The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-07-27
THE WORK OF THE CONVENTION.

The Republican State Convention,
which assembled in this city yesterday,
was strong body, possessed of business
energy and excellent working ability.
It went about the discharge of duty for
which it was convened with directness,
and did the business to be done with ce-
lerity, but with no lack of deliberation. 1t
was presided over ably by General n. P.
Chapman, whose capacity as a parlia-
mentarian greatly facilitated the dispatch
Of business. The Electors nominated are
thoroughly well-known citizens and
command the confidence of the people,
Several of them are skilled speakers and
will bring to the campaign stump re-
quisite strength.
The platform reaffirms the platform
of the National and the earlier State
conventions, which have heretofore
been considered in these columns.
The plank that relates to purely local
concerns, is at once comprehensive and
emphatic 1t recites history when it de-
clares that the Republican party has
of all material development in California
1t is in line with the genesis and whole
theory and practice of the party that this
declaration should be made, and il com
ports with the intelligence, courage and
progressive spirit of which the Repub-
lican party was born, and that have dis
The plank announces party adhesion to
the unanswerable doctrine that increased
facilities for transportation of products
and supplies, both by water and by rail,
conduces to material development, and
hence that there should be liberal Gov
ernmental expenditure for the improve
ways, and that the Nicaragua Canal
should, under Government control, be
pushed to early completion. In this di-
rection, the convention, in the name of
the people and the party, invites capital
to build into the State of California com
peting transcontinental lines of railway,
which is insaccord not only with the gen.
eral desire, but with commercial wisdom.
This invitation and Endorsement is
given greater emphasis by the pledge in
the name of the party that all such efforts
shall have protection and encourage
ment, and that like protection and sup
port shall be given to all existing instru-
mentalities, and all those to exist, that
are projected or used for the promotion of
the general welfare, and that the people
shall be given the full benefit of the law
Of competition.
That is to say, the party, through its
official body, declares and pledges itself
to the wise policy of encouraging the in
crease of the lines of communication that
bring producer and consumer nearer
together, and that give full play to COM
petitive laws. For all such construction
means home investment of capital for the
purpose of developing internal resources,
and the up-building and peopling of
the lands Of the State It means
broadening of the influence of capital
in developing business that will maintain
new and competing lines of transporta-
ton. This involves home building,
small land holdings through the division
of great acreage estates, the opening up of
new industries and the strengthening and
stimulation of old ones. 1t means that
metropolitan capital shall be encouraged
to make and be protected 10 interior in
vestments, and that along the whole line
of State activity there shall be enlarge
ment and wholesome growth.
In strong contrast to this comprehen-
sive and far-reaching enunciation by the
Republican party of lines of broad pol
icy, is the pettifogging expression of the
Democratic party through its Fresno
Convention. It played there the part of
the demagogue by a vain attempt to be-
fog national issue, in national campaign,
by the injection into the platform of
lot of local nonsense, concerning which
the party was neither sincere nor intsili-
gent.
The convention also adopted timely
resolution, urging upon our Senators and
Representatives in Congress the import
ance of the measure before that body for
the adjustment of the mining question.
With this work the convention closed its
labors, and adjourned in spirit Of high
enthusiasm. over its duty discharged, that
augurs the success of the ticket.
A MATTER OF TRUTH-TELLING