
choosing by State Legislatures, or by Con-
-gress. In any event the people Will make
the Presidential choice the touchstone for
any vote in which that choice is involved
and the same suspension of legislation, in
terruption of business and obstruction OF
public measures would be manifest in a
Presidential year. So we come back to
the root of the evil which begins in the
party primary, and eliminates at the polls.
If the political sentiment of the people
and the sense of duty under citizenship are
quickened the present electoral system is
probably as strong as any yet suggested to
displace it. One assumption by Professor
Barnard cannot be justifed-that Con-
gressmen are filter than Electors to cast the
vote for President. The former would be
subject to influences that do not surround
the latter. The Electoral College repre-
sentS the dominant party in the States,
and this is not always true of Congressman.
The caucus would become the Electoral
College, under the Congressional system,
and though President Barnard holds
this to be no i'll, we are not
prepared to admit that his plan
of putting the caucus in the place of
the college would be change for the bet
ter. 1t is argued that the Congress to
choose President would always be an out
going one and would not therefore have
been chosen merely ad hoe, but would have
its place on questions of general public
policy. But it would seem to be an an
swer to this that when the voter realizes
that in voting for Congressman he is
voting for a President, the Presidential
contest would be the uppermost factor-it
would simply be projecting the Presiden-
tial election two years. 1t is a consldera-
ton also demanding attention, that this
contest would make the selection Of Con-
gressmen hinge upon the Presidential
choice, and Representatives would once in
four years be chosen irrespective of ques-
tons of local policy that should have in
fuence in Congressional districts. We
would be sending up Presidential parti-
sans rather than Representatives Some
better plan must be suggested than either
direct choice selection by Legislatures or
by vote of Congress, to displace the
Electoral College, which, we admit, is i'm
perfect and crosses at right angles the
theory of the rule of the majority
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-24
TOO GREEDY.

Nothing testified in stronger terms to
the pushing character and enterprise of
our trade and the worth of our products,
than the fact that some years ago Ameri-
can petroleum entered the Oriental mar
ket, and soon controlled it. As a distin-
guished traveller recently said, - | stood in
the chambers of the pyramids, lighted by
the petroleum oils from continent I'M
dreamed of when these lofty tombs were
erected. The musty past and the living
present, the two sides of the globe, the
romance of the Kings OF Egypt, and the
commercial activity of the Yankee, met in
the chambers of almost forgotten ages"
Our petroleum kept the market control
for long time, and has not lost it vet
But Consul Merrill, at Jerusalem, writes
to the State Department at Washington
that we are losing our advantage. We
have held it heretofore simply because of
the superiority of our product But it
would appear that overreaching greed
menaces our trade in the Orient Russia is
crOwding our petroleum from the market
simply because, in the fancied security of
market possession, our oil exporters
have lately been sending out goods of a
low grade In fact, we could not resist the
temptation to be dishonest. Consul Mer-
rill says that our export Of oil is now SO
bad that the people are beginning to com
plain loudly. The Consul adds: Unless
American manufacturers take more pains
in the future than they have for two sea-
sons past, people will be only too glad to
turn elsewhere for their petroleum supply.
What | refer to now was universal com
plant during the past year. Some COM
plant was heard the year previous, but
the past year it has been, as | have said
universal A few minutes after the lamps
were lighted the light would suck down
and burn dimly. No amount Of coaxing,
trimming or of fussing with the wicks
would induce il to give bright or even a
natural light. Unless g better article is
sent to this country America will deserve
to lose It's petroleum trade. | viii not
specify the names of firms sending oil here,
or names which appear on the cases, but l
wish that this information could be made
public for the benefit OF all manufacturers
concerned"
4 like report came not long ago from
our Consular agent at Mytelene. Investi-
CATION then developed that large bust
ness was done on the other side Of the
water in the Justification OF American
petroleum, but still a great deal Of very
bad oil came in original packages. We
have before called attention 10 the injury
that our trade is receiving from the failure
of our merchants and manufacturers to
properly pack goods for foreign markets.
Complaints under this head have been
loud and continuous from Brazil, the West
Indies. Central American States, South
American ports, Australasia, China, Japan,
and especially from Asian markets.
Our shippers appear, with all their
shrewdnGss, not to be sharp enough to
hold trade by making their deliveries as
good as their samples. They are too
greedy. and if the consular reports for the
past six months are TO be believed, the
trade of the country Is about to be pun
ished for this greed
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-24
Psychological INQUIRY.

