The record-union., 1897-11-06
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.


the Governorship, while she ((Southern
California; takes the United States
Senatorship, turns very much on the
question whether the Times" has an
alleged Northern California man (but
who is more southern than northern)
staked out to receive the gubernatorial
nomination. If this is the case, the
fairness of the arrangement is more ap-
parent than real. 1t is like the offer
of the white man to the Indian when
they had been out hunting together and
had killed a turkey and crow. You
may take the crow and I'll take the
turkey" said the white man, "or I'll
take the turkey and you take the
crow" The Indian said that looked fair
enough, but somehow he always got
the crow.
DEMOCRATS AND POPULISTS.
Oakland Tribune: One of the most
important political events of the week
was the declaration yesterday by the
Populist Executive Committee that
that organization will decline to fuse
with the Democrats at the election next
year. This move bears the marks of
the fine Italian hand of T. V. Gator,
who as a matter of fact is the brains
and personification Of the Populist par
ty in California
Gator has personal grudge against
Congressman Mcguire who WILL pre-
sumably be the Gubernatorial candi-
date of the Democratic party next year.
Fusion would of course, greatly aid
Maguire's chances, and as Gator un-
questonably does not want to see his
| in, cb,,iY
ramento he has exercised his influence
with the committee and induced it to
declare against cooperation with the
Democrats. AS far as his personal as
pirations are concerned, Gator is
shrewd enough to know that he would
not have the ghost of a chance next
election of obtaining his ambition to be
United States Senator, SO there is moth
ing to be gained by fusion and in the
possible election of Mcguire there
would, for him, be much to be lost, he
has thrown all the pressure possible
against the proposition.
The stand thus taken is an important
one in State politics because the Popu-
! lists poll between $4,000 and 10000
votes on a State election which if de-
flected to the Democratic candidate
would make matters exceedingly warm
for the Republican standard-bearer, no
matter how black the year might be.
With this Populist vote pulling it's own
way. though, and the Democrats being
thus left to row their own boat. moth
ing but miracle can stop the Repub-
lican nominee from being the next Gov
ernor of California.
THE BROWN CASE.
Stockton Independent: So Brown
was not exonerated after all the as
sumption of the Chicago Times Her
ald'' to know all about it. 1t Will be
difficult to completely fathom the de-
cision of the Chicago council, however.
He was declared innocent of the most
essential charge against him but the
Bay conferences action in expelling
him was approved. Now what about
the Dubuque conference? If the Bay
conference must have been right, the
Dubuque conference must have been
wrong, but it is not given to laymen
to understand the mazes of the clerical
mind. However. 1t is comfort to
Californians and a vindication of the
Congregationalist ministers to have
their action approved even in SO equiv
ocal manner.
BRYAN IN OHIO.
Los Angeles Times: At considerable
expense the unsound money wing of
.he Ohio Democracy imported w. j.
Bryan of Nebraska to put the finish
ing touches on the Buckeye campaign
The managers of the campaign would
better have saved their money or in
vested it in some other kind of mer-
chandise: for it appears from the press
reports that the Nebraska orator $50
called has added nothing more than
mess of dreary drivel, of the usual
Bryanesque sort, TO the literature of
the campaign.
Mr.. Bryan, it may be noted in pass
ing, travels in private car. Whether
he travels on railroad passes is not def
nitely stated, but the supposition is
that he does, inasmuch as his Pacific
Coast tour, some months ago, was made
principally upon Southern Pacific
passes. His speeches, so far as reported
in the dispatches, were mostly a mere
rehash OF the fallacies and falSehOods
which he made to do duty as campaign
speeches in 1896, and which he has
given an airing on every possible oc-
casion since.
Mr.. Blyan is unable to recognize a
dead issue, even when 1t lies straight in
his path and is putrescent. He is af-
fected with a hopeless case of intel
lectual strabismus if he still cherishes
the notion that the question of free
independent and unrestricted silver
coinage is a living issue. His mental
olfactories are singuarly perverted if
he fails to detect the odor of advanced
decomposition which clings about the
cadaver of that issue.
Speaking at Van Vert, O., of the i'm
proved conditions of trade and industry
in the United States-the existence of
which he had not the hardihood to
deny-Mr. Bryan attributed them to
the discovery of gold in Alaska and
the famine in India" which, he de-
clared. 1.-The Republicans are rejoicing
over. even though the famine resulted
IN the loss of thousands of lives
What terrible arraignment of the Re-
publican organization is this! How can
the party Of Lincoln and Grant and
Blaine and Mckinley hope to survive
50 savage an onslaught?
It is a pitfable spectacle when whi-
lonn candidate for the high Office of
President Of the United States is driven
by the logic of events to expedients so
paltry as those to which Mr.. Bryan re-
sorts. The famine in India has about
as much to do with the revival of in
dustry in the United States as a solar
eclipse has to do with the birth of a
pair of twins in the Bryan household
The discovery Of gold in the Klondike
region has added less than one-twen-
tieth OF / per cent. to the monetary
wealth Of the. nation, or from 10 to u