The record-union., 1896-10-26
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most of the voting
LOOK TO CONGRESS.
Redding Free Press: The importance
tC California of sending solid Repub-
lican delegation to Washington to rep
resent its interests in the halls of legis-
lation can scarcely be measured, and be-
comes more pertinent day by day as
evidence accumulates of the certainty
that a great Republican cyclone will
soon sweep over this broad land of lib
erty, and which will surely culminate
i'll an overwhelming victory on the 3D.
of November, and will return to the Re-
publican party the power to conduct the
affairs of his great nation on the lines
of broad and enlightened statesman
ship and sound business principles by
which that party was guided and which
so successfully administered the affairs
of this nation for thirty years, and
brought to its people high measure
of progress and prosperity that has no
parallel in history. In view of these
facts, it is of vital interest to the well
fare of this Golden State and to the
dearest interests Of the people thereof,
irrespective of party affiliations, that
this land of sunshine, teeming with un-
limited resources and immeasurable
possibilities of such magnitude. should
become the peer of any State in the
Union. 1t is then matter of more than
ordinary concern that at the coming
election ii should give the Republican
candidates such a rousing majority as
will place the State in the front rank
as a prominent factor in the defeat Of
+l1e o1o,
best interests of the people of this great
commonwealth.
| MYSTERIES BEFORE COLLAPSE.
Oakland Tribune: There is now to
| be a short season of political mysteries
| before the entire collapse of the Chi
cago fusion ticket. There were symp-
| toms of it some time ago. Things were
going wrong. Bryan had altered his
| tone striking the lower notes Of his
register more frequently. Now comes
| jones, Chairman of the fusion wing Of
| the Democratic party, and says as
| plainly as can be, that things are going
wrong. The great corporations do not
stand in with him. The men who en-
| plOy thousands of laborers are not Civ
| ing any support to his ticket The la
| borers themselves are all going the
| other way. In short, this beginning
Of the land slide betokens the avalanche
that is coming. Hence this wailug that
comes up from Chicago.
1T is the old story put in the form Of
| a political libel. All wage earners who
refuse to support the Bryan ticket are
cCerced. They were under the rule of
| the bosses. Nothing was conceded to
| the intelligence of the voters. Henry
| George was sent out to survey the sit
uation. For most of the time he was
| in a political desert. He accounted for
| the dry times in much the same way.
There was coercion somewhere He
could not find any special instances
| But something was wrong when eighty
| thousand wage earners in n single
! day went to Canton TO greet Mckinley.
| OF course they We're coerced-driven
| like sheep, or how else would they go
| there in such immense crowds?
Then the great manufacturers were
| looking after their men, and were part
Of great conspiracy to defeat Bryan.
The preachers. with few exceptions.
were in the great conspiracy. Bryan
himself had said as much when he
abused them roundly in one Of his
! Delaware speeches. The business men
were IN the same great conspiracy.
Even the professors in colleges had not
| full liberty of speech, but We're Obliged
to speak with muffied voices.
| The political hys.eri9 Is culminat ting
| IN the declaration of Jones 1t is wild
| and weird, and suggests the rear ap-
proach of the final collapse
A THREAT.
! Alameda Telegram: Mr. BRYAN as
serts in effect that those who desert the
party this year Will not be permitted to
| return 70 the fold except as penitents.
coming in sackcloth and ashes and taxi
| Ing back seat. The history of parties
| does not encourage that belief. Some
| OF the houored leaders of both parties
| for the past twenty-five years have
he eu men who had gone over to the op-
| | s.tion and nave come back again.
| TTfere is always a light In the window
To lure the wanderer home He can al
" ,ys come in at the front door and he
| is cften accorded hoEors that are de-
Med TO euslly deserving men who have
| rot strayed.