The record-union., 1899-10-09
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

san Jose Mercury: A second time
Aguinaldo has offered to treat for
peace. The first time he succeeded
practically in suspending the operations
of the American forces for some weeks
and in impresSing his followers with
the weakness of the American cause,
for to the Oriental mind to pause IN
warfare and show a willingness TO
make peace is to confess a shortness OF
resources. General Otis has properly
declined to parley and will push the
nghtlng in LuZon; and in so doing ne
follows the excellent precedent MADE
by General Grant in his famous note
to Buckner at Fort DonelSon. There
can be no terms, he wrote in answer
to Buckners request for a parley, but
unconditional surrender. l propose to
move Immediately upon your works.
DEWEY AND THE PRESIDENCY.
Los Angeles Herald: The New York
Journal and the San Francisco Elk
aminer' are making strenuous efforts
to boom Admiral Dewey for Presi-
Dental candidate in 1900. 1t will not
work. In the first place Dewey does
not want it. In the second place he
is not fitted by education and life work
to make a successful chief executive
for the nation. His active years have
been passed in the marine service, and
it is doubtful whether he has partici-
pated in politics to the extent of casting
a vote for Presidential electors. He is
not concerned about political issues,
and he is a mere baby when it comes to
dealing with politicians. Dewey has
the good sense to know this, and ne
will not seek to go in where angels
may well fear to tread. Besides all this
the American people want something
more than mere hero-worship as an in
centive for making Presidents. A few
Presidents have been selected from our
military heroes but they did not prove
successes in civil affairs AS to the
Democratic party, it is satisfied with
William Jennings Bryan for its stand
ard bearer. The Republican party will
undoubtedly take Mckinley because he
has "the pull" Mr.. Hearst's papers
are simply making themselves ridicu-
lous in working the Dewey boom.
WHAT WILL BE DONE?
Tulare Register: There are those
among the anti-eXpansionists who pro-
fess much disdain of those who make
bold to speak with reference TO the
probable purposes Of God in relation to
Cuba and the Philippines. 1t is quite
likely that men may at times misin-
terpret the purposes of God and no one
has the right, as in days Of old, to say
Thus saith the Lord" Nevertheless,
the man who can not, in the march of
the nations, discern high above and be-
fore them the pillar of cloud by day
and of fire by night is an intellectual
and spiritual corpse. There is a great
and lamentable waste of printers ink
on this Philippine question and vast
deal of setting up Of straw men to be
knocked down again. The Philippines
will not become States in the American
Union. The people will not be sub
jugated and enslaved. The sovereignty
of the United States will be established
over them, order will be restored, enter
prise and industry will be fostered; the
people will be taught the ways or order
ly government themselves and when
they can govern themselves and dis
charge to the world the obligations
America has assumed they will do so
a,a hot he he Of