The record-union., 1898-02-01
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Oninioas on Sub
jects OF Living News
Interest. .

Mali is nothing if not different 1t
is just now exploiting in editorials
more than a column in length an enter
prise for the erection of a monument
to the memory Of the infamous David
s. Terry. 1t pictures him as a great,
kindly, generous and h-abused
man, whose name was blackened by
others and not by his own acts, but it
will find that it has a task before it
OF larger proportions than electing a
Bryan to the Presidency or digging a
deep-Water canal from Stockton to Cop
pefopolIs. We do not here propose to
defame the memory of David s. Terry,
because the dead are where they can
do no wrong, but We do protest against
an attempt to exalt this man as some
thing he was not. The Mail" may be
successful in raising shaft to his
memory, but what David S. Terry was
is written in the pages of his country's
history, and the graver's chisel cannot
carve deep enough in words strong
enough to blot his record out. If the
Mail were a wise and judicious friend
of Judge Terry ii would not open a
page that was sealed with his blood and
that was not closed any too soon.
WILL NOT SUPPORT HIM.
Wheatland Four Corners: Eastern
Democratic leaders declare openly that
they no longer consider it ADVISE policy
to support Bryan and his single princi-
pie of 16 TO /; the iddle-of-the-road
Populist leaders emphatically declare
against further cooperation and fu-
sion with the Democratic party, claim
ing that Bryan's free silver was stolen
from their own creed. To disinterested
observers it would appear that Mr..
Bryan has a difficult task before him
in swinging into line even those who
supported him in 1896, let alone search
ing for raw recruits to swell the ranks
ANNEXATION
Santa Barbara Press: If the United
States should decide not to accept Ha-
waits offer of annexation, the fate of
the islands would not remain uncertain
for any length of time. They are now
waiting to be annexed, and if the
American people reject them, there are
other wide-awake, Powers waiting and
anxious to snatch them without tenn
PORTING. 1t is hardly conceivable, how
ever, that the people Of this country
will be SO blind to their own interests
as to act in this manner. These islands,
as has frequently been said, are the
key to the Pacific, as they are in the
line of all ships passing up and down
that ocean, and they Will be of vastly
more Importance to this country when
more direct communication shall have
been established between the two
oceans by means of the Nicaragua ca
nal.
FOR THE CANAL.
Pasadena News: Whoever may be Sc
lected as United States Senator from
Southern California should have rec
ord clear in favor of the Nicaragua Ca
nal The Senator from this section
should take up the question and push
it to a successful conclusion. Other
sections can solve the regular problems
of statecraft, but here is a special duty
for the representative of the Southwest,
and he can we'll afford to make the
Nicaragua Canal his one hobby. In
deed, it is Of such paramount import
ance that the people can well afford
to put this one plank in the platform of
it's next United States Senator.
AGAINST ANNEXATION
San Diego Union: Nobody will dispute
President Dole's oft-repeated statement
that a closer relationship between Ha-
wall and the United States would de-
velop great opportunities for American
capital and labor on the islands. But
people of this country now see some
thing besides the purely commercial
aspect of this annexation question.
There is a growing sentiment that even
for trade advantages this nation has
no right to become a spoliator. And
after all, there is no good reason why
the United States should not have
close commercial relations with the
islands without annexing them.
IDENTICAL.
San Jose Mercury: Both Canada and
the United States are disposed to be lib
eraI in their respective regulations gov
erning the transportation of goods
through the territory of either to the
northern gold fields. In this respect the
interests of the two Governments are
identical
FOR ANNEXATION.
Santa Rosa Republican: The dis
patches announce that Senator White
is ready to have the vote taken at once
on the annexation treaty. He thinks it
would not have the support of two
thirds of the Senators. 1t would be diff
cult for him to find a neighborhood in
California in which the measure would
fail 10 get a greater percentage of the
voters than this. Mr.. White is not rep
resenting the interest or the sentiment
or his constituents in opposing the an
nexation treaty.
THE DREYFUS CASE
vacaville Reporter: The case of
Dreyfus is an international one and has
gone beyond the question of the guilt
or innocence of the exile on the lonely
island TO which he has been condemned
The nation of the French is on trial be-
fore the bar of international opinion,
and there is striking unanimity that
the course of the French authorities is
a wanton disregard of the fairness and
impartial judgment which should char
acterize military court. The Minis
ter of War or the Premier may explain
that the honor of the French army is
attacked by the efforts 10 see justice
done to Captain Dreyfus. The world
will believe with Zola that 1t is better
that the rottenness, which seems to have
characterized the court-martial of Cap
tain IfeEIuS, should De exposed, IMAM
that the French name should be tar
nished the way it seems likely to be if
the Government of France can have its
own way. Nor are the French acting
the creditabie part in the crusade
against its citizens of Jewish faith. The
day has gone by for hostility to an in
dividIal or class because of religious
opinions. The Republic of France, in
fact is acting a sorry part to-day and
one entirely discreditable to the glories