The record-union., 1894-11-12
ROYAL BAKING POWDER.

sured that for the time being the country
and the people in it will jog on in about
the usual manner. 1t is not safe, how
ever, for the people who have just cast
their ballots to imagine that by doing so
they have performed their entire duty as
citizens of the republic until the next
election. The danger to free Govern
ment is in the carelessness, the ignorance
or the stupidity of the masses. The peo-
pie of the United States, compared with
other countries are not unintelligent. but
for twenty years they have drfted with
the political tide, and at the present time
it requires no telescope for the vision of a
careful observer to see breakers ahead.
DANGER IN SUCCESS.
[Stockton independently
Now that large Republican majority
in Congress is assured there is danger
that it may make some such mistake as
that which caused it's election. The last
three Congressional elections have de-
monstrated one truth which the Repub-
llcaDs should remember and apply in the
day OF their triumph. That truth is that
the people of the United States are op-
posed TO sweeping and radical changes
and extremes in legislation. They de-
monstrated that truth by electing Demo-
cratic majority To Congress in 1890, and
again in 1892 by placing Cleveland and a
democratic majority in both houses of
Congress in control, and this year by
turning that Democratic Congress out.
DEFEATED BY OUR FRIENDS"
Santa Rosa Democratl
Would it not be profitable for the Pop
ulistS of SOnoma County TO pause now
and witness the mischief which they
have done? Many OF them and in fact
large majority of them are from the
Democratic party. The vote given'to Mr..
WQll IL NJ lIal hon
manned and fought the enemies OF tariff
reform under the Democratic banner the
w hole county ticket would have been
elected. Their detection has put their
bi:terest political enemies into power.
THE GENERAL RESULT.
Los Angeles Express
1t cannot be said that the Republican
victory is in itself a surprise, for it has
been evident to any unbiased observer of
politics that this was a Republican year,
but the increased maiorities all over the
country by which the people have repu-
dated Clevelandism and expressed their
disapproval of Democratic incompetency
must be an eye-opener even to a MisSis-
sippi Democrat.
PoPULIST PROSPECTS.
Oakland Enquirer
Local POpulists are feeling good be-
cause in Alameda they have elected sew
eral county officers, and because i'll the
State at large they have cast half as many
votes for Governor as either the Republi-
cans or the Democrats; but when they
look out beyond the borders OF California
1t must be with very mixed feelings.
They have been routed in all OF their
former strongholds. Kansas, Colorado,
Nebraska and the Oak otas have gone
against them, about all they have saved
there being Congressman each in Colo
RADIO, Nebraska and Kansas, with the
Colorado member still in doubt. In the
last Congress the PopulIsts had eight
members from these States, the net loss
now being five.
"CATSPAws."
Woodland Democrat1
Populists who claim to believe in Dem
ocratic principles should lose no time i'll
allying themselves with the Democratic
party. They cannot afford to be used
any longer as catspaws to pull chestnuts
out OF the fire for Republicans.
a SURPRISING RESULT.
IFresno Republican,
The downfall OF the Populists in their
strongholds in the Northwest is the most
surprising result, for it is a weil-known
fact that the mem bership of new party
clings more tenaciously TO party lines
and principles than that of an old party
in which disintegrating forces have had
more time to work. The same causes.
however, In State government, have I'M
done the Populists which caused the
Democratic wreck nationally. The fail
ure to carry out reforms promised by the
Popullsts i'll State government, or to give
administrations satisfactory to the people,
have turned the voters back to the party
from which majority were alienated by
eXtravagant promises.