The record-union., 1898-10-03

on the commission which is to investi-
gate the conduct of the military adj
ministration during the recent war. OF
the work before him, he said the other
day: Il am not going to do anything
for partisan advantage if 1 serve on
that commission" The feeling of the
honest men of the United States is
one of hope that every member of that
commission will go to work in the
same spirit that Colonel Howell will
The people want the exact truth no
matter who may be exonerated, no
matter who may be convicted.
UNHEARD OF.
Oakland Tribune: The call issued by
the Comptroller of Currency for a re-
port of the national banks of the coun-
try will unQuestionably show a marked
increase Of prosperity since the date
the last roundup was made several
months ago. The revival of business
has brought with it increased deposits
and general monetary movement in
the lines of investment, the result be-
ing that a more healthy tone prevails
in every commercial channel Bank
failures, it will be noticed, are unheard
of nowadays.
HE BREAKS AWAY.
Sam Jose Mercury: A. B. Hotchkiss,
who was Chairman of one of the. dele
cations at the Los Angeles Democratic
Convention, has come out publicly for
Gage for Governor. He declines to as
sist in the destruction of the Demo
cratic party by surrendering to the
Populists, and in preference to joining
the fusiondsts, there being no Democrat
up for Governor he has determined to
work and vote for Gage. There are
many other stalwart Democrats who
will do the same thing.
mcguire AS AN ALTGELD.
Fresno Republican: Some of our Re-
publican exchanges are making the
charge that James G. Mcguire is an
anarchist, basing the belief on a speech
delivered in Congress by Mr.. Mcguire
in opposition to the immigration re-
striction bill, in which he used the fol-
lowing language:
Gentlemen urge the passage of this
bill as a step in the direction Of ex-
Guiding anarchists, socialists and nj
hilists from this country Assuming
that it would be right and desirable,
though I do not admit it would be
either right or desirable, to exclude
these classes or any of them from this
country, yet the present bill does not
tend to their exclusion. They are gen
orally educated men, many of them
holding university degrees, whose Of
Tending consists of resistance to tyran-
ny which in the conditions under which
they live is obedience to Cod
This, of course does not show that
Mr.. Mcguire is an anarchist, but 1t
does show an attitude toward anarch-
lists which experience has shown to be
dangerous in the occupant or an ex-
ecutive chair. Governor Altgeld of Illi-
nois is also not an anarchist in the
sense that he believes in their doc
trines or indorses their acts. But he is
an anarchist sympathizer in the sense
that he regards the warfare of society
on anarchists as public enemies as un-
just and tyrannical. When confronted
with a concrete instance, he pardoned
convicted anarchists and denounced the
court which condemned them, thereby
undoing at one stroke the work of
years on the part of the courts and
police of Chicago. Mr.. Mcguire, by OPP
posing the exclusion of foreign anarch-
lists, by justifying their methods where
the provocationi is extreme enough, has
also set himself in opposition to the
treatment Of anarchists as public enc
mics. His election to the Gubernatorial
chair would give them the same en-
couragement to flock to California that
the election Of Altgeld did in Illinois.
They would look to him to use the
pardOning power in the same way I'M
der similar circumstances. We do not
want an Altgeld in California, nor even
a Governor who would be suspected by
the dangerous classes Of being an Alt
geld.
NO DISAFFECTION.
eager gentlemen who are very likely
to be disappointed. They are permit
ting themselves to be fooled by the
Examiner" and others into the belief
that there is great disaffection in the
Republican ranks as to the county
ticket, and remembering the several
political lightning strokes of four years
ago they think the experience is to be
repeated and are getting up their rods
to catch the electric fluid. In other
words, they are scrambling for opposi-
ton nominations. All these gentlemen
are likely to be disappointed. There
is no fatal disaffection. The outcome OF
four years ago is not likely to be ever
repeated