The record-union., 1891-11-25
SAN FRANCISCO LOSING. MAY WIN.

San Francisco has lost the Republican
National Convention, as the RECORD
UNION stated would probably be the re-
suit when the announcement was made
that ST. Paul and Minneapolis had joined
hands in the effort to locate the conveu-
ton for 1892 in the latter city. Now the
San Franciscans can turn their attention
and coin to aiding the California Press
Association in bringing the National
Editorial Association to California in the
spring of 1852, and thus win infinitely
more than they have lost.
That body will be worth more to Cali
fornia than half a dozen national politi-
cal conventions. 1t will embrace about a
thousand delegates, all newspaper pro-
prietors and writers, representing the
thoughtful, reading and business ele-
ments in all the States of the Union, with
but two or three exceptions only. They
are not representatives of the greater
metropolitan journals, with an exception
or two, but come from other cities and
towns and the rural districts-from
among the very class of people to which
California wishes to most urgently adj
dress itself.
When these writers return to their
homes from this State they will freely
write and print of California What
they say to their people in their own
papers will be worth immeasurably more
than anything Californians can say in
any possible immigration literature of
their own. The membership of the Edi-
torial Association is body of higher in
telligence and more substantial worth
than the membership of any political
convention. These members will come
to California to see and learn of the State
in detail, and, being practiced observers,
their inspection will be precisely of the
order we most solicit.
The Executive Committee of the asso-
citation meets at Cincinnati a month or
more hence, to fix the next place of meet
ing. The California Press Association
will have present a committee of five
members to present the claims of San
Francisco as the place for the session.
They will carry with them a carload of
fruits and wines as foretaste of the hos
pitality promised, and as samples of the
production we will exhibit as proof of
California's climatic capacity and its de-
STABILITY.
The committee expects to win. 1t goes
on for that purpose, and will not even
think of possible defeat. They need,
however, the invitation of the Board of
Supervisors of San Francisco, the Cham
ber of Commerce and other bodies to pre-
sent as sustaining their own.s The State
Board of Trade has already indorsed and
aided the movement, and has most heart
lily entered into the work of assistance.
San Francisco will not be asked to raise
dollar to pay for transportation, nor is
the sum of 100000 asked from her, as in
the case of the political convention. But
she will be asked to entertain the guests
handsomely, and to contribute literally
to the assistance of the general commit
tee, and to aid in the work of sending the
delegates on excursions throughout the
different sections of the State.
The metropolis can now snatch victory
from defeat by bending its energies to
the task of securing the Editorial Asso-
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through its press and business men, ex-
ercise strong influence upon the Execu-
tive Committee when it assemblies in Gin
cinnati. It can, if it chooses, make the
Cincinnati atmosphere heavy with the
claims of San Francisco for preference,
and the breath of the press and the voice
of business so persuasive that the appeal
cannot be resisted.