The record-union., 1896-10-24
Voice OF THE PRESS.
expressions Of Coast Newspapers in
Brief,
On All Shades of Political Belief and
Upon Leading Topics of
the Day.

of business Hard times will disappear
with the disappearance from power of
the party that caused them. And to
make Republican success emphatic and
eHectual, the fusion ticket should be
defeated from Bryan down.
THE POSITION OF THE FARMER.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: John M. Stahl
Secretary Farmers National Congress
of the United States, has contributed
lately two notable articles on the up
permost questions of the hour-one in
the North American" entitled Are the
Farmers Populists?" and the other on
Free Coinage and Farmers in the Oc-
tober Forum" Mr.. Stahl reviews the
situation and concludes that farmers
will in the present, as in the past, think
out the problem with intelligence and
integrity, and vote for the greatest
good to the greatest number, and
against "the free and unlimited coinage
of both silver and gold at the present
legal ratio of 16 to l, without waiting
for the aid or consent of any other ma
ton" In a footnote Mr.. Stahl writes as
follows:
"An analysis of election statistics
shows that the city and not the coun-
try has furnished the majorities for
debased currency, just as the city and
not the country has furnished the Pop
ulist vote. This is contrary to popular
belief, but it is none the less true. The
farmer vote has always been the bull
wark of sound finance"
AN UNTRUTH.
Visalia Delta: The statement of c. H.
Castle, Democratic and Populist can
didate for Congress in this district. that
plutocracy means a standing army to
reduce men who toll to serfdom, and
that they begin by organizing Ma
tional Guard in each State, indicates
dense ignorance or something worse in
Dr. Castle The United States statute
providing for the organization Of the
militia (for which provision is made in
the Federal Constitution) was passed in
1890, and has not been materially al
tered, if at all, to this day. That was
before the word plutocrat had been
coined. This system" does not in
crease the standing army over 2OO.-
900 men, as he says. At the time he
wrote his letter thesStrength of the Ma
tional Guard of all the States was about
10000. No order Gas he claims) has
ever been issued placing the militia, in
times of domestic disturbance, under
the command of regular army officers.
He has no other authority for such a
statement than his own imagination.
Cleveland gave no instruction to army
officers in the strike of 1894, ordering
the Wholesale slaughter of so-called
rioters" 1t is not a difficult matter to
get these orders and quote them cor
rectly.
The statement that the National
Guard Gn some States called militia,
State guards or State troops) has been
gradually and quietly increased as part
Of a scheme to reduce the people to
peonage is absurd and untrue. At the
time our Government was founded the
militia organized and unorganized
was calculated, as now, to embrace all
the able bodied citizens of military age.
WE CAN'T AFFORD IT.
Tulare Register: The natural position
of California is one of extreme Opposi-
ton to Populism and all that Populism
stands for. The State has no legitimate
interest in the rainbow chasing which
just now stands exemplified in the per-
son of William Jennings Bryan. De-
mocracy does not appear in interest in
this State as 1t is a contest between Re-
publicanis1n and Populism, and the well
fare of our State for years to come is
at stake. Free trade and cheap
money" the twin denominations fostered
and petted by the boy orator of the
Platte, are utterly at variance with all
substantial interests of California, past,
present and future.
sChaap roonav', will not nav nyiStinp
debts in California because every man
who has placed his name to the business
end of any obligation has obligated him
self to pay in money which is not cheap
the kind that the high priests of the
free silver crusade require from their
debtors Cheap money" will not go
against contracts to the contrary. We
have not a sufficient portion of the silver
combine that we may hope to gather
crumbs of prosperity which may fall
from the tables of the silver lords.
AN ANGRY LOT.
Santa Rosa Republican,: The political
mixers of high and wdegree are squeal-
ing because Mckinley has SO thoroughly
demolished their fiat money scheme and
now they find fault with him for not
talking about some other things-trusts,
for instance. Well, the people will not
take them on trust or any other way.
They are working for the silver COM
bine-the biggest trust this country ever
knew, and they cannot say or do any
thing to conceal this fact Mckinley is
for the country, the whole country, and
its legitimate interests.
KIN ALL BE RICH
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: 'I am a
Door man, but I hev little home tibet
] kin raise S100 on, and jest as soon as
Mr.. O'Brien is elected and free silver is
ashured, lam going to buy $50 Mexican
dollars for my 500 and then will send
them TO the nearest mint and hev 'em
melted and coined into American dol
lars. Then / will buy 342 Mexican dol
lars with my 1S5 American dollars and
have em coined free as before; then.
with nv 342 Mexican dollars / will buy
475 Mexican dollars agen, and so on,
untIl I become a bloted millionaire like
Mr.. SewaH, or the supply Of Mexican
dollars gives out. Say, what do you
think of me skeem? L know O'Brien is
nothing but a durn fool boy, but all we
want is free silver, and a durn lot of It,
So keep a shoutin', my feller-workmen,
till November, and we kin all be rich and
won't have to work, nuther.
a GOOD STORY ABOUT MCKINLEY
Oakland Enquirer: In this connec-
ton the Enquirer will repeat true
story which 1t first printed some months
ago, and which shows Mckinleys at
tit1,de toward organized labor. Twenty
five wears ago, during miners strike
the Warrington colliery was blown up
causing loss of life and property; the