The record-union., 1898-10-06


by the score. They are generally thick.
The fact that there are none at all this
year is one of the very best auguries
Of Republican success
BOTH REASONS.
Fresno Republican,: An earnest eff
fort is being made by the fusion lead
ers to keep the single tax issue out Of
the campaign. Whether they are
ashamed of the doctrine to which their
chosen leader has dedicated his life, or
whether they are merely timid and fear
to lose votes by a frank advocacy OF
anything definite, does not appear
However, issues are not made by
choice or agreement, but by the nature
Of things, and by the very necessity OF
the situation the nomination of Ma
guire made the single tax an issue.
THE RAILROAD DEBT.
Marysville Appeal: There has been a
great deal of misrepresentation and
misconception in regard to this bill. AS
finally passed it provides for a COM
mission to settle the Central Pacific in
debtedness, but leaves this commission
no power to abuse its trust even II 1t
were likely to do so. settlement, IN
the first place, must be reached within
a year, and if an agreement cannot De
made within that time the entire $751;
900, 900 Of debt becomes at once pay
able, and will be enforced by foreclos-
ure. No settlement is permitted for less
than the entire amount Of indebtedness.
principal and interest. The payment
may be arranged in equal semi-annual
installments, covering period OF not
more than ten years, deferred pay
ments to pay interest at per cent.
Any default in payments of principal
or interest makes the whole amount
at once due. If the purpose of legisla-
ton on this subject is to enforce the
payment of the railroad debt, there can
be no objection to this bill. 1t will get
the Government the money in the SIM
plest and easiest way, and it will not
open up new complications.
A MEAN EFFORT.
Alameda Argus: The effort to be-
little the part the Administration has
played in the late war shows to what
straits Mr. Mcguire is put. He says
the war is everybody's war-its glo-
ries belong as much to one party as
another, but there are dark chapters
in it, and these belong wholly to the
quently been asserted that the Demo-
cratic representation in Congress was
responsible for the war. If so they
egged 1t on through the hope and be-
lief that it would get the Republican
party in difficulties. It's effect was
emphatically the reverse, and now it is
awful hard work to extract any ad-
vantage out of the situation. Such as
is extracted the party is welcome to,
but its representatives ought not to be
permitted to mistake or becloud the
situation.
DESERVING HIM.
Visalia Delta The list Of prominent
Democrats and Populists who are de-
nouncing and forsaking Mcguire grows
in length day by day. AS there is more
than a months time yet to secure anti
single tax recruits from these two par
ties, the Little Giant will have sor-
ny following by election day.
GOOD GOVERNMENT
Watsonville Transcript: The desire
for good government is extending TO all
classes, and the price Of party fealty is
sound principles and honest men to up
hold them. The day has gone by when
men Of shady reputation and unspeak-
able morals can be elected to offices Of
trust at the crack Of the party whip.
Good government is the watchword Of
the hour, and the time is approaching
when indifference to official corruption
will be considered a crime. High taxes
follow the election of bad men to office
as surely as night follows day.
DAILY ANNOUNCED.
Redlands Facts: Desertions from
Maguireism are almost daily announc-
ed. Men of principle are beginning to
realize the righteousness of rallying
under a banner which is the flag of an
incongruous mass Of disgruntled and
discordant elements, fused in name only
and for spoils only. Ex-Congressman
Cannon is a prominent withdrawer. He
| says:
II cannot support Mcguire. Gage will
get my vote. The election of Mcguire
would be an Endorsement of the single
tax, which means. confscation of the
| farmers property I was for a long
time President Of the California Farm
ers' Alliance, and organized branches
| in thirty-seven different counties Of
| the State. I know the views of the
| farmers on single tax, and in justice
| to them I cannot support and advo-
| cate that theory"
WHAT HE LOOKS FORWARD TO.
Riverside Press: 1t is understood
| by you as well as by me to be the as
sertion of a principle, which. If conced-
ed to be sound, must ultimately trans
| fer the entire burden of all taxation
for the purpose of supporting our Fed
eral, State, county and municipal gov
ernments from all other subjects to the
value of the lands Of this country; ul-
timately approximating the rental value
| of all land, exclusive and irrespective
of its improvements, to public use
James G. Mcguire.
| The which, being interpreted, means
that Mr.. Mcguire looks forward with
longing to the time when all the taxes
| of State and Nation will be heaped
upon the twelve billions in value OF
real estate. and suffer the sixty billions
in value of other property to go free.
OPPOSED HAWAIIAN ANNEXA-
| TION.
Humboldt Standard: The Standard
has received a copy of Stephen M
| Whites speech made in the United
States Senate against the annexation
of Hawaii. It has also his speech in
the Congressional Record" opposing
the war with Spain. A speech which
we branded at that time as little bet
ter than treason to the republic; fol
when a man who held his commission
from California to the United States
Senate stood on the floor of that Senate
| and stated that we had no justification
for war with Spain, after the destruc-
ton Of the Maine, the murder of our