The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-03-11
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State and Coast Opinions ON Sub
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was done for them, and that we should
sooner or later have them fighting us,
he said what many have been thinking
without saying, although hoping that
the Cubans would in the end justify
the high opinion which Senator For
aker and others hold of them. It is
difficult, however. to make peaceable
citizens of men who have been profess
sional revolutionists all their lives, as
most of the Cuban leaders have been.
OF OLIVE OIL.
Santa Rosa Republican: An Eastern
trade paper INDUCES in long editorial
article in which it declares that Call
fornia olive oil can never gain firm
foothold in Eastern markets until the
California grower is willing to sell his
product in competition with that i'm
ported from Italy, Spain and France.
The California grower asks $3.50 per
dozen quarts and the imported product
sells for Sc. The imported product is
not pure olive oil; the California Pro-
duct is. The question now seems to be
as to whether California olive oil shall
be adulterated SO that it may be sold
as cheaplyl as the foreign oil or whether
we shall find some means of freeing the
home product of the necessity OF COM
peting with the impure stuff loaded
onto this market from the pauper labor
district of the old world. BY all means
let us choose the latter remedy. There
is but a small profit in the ODD of the
olive at the price asked by the home
grower.
A GOOD LAW.
Los Angeles Times: Governor Gage
has signed the Stratton bill, governing
the conduct of primary elections. The
reason given by the Governor for his
approval of the measure-that there
is general demand for its enactment"
is undoubtedly sound The law pro-
vides, in effect, that primary elections
shall be conducted under rules and reg
ulations similar to those of the Austria
liam form of ballot, with headings for
the different parties. arranged above
parallel columns of blank space. The
voter is required to- be duly registered
before he can vote. He goes to the
polls, gives his name to the judges. re-
ceives ballot, enters a private booth
and writes or paStes upon the ballot
the names Of the candidates of his
choice. The ballots are counted in the
usual manner after the close OF the
polls, and the results are certified to the
Board Of Supervisors by the election
officers. No voter is allowed to vote for
the candidate of more than one party
The primaries for all parties are held
at the same time and place, and only
one set of election officials is required
These officials comprise two judges
two clerks and two inspectors, who are
appointed by the Board of Supervisors
from the ranks of the two political par
ties which received the highest number
of votes at the last preceding election
The primaries for State. county, and
Congressional elections are to be held
ON the second Tuesday of August in
alternate years, and for municipal cleo
tions on the sixth Tuesday before the
holding of the election. The penal laws
which apply to general elections are
made applica Bile to primary elections,
and primary election days are made
legal holidays.
LEGAL HOLIDAYS.
Red Bluff People's Cause: California
is overburdened with legal holidays.
but as the general election laws are to
be applied to primary elections it is
which elections of the latter class are
held be made holidays also. If the bus
mess men and farmers and the better
element of citizens in general will take
| the pains to attend the primary cleo
tons, as held under the new law, good
government will follow as surely as day
follows night.
THE BEST SORT OF WELCOME.
Stockton Mail: A favorite topic of
conversation in San Francisco at pres
ent Is the grand reception that will be
given the First California Regiment
when it shall return from the Philip
pines. We hear of medals and ban
Duets and entertainments, and there is
probably not an ambitious politician in
town who is not figuring out how he
can make himself conspicuous in some
cheap way on that suspicious occasion
But we can tell the San Franciscans
one important factor in the coming re-
ceptions that they do not seem to have
given much thought to yet, and
that is the furnishing to the young SOL
diers who may need such aid respect
able situations in which they can earn
a good livelihood after the gush and
guzzle are over. We would like to see
the leading men of San Francisco or
ganizing a Veterans Employment As
ISOLATION so that the metropolis of CAL
ifornia may not furnish, as have some
other cities, the spectacle of returned
soldiers wandering around starving and
vainly trying to find chance to earn
wages. The other day newspaper
published in San Jose said there were
about thirty in that plight there.
GENERAL WHEELER.
| Kern Echo: The Echo does not put
any confidence in the report that Presi-
dent Mckinley has under contempla-
ton the proposition to have General Joe
Wheeler succeed Mr.. Alger as Secretary
| of War. In the first plice We do not
think Fighting Joe" would care to ac-
| cept such an irksome position at his adj
vanced age, and in the second place
McKinley's Cabinet is a Republican
household, and it is more than likely
he will keep it that way. Such was
the Presidents political faith and order
when elected, and so far he has not
varied from it.
A PEN BONANZA.
| Stockton Record Adolph dEnnery,
the French dramatist, died the other
day worth 100000 francs, which he
made by writing popular melodramas
| like THE Two Orphans" The play
wright who can withstand the critics
and please the people carries bonanza
in his pen. Wall streets-is not in it
with him. Boucicault is said to have
mo 40 Q1 000 900 I,xy Cho,1uhra -