The record-union., 1896-11-09
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on Sub
jects of Living and News
Interest.

contest has been "One of the closest con-
tests that the people have been called
on to determine in years." he makes a
| statement which is absurdly false. The
election of Grover Cleveland, four years
ago, was called "a landslide" He re-
coived a total of 277 electoral votes out
| Of 444, or a majority over Harrison OF
Ito. If Mckinley has carried Kentucky
as now seems wholly probable, and has
secured one vote in Wyoming, he will
have 21S electoral votes out of 441, or
d majority over Bryan Of 1O9. Does
this look very much like a close" vote?
THEY GAVE ASSISTANCE.
Gilroy Advocate: The Republican
standard bearer and party platform
have found favor in the eyes of many
old-time Democrats. The vote for years
has been largely Democratic here and
in the township. Twelve years ago we
could count two Democratic votes to
| one Republican, and although that rela-
tive difference in the vote has been
somewhat reduced in the past two Pres
idential elections, we are sure that the
changed vote is not due 80 much to new
voters of the district as to the dissatis-
1action of many Democrats with the
Populistic alliance and the Chicago
platform.
JOURNALISTIC INSULTS.
Placer Republican,: The impression
one gets of some of the California jour-
nails must be anything but favorable,
If they are guided in their opinions by
some Of the insulting newspapers that
have stopped to methods most con-
temptible during the campaign just
closed. 1t may not be opportune to
continue a discussion of politics at this
time, but the gross insults offered to
Thomas B. Reed of Maine during his
late visit here can hardly go by unno-
| ticed.
THE BRYAN MANIFESTO.
Oakland Tribune: AS was expected,
| Mr.. Bryan has issued his manifesto.
| 1t is a cheerful sort of a document for
defeated candidate There is no lack
of pluck and courage. But politically,
MIR. Bryan is extinguished. He reminds
one Of Patricks observation about
snake that had been killed, and still
had some motion in the tail. Yes,
he Is dead, but he is not sensible of
it,"
The burden of this manifesto is that
the issue four years hence is to be
fought over agin, and that the de-
feated candidate will head the opposi-
ton once more. This is the plank on
which Bryan is now floating. There are
the usual platitudes about bimetallism,
a result which never would have been
| reached by any financial plan which
Bryan and his supporters advocated. 1t
was a good word to conjure with. But
the Bryan theory of finance led directly
TO monometallism, and to the use OF
the one metal of silver to the exclusion
CT the other.
LET THEM
Placer Republican: Now let the mills
start up while the mints are closed to
silver, if they can Let prosperity come;
the people certainly need it and do not
| care from what source 1t comes.
WELCOME ORANGES.
Alameda Telegram: The welcome Cal
| ifornia orange crop comes this year to
Ill want, just as the abundant and
delicious peach crop vanishes. Cali
| fornia oranges, too, are four weeks
earlier than usual.
COMPENSATION.
Mountain Democrat: The defeat of
| Bryan, like all accomplished facts, has
| scme compensations. The one most
gratifying to US Is that the Bava-rian
anarchist Altgeld, stand Pat" Debs
and "Pitchfork' Tillman have been
pitchforked back into the bottomless pit
| tfom which they emerged.
AN ODD THING.
| Oakland Enquirer: One Of the freaks
Of voters on Tuesday was the cutting
| Of Thomas Flint, one Of the Republican
| Electors. He ran behind about 400
| votes in San Francisco, and in Alameda
| County there is scarcely a precinct in
| which Flint was not from one to three
| votes behind. Nobody seems to know
of any attack being made upon Flint or
any special upopularity attaching to
HIM, and hence the only plausible theory
to account for his loss of votes Is laZi-
ness. Mr.. Flint's name was the last
o. the Republican group, and perhaps
some voters grew so weary after stamp
| ing the other eight Electors that they
| lacked strength to mark this name. 1t
is singular how tired some people can
grow upon slight provocation.
| EFFECT IN LOS ANGELES.
Los Angeles Express: The immense
ajority given to the Republican Pres
ident-elect is SO emphatic in its nature
| that it carries with it the conviction
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alterably opposed to an unsound cur
rency and experimental financial legis-
lation. Prior to the heat of the cam
paign that has passed there were sew
eral large undertakings that were COM
menced which were stopped and made
conditional on the election of Mckinley.
Now all these again will start UP and
there will be new projects inaugurated
| that Will insure a renewed prosperity
and industrial vigor. Prominent among
the many projects on foot in this city
| in particular was the building OF new
| street railroads and the inauguration
] OF several enterprises of a manufaetur-
| ing nature.
| SAME HERE.
Fresno Republican,: The movement to
enforce the law in Fresno requiring
parents to send children of proper age
| to school is a good one and should be
carried forward vigorously. There are
! too many idle boys on the streets. If
| kept in school or usefully employed
| they make good citizens: if permitted
/ to follow their own inclinations in nine
| cases out of ten they will help swell
the criminal ranks before they have
| become citizens.
NOT A GOLD VICTORY.
Marysville Democrat: No one need be
| deceived by the plea Of the Examiner"
| tnat the election of Mckinley is a tri-
umph for the gold standard. California
| did not go Republican on that account,
! nor did Oregon. Iowa. Minnesota or
| Illinois. The gold standard undoubted-
| y played its part. but 1t must yield
| the chief credit for the result to the