The record-union., 1898-08-27
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.

State and Coast Opinions ON SUBJ
jects OF Living News
| Interest.
| Los Angeles Herald Hudson Maxim,
brother of Hiram Maxim, the inventor
of the famous Maxim gun, says that
| the popular idea that the handling of
dynamite is a very ticklish matter, re-
quiring the incest carel and attention, is
a mistake. In an interesting article in
'McClure's Magazine" he states as the
result of actual experience that there
are many high explosives as powerful
as No. 1 dynamite which may be han
died and knocked about without any
| caution whatever, and which could not
be ignited even when fire is applied to
them, "and which may be stirred with
red-hot poker without danger
This will be pleasing news to a good
many of our readers who feel an un-
comfortable sensation whenever within
an acre or two of this powerful eXplo-
sive.
A CHANGE.
Eureka Californian: So far as in
dustry and commerce are concerned,
the change in our economic require
| ments has made the international iso-
| lation of the United States a thing of
the past. In the world wide struggle
| for trade We have become formidable
| competitors.
| PRODUCT OF LABOR.
| Tulare Register: Those who have
descended from go-wests and whose
souls have been filled with a longing
to pull up and go somewhere with no.
where to go may begin to look upon our
coming island possessions as prOmiS-
| ing fields in which to continue a hunt
| for that Holy Grail, eontentment If
SO they may be interested in knowing
that the exports of Porto Rico for in
stance indicate that prosperity seems
| to come there by labor as we'll as in
other portions of Adams estate.
QUIETLY Welded.
| Alameda Argus: We see again the
declaration that somebody has been
| quietly welded" In the name Of all
the felicities of the married state, is it
ever expected that a person is to be
noisily welded? What strange freak
| into print? We are also face to face
again with the present incumbent" He
| is running for office and must not be
confused with the past incumbent or
| the future incumbent. The present in
/ cumbent is probably compelled by
compulsion" to become candidate
| through the urging of his friends.
PETERED OUT.
Visalia Delta: The Democratic State
platform is a thing of patchwork and
a mystification forever. 1t stands by
Thomas Jefferson, who was a strong
protectionist, but is absolutely silent
regarding free trade tariff for reve-
nue. only" or tariff for revenue for in
dividual protection; in fact, it doesn't
allude to such thing as tariff, over
which the two principal political parties
have fought for a generation. This is
an acknowledgment that the protect
i've policy of the Republican party is all
right, for ii is the practice of Demo
cratic conventions to condemn every
thing Republican that IS condemnable.
And it cannot be said in excuse that
national issues are ignored in the plat
FORM for it refers to the free and un-
limited coinage, of silver. 1t is very
shaky, however, in advancing it. While
some Of its planks, which read as
though prepared by Republican hands,
occupy a quarter of column in the
daily papers, the free silver plank occu-
pies less than five lines. Thus have
the great national issues of the great
Democratic party completely petered
out.
THE FUSION TICKET.
Los Angeles Express: The fusion
State ticket, rounded up by the Popu-
lists, corraled by the Democrats and
waiting to be branded by the Silver
Republicans, stands for what is left Of
the gospel Of discomfort and the policy
of unrest Such things feed on misfor-
tune; they are killed by prosperity and
the exercise of common sense.
The fusion consummated at Sacra-
mento was last despairing eff
fort to take advantage of the rapidly
vanishing, dubious opportunities for
which the panic of 1893 paved the way.
The free silver heresy formed-until 1t
was wounded unto death by the result
of the election two years ago-the tie
that bound many well-intentioned, but
deceived people to. the selfish schemers
and ambitious office seekers, who
sought to take advantage Of the hard
times and dissatisfaction with the pre-
vailing Industrial and financial condi-
tions.
Now, free silver is a. dead issue, killed
by the firm establishment of the sound
money principle, the restoration of con-
fidence, and the rapid return of good
times, brought about under Republi-
can Administration. 1t might with rea-
son have been expected that the war
would severely test the favorable condi-
tions that began to set in with the
election Of President Mckinley, but that
brief yet costly struggle only establish
ed them more firmly.
The Maguires and the Hutchisons re-
fuse, willfully or otherwise, to see the
handwriting on the wall. They affect
to believe that free silver is still a cry
to conjure with. They have succeeded
in rallying the off1ce-seeking cohorts to
their aid and In galvanizing the free
silver corpse into CHASTITY semblance
Of life, but they have yet to receive the
support of the people. 1t is as good a
time as any for the final test to be
made. The Express does not believe
that the people of California will invite
the domination Of the dangerous vaga-
ries which threaten their cherished in
stitutions.
WHICH OF THE MAGUIRES?
Oakland Enquirer: Whether the Ma
guire who figures in the popular mind
is quite the real Maguire-whether he
is known for what he is, no more and