The record-union., 1897-10-18

mad better get steel shirt round ms
lungs and a helmet over his brains.
RIGHT YOU ARE.
Fresno Republican: The perennial
wranglers over the proper way to alb
breviate the name of this State ap-
pear not to have given any thought TO
the idea of not abbreviating it at all.
1t is a very tired person who cannot
write the name of his State in full
and especially such an Incompatible,
star-eyed daisy of a State as Califor-
MIA 1t ought to have a half dozen
more letters in it TO do it justice.
PLENTY OF THEM.
Tulare Register: Slowly but surely
/ candidates for the office of Governor
of California are placing themselves in
the hands of their friends. If there
| was ever any fear that the Stockton
man would hold over through default
of citizens in allowing their names to
be used that fear may be allayed. There
has never been in a time in the history
of California when, if one were to step
out and yell "office" the brush would
not be found swarming with men not
so tied down to private business that
they could not man the ship Of state
without even going home to change
| their shirts. We have a public-spirited
population ever ready to leave wife and
home to cleave to a public job.
NOT ENTERPRISE.
Alameda Argus: 1t is not unlikely
that international complications may
result from the jail delivery effected
by the two newspapers of New York
and San Francisco. The opinion is en-
tertalned by many men of public af-
fairs that the Cisnaros woman will have
to be given up if Spain demands her
extradition. The moral of the eXtraor
binary proceeding will, as soon as peo-
pie soberly think it over, come up in
its true light. To make shining
virtue of helping a prisoner to break
jail; to fit a crown on a fellow and
his employer who break prison bars
and help people charged with grave
crimes to escape, suggests an oblique
moral vision, and an assumption that
the Whole world is similarly afflicted.
How would it seem for a newspaper
outfit of Canada or Mexico to organize
an expedition to unlawfully Hberate
person confined in an American Jail?
We wouldn't like that In fact, we
it. This case is upon exactly such a
basis. 1t is not enterprise, nor COM
menlable daring 1t is a species of
audacity that there will soon be laws
to check, if it continues to grow to any
great extent.
A BAROMETER.
Santa Ana Blade: That important
business barometer, the bank clearings
of the country continues to indicate
clearly and certainly business prosper
ity The total September clearings at
seventy-eight cities are quoted by
Bradstreet's as $5,521 ,933 332, a gain
of nearly Is per cent. over August,
1897, and 90 per cent. over September,
of last year. The total is only 71h per
cent. smaller than that of the highest
month on record, December, 1899.
WILL FIGHT 1T OUT ON THAT
LINE.
Stockton Mail: Horace Boies says
that the Chicago platform has had it's
day in court before the tribunal of last
resort" and that to fight longer for it
is ''at variance with the whole theory
of our form of government
great many Republican journals
take this same position. Some of them
are quite indignant, in fact, because the
Democracy refuses to accept the result
| of the last election as decisive for all
! time to come. The American people.
| they say. have settled the question and
| it IS little short of reasonable to con-
tinue 10 agitate it.
This is all very pretty no doubt But
we cannot refrain from calling the at
tention Of these Republican writer's to
the TACT that the Republican party
made the fight of 1896 on a tariff issue
which had been submitted to the peo-
pie and settled in 1892 The people in
1896 reversed the verdict of 1892 upon
the tariff. Wherefore it would appear
to plain man that the people NAV
reverse in 1900 the verdict of 1896 upon
the questions of free coinage and gov
ernment by law instead of by iniunc
tions.
Our Republican friends and such un-
thinking old gentlemen as Mr.. Boies
can make up their minds to the fact
that the Chicago platform will be in
dorsed by the Democratic National
Convention of 1900; that upon that
platform the Democracy will fight. and
upon that platform will win The Chi
cago platform embodies the eternal
truth, and no matter how often that
truth is crushed to earth, it will again
and again rise to confront it's enemies
intrepid, dauntless, undismayed