The record-union., 1898-11-04
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

| tie Oh Gong ISSSlitL-- 1IlS
| sionists-composed Of free silver Re-
| publicans, free trade Democrats and
| single tax Populists are moving
| heaven and earth to elect their Con-
| greSsiOnal nominees, hoping to aid the
pronounced Democratic States in OBJ
| tanning majority in the House Of Rep
| resentatives. Should they succeed, it
will be a cheap money victory, and the
silver forces in the House, with a ma
| Jority to count ON, will resume an agi-
| tation that will prove detrimental to
| the business interests of the country
and will make all legislation, Of what
ever character or however much need
| ed, subordinate to and dependent upon
silver legislation.
AS THEY SHOULD.
| Marysyille Appeal: If all the people
who believe in paying honest debts in
| honest money; in William Mckinley,
Admiral Dewey and their policy Of
| holding the Philippines; in keeping up
| the American flag and not in hauling
| 1t down; in good prices for home prod
| ucts through tariff that protects CAL
| ifornia enterprise and industry; in dis
| tributing the burdens of taxation and
not in piling them all upon land-if all
| these vote the Republican ticket next
month, as they surely should such a
| Republican majority will be rolled up
| in Yuba and Sutter Counties as will
| help to bury Mcguire and the single
| tax forever out of sight.
IMPORTANCE OF CONGRESS.
Stockton Independent: The issues Of
this campaign, instead of being all COM
| in, he 10 Of q
menacing railroad, are many and va
ried. They Involve good government
| at Washington and San Francisco, as
we'll as in Stockton. Every vote cast
will have a bearing on the destiny of
| the republic, the prosperity of Califor-
nia the advantage of the taxpayer and
| the welfare of the citizen and his fam
! lily.
| The question of revenue for the
United States Government with all it's
| influences at home and abroad, is still
g vital question. 1t is true that the
| fusion leaders in this contest are not
discussing the tariff law They avoid
references to the Dingley bill and the
| prosperity it brought and the Wilson
BILL which brought disaster. But the
principle of national revenue, so dis
| tributed as to contribute to industry
| and comfort. is as vital to-day as when
under the leadership of Cleveland the
Democrats cried for an untaxed dinner
pail. While their doctrine has been
disproved by experience with it, they
| are still ready to vote for it.
REPUBLICAN PROSPECTS.
Fresno Republican,; The reasons for
predicting Republican success are no
less numerous than those for advocat
ing it; in fact they are to some extent
the same. Every condition which made
for Republican strength two years ago
still exists, in even greater measure,
while the conditions which generally
produce the reaction of an off year are
notably absent. The movement for
free silver had begun to ebb even be-
fore the election of two years ago, as
the result showed, and it has now spent
| its force entirely That movement,
| with it's concomitant Organism and
Altgeldism, broke all the old bonds
which held men to Democracy and ex-
| perience and sober thought have large
! ly broken the new bonds. The general
| political tendency is therefore toward
! Democratic weakness. The reaction
which, in middle year, generally sets
| against tIiS party III pONVI, IL ttiiFo Ge1l
against the opposition party.
The promises of revived industry and
| industrial stability made in anticipa-
! ton of Republican victory have been
realized in unprecedented degree, and
this fact alone would greatly add to
| Republican prestige. The natural re-
suit of the war has been to multiply
| that prestige many fold.
| conditions q f9UOT9 hlp 1S
national The unpopularity of the ad-
ministration of Governor Budd, the
popular distrust of Maguire's radical
economic views, and the general desire
| for an economical and businesslike ad-
ministration, have set the current TO-
ward the Republican candidates which
will doubtless carry them to success.
THE POLITICAL DRIFT.
Oakland Enquirer: The nearly uni
versal report Of people whose business
| calls upon them to travel through the
State is that wherever they go, north,
south or east, they find that Gage as a
candidate for Governor is growing
stronger and that Mcguire is growing
weaker The change has been so
marked as to arrest the attention of
/ every person who observes the passage
| of events and although determined
partisans of Mcguire may still refuse
to acknowledge that their favorite can
be defeated, they stand alone in that
opinion, and the belief is that Gage will
| be elected by at least 10000 plurality.
Many of those who to-day set this down
| as a settled fact would have said two
months ago that Mcguire was certain
| to be elected.
So swift a change has seldom been
seen in the politics Of California and
among those who take keen interest
| in politics there have been many ear
nest discussions concerning the cause.
| It is not claimed that the change of
| sentiment is due to any remarkable
| ability which the Republican candi-
| date has developed on the stump, for
| he lacks the faculty which Mcguire
possesses to adapt himself to all classes
of people and make a plausible speech
on all occasions But what he has sue
ceeded in doing is convincing the mass
| of voters that he is a patriotic, clear
headed man of the common-sense or
der, and that is the stamp of man
whom the voters of California are per-
fectly ready to trust in the office of
Governor
The tide which is sweeping Henry
T Gage and his associates on the
ticket into Office is that Of Republican
party strength. 1t has been abun-
dainty demonstrated that the Repub-
lican party in California is stronger
this year than 1t has been for many
years before, due to the popularity OF
the policy of the National Administra-
L,