Mr.. Perry has introduced in the Senate
concurrent resolution reciting the in
crease of the criminal element, and that
measures are absolutely necessary for the
reform of youthful criminals and the care
of discharged criminals. 1t is then pro-
vided that the Governor shall appoint an
unsalaried Commission of five persons to
inquire into the subject of penology as ap-
plicable to the condition of prison affairs
in this State, and report to the Governor
before the meeting of the next Legislature
such recommendations as shall enable that
body 10 enact such laws as it can to rem
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-24

Mn. SPENCER has introduced bill to
prevent overcrowding of the insane asy-
lums. 1t gives the Superintendent power
to discharge any patient he believes to be
improperly committed, and to refuse to re-
ceiye the patient if sent up a second time,
unless the Resident Physician consents to
the commitment. It appears to be good
bill. Certainly many patients are sent up
who should be cared for at home, or not
sent up at all.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-24

THE regular Prohibition bill has made
its appearance. Mr.. Steele, of the Senate,
has introduced it, and it proposes to amend
the Constitution so as to prohibit the man
ufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors
in the State except for medical, scientific
and mechanical purposes. Prohibitionists
should learn that what they need to do
first is to educate the people to their view,
before it will pay to give time for sub
hitting such amendments.
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edy existing evils, improve present condi-
lions and to reform and aid the criminal.
This is all very well, and such Commits
sion can be made of great value to the
State We certainly are not availing our
selves as we might of the best there is in
prison systems, nor are we proftlng fully
by the experiences and teachings of pencil
ogists. Nevertheless our prisons are far
better managed, so far as the prison side of
the matter is concerned, at least, than they
were some years ago. We owe it to the
Wardens and officers we place in charge to
give them opportunity to adopt the very
best methods for government, discipline
and reformation. To that end the pro-
posed Commission should be able to do the
State good. 1t is to be unsalaried, and
that is well enough, but it is provided that
the State shall in no manner be chargeable
with the expenses incurred by the Com
mission. That is poor policy, and not
worthy the State. If the Commissioners are
public-spirited enough to give their time,
the State should be willing to pay
their Secretary and for the cost of
procuring certain testimony the Commits
sion must take. 1t cannot do its work
with its Office in its hat, nor carry the de-
tails of its examination in memory or on
pocket Observation-Disclosures The right
thing to do is to allow the Commission at
least $4,000 for the expenses to be incurred
in two years service There is no economy
in putting the Commission at work with
its hands so tied that it cannot plunge to the
very bottom of the whole subject of pen
alogy.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-24

IT is proposed by Senator Whitney that
the Legislature enact law for the erection
of building at the State Prison at San
Quentin for the confinement of insane
criminals, and insane persons charged with
crime 1t is commendable. Such persons
should not be taken to the regular asylums,
where they cannot be guarded as Grim
inals should 1t will tend to lessen the
disposition to feign insanity to escape the
consequence of crime.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-24

A WRITER in the Century says; If,
there must be partisan organs, they ought
to be distinct and separate in their field of
operations-as distinct as the newspaper
and the monthly magazine now are. Alb
solute independence of partisan trammels
in its news pages, whatever may be the
bias of its editorial columns, should be the
rule of every newspaper worthy of the
name" Which is stating in brief form
sentiments the REcoRD-UNIoS has fire.
quently expressed. The truth is, however,
that the day ofpolitical organs has passed.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-24

A BILL has been introduced by Senator
Whitney for the establishment of a quar-
antine station. 1t should pass. 1t is an
absolute necessity, and has been for some
years. If the State waits a few years
longer it will cost her the weight of the
soil in gold to get a proper location upon
the bay of San Francisco. The measure
has the Endorsement of the State Board OF
Health, and for failure to pass it earlier
the Federal Government has rebuEed the
State of California.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-24

The REcoRD-UNIoN is the only paper on
the coast, outside Of San Francisco, that re-
esises the full Associated Press dispatches
from all parts of The uorld. Outside OF San
Francisco 1t las no competitor, in point Of
s,umbers, IN its home and general circulation
throughout he coast
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-24
SAN FRANCISCO AGENCY.

