The record-union., 1896-06-26

WHO mas louSHl lOI MS country StlIl
has a record that silently appeals to
thousands of men. He is still recog-
| nized as a patriot and comrade by
brave and generous men.
| TELLER'S EXPECTANCY.
Los Angeles Times: Senator Teller
of Colorado withdrew from the Re-
! publican National Convention. bathed
| in tears and protesting that he was in
hearty accord with the Republican
party on every issue save that of free
| coinage. He professed to be aotuated
| solely by a high sense of duty. and
| to be profoundly grieved because the
| sound money delegates. numbering
more than eight hundred would not
allow MS little coterie of fifty or sixty
delegates to dictate the financial plank
of the platform.
1he geographic reports represented
| the scene attending Teller's with
! draWai, ana especially his remarks as
very palmetto. A careful consideration
Oh al tle circumstances makes it an
| parent that there was far more Of
pdlhos than OF pathos in the affair.
Ieiier Is now posing as a candidate
Ior the Democratic nomination for
| PRESIDENT His lightning-rod is also
! thrust into the Populist frmament in
the nope that he may draw Presidan-
| tlai lightning from that source uis
chief purpose in leaving the Ranuhli-
| can party is apparent. He did ,o+
leave the party exclusively e., 49,
health. ior MS
The Presidential bee is b,,vu,u
noisily in Teller's bonnet.
| " TIY MoETNvI nv 49,
LOS angeles Express: The onnonap+s
| - NioNiliey are trying to make II an
Leai that ms nomination was forced
| "poii 'iie party by the South. which win
| ee MN no votes, just as other similar
g.i.-iie' 'ioiis nave been made by South
sote9 III conventions in the past. but
80 49, 1'-e1iS SIS Oh the vote does not Justify
| usion 1t is true that the solid
Tue south was practically Me-
| . oul Independent of it he had
ny nlaJollly IN the Western and East
o'a'eS- morton and Quay shared
mn tne votes of their respective
anu Alllson's strength was all
- iva Need mad Maine and Massa-
anu IeW scattering votes
ei'em neie' out III the votes of the South
- ''eS had peen eliminated entirely
I'm the ejaculation and only the Re-
'o"iiceil states are considered McKin
ies hdu majority over all his oppo-
hehtS. lie had the vote of tha antiro
eAcept Iowa, and even in New
England made very good second to
Reed oiio ~
Ihere has been no nomination sipca
'he' Vi Grant quarter of a century
ago winch was so unanimous and Gu
| accent a fr = /
never mas been nomination in which
the party bosses figured so inconsnic,,-
oosly. The reason of this is not difficult
to understand. The Cleveland adrninis.
trdtlon has been one continual booro
Tor Mckinley The Wilson bill was e,,ob
an admitted failure in everv wav tbo+
1t necessarily brought the Mckinley hin
forward TO the favorable consideration
OF the voters of the country. IF was
negative instead of an affirmative meas
ure. 1t destroyed, but did not build un
whereas the Mckinley bill had q definite
object, and was especially framed to
accomplish that object The Wilson hill
had nc excuse for being except on the
theory that for political purnoses tho
mckinley bill must be repealed. 1t did
not please the free traders heca,1sa II
was not free trade measure. IT was
sectional in placing wool on the free
list and protecting Southern products
lt was so notoriously unsatisfactory
| that even the President who had urged
| Us passage refused to sign it.
THE KEYNOTE.
San Bernardino Times -Index. The ao-
tion of the convention. both in SELECTING
its candidates and in framing ire n1.+7
form, has made the tariff question the
leading issue in the comine, oamnaion
and the test of true Republicanism
" nat the country wants is to undo the
mistake of 1892 and restore prosperity
to our paralyzed industries and once
more furnish remunerative employment
10 the laborers of the country. Other
questions are subordinate to this great
American issue and can afford to wait
lor thelr solution until prosperity has
returned, until the idle wheels Of in
dustry have been set in motion and m
III the laboring masses of the peonle
are once more furnished with the oppor-
lunlty TO earn an honest livelihood and
can MAINTAIN their families in a re-
spectacle manner. That is the one issue
ana the keynote of the coming cam
paign.
A HOME LESSON.
Stockton Independent: President r
NJ. West of the Stockton Savings and
Loan Society was interviewed bv the
Examiner in San Francisco on SIM
day and said:
The nomination Of Mckinley srits
me, especially on the financial question
Don you know that the people of
stockton ship out of town two or three
hundred thousand dollars in silver that
they don't want to use? They nav
about 81 % a thousand expressage on #
TO San Francisco to get gold. simply
because they don't want to handle sill
yer and have no use for it, I am salts
lied both with the political and indus-
trial outlook"
Here is fact that very few Stockton
people know. What is true of Stock
ton is probably true of nearly everv
other interior town. People in trade
Rave to pay for what they buy on the
basis of gold, and even now it appears
that they have to pay small premium
III the form of freight. for the gold. IF
the volume of silver should be greatly
increased the expense of getting gold
would be increased il proportion or
even in greater proportion, because the