The record-union., 1894-09-24
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
What Some of the Newspapers of Call
tornia Talk About.

what Some of the Newspapers of Cali
tornia Talk About.
[Sutter Independent
Since Burdette Cornell, the Populist
candidate for Congress, came into this
part of the district he wishes to represent.
good many are inquiring: who Is
this Cornell? Where is his home, and
how long has he been in California? What
interest has he here, what does he know
about the needs of this district? How
does he stand on the questions which af-
feet us?'
BAD POLICY.
Tulare Register.l
1t may be philanthropy to elect a man
to office because 'he needs it,' but it is
neither business nor short cut to good
government
GO 1T ALONE.
lSan Jose Mercury.1
Judging from Budd's speeches, it ap-
pears that ii elected Governor he will
abolish all State Commissions. all State
departments, the Senate and Assembly
and run the commonwealth himself.
GIFT HORSES MOUTH.
Los Angeles Times.
The Sultan of Turkey has sent dona-
ton of 9300 for the relief of the sufferers
by the forest fires in Wisconsin, Mime
sofa and Michigan. This is indeed very
generous of the Sultan, and the gift is
duly appreciated. 1t isn't, perhaps, in
very good taste to look a gift horse in the
mouth, but If all reports be true, there
are great many thousands of the SUBJ
jects OF the Sultan of Turkey who need
help nearly or quite as badly as the VIC
tlnls OF the lum ber- woods fires.
OR TO BoRNEo.
ILos Angeles Herald.l
It is strange that Mr.. Breckenridge
should have sought TO force his nomina-
ton upon the Democratic party with
such crimson stain upon his personal
recrod. NJ ost men clouded with such a
scandal would have bought ticket for
England and then take one of Cooks
excursion tours up the Nile; or if he de-
sired to journey in an opposite direction
he could embark for Honolulu and famil-
lariZe himself with the numerous agili-
ties of the hula-hulas and other salacious
saltatorians But whatever he did he
should have kept out of the way until
the Pollard scandal and Madeline's S15,-
600 worth OF blighted affection had blown
over.
EXPENSIVE EXPERIMENTING.
Oakland Tribune.I
Here is comparison of the cost of State
government under the Democratic and
Republican administrations which speaks
for itself:
1SS9-Democratic....... S12, ,533, ,o1o
1S91-Republican. ..............-.. 9.74S,696
1S93-Denocratlc..... IL ,972, .
And the following shows the rate levied
on taxpayers for every 500 of the as
sessed valuation of their property:
1SS9-Democratic... ................... 72 cents
1S90-Democratc.... 5S cents
1o91-Republican ................46.6 cents
1e92-Republican... ...........43.4 cents
1S93-Democratic..... 10 cents
The showing is against Mr.. Budd's
party. and the only way the public have
of judging the capacity of party to
govern is by its acts. Democratic adj
ministrations have been very expensive
ones in this State.
HE Is ALL RIGHT.
[Santa Barbara Republican,
The howl raised against General Miles
on account of the maneuvers inaugurated
by him in army circles is senseless. Ii
the United States must have standing
army 1t should have good one, and
without plenty of exercise of the kind he
has been giving the soldiers at Chicago
good soldiers cannot be had. He is
simply following the experience OF army
men all over the world.
THIS Is THE YEAR.
Riverside PreSs.l
This is, then, the year when those hold
ing Republican views in national matters
should stand firmly by their principles.
With unity and enthusiasm they can
Californians are mercurial and uncertain,
and are often disposed to overlook the
real issue because of some prominent To-
cal question. This fact is being taken adj
yatage of by sbrewd manipulators. Some
of these are working in the hope of de-
moralizing the majority party, that they
may gain a petty office here and there
ana reduce the general level of the Re-
publican vote. Others are men whose
claims to office are ignored for cause, and
who seek revenge for want OF apprecia-
ton. Others are they who hope 10 injure
the great party-whose wise administra-
tion has given them prosperity for SO
many years-to bring few recruits to
the squad of impracticables who believe
that their method of temperance reform
should be the only issue. Others are they
who have dreams OF an ideal republic,
where the laws shall be wiser and better
than the men who make them.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
EWheatland -Four Corners.1
The signs of the times are interpreted
by many observers, as noted from the
press throughout the land. to mean that
the Populist outburst is on the wane and
that after the elections are over it will be
found that the vote will be lower than