Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-26
PRESS EXPRESSIONS.

shown IN pernicious castor-oii trust
greatly enhancing its price. We remember
yividly the wonderful cheapness of this
article when we where boys. = Vallejo
Chronicle.
Instead Of accepting the invitation of
Brooklyn's Grand Army men on Memorial
Day last year, President Cleveland went
fishing; and consistent people are won
dering why Memorial Day of this wear is
particularly Philadelphia BilHe-
tin.
The Louisville C0mier-Journal seems
troubled with Congressman Butterworth's
recent speech upon the tariff bill 1t saws:
Ben Butterworth is queer citizen. He
wants free trade with Canada, but with no
other country. Very few Ohio statesmen
know exactly what they do want, unless it
be another Office"
1t now seems certain that the Prince of
Wales will visit the United States in Au-
gust. The wound inflicted upon our ma
tional pride by his discourteous treatment
OF MIR. Sullivan will, it is feared, diminish
the cordlailty OF his reception unless he
can satisfy the champion with proper
Amends Chicago Herald
The most reckless display of generosity
known is TO be credited to the newspapers
which are offering cash prizes TO any one
who will name the correct order in which
the league clubs will finish The national
game was ever so completely mixed before,
and It's dollars TO doughnuts that nobody
selects the right combination.-N Y. Star.
a Governor who cannot get his party to
give him the humble office of delegate to
the National Convention is scarcely in a
position to demand a denomination to the
Executive office. The kindly obscurity of
"a rrn "a No
tlce IN Elmlra seems to be the best the
world has to offer David B. Hirl.-N. Y.
Times.
The Republican party is listening eagerly,
anxiously for the footsteps of him who
shall lead it in the impending struggle.
The merits of possible candidates are be-
ing compared, their strength and weakness
weighed, and their availability carefully
considered. The great party is working
out the problem which the crucic test of
the convention will finally determine
San Diego Union.
We believe there are few fair-minded
people in this community or State but who
will agree with us IN saying that we have
too much partisan politics and far too little
business principle in our local government.
The more thoroughly we eradicate partisan
politics from the contest for our county Of
fees the nearer we approach the result of
securing competent officials at all times
Meadocino Beacon.
There is afoat a rumor, how well
grounded we are not in a position to know,
that private subscription, working in quiet
| channels for more than year, has supplied
generous endowment fund, which will be
given to the Lick Observatory under GER
tain contingencies. The knowledge of the
existence of this fund is credited with a
change in the purposes of the Board of
Regents in the matter of appointing a
Director of the observatory some time ago.
l-Oakldnd Times
| 1t is touching to observe the syrupy af-
| lection which flows from the Democratic
heart toward President Cleveland, but we
are panied to note some practical disturb
ances of it. Colonel John P. Irish and
Jesse D. Carr are supposed to have the ear
of the administration of this State, and
certainly the San Francisco Federal ap-
| pointments have been made in accordance
| with their wishes. Yet both failed to OBJ
tain the honors for which they were candi-
dates before the Convention.-LoS angeles
| Express.
1t is all humbug to pretend that prize
fighting is prohibited, in the face of such
affairs as the McAuliffe- Glover meeting
last night, and the Report says now, as it
has said before, that there is no reason why
fights should be allowed in the presence of
600 persons at $40 head and forbidden in
the presence of 5000 at 81 head Let US
have even justice in this boxing matter,
and the execution or repeal of existing
laws on the subject and not make flesh of
one class of the community and fowl of
another as we are doing, to the disgrace of
the authorities and the disgust of large
majority of our citizens.-!S. r. Report
1t is estimated that from ten to twenty
full carloads of eggs are shipped into Cali
fornia each week from points beyond the
Rocky Mountains. There is in this fact a
very significant pointer to our people. No
reason exists why this industry should not
afford profitable occupation for hundreds
Of our people. 1t requires but few dollars
to begin the work, and if the demand is
now twenty carloads a week in excess of
the supply, there is no prospect of an over
stocked market for many years to come, for
the increase in population will naturally
continue to make an increased demand
Santa Barbara Press.
Communities which are on solid basis
will endure the strain of dry season with
out losing any part of their real prosperity.
Those which have been handling booms
and boomlets, with the purpose of beguil-
ing the surplus ducats from the pockets of
the unwary tenderfoot, and in so doing
have stimulated the real estate market into
a condition of artificial attitudes, will fall
with awful suddenness to the hard surface
of stern realities. A dry year in California
is as certain to let all the excitement out of
real estate circles as the stab of a stiletto
would be to let all the gas out of balloon.
-TitLdre Times.
When the wild western legislator takes
his hack at the surplus you can't see the
sky for chips. The last to spit on his
hands and swing his axe is Senator Pad
dock of Nebraska, with a bill providing
that public building shall be erected in
every town of the United States in which
the postal receipts amount to $1,000 per
annum. If the average cost of each is
placed at the low figure of 81, 500, the grand
total would be bite of $40 600 600 out of
that dread incubus, the surplus. But with
all this talk of expenditure for expenditures
sake, why in the interests of public safety
is not dollar or two spent upon our coast
Reconsideration Independent.
We do get disguised sometimes with
politics. At the Los Angeles Convention
this week Boss Buckley held his head
quarters, and they were thronged with peo-
pie seeking position, and their friends. No
other man there held a tenth of his power |
We have things fixed up for us, and then
we of the rank and file must work for a |
confirmation? You say, why do you do |
it?' We answer we do it because it is a |
choice of two evils; because the other |
party is worse in this respect than ours |
Those men for the important offices put |
up good men enough but all who get |
position must fawn at the feet of the |
bosses We could not be tempted to take |
position at such price-C0lusa San.
The Democratic party is to be blamed for
very few sins of commission-that is vol
untary commission. 1t never willingly |
makes move, and after being dragged
ahead looks back regretfuliy. Its princi-
Piles were alive long before they took on
themselves the name of Democracy. The
children of Israel were Democrats in
everything but name; they had to be led |
out of Egypt, and after they got out were
sorry they left and wished they were back;
they could not look ahead to the promised
land with any delight, but they could re-
gretfully remember the flesh-pots. The
party, if left to itself, would never do much
harm, and never under any circumstances,
any good.-Territ0ria Enterprise, NeU.
There was a fair prospect that Congress,
which had become convinced of the just
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