The record-union., 1895-11-07
NOTE AND COMMENT.

Our evening contemporary takes its de-
feat with i'll grace. 1t finds cause to its
satisfaction for snarling at the railroad
/ company, when it might be better en-
gagged in exploiting its own course to as
certain why it's fairy-tale prophecies as to
what the result of the election would be
came to dust and ashes. The Record
Union is gnawing no files, but accepting
results with equanimity, and not raking
! over the embers of defeat. Sacramento
/ is going straight ahead and on an upward
/ grade to higher levels. and will leave
! GROWERS and post-mortem speoulations
| to the rear.
There is widespread belief that straight
out Sacramento Republicans engaged in
prayer and used only the most correct OF
| language when the returns OF Tuesday j
city election began to come In. 1t is also
! the general belief that their spirits went
up to the top of the enthusiastic Their
mometer when the news came from New
York, Maryland. Ohio, Kentucky, and
the rest OF the Republican column. So
there is no thorn without rose, the Re-
publicans of Sacramento may we'll say
reversing an old saw.
! 1t is a cheap and worn device to &C.
| count for election results by laying the
| blame at the door of the railroad COM
pany. If it had done this; if it had done
| that; if 1t had kept still; If 1t had spoken;
the utterances of its representatives we're
not sincere; it made answers to be read
J he lirac ma nIoip
and so on, ad nauseum. The simple
| truth is. that the attempt to saddle upon
the railroad company the blunders of
projection OF personal ambition into q
campaign is q weak device to cover
bad work. The railroad company is
a largo target and it is, in the esti-
nation OF some, popular to fire at it, Ii
the company keeps out of political mills
it is blamed; if it is driven into political
contests by the assaults of demagogues
and in self-defense. it is condemned. 1t
makes very little difference to the dena-
gogue and the disgruntled whether the
railroad company does or does not; it
will be assaulted by these elements just
the same. The constant mounting about
the railroad company and its desires in
local politics is disgusting. There is no
reason in or for it, and it is creditable
neither to those who indulge in it nor to
those who give ear to it.
VIII not the San Francisco press give
the people a rest in the matter of Dur
rants pictures? The constant presenta-
ton of the pictorial side of the criminal
ha orifnq is DauaaatinQ
It was confidently hoped that the effort
to secure the National Republican Con-
vention for California would unite all
Californians for once. But here is noted
scribbler indulging in sneers at the at
tempt, and doing his best to write it
down, and papers are found 10 publish
his stuff AS the Tulare Register says:
sit is certainly great pity that no move
ment intended for the public good can be
set on foot here without arousing such
opposition as that OF McEwen and his
satellites"
A country contemporary has this to
say. and says it well: Trial by news
paper and popular clsmor has just re-
ceived q startling exemplification in San
Francisco. II is TO be hoped that in the
years to come after the victim had been
done to death, none Of those responsible
for the deed will have cause 10 regret it.
If thav do not IL will he the first instance