The record-union., 1891-12-01
A DAwN1Ne INTELLIGENCE.

The Examiner seems to be very earn
estly at work in the enterprise of bring
ing the Democratic Convention to San
Francisco. and in an editorial discussion
of the best method, it says:
IT viii be hardly necessary to treat the
washington FOUNDERS to fruit and California
wine That was tried in the campaign 10 get
the Republicans to come here, ana IL was
distinct failure
We rejoice exceedingly at this evidence
of dawning conviction that wine is not
a new thing to mankind. We congratu-
late the people of California that at last
it's metropolitan press is losing that
provincialism for which the State has
ACQUIRED such unfavorable notorlety.
California has lost character and in
fiuence in the attempt to impress
bodies of men like national party
committees and national conventions
with a great show of products and
the noise of unseefnly enthusiasm.
We have too often forgotten that there IS
a force and dignity in modesty. That
the lessons of our past failures in this re-
gard are being read Alright should be
matter of universal congratulation. 1t is
highly gratifying to contrast the state
ment under consideration from the
Examiner with a statement which might
have been quoted from metropolitan
contemporary few weeks ago. At that
time. one of our esteemed contemporaries
said:
The news from Washington is very encour-
aging. San Francis CO appears 10 nave an
even chance to secure the convention. The
wine arrived yesterday and the real campaign
will now begin.
This could have been written only by
one unaccustomed to wine and unac-
quainted with the fact that wine is dis
tinctively a table beverage. The Ameri-
can population of California were famil-
iarized with wine production only in this
State. They were unacquainted with it
both as product and as food use in the
States from which they emigrated; but
mankind at large have known wine and
it's food use from time immemorial. The
real wine-growers of California, those to
whose intelligence we owe the develop
ment of this industry here, have in sea-
son and out insisted that our visitors
should not be offered wine as bar bev-
erage. But all that aside, the simplicity
of understanding which would lead tc
the conclusion that display of California
wine was the all potent argument infiu.
encing the judgments of men in such 6
matter as the location of National Con,
yention is scarcely less than pitiable.
Whatever the result may be in the way
of inducing the National Democratic
party to hold its National Convention in
San Francisco, the State is to be con-
graduated that it is at last coming to be
perceived that the wine argument has nc
value
Now while the subject is under con-
sideration, we take occasion to say: Let
some intelligent, quiet, effective gentle
man from the State Central Committee o.
the Democratic party visit the National
claims of California to the high honor O
having the National Democratic Conven'
ton held within its borders. While Re.
publicans will welcome the Nationa
Democratic Convention, the time anC
place of holding that convention is ;
matter to be considered strictly within
,oo,+,- 1;,,oe re fba nap,0ovotu Of ralifor
mia, speaking through the representative
of their organization, want the Nationa
Democratic Convention, the Nationa
Committee are far more likely to yield t
their solicitations than to that uncon
cealed desire on the part of the peopl
claiming that honor to use the co2ven
ton as hippodrome, or as an adjunct t,
the price of corner lots.
In the management of parties it ough
to be clearly perceived that party reason
viii control. The supreme desire of til
party is and ought to be success, and who
ever works on any other line viii fin,
their efforts wasted, because they ar
made in the wrong direction. If it cal
be shown the National Democratic Cen
trail Committee that the party has some
thing to gain by holding its convention
at point most accessible TO the Pacif
States and Territories, that consideration
viii outweigh all other arguments, be
cause considerations of this character ar
in the line of good party administration
THE Lincoln Independents OF Phila
delphia adopted novel but effectiv
method of ascertaining the extent of elec
ton frauds based on false registration