The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-09-09
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

jects Of Living News
Interest.
Humboldt Standard: Mcguire says:
L am a Democrat" The saying costs
nothing and it may be believed. Men
now call themselves Democrats VINO
spit upon the platforms and principles
OF the ablest Democrats who have ever
led that party in the past. From Tom
Jefferson to Grover Cleveland, leaders
protesting to be Democrats have lined
up with the principles advocated by
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and jack
son; but Mcguire is as full Of lSmS
which no sound Democrat ever advo-
Gated as a dog is of feas. Mcguire
not year ago declared in Congress
that not even free silver would bring
prosperity, but the single tax, which
he considers the very essence of genu-
inc Democracy, would bring it. For
this ism he left the Democratic party
in 1887, and attached himself to Henry
George; for this theory he went to
Delaware in 1895 and helped defeat the
Democratic party there in vain at
tempt to foist his single tax theories on
that State.
THE GUILTY WILL BE PUNISHED.
Reno Gazette: President Mckinley
says that all charges of mismanage-
ment and neglect at army camps. Will
be thoroughly investigated, and if there
are guilty parties they will be pun
ished The President is certainly not
a man to tolerate such an offense, nor
is he a man to punish without investi-
cation. That there have been some
cases of inefficiency in the care of 300
600 men suddenly summoned to the
field is not to be doubted. They are
exceptional, and yet not to be excused.
The business of sitting charges of neg
lect is one of stern but impartial JUS
tice. The charges must be specific, not
runlors set afioat by sensationalists.
For every soldier that has been
wronged by incompetence there will
and ought to be a singing out Of the
culprit, followed by proper punishment.
NO SECTIONAL FEELING.
Alameda Encinal: The attempt to
make it appear that there is any sec
tional feeling about the treatment of
the Seventh California Regiment, or
that the newspapers of this part of
the State have not treated it fairly, is
absurd. Nothing could be further from
the truth From the beginning the
press Of the entire State has urged
that the Seventh be sent to active
service, and the ill-treatment to which
the regiment was subjected in the mat
ter of camping grounds has been depre-
Gated by no one more than by the
press of San Francisco and vicinity
While the disgruntled officers may al
lege bad treatment and sectional feel
ing, we feel assured that the men know
the truth, and will not allow the false
charges to be believed.
TRICKY SPANIARDS.
Benicia New Era: The Peace Com
mission appointed by President Nc
kinley contains probably the ablest
men of this country, but as strong as
they are and conversed in diplomacy
they will hardly be a match against
Spanish diplomats. There will be
veXatious delays, as the nature of the
Spanish is not to do to-day what can
be done tomorrow. In the present
emergency the tendency will be
to delay as much as possible, in the
hope that it will bring along some
thing that will be Of benefit to Spain.
If the statements made by that sly
Sagasta are true, then Mckinley had
better not disband the volunteers, for
trouble is bound to follow
NIXON'S GOOD SENSE.
Dunsmuir News: The News is glad
to note that Robert Nixon, the pioneer
editor Of Siskiyou County, takes his re-
cent defeat for State Treasurer philo-
sophically, and that no sour grapes are
visible in the columns of the Jour
nal He has the satisfaction of know
ing that he received almost the solid
vote Of the counties north of Sacra-
mento and a strong support from the
Press Association Editor Nixon also
has the consolation that it took a
mighty good man to beat him; and
Mr.. Nixon will work as hard for the
election of Truman Reeves as he would
for Robert Nixon, if not a little harder.
SICKNESS INEVITABLE.
Reno Gazette: Much sickness is in
evitable in armies. More has been done
to counterfeit diseases since our troops
were called into camp than in any
previous war, and the records when
made up will show it. Neglect has
not been the rule, but the exception,
and it will be punished The Govern
ment will continue to do it's utmost to
keep the camps healthful and to rescue
the sick. AS specimen, the removal
Of the army from Santiago answers
every demand. No other country ever
performed such a service for its SOL
diers.
A HOT WEATHER LIE.
Salinas Index: A thrifty housekeeper
in Hanford rises on hot days at 4:30
in the morning, waters the yard, pre-
pares breakfast and dinner at the same
time, cooking meat and vegetables
enough for dinner. She places these
vegetables for dinner in closed cook
ing utensils out on the ground in the
hot sun until dinner time. At noon
time meal she has a. smoking hot dim
ner without starting a fire.
The Use Of Dogs in War.
News comes from Washington that
the war managers have been consider
ing a proposition concerning the intro
duction of dogs into the military ser