The record-union., 1896-07-15

| Los Angeles Times: 1t is not much
to be wondered at that most of the
Democratic newspapers and spokesmen
| refuse to discuss the tariff question.
From their standpoint there isn't much
to say about the tariff-and the least
| said the better for the cause But the
| tariff issue cannot thus be sideMra cked.
| In seeking to eVade the tariff ques-
tion by silence, our opponents virtually
eCncede the utter failure of their free
| trade experiment. In concedlng that
| they concede the falSeneSs and hol-
| lownesS of Democratic pretensions in
| 1897, when free-traders promised that
| the country should enjoy general and
| unprecedented prosperity under the
| Cobdenfte regime. The manner in
which these promises were fulfilled is
! known to all men. The events of the
J past three years will not soon be for
gotten The revenue deficiencies which
made the issue of bonds a necessity,
the closing of American factories that
| European mills might open, the throw
| ing of American workmen out of EN-
ployment that the underpaid toilers of
| the Old World might have work, the
suffering and distress entailed upon
millions of American citizens = these
results of the free-trade experiment
are still fresh in the minds of the peo-
pie, and the responsibility for them
cannot be avoided by silence nor
! shifted by the raising of a cloud of
dust around a financial question that
has been discussed pro and con for
a quarter of a century, and that is of
no more pressing Importance to-day
that it has been at any time for twenty
years past.
The tariff question will never be set
tied until it is settled in the right way,
| and that will be by the re-enactment
of protective tariff which protects.
| With the enactment OF such a tariff,
| the adoption of am international ratio
| between gold and silver and the pass
age of some needed amendments to
| our coinage and currency laws the
prosperity which we have lost will be
| restored, and the free coina ge fanatics
will find themselves without an issue.
| WON'T BE FOOLED.
| Alameda Encinal: We heartily in
dorse the following from the San Ber-
| nardino "Times-IndeN:" The people
are inclined to be suspicious of any
| thing that the Democracy indorses.
! Four years ago they told us that tariff
reform was a good thing; have we found
IT so? Has the laborer, the farmer, the
horticulturist, the manufacturer, the
miner, the merchant, the railroad man,
| the professional man, in fact anyone
except the bond clipper found it a good
| thing? If any of them have let them
| rise up and declare themselves. People
ruay be entitled to sympathy when they
| are fooled once, but when they are
fooled more than that by political or
| other bunco steerers they are entitled to
| none.
A QUESTION OF ENDORSEMENT
Tulare Register: The question has
been raised, Will the Chicago ticket be
| indorsed at ST. Louis? 1t ought to be,
for it is more Aopulistic than Demo-
cratic. That was a remarkable con-
vention in many ways. The only word
of complaint sent out was because of the
presence and work of lifelong Demo
c,ats-the brains of the party who have
led in many fight. Republicans. Pop
Clists, socialists and others whose teach
irgs lead to social disorder, were buzz
zing in the convention and out of it
| without a voice raised to discourage it.
Delegates in that convention cast their
l
and is yet a Republican,; they voted
| for man whose sole claim to distinc-
ton is the fact that he grossly and
wantonly insulted a President of the
United States; they voted for man
who turned loose upon his State cold
blooded murderers and avowed enemies
| of society for the one reason that it
was part of corrupt bargain whereby
1 H.. ,al two off tn hi
State; and again they voted for a dem
agogue and blatherskite who has dis
tinguished himself by creating turmoil
and discord at home, by his command
OF indecent billingsgate and by his need
less, ungentlemanly al use of his supe-
riors If the old line Democrat deems
it his duty to follow this misfir assort-
ment which has spat upon some of the
| best men of the party, may God contem-
plate his weakness with great compass
sion. There is no apparent reason why
Populists, socialists, anarchists and all
| the wrecks that strew the shores of
time should not follow this combination,
| but there is every reason why 1t should
| not be followed by Democrats who stand
| for order, respect for constituted au-
thority, for national honor. 1t is evident
that the Populist bosses have agreed to
| the work done If they did not dictate
| it 1t only remains TO be seen if they
can carry out their contracts
M'KINLEY'S RECORD.
! Los Angeles Express McKinley's
| whole life record is for silver. He voted
for the Bland and the Sherman bills and
every other silver measure that ever
| was before Congress when he was a
Congressman. If by an Overwhelming
| majority in Congress the people of the
United States should declare for silver,
| Mckinley, we believe. would not place
himself in the way of carrying out their
wishes. At the same time he as Presi-
dent could be an immense help in re-
alizing policy of protection, reciproc-
itv and the extension of our foreign
trade. all of which we consider very inn
portant.
| THE SOUTH AND CAB
| Pasadena Star: The nomination of
Bryan of Nebraska to be the standard
| bearer of the Democracy was due to
| the galleries, the South and 70 'gab.'
To a degree never before known in a
national convention the galleries ruled
/ the proceedings and dominated the sit
uation. At times the convention was
powerless in the grasp of the mob. The
| best members of both factions were
compelled to admit this. Bryan played
to the galleries" effectively, and the
hurrah bowled over those eminently re-
sepctable old war horses, Bland and
Boies, and left the other candidates
| trailing farther and farther in the rear