The record-union., 1896-10-17
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions Of Coast Newspapers in
Brief,
On All Shades of Political Belief and
Upon Leading Topics Of
the Day.

patches on the morning OF November
4th tell the people that this country has
| declared in favor of sound money and
the protection of American industries,
and the entire nation will be galvanized
with new hope. Within a few hours
after those election returns have been
| read, confidence, now utterly lacking,
will have been restored. Capital will
come out of its hiding places; the banks,
| which all over the country have been
! calling in every dollar possible. and
| making no loans no matter what the in
ducement, will once more resume their
legitimate business; the merchant who
has been hard pressed for money, al
| though well supplied with goods and
ordinarily possessed of first-rate credit
| will find sudden relief from the terrible
strain Of months past-in word the in
cubus Of doubt and uncertainty that has
rested upon the business world will be
suddenly lifted
| VOTE AS THEY WISH.
Red Bluff Sentinel: The attitude of
the thousands of railroad men all over
the country who are allying themselves
on the side of sound money and good
| government, is a thorn in the side of
the friends of Bryan and Sewall. 1t is
4
| the great mass of men engaged upon our
/ transportation lines should be on one
side of the great political and economic
questions of the year by a practically
unanimous vote, and they seek to break
it's effects upon the general public by
/ the most disgraceful insinuations and
ISLANDERS. They charge that coercion
I has been used by the railroad managers
and even go so far as to insinuate that
railroad men are compelled to promise
to vote for Mckinley and Hobart on
pain of dismissal from service. The po-
1 litical Slanderers who thus libel and in
| suit the railroad men OF the nation
\ manifestly have a poor opinion Of the
manhood beneath the vest of the aver
| age railroad employe, says the Wood
! land MAIL The railroad men are
| shrewd, intelligent men. They are men
who daily give proof of their courage
and manliness. It is an insult to every
one Of them to charge them with weakly
giving up their inalienable rights as Cit
izens at the dictates of anybody.
THE UNITED STATES SENATOR
SHIP.
San Bernardino Times-Index: Of
equal Importance with the National
campaign in this State is the question Of
the election of United States Senator.
In order to make the results of the cleo
tion effective in the event of Mckinley S
election-which is now a foregone con-
clusion-it is essential that he should be
supported by a Congress strongly Re-
publican in both houses. If the Repub-
lican party in California is successful
against the fusion movement it will be
| because the people recognize the i'm
portance of protection to the industries
of the coast, and to secure that we
must have a Republican House and
Senate.
No Republican voter should lose sight
Of this fact in determining his action on
the legislative ticket. The Assembly,
men and State Senators voted for and
elected will at the coming election vote
for successor to Senator Perkins, and
the State Senators will also vote for a
successor to Senator White, thus MAX
ing their selection doubly important.
The Senatorial situation it now ap-
pears is contest between Senator Per-
4 kins and T. ", Gator, 1t is true that
Senator Perkins was not nominated by
the Republican State Convention, but
so many county, Assembly District and
Senatorial District conventions have in
structed for him that he is practically
the party's candidate to be his own sue
cessor in the position he has SO ably
filled for nearly four years. Mr.. Gator
was named as a Senatorial candidate
by the Populist State Convention; he
was largely instrumental in the fusion
movement in this State, and in the legis-
lative combine was given the decided
advantage that will insure him an easy
! la yiCln two noy q
and his selection in the event Of Demo-
Populist success 1t Is also generally
understood and not denied that Sena-
tor White is in the combine with Mr..
Cator-the consideration being that the
fusion shall support Mr.. White for re-
election two years hence.
THE COERCION FAKE.
Fresno Republican: The Bryan party
is working the coercion fake for all and
more than it is worth. Having driven
tens of thousands of men out Of its
party who have acquired property and
tens of thousands more who hope to
acquire something in the future. the
managers Of the Bryan campaign are
now trying to create widespread pub
lie prejudice and array the workmen Of
the country against employers by in
dustriously circulating the statement
that a general system of bulldozing
and intimidation of employees is in prog
ress, whereby the followers of Bryan,
free coinage and free trade are coerced
into supporting the Republican ticket.
Upon it's face the charge is an impeach-
ment of the intelligence and decency of
the mass Of American employers and of
the manhood and honest citizenship Of
the workmen. 1t is a base slander of
both these elements of American citi-
zenship There has probably never
been campaign in this country when
there has not been an occasional case
where an employer has attempted to
influence his employees by means which
all good citizens despise and repudiate,
and there has probably never been a
case Of the kind in which such attempt
has not reacted disastrously upon the
scoundrel who made it and the party In
whose behalf 1t was made. But such
it become so in this campaign. It can
not become so while there is such a
large proportion Of honorable men
among employers and manly, honest
citizens among workmen. The former
will not stoop to such infamy; the lat
ter would not submit to such treatment.
AS a matter Of course, men who lose
their positions during the campaign.
for incompetency or other cause, often
find an excuse in the political prejudice
of their employers, and the legitimate