The record-union., 1896-06-03
VOICE OF TIE PRESS.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTERIOR CALI
FORNIA NEWSPAPERS.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmental, Practical, TheOret-
iCal and Current.

ICal anu NuTTCHl.
Winters Express: Sacramento citi-
zens are shouting for macadamdzed
county roads. If they get them the
county will double in population within
five years, says the Marysville "Ap-
peal;" and the Appeal is right. There
is nothing like good roads to attract
immigration and build up a county.
HURRY UP.
Ukiaal Press: Miss Anna Shaw re
Gently discovered the ideal man. He is
a resident of Palo Alto and his name is
Griggs. The record does not say
whether or not he has yet been pro-
posed to by the new woman. If Miss
Anna wishes to establish the primal
record for the new race she would bet
ter lose no time.
TOO BROAD GAUGE TO BE RULED.
Redwood City Times-Gazette: If the
A. P. A organization dominated the re-
cent Republican Convention at Salcra-
TrentO as w. II. L. Barnes says it did,
how is it that the delegation to St.
Louis was pledged for Mckinley when
that organization is aVoWedly opposed
ITO the OhiOan's nomination? The fact
Of the matter is the Republican party is
too large and too liberal an organiza
ton to be controlled or dominated by
any man or men or secret society. While
many delegates were members of the
A P. A organization, they fell short
in controlling the deliberations of the
convention. General Barnes may be
an orator, but as a correspondent he is
sadly deficient
BEGINNING OF COMPLAINTS.
Fresno Expositor: Complaint is made
against the directors of the Valley road
for having awarded the contract for
constructing six passenger coaches and
eight cabooses to the Pullman Car Com
Pany, instead of California concerns.
Of course we do not know the object
prompting such action on the part of
The directors, but, from a general stand
point, they acted most unwiseIy. The
facilities for doing such work can GER
tainly be found in this State, and ait
fair figure many contractors would un-
dOubtedly have been pleased to have
received such a contract. The Valley
road has heretofore given the people
good reason to believe that California
enterprises alone would be patronized
by it wherever practicable. Why the
directors should find 1T necessary to
send abroad for oars-especially ca
bOoses, the woodwork of which any
first-class carpenter could construct
is a question We are unable to solve in
view of the obligations TO home enter
prises under which the Valley road
managers have placed themselves.
Since, when the road shall have been
completed, a large percentage of the
cCmpany's assets will have voluntarily
come from the people OF this valley, we
hope the road will see fit to adopt a
reciprocal policy and follow it up with
consistent practice.
IT DON'T FIT.
Stockton Independent: The Su-
preme Court decision in the sugar
bounty case is not in disregard of the
California Populist platform as some
suppose. That platform only asks that
the court be deprived of the power to
declare laws unconstitutional What
the POpulists want is a court that will
substitute their party platform for the
Constitution of the United States.
A STRANGE SUBSTITUTION.
San Diego Sun: When Secretary
Morton was in San Diego he made
a plain, unequivocal and easily
quoted statement in regard to the
relative merits Of San Diego. San Pedro
and Santa Monica harbors, the COM
ment having special applica ton to the
proposed 100000 appropriation at
Santa Monica or San Pedro. His state
Dlent was sent out over the wire
through the agency of the Associated
Press. In that statement he was in
part quoted as saying that it would be
folly for the Government to expend one
dollar in constructing an artificial har-
Dor 80 near to San Diego, a natural
haven"
IN this form the dispatch was printed
in Western newspapers, but the New
York World" received here yesterday,
contained it in a different form, as fol-
lows:
san Diego (CaI), May 21.-Secretary
Morton arrived in this city last evening.
He was given an informal reception by
the Chamber of Commerce. In referring
to the proposed 100000 approprfa-
ton for Santa Monica he declared en-
phatically that ii was utter folly for
the Government to eXpend one dollar
in constructing an artificial harbor so
near TO san Pedro, a natural haven"
There, it win be seen, the word San
Pedro is substituted for San Diego, a
natural haven"
Now, the question arises, how did that