The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-02

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| lead them and toward which geograpn
ical and Industrial conditions are drlv
| ing them, is a distinctly Republican
position. It would be an interesting
outcome of the present confusion o.
politics if the Solid South, under the
leadership of the old war-horse OF De
| mocracy, should become the stronghold
! of Republicanism.
| PINGREE.
Marysville Appeal: Pingree is very
much 'indignated' over Alger's al
legged unfair treatment and wants te
get up a red-hot demonstration in or
der to give his thoughts an oppor-
tunity to explode. The Governors vo-
cal organs are generally in state OF
active eruption, but so far his flow 81
saliva had only succeeded in covering
his own body polite with spittle. AS
an extinct volcano Mr.. Pingree would
be warm number, even with his
| fiery nature quenched.
THE SOLDIER DEAD.
| Oakland Tribune: Through all oui
| jubilation over the return of our Cali
| fornia troops a strain of sorrow runs
| in the thought that thirty-five of them
| whose voices will never answer roll
call again have been left behind. While
honoring the heroes we are about to
| meet we must not forget the dead. for
every name on that roll represents a
home that will be in mourning when
the bells ring out welcome to the
returning army Why not hold pub
| lie requiem in their honor, or, better
STILL why not erect a shaft to their
memory in some such place as Golden
Gate Park? A bill carrying the neces-
sary appropriation should be intro
duced at the next session of the Legis-
lature.
GOOD ROAD DEMAND.
Placer Representative: There is a
noticeable and constantly increasing
demand for good roads. While other
means of transportation have made
steady progress and costs of freight
have been reduced enormously, the
country roads over which the farmers
have to haul their products to mar
kets have not improved corresponding
Iy. Some of them are almost as bad
in condition as when they were first
cut through. At certain seasons of the
year many established roads are i'm
passable and ready transportation as
impossible, as when first cut through.
A CHANCE.
Redlands Facts: The Kentucky Pop
ulists have put up full State ticket
of course. to be showed under. With
seemingly irreparable breach in the
Democratic ranks and the Pops shout
ing Justify for their own, simon-pure
I 1if,nr n
hosts might make a winning this year
in the Blue Grass State.
MUD IN THE STREAM.
Colusa Sun: The fight for unrestrict-
ed hydraulic mining is now on in good
earnest. Those in the valley who have
been disposed to cavel at the action
of the Anti-Debris Association have
found fault with the log and brush
dams that have been permitted to be
built in the rivers. The association has
worked with the Government Commits
sion, and has presented arguments
against many of the dams that have
been permitted, but finding a plain
violation OF the law as laid down by
the Sawyer decision, a suit was
brought in the name of Suffer County
which has a permit from the United
States Commission. The Miners AsSo-
citation has determined to stand back
of the Red Dog. The Sun has print
ed the announcement of the fact from
the Examiner, and the language OF
that announcement shows the prejudice
against the valley side of the conten
tion-"Miners to contest the Anti-De-
bris peoples suit to stop hydraulic
mining" Now there is no such suit.
and a great newspaper trying to do
Justice between citizens of the State
| ought to have known it. The suit is
to stop the Red Dog from putting mud
into the river Any man or any COM
pany can mine by any process he or It
pleases so that is not done. But the
| language is used for the purpose OF
prejudicing the cause of the plaintiff
| and the Examiner will not correct
| itself. Each of the other papers there
| is just as bad. These papers ought to
know that the onus is on the plaintiff
| to show that the Red Dog is throwing
mud into the river. If that cannot be
done the plaintiff loses it's suit. The
| suit then is not against mining in any
form, as mining, but simply against
throwing mud into the river