The record-union., 1898-10-03
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects OF Living News
Interest.

any future for China except dismem-
berment it must be by accepting the
guidance and following the example of
Japan. The case is not SO strong from
| the japanese side. The old hulk of
China is SO near falling to pieces that
| the salvage is hardly worth repairs.
With an English alliance open and an
American alliance possible, the ex-
change Of such opportunities for China
would hardly seem to be a fair one.
ANARCHISM.
| The Oregonian: Modern civilization
| is not going to be eaten up by the white
ants of anarchism and radical social
ism, either in Europe or America, with
out a fight for it's life; and out of the
| fight will come the complete subver-
sion of political crankdom or the arri-
val of ''the man on horseback" The
| ranks of the demo-populist party to-
day are full Of creatures like the I'M
frocked priests, the broken-down actors,
the brief1ess baTisters, the mad doe
tors, the cashiered officers, the bank
rupt political adventures, the jaun-
| diced unjust serving man, revolted be-
cause impecunious tapsters who were
the rank and file of the French terror
lists; for this demo-populist party is
organized on the principle Of deriding
and defying the present constitutional
laws and Government of this country
and substituting for them a kind of
state socialism, whose ultimate desti-
nation and frightfuI death-bed agony
would be absolute anarchism.
AN EXCUSE.
| Orange County Herald The Demo-
Gratis are not to be blamed so very
much for endeavoring to draw atten-
ton to 1.-The railroad question" as the
leading issue of this campaign. There
| isn't much Of anything else left for
| them to make a campaign on. There is
a little ingratitude in their position,
however, or else a little strategy; for
it is generally known that but for the
| influence Of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road the Democrats would not control
single State office in California to-
day.
INEXCUSABLE IGNORANCE.
| San Bernardino Sun: There We're
some funny things at the Pavilion last
night Not that there were any funny
stories, for Mcguire is not that kind Of
a speaker. But candidate Hutchinson,
who wants to be Lieutenant Governor,
doesn't know how often the Legislature
| of California meets. He said it met
but once in four years, and to show
that it could not have been a slip Of
| the tongue, he went on to say that the
Governor had practical control for
forty-four months, without the aid of
| Legislature, and he urged this as a
reason why everybody ought to vote
| for Mcguire. It would seem to be
more convincing argument that they
should not vote for Mr.. Hutchinson, at
| least until he had taken a preliminary
course in civil government.
WOULD BE HUMILIATING.
Alameda Argus: It will be hun1ili-
ating and unpatriotic if the Republican
| National Administration is discredited
| in this State by the defeat Of the Re
| publican ticket and the elevation of
| Mcguire We of this State will swing
back far beyond Organism if we elect
| Mcguire. Do we want to do that?
| Having by a superhuman effort averted
| the danger Of Organism, do we want
to deliberately incur the disaster of
MAGNETISM? For that is exactly what
| it will be- We know how the world
| took the triumph Of Maguire's friends
in 1867. We may accurately con-
| clude how they will take that of the
same elements in 1898.
| A TWO-HOUR VERDICT.
San Bernardino Times Index: After
listening to Mcguire for about two
hours we are constrained to ask: What
issue did he discuss? In fact, it looks
as though as General Barnes aptly
says: Mcguire has been on every side
| 0f nd he
all sides of all questions.
WHAT SINGLE TAX WOULD MEAN.
San Diego Union: No person is SO
| foolish as to assume that Mr.. Mcguire
as Governor would have the power to
place his peculiar single-tax system
into operation. Everybody knows bet
ter than that. But what the Repub-
| licans do assert, and without any posi-
| bility of successful contradiction, is
| that the election of Mr.. Mcguire, as
the exponent of single tax, upon plat
form which gives recognition to the
| single tax, and as the nominee of a
| portion Of the Populist party, one of
whose leading tenets is the single tax,
would be an announcement to the
| world that California indorses that the
DRY of taxation. No one, be he Repub-
| lican or Democrat, can honestly
doubt that such would be the universal
Interpretation placed upon Mr.. Ma
CURES election. Further, the Repub-
leans hold that this Endorsement would
damage the State to the extent of I'M
| told millions, by antagonlzing desired
capital and frightening away legitimate
| investors. And particularly would 1t
do SO, as Mr.. Mcguire represents also
| all the economic vagaries and financial
| heresies of the Populist party, whose
platform he has indorsed as a whole,
| from top to bottom. Hence it is that
| the single tax is something more than
an incidental issue in this campaign.
| A candidate for the highest office in
| the State who has been nominated by
| a party which advocates the single
tax and who himself for years has been
advocating it, cannot hope to evade
an issue which his very candidacy
makes inevitable.
MAGUIRE AND SINGLE TAX.
Oakland Enquirer: By some observers
| in the Eastern States the nomination
of Judge Mcguire, such a prominent
single taxer for Governor Of California,
| is looked upon as significant, and the
Boston Transcript" talks about single
| tax as being the commanding issue"
/ in the California campaign. 1t says:
| California Is a State that for the
! length of her history as a part of the
| Union has given trial to a great many
| original theories and it is not improb-
able that she will be the first COM
monwealth to prove the radical doc
| trines of Mr.. George by experiment. !"