The record-union., 1898-11-15
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

Interest.
Marysville Appeal: The election of
Republican Legislature, with its con-
sequent choice Of a Republican Senator
to succeed Stephen NJ. White, is one
Of the most gratifying results of the
contest.
COMMERCIAL SUCCESS.
Woodland Democrat: Commercial
success does not depend on territorial
acquisition so much as it does upon
intelligent shipping and commercial
laws, knowledge of the credits Of GUS
toners and a willingness to reciprocate
upon reasonable terms with foreign
countries
ENLISTING CUBANS.
Yreka Journal: 1t is known that Sec
retary Alger will, in his annual report
| recommend Congressional legislation,
authorizing the enlistment of Spanish
and Cuban soldiers in the United States
regular army, for service in Cuba. It
| is believed that the pick of the Spanish
soldiers who will, by preference, remain
In Cuba, and the best men among the
Cuban insurgents will be glad to enlist
in our regulars, and that they are
especially we'll fitted to do good garri-
son work in Cuba. 1t is believed also
that course of army discipline. under
United States regulations, will be use
full in fitting these men to become use
full citizens of Cuba when their terms
of enlistment expire. They cannot be
enlisted without Congressional legisla-
tion.
CONGRESS.
Alameda Argus: At this writing 1t
seems likely that six of the seven Con-
gressmen returned from California will
be Republican. DeVries of the Second
District seems likely to be reelected.
It must please good men everywhere,
and reassure them, to see that Anar-
chist Barry, with a nominal majority
of some 10000 in his district, is pretty
certainly beaten. Victor II. Metcalf
will have a larger majority than any
candidate for Congress ever had in
this district. California has respond
ed nobly, and will for the first time In
many years have homogeneous, work.
ing delegation in Congress. 1t may
save that body to the party
| JOURNALIST OR NEWSPAPER
MAN?
| Fresno Republican: 1t has come to
to speak or write the word Journalist
without contemptuous shrug of the
shoulders, which is taken to imply
that a journalist is a boy just out Of
school, on his first reportorial assign
ment, while newspaper man" is a
man of experience and ability, who
knows his business. The habit, like
all such tricks Of speech, is contagious,
and is followed even by those who find
| the usage awkward and do not share
| the prejudice on which it is based.
Nevertheless, except prejudice and hab-
1t, there is little to be said in favor and
much to be said against this limitation
of usage.
! There is no analogous usage in other
| professions. and in the newspaper pro-
fession it is both awkward and inaccur-
ate. The lawyer is not a Flaw man."
and the physician, among white men,
Is not medicine man." nor is the
clergyman sufficiently defined as a
Church man. A newspaper man, in
strict literalness, is anybody connected
with newspaper office, dom to the
| last carrier boy. Yet there is some
thing which editors and reporters and
contributors are, which printers and
bookkeepers are not. For that some
thing name is needed, and there is no
word available but Journalist. The
use of any other words frequently re-
quires awkward paraphrasing or am
biguity, and leads to the very affecta-
ton it seeks to avoid
YELLOW JOURNALISM.
Ukiah Press: The character assas-
sins, who, in order to make a little po
litical capital against the Admiristra-
ton, inaugurated the campaign of
! falsehood and defamation which has
been directed against the War Depart
ment and prosecuted it until an investi-
cation Of the alleged abuses and short
| conlings in the various army camps
was ordered, are getting good deal
more than they bargained for in the
testimony that is being given before
! the Dodge committee. In the whole
country there are not two other men
whose evidence would be entitled to
more weight in this matter than Cen
erals Lee and Wheeler They are both
veteran soldiers and abundantly quail :
fed by long experience to testify as
experts as to what is necessary in the
supply and care of an army. They are
men whose honor and truthfulness no
one will question. They were both Con-
i federates and are both Democrats, who
did their utmost to prevent the cleo
tion of President Mckinley, and will do
all they can to elect another man in his
place in 1900. Any prejudices they have
are against the Administration and
their political leaning is In the same ii
rection. That neither would, when call
ed to the witness stand, be guilty of
falsehood or concealment or prevarica-
tion in order to shield the War Depart
ment or the President is certain. Fin
ally, they We're in command OF sections
of the army which it has been alleged
have been decimated by disease caused
by the incompetency, neglect and dis
honesty of Secretary Alger and his SUBJ
ordinates, and have hal abundant op-
portunity to know exactly what the
facts were. The testimony of both
brands the assailants of the department
as slanderers and scandal mongers.
THE GOLD BRICK.
game can be worked successfully even
in London, judging by the meteoric ex
ploits of the alleged Pacific Coast gold
expert who has just feeced smart
men of the big city out Of 100000.
Surely it is getting about time that
man who advertises that he can pro-
duce gold in some way outside of the
natural one should be looked upon with
Isuspicion. All these schemes about ex
tracing gold out of sea water, sand and
SO forth are mere fakes, the string the