The record-union., 1896-08-23
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions Of Coast Newspapers in
Brief
On All Shades of Political Bslief and
Upon Leading Topics Of
the Day.

an-Review," which we print on an
other page. The letter was addressed
to that paper because of the proximity
of it's place of publication to the north
ern portion of the State of Idaho, and
because that paper was taking part in
a discussion by people of Idaho of some
of the matters of the political cam
paign. Governor Mcconnell explains
why he, though a silver man, cannot
support Mr.. Bryan for the Presidency
His argument will meet the views of
many, not only in Idaho, but in Wash
ington and Oregon. 1t is a statement,
substantially, in accord with the views
of Senator Wolcott of Colorado, and of
those which it is understood Senator
Mitchell will present to the people of
| Oregon. 1t is the position of those
who, though advocates of silver, are
not silver monometallists, and who can
not support the demo -populist plat
form and ticket because the party of
that platform and ticket is against pro-
lection and reciprocity, and because its
policy would lead to silver monomet-
allism.
HARP-TUNING.
| Los Angeles Times: AS has been fire.
quently said, but which may be repeat
ed again, there is a fearful lot of clap
trap that the assertion of the one and
great thing necessary to restore pros
perity to the country is to restore silver
to its former position. Speaking about
| this the ST. Louis "Globe-Democrat''
says: When the free coiners talk about
the necessity of restoring silver to the
position that it occupied prior to 1873,
they ignore the fact that the Govern
ment has done that very thing fifty
times over by the coinage of more than
fifty times as many silver dollars as
were coined in the whole previous his
| tory of the country" 1t is time for
them to tune their harp to another
string.
A POOR PHYSICIAN.
Sockton Independent: Mr.. Bryan pic
tured the condition of the working peo-
pie as being pitiable in the extreme,
and attributed their sufferings to the
| decentralization of silver, which de
monetization" put more silver in cir
culation than the country had ever
seen. When in Congress he drew sim
liar picture of popular suffering and
attributed it to the high tariff. The
cure he then prescribed was a lower
tariff or rather free trade The lower tar
if came, but the suffering, which, when
he GRATED in Congress was mostly i'm
| aginary, under the low tariff became
real Low tariff or free trade having
failed to relieve it he now prescribes
free silver and steadily ignores his pre-
scription of four years ago. Having
proved to be so poor a physician, then,
both as to the cause and the cure of
the trouble, should his diagnosis or
treatment be trusted now? AS finan-
cial physician he proved a failure in
Congress, and the working people
should not promote to the Presidency
the man who helped to cause their mis-
cry
VOTE FOR BRYAN
Winnemucca Silver State: The first
logical opportunity since silver was
demonetized to elect a man to the
Presidency of the United States who fa-
vors unequivocally the free coinage of
silver at the ratio of 16 to l, without
waiting for the consent of any other ma
ton on earth, is now offered, and any
person who, for the sake of petty po-
litical aspirations, attempts to confuse
matters in any way, shape or manner
should be looked upon as an enemy to
the cause and treated as such.
The restoration of silver is above the
success of any party; is above the per-
sonality of any man, and is without
question the turning point in the veal
or woe of our country. 1t is a time for
patriotism above partisanship and
every man or woman who has a child
or ever expects to have one should en-
ulate the spirit of our ancestors
| IL -
cause of independence now as those pa
triots did then the same unselfshness
and loyalty to country The success
or failure of the silver cause means
much to the children of the present
generation. 1t means whether they are
to have avenues of success opened or
| closed to them.
A QUESTION.
Fresno Watchman: The owners of
gold are trying to frighten wage-earn-
ers into voting the gold ticket by say
ing that gold will go up in value if free
coinage of silver is allowed. If the
owners of gold, who are mainly wealthy
spectators, believed that they would
keep still and vote for free silver them
selves. When did they ever try to stop
their wealth from multiplying?
ENLIGHTENED SELFISHNESS.
San Jose Herald: In the East the
| banks of the smaller cities are cooper
ating with those of the great centers to
assist the Government in maintaing the
gold reserve. This is enlightened self
| ishness on the part of the banks for
which they deserve credit But how
long will they be content to hold up the
treasury in this way unless the Gov
ernment and the people take some
steps to enable the treasury to stand
alone This they will never do under
the rule of Republicanism, which stands
pledged to maintain the existing order
of monetary affairs.
TURN 1T LOOSE.
Yreka Journal: The Democrats say
the rich men and manufacturers want
protective tariff. in order to make some
thing in the way of investing money
| Well, the man with 100000 is rich
enough to get along without investing
it, and certainly will not do so at loss.
If his money is turned loose in the way
Of manufacturing or any other enter
prise it will give employment to large
| numbers of men and women, whose
wages will prove highly beneficial also
to farmers and business men of all
| kinds. Free silver coinage will not
change this feature in any manner
| whatever. Free silver will merely cut
a dollar in half and make it worth just
| what the metal sells for in the mar
&et. or 80 TO l of gold; t. e., 30 ounces of
silver to one ounce of gold, in place of
Is to /.
STRAW ESTIMATES.
Tulare Register: 1t is well to attach