The record-union., 1896-08-12
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
From Coast Papers on Both Sides of
Political and Other Questions.

Santa Barbara Press: 1t is said that
Bryan is good husband and father"
and stands we'll in the church. All
this is very satisfactory and speaks we'll
for him as man: but it is not the do
mestic virtues that he possesses, but his
political opinions concerning a 90 per
cent. dollar that are called in question.
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM.
Los Angeles Times: The platform
framed by the Chicago Convention is
such as might have been expected from
a body of men which received Altgeld
into full and cordial fellowship. Con-
sidering its source and it's declarations,
the Chicago platform fully justifies the
distrust entertained for it, and for those
who indorse it, by all conservative and
patriotic citizens. 1t denounces the ac-
ton of the President of the United
States in preserving the public peace at
a time of great excitement and danger,
as an arbitrary interference by the
Federal authorities in local affairs" and
as violation Of the Constitution of
the United States and a crime against
free institutions: and this in the face
of the fact that the Supreme Court of
the United States has declared the
Presidents action to be in strict con-
formity to the law and the Constitution.
The same plank of the Chicago platform
denounces Judges of the Federal courts
for using the authority conferred upon
them by law to enforce their mandates.
A court which had not the power to en-
force it's DEGREES could not command the
respect of the public, and to take from
the courts this power would be to make
farce of all law and all constitutional
authority. Such a condition would prac-
tically be a condition of anarchy.
Thus, the platform upon which young
| Mr.. Brayn stands declares in effect for
the unhindered rule Of the mob, de-
| nounces the President for preserving
the public peace when life and property
We're seriously menaced, denounces the
| Supreme Court, inferentially, for sus-
| tanning the President and the Federal
courts, and declares in favor of strip
ping the Federal Judges of the power to
| enforce their mandates.
| WHERE ARE WE CAT"
Los Angeles Record: The papers and
the people who were gold Republicans
before the ST Louis Convention, and
who have supported the gold platform
adopted at the convention are to be
respected for the candor and sincerity
of their convictions and the consistency
of their position.
| But what of the papers and the peo-
pie who for years have paraded their
love for the free silver cause and battled
for what they professed to believe were
the silver rights of the dear people, and
whom an insidious party alchemy con-
| I'D ;,1{1 to,
of an eye. after the st. Louis Conven-
ton, dominated as it was by the gold mo-
nopoly power of the East, declared that
the Republican policy should for this
year at least be gold policy?
What of them? Where are they "at?"
What sort of figure do they cut in
public estimation?
How much conviction do their argu-
ments carry, who one day proclaimed
that the only salvation for the country
lay through the rehabilitation of silver,
and the next day denounced as anareh-
lists and blatherskites all who believe in
the free coinage of silver?
EXTREME IDEAS UNSAFE.
Visalia Delta: The mere coinage of
| g vast amount of silver will not alone
make it circulate abundantly among
the people. And If large amount
were put into circulation at once it
| would be diverted into the same chan
| nels of trade which all money flows
We could accommodate a larger
amount than we have now but too
great a stock would cheaper it as
| a surplus of wheat in the markets of
the world reduces the price. When,
under the Sherman law, the Govern
ment purchased 100000 ounces of sill
Yer a month, every dollar coined was