[. P. FISHER is Sole Agent for this paper in
San Francisco and vicinity. He is authorizet
TO receive advertisements and subscriptions, and
collect for the same. Rooms p and q, Mer-
chants Exchange.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-24

Mr.. Lowe has introduced a bin in the
Senate 20 permit Courts to disbar attorneys
for advertising, directly or indirectly, that
they procure, or cause to be procured, de-
crees Of enforcement. The bill should
pass. 1t is in the interest Of morality, and
those in the profession of the law who
honor that calling.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-24

Yes, it is done, and well done. We have
received news from Sacramento that Gov
ernor Leland Stanford has been chosen by
the Republican caucus for United States
Senator. which is, of course. equivalent to
an election. We congratulate the Republi-
cans of the Legislature upon the doing of
this very proper thing. And we congratu-
late the people of the State that it is done.
The country may expect good things from
Governor Stantords occupancy of a seat in
the Senate. When we consider that he is
the very embodiment of all railroads in
this State, and that for years there has been
a fierce anti-railroad war waged, almost
eliminating in civil strife and rioting, and
then consider that he has. been chosen in
obedience to a popular demand such as
never called any man back to public life,
except, perhaps in the cases of Webster,
Clay, and Crittenden, then we say his
selection, under the circumstances is the
most remarkable on record. 1t should be
exceedingly gratifying to him and to his
friends, and it is to us. 1t proves several
things, among which is the fact that the
Governor has an enduring popularity with
the people that he is so much beloved
that the assaults of demagogues and ma
lignants, persisted in for years. could have
no other effect than to arouse his
friends to the pitch of compelling
him to allow his name to be
used and compelling his selection.
Governor Stanford was not chosen by the
caucus because any member objected to Mr.
Estee, Mr.. Sargent or Governor Perkins,
but in obedience to an almost universal de-
mand of the people for his elevation. The
conservative, property-holding and business
men of California have achieved victory
in the selection of Governor Stanford that
is above all mere party considerations, and
one that will be enduring in its results
We join the whole people in sincere rejoic-
ing-TAlta Californian
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-24
TIE CHOICE OF TIE PEOPLE.

The selection of Ex-Governor Leland
Stanford as the choice of the people of Cali
fornia to represent them in the United
States Senate, is a most fitting and over
whelming rebuke to the little but noisy
clique of self-styled anti-monopolists, who,
for years past, have been bowling in impo-
tent rage at the railroad company. Like
the Trojan horse they looked formidable in
the distance. So formidable, indeed, that
the present showing of their insignificant
numbers and barren influence must be a
startling surprise even to those best ac-
quainted with the hollowness of their
boasts and pretensions.
Within the confines of this great and
growing State there is not q single sensible
man who does not clearly recognize the
fact that the choice of Governor Stanford is
the very best that could have been made.
He is thoroughly familiar even to the de
tails with the wants and interests of our
commonwealth, his interests are identical
with those of every other propertied man
in the State, and, last but by no means
least, it cannot but be a source of pride to
every true Californian to know that Stan
ford has the ability to fifty represent those
interests in the highest legislative body in
the lads. F. Daily Exchange.
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SENATORIAL NOMINATION.
FAVORABLE EXPRESSION BY THE
PRESS OF THE STATE.
Comments Upon the Nomination of
Ex-Governor Leland Stanford
for United States Senator.

Following are given some of the editorial
expressions of the press of the State upon
the nomination, made last Tuesday. of ex
Governor Leland Stanford for United States
Senator: