The record-union., 1898-09-12

ments plainly show that the first fu-
! sion convention in Sacramento, nom
| mating Mcguire, comprised Democrats
| disguised as Populists, and the hungry
Pops who wanted to elbow UP to the
Democratic pie counter, regardless Of
| principle. The genuine Populist would
| not be thus led into the Democratic
| SPIDERS web, SO they put up another
| ticket, and would rather support any
ticket to defeat the Mcguire Democra-
| cy, who want to drive them up to the
polls in support of their ticket like 50
many cattle.
TO DEVELOP CUBA.
Red Bluff News: A company with
| S1S,OO0,O00 capital has been formed in
New York to develop Cuba" which
means that everything in Cuba will
| be gobbled up that that large
amount of money will buy, and it will
| buy whole lot at this time, when all
kinds of property are very cheap.
American enterprise will soon set
things to booming, and it will not be
ten years before American capitalists
will own the island. To be consistent,
we must make an attempt to establish
a stable government in independent
! Cuba, but it will not be long before
the Cubans themselves will be clamor-
ing to be admitted into the Union, and
they will be.
| NOT FITTED FOR A REPUBLIC.
Vacaville Reporter: The recent de-
velopments in raffaire Dreyfus tends
strongly to justify the position of Zola
that an innocent man had been con-
| vieted. The French nation has low
cred itself by it's conduct, and indi-
Gated a shocking incapacity to give
| fair play to a man accused. Ameri-
| can liberality would not have con-
| victed a dog on the evidence which
sent Dreyfus to the horror of isolated
imprisonment. Nor is France capable
| of appreciating the depths Of the
| horror which has been aroused
against the persecution Of Dreyfus.
| The prisoners real offense is that he
| is a, Jew. The idea Of all of the power
| of the nominal Republic of France and
all of the hate of the volatile French
| people being aroused against Dreyfus,
because he is Jew, is picture of
| dark ages and in every sense discred
liable to France.
WILL KEEP THEM BUSY.
Oakland Tribune: A committee has
been formed to keep the Democratic
editors Of the State supplied with pun
gent campaign paragraphs. All they
| have to do is to keep track of the way
Henry Gage goes after Maguire-he
| will give them all the spice they need.
CORRECT.
| Santa Cruz Sentinel The lugubrious
| sensationaifst is the meanest of his
class. His business is to exaggerate
the number and condition of the army
sick, to make the well soldiers sick, if
he can, and their relatives miserable.
| FOR POLITICAL EFFECT.
| Humboldt Standard: Though papers
| of all POLITICAL parties have demanded
an investigation of the charges that
incomptency or dishonesty, or both,
have caused an alarming state of af-
fairs in our military camps at home
/ and in Cuba, some Democratic jour-
mails, like the Examiner" have been
painting the situation much blacker
| than it really is, and making all sorts
Of adverse criticism of the Administra-
tion, for political effect. They could get
no comfort out of the splendid results
Of the war, in a political sense, as it
| was conducted in the most effective
manner and closed in such a blaze Of
i triumphant glory that even the Demo
Gratis in their conventions congratu-
lated the country on the outcome and
praised the Administration which had
SO covered itself with glory But there
is political battle to be fought this
fall, and the end will come on Novem-
Der Sth. This battle the Democrats
| wish to win, and though they know
1 he RI ir1ic n hoe ;+e
full duty by the country, they would
| criticise, find fault ana assault one of
the best men who ever sat in the
| Presidential chair, if by SO doing they
lcouid get paltry political advantage.
| ENGLISH COLONIES.
Portland Oregonian:. Great Britain
gives her colonies no representation in
the House of Commons. Not even ISL
| ands as near as the Isle of Man, Jer-
sey or the Channel Islands are repre-
sented at Westminster. France gives
representation to all her colonies AL
geria elects six Deputies, and the othe,
colonies ten; Cochin China, one; Quad
| aloupe, two; Guinea, one; Reunion
two; French India, one; Senegal, one
and Martinique, two. No one of the
French colonies is as prosperous, happy
or contented as the English. Spair
followed the French plan; Cuba had six.
| teen Senators and thirty Deputies Al
| Madrid, and the other colonies were al
represented there. The English colo
NAL plan of no representation for colo
MES has succeeded. The French ani
Spanish plan has utterly failed. Tn
reason is plain; England lets each col
ony, as far as it is fit, manage its owr
affairs, and the government Of tht
empire as a whole is confined to the no
mogeneous United Kingdom at the cen
ter.
DIRECT LEGISLATION.
Watsonville Transcript: The friends
of direct legislation, and they numbe
thinking men in all parties, may wei
be pleased at the rapidity and growth
of the movement in its favor. 1t is onl.
a few years ago that the terms "initia
tive" and referendum were known
only to the vocabulary of the schola
and the crank To-day direct legisla
tion, through the initiative and the ref
erendum by majority vote, stand
knocking at the door of legislation, an'
no power on earth can long defer it
incorporation into the law Of The ma
ton, State, county and township.
A POPOCRATIC SCHEME.
Ukiah Press: The "Ex
: hammer and other popocratic newsoa
pers have been endeavoring, since prac
. tical peace was declared between thi
country and Spain, to detract from tn
success of the Administration in tn
. conduct of the war. They realize tha
/ the silver issue is dead, and that thei