The record-union., 1896-07-16

and fidelity of the present Democratic
| administration
| Thus that party condemns its own
| work. Thus it proclaims to the world
| its past blunders. Thus it admits that
the people made great mistake four
years ago in putting power into the
| hands of the man receiving it's indorse-
ment.
| Has the party grown better or has Mr.
| Cleveland grown worse? The question
| is theirs-not ours. But can the party
that has made such plumbers in the past
and now convicts itself of the same be
trusted in the future? This is the peo-
pies question. With confidence the Re-
publicans await the answer the people
will give in November
WILL HELP M'KTNLEY.
San Diego Tribune: The nomination
of Bryan will contribute largely to wild
ening the breach in the Democratic
party. A pronounced silver advocate.
he will lose the support of the gold ele-
ment of his party, while his lack of the
essential qualities of craftsmanship
will lose him many votes among ''old
school, representatives of his party. On
the whole, his nomination may be ex-
pected to contribute largely to the over
Whelming victory of Mckinley.
THE DIFFERENCE
/ San Bernardino Times Index: The
difference between Altgeld and Herr
cage Convention called, is simply meas
ured by dollars.
| WILL IT SURRENDER?
Riverside Press: While it is evident
that there is little to choose between
the Democratic party as now consti-
tuted and the Populists, it remains to
be seen whether the party of the refer
endum and the imperative mandate
| will surrender it's organization and re-
tire from the political field in the inter
est of the older organization. That the
Democrats will bend every energy to
secure such a result is certain.
WILL BE USED UP.
Colusa Herald: The foaming Altgeld
starts in Illinois with a loud hurrah
But he reminds us Of certain kinds of
race horses which start to run mile,
but exhaust themselves before they
have gone half the distance 1t will not
take more than a month to use Altgeld
up
MORE THAN CAN BE MINED.
Bakersfield Echo: Protection don't
coin money, and money is what the
people are asking for in this year of our
Lord 1S96.-Hanford Democrat.
This is both true and untrue. In the
sense of putting out coins fresh from
the minis, protection has nothing to do
with it, but under the Republican sys-
tenn of tariffs, when we bought much
less than we sold, more new money
was turned loose in this country each
year to settle our balance of trade than
the silver mines could possibly produce.
And it kept in motion, too, which is
| more important. Idle money does no
one any good. That is the chief trou-
bic with the country now. We have
sent our manufacturing abroad, leaving
both our people and our money in idle
ness. A high tariff will reverse this,
| and bring us more millions each year
from abroad to pay off the balance of
trade than can possibly be MINED in
| this country.
THE REAL ISSUE.
| San Diego Union: The attempt to
make people believe that protection is
| not an ISSUE VIII succeed WITH very lew
voters. The simple fact is that those who
are making this claim know we'll enough
| that protection is both an issue and the
| issue, and they are afraid to face 1t.
| 1t is not a rash prediction to say that be-
| fore the campaign is over politicians
who are thus trying to dodge the ques-
ton will find protection a very lively
| issue, and when the votes are counted
in November it win be made plain that
it was the issue that decided the cleo
| tion.
| NOT EXTRAORDINARY.
! Santa Barbara Press: The Chicago
| convention was presumably a gathering
/ Of politicians for the purpose of nomi-
mating a stadard bearer in the coming
| Presidential campaign on the great is
sues Of finance and tariff, but from all
appearances, it turned out to be an ora
| torical contest in which Demosthenes
/ Bryan won. The speech was not extra
| ordinary; it contains no sentiments of
/ genius expressed in burning words that
might become Slogans in the campaign.
| At all events, the platform adopted has
| thrown out the lines on Which the po-
litical war is to be waged by the Demo-
| cratic party but at the same time 1T
seems to make Republican victory surer.