The record-union., 1896-07-26
VOICE OF TIE PRESS.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTERIOR CALI.
FORNIA NEWSPAPERS.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov.
ernmental, Practical, TheOret-
icaI and Current.

lone Echo: All these Democratic boil
ters are opening up too early in the
game to be genuine. They never were
Democrats and they are fooling nobody
now Bimetallism has been one of the
cardinal and underlying principles Of
Democracy since our Government was
first established.
ONE OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PLANKS.
Santa Ana Blade: The object of this
plank was to condemn President Cleve-
land for stamping out the Debs re-
bellion that for three weeks, two years
ago, stopped the business of the entire
country. The spirit of the plank says
to the criminal element everywhere:
Just help us elect and no Federal
troops will ever be called out to put
down any riots that you may get up, to
save any property that you might want
to destroy or to prevent from causing
whatever railroad wrecks and loss of
life that might result from removal of
rails or misplaced switches. Vote for
us and we will see to it that the minions
of Federal authority shall not throttle
the rights of the oppressed. Put us in
from the tyranny Of this centralized
authority"
WITH GOOD HEART
Tulare Register: The Register"
while it believes in bmetallism by inter-
national agreement and believes that
every effort should be made to bring
about such an agreement, has all along
opposed the free coinage heresy and has
done it in the face of a more or less
popular clamor. 1t has taken some cour-
age to do this, but the cost is COM
pensated by the straightforwardness
with which 1t can fight for the Repub-
Hcan ticket in the forthcoming cam
palgn. 1t has to apologize for nothing,
take nothing back that has been said,
and can defend the Republican finan-
cial plank with good heart because it
believes that plank to be prudent, wise
and everlastingly right It is to be
hoped that the lesson learned this year
will teach Republican politicians and
papers to stand for principle at all times
and never again permit themselves to
be placed in an equivocal position by
reason Of having joined in passing,
popular clamor
fOSlON.
San Jose Herald: The disposition Of
the rank and file of the Populists seems
to be in favor of indorsing Bryan, while
many of the leaders oppose anything of
the kind. The reason is that the lead
ers fear they may lose political Job
by fusion, while the party at large care
only for the success of the measures
they advocate
There was no slate at Chicago; or if
there were 1t was smashed. This cam
paign promises to be a Soldiers bat
tie" ON the part Of the Democracy The
rank and file are going to run things.
The members of other parties who
sympathize with the general features
of Democratic policy will gladly stand
in with a party that is running on a
strictly popular basis. The Republican
machine works very smoothly, but no
machine can win when the people take
notion to go into campaign in their
own way.
POPULISM AND FUSION.
Fresno Republican: But if this pa
per is selfish, our Democratic brethren
are entirely In error in charging that 1t
is false. We never were more honest in
anything than we are in believing that
the Populist party would sacrifice it's
last possible claim to popular respect
should it merge its identity in that of
the Democracy. The Republican" has
lacked faith in the tenets of the Peoples
party, but 1t at least has recognized the
honest purpose of many who do believe
In them. But should that party now
cast all of its principles behind 1t and
join the Democratic legions in a yell for
silver as the universal panacea for
everybody's Ills, by its own act it would
declare how hollow were its convictions
and how frothy its principles. If the
Populist party has no excuse for it's ex-
1stence save free silver, 1t is not now.
and never has been, justifiable in liy-
ing. If it has no other excuse than this.
its proclamations, one and all. have been
false to the core, for free silver has been
but a dot ON the broad landscape of its
far-reaching claims
BRYAN AND TARIFF.
Shasta Democrat: The Populists are
beginning to learn that Bryan is all
right on the tariff question as we'll as
on silver. In fact, they elected him to
Congress on that issue.
WONDERFUL SAVINGS.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Thirty-seven
years ago there were less than 100000
on deposit in the savings banks of this
State. To-day there are over S132. .OOO,-
600. Is there another State in the
Union which can point to such a phe-
nomenal growth during a similar
period?
THE REAL ISSUE.
Riverside Press: The tariff issue is
not only not dead as the silver leaders
would like to make it appear, but it is
the liveliest question we have had for
years. 1t is a question that includes
and entirely overshadows in Importance
the single interest that urges immediate
and Independent free coinage Silver
miners are entitled to the same protec-
tion as the wool grower, the orange and
lemon producer, the cattle raiser or any
other department of national industry,
but no more.
Take the beautiful and fertile Escon-
dido Valley. It's future depends almost
entirely upon the fruit district There
are no better oranges, lemons or olives
grown anywhere than at Escondido
These need a market Very shortly
they will need market larger than is
now Obtainab1e. The American mar
ket is at present SO overstocked with
the foreign product that lemons will
hardly sell at all, and oranges only
because Florida makes no present show
ing. Not to elect men who will favor the
fixing of the tariff so that this fruit can
have the preference in our own markets
would he suicidal. To say that this is
sue is subordinate to any other in South