The record-union., 1894-08-28

suspected negro. In Colorado Governor
Waite talked anarchy and refused TO en-
force the laws against rioters and MUIR
derers at Cripple Greek, and mis- conduct
provoked retaliation i'll kind. Lawless-
ness breeds lawlessness, and lynch law
grows fat on what it feeds.
A PROSPEROUS CITY.
iSanta Barbara independently
In spite of the hard times, and notwith-
standing the depression of business in
Gerests common throughout the country,
Santa Barbara has entered upon an epoch
OF unexampled prosperity. Property is
constantly changing hands. not in specu-
latlon but to pass into the possession of
nome builders. In every direction hand
some and substantial improvements are
pelng made; scarcely a day passes that
the city does not receive some new and
worthy accession to her population. New
industries and new branches of trade are
being established, and every newcomer
IN the business world who practices legi-
Innate methods and possesses sufficient
capital, appears TO prosper.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
LSan Jose Mereury.]
The other planks of the platform are
notable mainly as showing the extent to
which the Democratic party has drifted
from Its historic moorlngs, driven by the
winds of Populism. The boasted Con
servator of the Constitution" demands
two changes in that venerable document,
and the one-tlme opponent OF "centrali-
Zation" advocates various measures that
Will greatly extend the scope of the GEN.
eral Government and increase it's powers.
Some of these demands are not bad III
themselves, but they are opposed to all
democratic precedentS and can only be
uelended by abandoning every historic
principle OF the party.
EAsY-GoING VOTERS.
Los Angeles Times
What would be thought OF the action of
the merchant who spent days in selecting
men to act as statesmen, janitors and
porters in his establishment, and then
devoted Jew minutes TO the selection
OF man to manage the whole business,
especially If the business involved the
expenditure OF something like million
dollars year? He would probably be
considered crazy. Yet this is about the
way the people of an American county
or at least OF the average American
county-act when they are selecting their
public officials. There is vast amount
OF eXltement ana wire pulling over the
nomination of Recorders, Assessors and
even Surveyors and Coroners; but when
ii comes to the choice of those men who
are TO till the same relative position to-
ward the county which is held by the
Congress of the United States toward tho
nation at large-the law-making body
and the body which eXpends the peoples
money-then very little interest is taken
in the subject, and frequently men creep
in who would scarcely be intrusted with
the management of business which
represents the expenditure of l per cent.
OF the amount which is put up by the
taxpayers OF this county.
AFFECTS EVERY VOTER.
bakersfield Californianl
If honest and capable men had been in
the place OF the San Francisco Assessors
gang i'll the past year, it would have kept
Ia the pockets of the taxpayers of the in
terror OF the State several hundreds of
thousands, if not millions, OF dollars.
They are now assessed to make up the
difference between what the wealthy tax
shirkers Of San Francisco ought to have
paid and what the Assessor has fixed for
them to pay. The robbery of the treas
ufy that has thus been consummated
affects every voter in the State.
WILL BE DEFEATED.
San Francisco STAR
The Federal Brigade has had its way in
the Democratic convention, but the peo-
pie will have their way at the polls. And
don't you forget to remember it
There are people who understand one
another at once. When one souls meets
another it is not by pass word nor by
hailing sign, nor by mysterious grip that
they recognize. The subtIed freemasonry
in the world is this freemasonry Of the
spirit.-Edward Eggleston.
SARsAPARILLA AND IRON. Get it from
the sole agent, McMorry, 531 NJ st. q