The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-26
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTERIOR CALI
FORNIA NEWSPAPERS.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmental, Practical, TheOret-
ical and Current.

California of paying homage to the
flowers is a very pretty one and is grow
ing in popularity With the leaves and
fruit they are the air-woven children Of
light, and there is a daintiness about
them that enchants US ALL They have
been utilized to symbolic all the graces
and all the tenderest feelings. Where
flowers abound the atmosphere is frag-
rant with something that is even
sweeter than the delicate perfume they
eXhale. What more enchanting pro-
vince in her wide dominions has Queen
Flora than California?
PROGRESS rs SLOW.
Ell Dorado Republican,: SO we say of
present evils that as they have been de-
veloping for half a century most of US
will be dead men before they are greatly
modified, and the wisest plans must be
those which involve gradual progress
toward the equalization of opportuni-
ties and the restraint of special privi-
leges.
THE ONE PARTY.
Stockton Record: There is but
one party through which there is
a possibility of working the great
National reforms that are being
urged with more or less spirit by differ
ent elements, and that is the party that
has identified itself with modern ideas
of progress; that has stood for the
Union as against the section, for the
greatest liberty of the individual con-
sistent with the welfare of the whole
The Republican party has proved it
self competent to adopt the government
OF the Union to the rapidly changing
conditions of men, and the demands i'm
posed by higher average intelligence.
1t has kept in touch with the moral
forces of the people. 1t has been the de-
clared champion of freedom, of labor, of
free public schools, of the electoral peer
age of the poor with the rich. It's first
labor was to make a home for every
American citizen who cared to tame the
wild lands, and plant civilizing infu-
ences on unoccupied territory It's very
origin was an uprising of human SYM
pathy in behalf of the oppressed. 1t
boldly espoused the cause of the bond
man, and never relinquished it's hold on
the country until it re-established the
Union, restored its shattered credit and
crowned is active efforts with an era of
prosperity that no other country in no
age had ever equaled
BETTER DAYS.
Bakersfield Echo: There are better
days in sight They are nearer than
some months hence, but a year will
bring big changes to this locality.
To begin with, before this date next
year a Republican President will be
ipaugurated, and the business of the
try ;~t,
lief. 1t will take some time for the eff
fects Of that change to reach this purely
agricultural section of country, but we
will feel it early in the change. Every
branch of business will thrill with new
life. Prices will advance as if by COM
mon consent, and everyone will pursue
his voca ton with new courage and in
creased zeal.
A DEMOCRATIC VIEW.
Fresno Expositor: The resolutions
passed by the Massachusetts, Dem
ocratic State Convention ap-
plauding the successful action of
President Cleveland in maintaining the
credit of the country while the Repub-
lican Congress, through its tactics of OBJ
struction, did all in its power to throw
the country into a state of bankruptcy,
is but an initial instance of the approval
that will be shown for the firm and fear
less administration of Mr.. Cleveland
The howl made against the bond issue
was not very ingenious specimen of
Republican maneuvering, for it does not
require an exceedingly brilliant intellect
to discover that it was the narrow
gauge patriotism and evil designs of a
notorious Republican Congress that
rendered the bond issue odious.
MUST HAVE A CHANGE.
Riverside Enterprise: We must have
a change. The good, the bright, the
joyous, the clean, the honest must have
their day in our reading and in our
minds. We must build our minds up
with the thought that is good unless we
wish to go to the bad. Nothing is so
true as this. Our thought absolutely
makes US what we are We can control
our thoughts and make them what we
will To this end we need reading that
is cheerful, that deals with happiness
and prosperity, with the good deeds of
men. There are plenty of these good
deeds-more of them than there are of
bad ones. Let the newspapers give
prominence awhile to the generous.
II.
hunt events of this nature and make a
big story out of them. The public will
thank them. There never was so much
suicide, crime, murder, insanity and
dishonesty as there are now. Part of it
is directly traceable to the horrible prom
lnence newspapers have given and are
giving to these things. For reporters,
for managing editors, for all mankind
there is dire need to take deeply into
their souls the command whatsoever
things are honest, whatsoever things
are just, whatsoever things are lovely
and of good report, think on these
ALL IT NEEDS.
Tulare Register: Chairman Taube-
neck, of the Executive Committee of
the Peoples party, informs his coadiu-
tors that the Peoples party now has
l,oOO,OOO voters in line, and all the
party needs is to have 100000 more
In order to elect a President That
party is like unto a man with a match
in his hand-all he needs in order to
have real good smoke is a pipe and
some tobacco and good luck in lighting
the match.
AT ANY PRICE.
MERGED Star: What is this we 500 in
the city papers? The great and good
Populist party limping around the
Democratic hospital begging to be
taken in on a divide for the spoils in
the Congressional districts. Shades of
the referendum, paper wads and the
calamity whine, where are you att?
Populist war cry: Office! office, Give
us office at any price.
NO STRADDLE.