The record-union., 1891-11-12
CALIFORNIA's BIDS.

CALIEORNIA7S BIDS.
While citizens are moving in the mat
ter of securing one or both of the National
Conventions for California in 1892, an
other body of men is quietly but effect
lively at work to secure the sitting in this
State of a deliberative body that, in one
sense, is of higher Importance and will
result in greater benefit to the State.
The California Press Association, at its
session in October last in San Francisco,
resolved to extend an invitation to the
National Editorial Association to meet in
this State in April or May next. Several
committees were appointed upon diff
ferent branches Of the work. The chief
of these met in San Francisco October
3lst and entered actively upon its duties.
1t has already secured the cooperation of
the State Board of Trade, and will have
that of several other important bodies so
soon as they can respond to applications
made. A committee of five will leave
California late in December with a car
load of California fruit, wines and other
examples Of production. 1t will be pres
ent at the meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the national body in Cincin-
natl. This committee consists of sixty
members, and upon them the California
delegation viii bring to bear all proper
arguments to induce them to order the
session of the National Association for
1892 to be held in San Francisco.
There is every reason to believe that,
with the foretaste of what California pro-
duction and hospitality are, with the
itinerary planned laid before the MEM
bers,. and with the arguments the COM
nittee will make for California, the de-
cision Will turn in our favor.
The proposition is to provide for 900
members of the National Association to
come; to bring them in on the south,
have them visit San Diego and Los An
geles and come on to San Francisco to
hold their session. Then excursions in
groups of 800 will be made throughout
Northern and Central California, each
group being accompanied by committee
Of the California Association.
The members of the national body are
editors, and most of them editorial pro-
prietors of newspapers published in the
lesser cities and towns Of every State and
Territory in the Union, there being but a
few New York, Chicago, Boston and
Philadelphia members. All the papers
represented are of a superior order, and
the delegates to the national body are
picked men sent by State organizations
Every one of these men will return
from California and proceed to set forth
in his journal his impressions of Califor-
mia, and the judgment he reaches con-
corning the claims we make. These
statements, editorially expressed, viii go
to the clientage of the papers with a
thousand-fold more force than will immi-
grafton literature prepared in California,
and sent out by local agencies by the car
loads. The reasons for this are obvious,
and too patent to be even limited
We believe that California will receive
more reliable, thorough and effective adj
vertising through this means than it
could buy for any sum possible to be
named. There is not a journal in the Ma
tional Association that would or could
afford to hire out its editorial columns to
set forth the claims of this State upon
home-seekers, because every editor would
realize that his readers would be aware of
the fact that he did not speak from OBJ
servation.
The men to be invited are intelligent in
a high degree, are practical observers, are
accustomed to see. deliberate. and then
decide with positiveness, and to present
thought intelligently and forcibly. Their
view of our land, and their Judgment
concerning it, we believe viii result in
expression highly advantageous to Cali
fornia-more so, indeed, than will flow
from any other agency that may be
brought to engage in a similar work
The State Association is in deep earnest
in promoting the scheme we have out
lined, and its purpose is so well defined,
and its plans so well laid, that we do not
see how they can fail of success. With
the session of the National Press Club,
the Republican National Convention, and
the National Editorial Association, Cali
fornia would in 1892 receive a genuine
and practical benefit