The record-union., 1896-09-21

IADDLED.
Los Angeles Express: The New York
Democracy straddled the political situ-
alton by indorsing the Chicago platform
and nominating a pronounced gold man
for Governor. No Democrat in New
York has been more pronounced against
the free silver idea than John Boyd
Thatcher, who received the nomination
for Governor.
MUNICIPAL BONDS BEGGING.
Oakland Enquirer: What condition
the municipal bond business will be in If
Bryan is elected and free silver wins is
a question which might we'll engage the
attention Of people living in towns that
desire to buy water works, establish
electric light works or acquire parks.
Many Democrats and Populists believe
in these things who do not wish to see
| the Federal Government issue bonds IN
a time of peace; but If the country
should go to the basis Of a fluctuating
silver currency it would be very hard
for towns to borrow money for a long
time to come, because lenders would
not know what to expect. Indeed the
mere prospect OF silver basis has
brought the condition in which the mu-
nicipal bonds are unmarketable An
Eastern financial journal prints list
OF sixty-one cities and counties which
have offered bonds, amounting to S11,-
100000, since the Chicago convention,
and have been unable to sell them.
A QUESTION OF RESULT.
Fresno Republican,: Vast numbers of
the real bimetallists and earnest friends
Of silver have decided that 1t IS better
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triumph of their policy rather than trust
their cause to the Democratic free coin
ers. If this country should go to sill :
yer basis under the Democratic pro-
gramme the cause of bimetallism would
not be promoted, but in all probability
its establishment would be made more
remote.
OF INDEPENDENCE
Jackson Republican: When 1T was
learned years ago that some Americans
had established factories abroad where
they could manufacture goods for ship
ment to this country cheaper than they
could make them here, there was a great
outcry at this discrimination against
American labor. When Englishmen pro-
pose to invest capital In this country
and give employment to American labor,
Mr. Bryan's followers demand that we
shall be independent of England" In
dependence without employment is an
empty thing. The more foreign capital
is invested In America the greater is the
opportunity for the workingmen to earn
American wages.
WANTING.
Fresno Republican: Every plea of the
Democracy for better times is q protest
against the Democracy now in power.
1t is well to remember, too, that Cleve-
land went into power under a promise
to maintain that bimetallism which ell
the vast power of the administration
has been employed to crush. It was a
false promise that the Democracy made
In 1892, and what reason Is there to
suppose that the treachery will not be
repeated in 1895? It has been weighed
In the balance and found wanting, and
what good reason can there be for try
ing it again?
PAPER MONEY NEXT.
Pasadena Star: One Of the speakers
at the Wednesday evenings meeting of
the Bryan Club was frank enough to
voice the obligations Of the free silver
people to the old Greenback party. He
lauded the organization for expanding
the currency, and plainly acknowledged
that the Democratic and the Populist
parties Of the present day derive their
inspiratio from the Greenbackers Of
twenty years ago. He is right The
same exploded idea of fiat money Is at
the foundation of the free silver prop
aganda Of 1885, and by the time another
four years rolls around we may con-
fidently expect to see the Popocratic
combination in full tilt against the Re
publican party under the banner Of an
unlimited issue Of irredeemable paper
money. This is to be the logical out
come of the demand for an unlimited is
sue Of silver at the ratio Of 16 to /.
The Populists, the successors Of the
Greenbackers Will, demand It; they
would demand it now II they did not be-
lieve that free silver at a ratio that will
insure silver monometallism is but a
stepping stone towards fiat paper mon
ey, pure and simple. The Democrats
who uphold Bryan and the Chicago
platform this year vii be found four
years hence shouting in unison with the
Fopulists for more money and cheaper
money-the cheapest money to be had,
which may be turned out Of the Govern
ment printing presses.
AN ATROCIOUS LIBEL.
Red Bluff Sentinel: The "Fruitmen's s
Guide" Of New York is guilty of maxi
ing q false and malicious statement
concerning California sun-cured fruits
which no paper in the State should per-
NIT to pass unchallenged. The fact
that the libel is published in connection
with paid advertisement does not
lessen the guilt Of the publIsher nor de-
tract from its harmful character "It
is claimed" says the journal, "by one
who is an authority on the subject,
that the whole State Of California Is
notably dirty and neglectfM in the
preparation Of dried fruits for the mar
ket They are sun-dried In dust and
dirt, where insects have access to them
and are sulphured until Juice and flavor
are lost and destroyed, then put in cot
ton sacks and shipped East in dirty
cars for Eastern consumers"
BRYAN VS.. BRYAN.
Placerville Nugget: The iowa State
Leader Dem.) brings out an impor-
tant contribution to the literature Of
this campaign by finding an editorial
Of the Omaha "World-Herald" printed
in 1893, when Mr.. Bryan was the editor
of that paper, and responsible for what
appeared in it's editorial columns Then
he was q free coinage advocate but for
honest dollars-one that had a dollars
worth Of silver In It, not 50 cents
worth. His paper did not scruple to
call 10 to / advocates dishonest"
THE WORLD HAS.
Reno Gazette: The party Of but one