The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-12
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions ON Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

los Angeles EXPRESS: When first the
Democrats began talking a few months
ago about the national campaign they
shouted in stentorian tones that free
silver coinage at IL to / was the main
issue; a little later they aSseverateo
firmly that free silver, anti-imperlallsm
and anti-trusts would be the battle
cry: still later. in a mild fashion they
stated that while the Imperialism and
antitrust issues were dominant that
the Chicago platform with it's free sill
yer plank would be adopted by the
1900 convention, and now the Nationai
Committee meets and without going
into particulars Chairman Jones says
that the Chicago platform will be in
dorsed, although just at present 1T can
not be positively stated what Will pc
the leading issue next year Can any
body tell just where the Democratic
party does stand?
EXPANSION.
Yreka Journal: The expansion sentl-
ment in Texas. says the st. Louis
Globe Democrat" which is being
voiced by such prominent Democrats as
Ex-Governor Hogg. and by such con-
spicuous Democratic journals as the
Galveston News is soaring the ma
tional Democratic leaders. This is
natural. No Republican, of course,
looks for Republican victory in Texas
next year, even if the Democratic con-
vention puts anti-expansion into its ma
tional platform, but the strength Of the
expansfonist sentiment among the
Democrats of that State will show that
it is powerful enough in the South to
make some of the States in that region
doubtful or Republican. The news from
Texas is giving the Democratic mag
of concern.
VISIONS OF CAESAR.
Los Angeles Times: Some of our es-
teemed contemporaries of the Demo-
cratic persuasion have discovered in
President Mckinley another Caesar
like unto that one which once threw
this same Democracy into conniption
fits when the name of Ulysses S. Grant
was mentioned. The Boston Herald
and it's Los Angeles namesake see In
our Republican President dictator
who threatens to wrap toga about
him and go around the country placing
his feet on the necks OF the people; now
and then otherwise stimulating the Ca r
of all the Russias in imperial disregard
of the Declaration Of Independence, the
Constitution of the United States and
the statutes made and provided for
conserving the liberties of the American
people. These two Heralds of Grief
and Seers of Mares Nests should lay in
a supply of liver regulator and nerve
medicine. When the Boston Herald"
voices the idea that "a monarchy will
follow in the footsteps of President Me-
Kinley," and when it's Los Angeles
namesake echoes this fantastic non
sense, we may well conclude that rea-
son has fed from certain newspaper Of
fees in the country, or else that GER
tain journalists have become intoxicat-
ed to the point of frenzy by the exuber-
ance of their own bile. The newspaper
which can see in the kindly, gentle, pa
triotic and otherwise thoroughly char
teristic American, William Mckinley,
the stuff that dictatorS are made of,
can see in the heavens moons that are
made of green cheese, and stars dang
ling in the sky that are but bits of tin
sci such as little children play with.
When presumably sane men begin to
talk nonsense of that sort, it is either
time to send for lunacy expert or the
patrol Wagon-or both.