The record-union., 1898-10-13
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.


on him by the yellow journals he says:
If L had come back with a defeated
army there might have been some ex-
cuse for their talk, but having COM
manded one of the most successful
campaigns of modern military history,
it is simply an outrage" Shafter can
at least have the satisfaction of know
ing that the mud that is being thrown
at him is dirtying the hands of those
using it, whereas none of it is be-
smirching him as far as the American
people can see.
CONCERNING ISSUES
Stockton Record: Our fusionist
friends strenuously insist that single
tax is not an issue in this campaign.
But they attack the Administration.
They seem to hold a grudge against
Mckinley and his advisers for having
prosecuted a successful war; a war
which, in point Of results, material and
moral, has no parallel in this century.
Is this attitude relevant to State poll
tics? Is it decent? If the Democracy
may go outside the State for campaign
material, then may Republicans resort
to single tax. But single tax is another
story. National matters are our theme.
What are the grounds Of complaint
found in Demo-Pop organs against the
Administration? They are the war tax,
the funding bill and the army camps.
How are these treated? For the most
part after the fishWife method. Not
criticism, but roars. The bulls of Ba-
shan were not noiser. The war tax has
beeni beloved at simply because honest
analysis will reveal that there is moth
ing wrong about the measure.
The funding bill! Here the Democ-
racy are vociferous and incoherent It
won't do to approve of the bill, so, like
the lawyer who has lost his case, they
abuse the other side. Mcguire will not
get vote on account of the funding
bill. The people are far from being
fools
Finally, we have the neglect of our
soldiery Can the Administration be
held responsible for that? Has it not
occurred to the men who are trying TO
make capital out of alleged unhealthy
camp sites that an Administration
would be daft that put in jeopardy the
health of its soldiers? People will not
accept the Democratic point Of view,
because they know that the Administra-
IL
pose, would spare no pains to make
the army as efficient as possible. And
this has been the case.
QUIET ON FREE SILVER.
San Jose Mercury: Although the
free silver Democrats, the Populists,
who two years ago sacrificed all their
other principles for free silver alone
and the free silver Republicans have
formed a so-called fusion in California
this year, it is a striking fact that
upon the only issue, outside that of the
offices, which these three parties hold
in common, their nominee for Governor
their speakers and their press are sin
gularly silent. Mr.. Mcguire does not
wax eloquent upon the subject Of the
free coinage Of silver with ratio Of
16 to l without the aid or consent of
any other nation. The fusion stump
orators are all reticent concerning the
subject. The San Francisco Exam
iner" and the other Popocratic and fu-
sion papers, which during the Presi-
Dental campaign went wild over the
crime of sound money and the glorious
possibilities of the free coinage Of sill
yer, without which the country was
certain to go to the demnition bow
vows, no longer enthuse over the sub
ject In fact, the only political parties
that profess to believe in free silver
and have it as a common plank in their
platforms, regardless Of their other re-
spective articles Of political faith, are
ignoring the subject almost if not quite
as completely as if it had never been
heard Of
A CNLJEDO OTIS or n
Humboldt Standards: The attitude of
that mendacious and treacherous Span
ish officer Governor General Blanco is
one Of the greatest contempt for any,
thing American. If the Spanish in
tend to live up TO the protocol, they
should begin to get out of Cuba. AL
ready Porto Rico is nearly evacuated
and Blanco still rules Cuba, or the
greater portion of it, with a rod of
iron. His hardness in getting ready
to quit Cuba, and the protest sent by
Spain against Americas sending fur
Their reinforcements to Manila, show
that we have yet a willy foe to deal
With, and the war may not be over.
Unless Blanco gets out Of Cuba with
his army and Spain comedies what we
ask in the Philippines we may be COM
PEELED to enforce our claims at the can
mons mouth
President Mckinley has given mis- in
structions to the Peace Commissioners
and there will be no wavering. Spain
should be compelled to pay an indem-
nifty besides losing all her colonies if
she does not come to terms at once
The victor and not the vanquished has
the right to dictate terms of peace, as
Spain will find unless she lives up to
the terms of the peace protocol
AN ABSURD SITUATION.
Fresno Republican: The Democratic
party once had principles, the chief Of
which was that the nation should as
sumo no function that could be left
TO the State, the State none that could
be left to the locality, and no govern
ment anything that could safely be left
to the individual. incidentally in mod
ern times it has come to advocate free
silver. The Populst party also has
principles the chief of which is that
the Government should take charge of
everything possible and protect the in
dividual even against the consequences
offhis own weakness and improvidence.
incidentally it advocates free silver, as
a step toward fiat money. The Silver
Republicans believe in silver. Incident
ally they prefer the name Republican
TO that of Democrat.
Between these factions there is no
bond Of union except the silver ques-
ton, and that is not essential to two of
them. They have, however, fused" on
this issue, and we now have the cur
ious spectacle of a campaign in which
no mention is made by public speakers