Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-15

Iaily papers of the city of New Orleans,
md few Southern and fewer Northern
Democratic papers, that has had other ex-
,ression than that of commentator for
he bill. A significant fact is that every
,ppouent of the bill in journalistic ranks
$ a Democratic sheet. There is not an %.
dependent nor Republican paper 10 the
ength and breadth of the r.ation that
ioes not approve the me- sure to prevent
The United States mai. from being used to |
promote the bus. aess of lottery gamiog. |
On the other. hand, the Atlanta Jsss~os
DEM r.oonounces the bill unoonstitu-
tional., and declares that it cannot be en-
for eed. The Manchester, N. H., Union
Dem believes the bill will not S'work,"
and thinks it ought to be strangled. The
Detroit Free Press (Dem.) turns up its nose
at the measure and thinks the lottery
more reputable than the protective tariff.
TIE New Orleans Tfmes-Dmocrot argues
sravely the right of the State of Louis
lana to legitimatize business, and to
have that business recognized by the Postal
Department of the Federal Government.
The New Orleans States (Dem.) sees in the
bill only hatred of the South and all
things Southern. The Washington Critic
(Dem) pIonounces the bill species Of
Insulting humbug, fanatical attack upon
the liberties of the American people.
There are, however, few Democratic
journals having the courage to beard their
party, denounce the lottery and approve
the bill. One of these is the Philadel-
phia Times, which declares that it involves
question to which honest men cannot
find two sides. 1t believes that if the bill
were at once passed without debate, it
would receive the almost unanimous in
dorsement of the people of the nation.
THE average San Francisco correspond
ent for the sensational press who comes up
to Sacramento on a flying trip to report
some meeting or convention, esteems 1t his
first duty to telegraph and write about the
heat.n 1t makes no difference whether
the weather is cool, balmy OF hot, the
temperature of the correspondents dis
patches must run high, for be imagines
that otherwise he will not be believed at
bop,a apJ hao:dac ~ &c ca a.exy f. ra;1 n :
the weather, which never strikes back.
Thus, the Examiner correspondent speaks
of the thermometer regeristing 1902 in the
shade in this city Tuesday. The fact is
that the statement was carved out of pure
fancy. The day was in no sense I'M
J comfortable, and the thermometer did not
reach within fifteen degrees of the figure
attributed to it by the correspondent
Refreshing breezes have prevailed all the
week, and indeed, there was COM
plant by visitors that they had come up
to the Convention ill-prepared for the
cool evenings here There is nothing
more steadily lied about than the tempera-
ture of the summer days in this city. No
: one denies that there are now and then
hot spells, precisely as there are in all
other parts OF the State, nor that the
average temperature is higher than at San
Francisco; on the contrary, we boast of it
to our credit, but the heat here is never
so oppressive as that which the average
San Franciscan calls cheat" in his own
city, where 500 in that humid atmosphere
is almost unbearable, while 90o here in a
dry atmosphere, where radiation and
evaporation are conserved, is by no means
so uncomfortable as 750 in the metropolis
But no one suspects the San Francisco SEN
sational correspondent of the ability to
speak the truth of the climate of the in
terror; not that these gentlemen are will
full preyaricators, or less generous than
the average newspaper men, but they APP
pear to have acquired the habit of fault
finding, which is developed abnormally
whenever they approach the Capital City
They rush about furiously in an atmos-
phere of the temperature of 500 for two
or three hours in the afternoon, and at
once proceed to dispatch to their papers
something of heat their blood has acquired
by unwonted exercise. These young
gentlemen should consult thermometrical
records and thereby conserve the truth,
unless, indeed, it can be shown that they
have something to gain by contortion of
facts, in which case Sacramentans will not
wish them to offend their ''bread and but
ter" but will contentedly read their mar
Vicious records ofheat in Sacramento, since
they are earning livelihood, even at the
expense of verify.
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