The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-06-23

farmer wants If reversed, and the gro
Ger and retail dealer want it reversed,
that they may recover their employ
ment and their customers; that their
list of bad debts from honest people
unable to pay may be reduced by the
honest poor being able to pay. Every
body but the blind partisan of free
trade and their designing misleaders
want it reversed, and good times re-
stored For this reason thousands will
vote for Mckinley who never voted for
Republican candidate, because they
know that in voting for him they will
vote away hard times, vote for better
food, better clothing, better employ
ment, better wages, and the rebuke of
those whose blind adhesion to wrong
theories have spread idleness, misery
and vice broadcast in the land.
WILL REMAIN TRUE TO THE
PARTY.
Los Angeles Express: The fight for
silver must continue and viii continue.
1t is gaining strength, and as it is
breaking up sectional lines between
the North and South, it has already
accomplished much good. Bimetallism
| is most desirable, bimetallis1n must pre-
vail before the country is completely
| restored to prosperity, but it will not
help the condition of affairs to substi-
tute one evil for another. Better a gold
standard and protection under a Re
publican rule than silver, free trade and
four years more of Democracy. The
only party that has ever done anything
| for silver is the Republican party. and
the friends of silver are so numerous
in it's ranks that they can force it to
enact favorable legislation in it's inter
ests. AT amy rate, in a republic the ma
jority must rule, and the Express" will
| continue its feaTty to the Republican
party, believing that it can thus best
serve the interests of the country.
STRENGTH OF BOLTERS.
Stockton Record: No boiling contin-
| ceeded in carrying their views to
drive the party they leave in the oppo-
site direction and TO destroy whatever
| sympathy they may have otherwise ex-
| pected from the colleagues they desert.
| Nothing can be gained for silver by
making it a sectional issue and divorc-
| ing it from the policies and issues that
| divide the people into parties the coun-
| try over. The demand of the country is
! first for revenue laws that will supply
an income equal to expenditures When
| this is done, as it viii be done by the Re
publican party, the money question will
be much easier to regulate for then the
| ills of trade and production cannot be
| ascribed to anything but persistence in
| the gold standard.
AS to the Democratic party, the ap-
parent demand for a silver platform is
not only manufactured, but is deceitful.
| The West cannot depend on the Demo-
| cratic party to carry out its promises.
1t has been tried and found wanting. 1t
is itself divided, and even its organs in
| California tell their readers that those
Democrats who controlled their conven-
| ton and really lead the party are gold
sympathizers in disguise.
| CLEAR AND EXPLICIT.
Oakland Tribune: There are no equiv
ocations and no doubtful expressions
admitting of a double Interpretation
| On the two great leading issues the
country demanded clear-cut statements.
| These have gone into the formal declar-
alton of principles. The free silver men
| anu Int liet lIdubIS kIlOW just what the
| platform means. 1t is broad, liberal and
| aggressive. 1t is the reaffirmation of
| the cardinal principles which have car
ried the Republican party into power in
other days. 1t was q most eventful day
| in the history of the country when the
| man and the platform were formally
| placed before the people.
HE WAS DEMANDED.
| Fresno Republican: The selection of
William Mckinley as the Republican
standard bearer is the logical result of
prevailing conditions. His name is in
separately linked with the development
of American industry, the employment
of American labor and the growth of
American trade under the system of
protection and reciprocity which bears
his name. The demand for his nominal
ton has come from the masses of the
Republican party SO spontaneously and
with such irresistible force that the tri-
umvirate of party leaders, Quay. Plat
and Clarkson, were unable to stem the
tide, and their plans were swept away
by the force of public opinion like drift
wood before a tidal wave. The same
force of public opinion which compelled
McKinley's nomination against the will
of the political bosses will carry him to