The record-union., 1896-10-18
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions Of Coast Newspapers in
Brief,
On All Shades of Political Belief and
Upon Leading Topics OF
the Day.

Santa Barbara Press: The masses OF
the people are generally honest' anu
they vote according to their knowledge
OF a subject In this campaign OF ed-
ucation they have learned the meaning
OF free silver and it's tendency TO hlSh
prices and low wages, and they may be
depended on to vote for sound money
SUPPOSE.
Tulare Register: Suppose Mr.. Bryan
liz elected and suppose he succeeds In
getting his scheme adopted as the ma
tional policy. Suppose it results as
great majority of the business men Of
this country believe it will result-in
the withdrawal of gold from circula-
tion the calling in Of loans and gen.
eral hedging in all operations to await
results. What will be the condition of
the Californian whose obligations are
payable in gold? What will he do when
they become due? What will be his
condition when merchants are forced to
shut off on credit? These are points to
consider before determining if we can
fake the risk.
GATOR.
Oakland Times: t. v. Gator, Popu-
list, who has the Senatorial itch in an
aggravated form, is said to have swal-
lowed the Democratic party in this
State, and it looks that way. If the
Populists have Jared as we'll every
where as they have in California they
would get all the pie if that side should
be struck by political lightning in No
Vember.
OREGON.
Santa Rosa Republican: Some time
ago our Popocratic contemporaries were
pretending to quote Senator Mcbride
of Oregon as a supporter of Bryan
This must have been mistake. Late
dispatches are to the effect that he had
just visited Republican national head
quarters at Chicago and had assured
the committee that the cause of Repub-
iicanism is rapidly growing stronger in
Oregon and that Mckinley and Hobart
Will carry that State by a very decided
majority. The silver monometallists are
losing ground everywhere every day
az the people discover that the only
hope Of true bimetallism is with and
through the Republican party.
SPIRIT OF REVOLUTION.
Alameda Telegram: The atmosphere
of the Chicago Convention was sur
charged with the spirit of revolution
It's platform was carried and it's nom
nations made with the accompanying
Incidents of frenzy that startled the
onlookers and amazed the country. The
courts and the President were arraigned
for enforcing the law, and government
by the mob was given preference over
government by law enforced by the
courts DEGREES and by executive orders.
7 he spirit exhibited in that convention
was so wild and vicious that Senator
Hill of New York was moved to ex-
claim: II am a Democrat; I am not a
revolutionist" and he and his Demo-
cratic compatriots arose and withdrew
from the hall.
MAKING A MISTAKE
Oroville Register: Republicans who
vote for free silver this year are max
ing a mistake. The nation is sure to
80 for Mckinley, and Republicans in
California ought to be in line with the
President. If this State goes for Bryan
it places US at a disadvantage in asking
anything from the administration next
Year. The Republicans of California
have but one complaint to make, and
that is the free silver idea.
They ought to know the party we'll
enough in the past to know that every
dollar of silver this nation can use will
be coined if the Republicans are in
power. We believe those Republicans
who vote against Mckinley this fall
Will regret their action in the future
and realize that they ought to have
stuck to their old party.
GATORS MANIPULATION.
Oakland Enquirer: 1t required some
such ocular demonstration as that fur
Eished by our table Of Assembly NOM
nations presented to-day to show how
far the unholy scheme Of gerrymander-
ing in the interest Of T. Y. Gator as a
candidate for the United States Senate
has gone. Out of siXty-two nomina-
ticns for the Assembly in the country
districts the Democrats have taken just
eighteen, and if ever a party sold itself
tcr a. mess of pottage it is the Demo-
ocratic organization in the State of Cal
ifornia. 1t is playing the part of a
stepladder on which Thomas V Gator
q man Objectionable from every point
of view, and having hardly ore princi-
pie in connection with Democracy, pro-
poses to climb into the United States
Senate.
AS has been many times said be-
fore, the voters this year must make
their choice for United States Senator
between Gator and George c. Perkins
for nobody else Is in the race. When
the issue is so plain, can any patriotic
Democrat in the county Of Alameda
afford to hesitate? Indeed, can any
sincere Populist who loves country
better than party. think he would be
doing his duty by voting to put Gator
in the Senate? He is a man thor
oughly distrusted by half OF his own
party-exposed and denounced by such
journals as the San Francisco Star, "
and accused Of freshly selling out his
party in San Francisco to Chris Buck
Icy. Can any one seriously contend
that it would be a step toward reform
TO elect Gator?
DISASTERS OF FIAT.
Los Angeles Express: Bryan in Min
nesota yesterday stated TO the farmers
that what was needed was a currency
that could be increased in volume SC
as to appreciate the price of products
and stated that the United States Gov
ernment could control it's own currency
without the aid or cooperation of other
countries. Mr.. Bryan states these plat
itudes with free and debonnair way
regardless of the experience of the
countries Of the world in the matter OF
issuing fat money. History is replett
with innumerable instances of the fol-
lowing Of the same principles on which
the free silver fallacy is based.
SOME FIGURES.
San Bernardino Times Index: The
American Protective Tariff League sons
time ago undertook an investigation oi