The record-union., 1896-09-21

tariff and the third to the party re-
forms as a whole. The Bryan Club
however, refused to debate the queS-
ton Of the platform or the tariff for fear
that 1t would divert public thought
from the question Of making fifty cents
worth Of bullion, worth in the market
Of the world, 100 cents. Such bigotry
is to be pitied in any individual, and
much more in a political party that
claims to have the best interests of
the country at heart. The Republican
party is always ready to turn a flood
Of light upon any question that 1t
advocates or opposes.
A QUESTION ASKED.
Mountain Messenger: If the Chicago
platform proclaims the true spirit of
Democracy, why Is it that a large body
Of Democrats, the most prominent In the
party, men who have grown gray in
its service, have renounced the platform
and candidates of that convention?
There can be no better judges Of true
Democracy than Democrats themselves
and the action of the old warhorses in
repudiating the Chicago affair offers
sufficient proof Of its undemocratic ten
denotes.
PULL TOGETHER.
Red Bluff Peoples Cause: AS Califor-
MIA will be benefited by the election of
Mckinley and the triumph of protec-
ton and an honest currency. the party
in every county should exert itself to
place the State in the Mckinley column,
and to insure that result 1t Is essential
there can be no divisions or dissen-
sions in the local organizations concern
ing local nominees.
AN OBJECT LESSON.
Ukiah Free Press: When the McKin-
ley tariff law was repealed and the VIII
son law took It's place the window glass
manufacturers found 1t impossible to
compete with Belgian workers In the
same line. Rather than close the doors
Of these factories the workingmen
agreed to a reduction in wages OF ~
per cent. until the foreign manufactur-
ers were driven from the home market.
According to Eastern reports this mas
now been accomplished, and the Amer
lean manufacturers have made an ad-
vance of IL per cent. In the wages OF the
workmen. The same thing Is true OF the
timed plate makers. They acceded 10 a
reduction Of their wages under the VIII
son law in order to enable their en-
Movers
ors. This proves what Republicans have
been claiming for years that the ques-
t,on Of tariff is a question of wages, and
that under free trade or Democratic tar
iff for revenue only, but which even fails
to supply revenue, wages must go down
or factories must close
CAN'T SEE 1T.
Contra Costa Gazette: A great deal
hss been said by the Bryanites about
combines and monopolies. but the great
est Of all, the silver combine, mas not
vet attracted their attention.
ASHAMED OF IT.
Middletown Independent: Candidate
Rryan seldom steps on the plank OF his
nIatform which kicks the United States
Supreme Court. And yet it is that plank
that the hoodlums dote on most. 1t was
the fact that they were not allowed to
burn and destroy and kill that arrayed
them against Cleveland and against
the court It was to catch that vote that
the plank was inserted In the Chicago
platform. It is pleasing to know, how
ever that Bryan is ashamed OF 1t,
fact which is inferred from his silence
regarding 1t.
sECTIONALISM.
Oakland Tribune: Ii cannot De truth
fully denied that the one leading expe-
dent OF Bryan and the party that is
supporting him is an appeal to sec
tionaI prejudices, and beyond that 1t
is the arraying OF one class against an
other. The one cause which more than
any other brought on the civil war was
an appeal to sectional feeling. 1t was an
appeal by the same party which now to
a considerable extent supports Bryan.
The attempt Is sedulously made to show
that one part Of the Union is depressing
another part. The Northwest and the
South are as far as possible arrayed
AGAINST the other parts of the Union.
In the civil war 1t was the South ar
rayed against the North. When the
struggle had ended 1t was predicted
that sectionalism was dead. As long as
the memory Of that great and tragic
event remained sectional strife could