The record-union., 1899-11-02
NATIONAL POLITICS INVOLVED.

Do national politics enter into the
municipal campaign? Assuredly they
do. The reasons are not far to seek:
they are not difficult to understand.
The Democratic party stands at pres
ent opposed to the Administration. It
il opposed to the war, in the Philip
pines. Through its chief mouthpiece
it has said that operations ought to
cease and peace be secured by COM
promise with insurrectionists. 1t has
declared against holding fast under
compact to which the treaty with
Spain bound US.
It is opposed to every influence that
has given the nation q degree of pros
perity it has not enjoyed in forty
years. It is doing battle every hour
against the policy of the Administra-
ton that has set every wheel Of indus
try turning. loaded our ships to the
gunwales with the exports of the coun-
try, filed the store houses Of commerce
with the busiest throng they have
known inthalf century, and has de-
veloped the most remarkable traffic
business over lines of land and water
carriage ever known to the nation.
1t is battling against and lampoon-
Ing an, Administration that has carried
to successful conclusion a war of
humanity. and lifted thereby the ma
tom to a rank and level in the world
1t never before occupied. It is fight
ing with cowardly tactics and methods
the expansion of the national territory
and influence accomplished under the
Republican administration, approved
by Congress of the nation and the voice
OF all the civilized world, and which
promises for the American republic a
right and destiny.
therefore. when an organized branch
OF that opposing party is able to
achieves a victory on even local issues
1t is heralded abroad throughout the
land as an Administration defeat and
rebuke to the National Government.
If the Capital City of California should
go Democratic next week, the news will
be heralded far and wide as an anti
expansion victory, triumph for Mr.
bryan and the Chicago platform, and
the result will. be to give aid and en-
couragement to the insurrectionists in
the field against American arms and
authority.
This idea is laughed at; it is car
tooned in the San Francisco press: it
is sneered at by the proponents Of
the opposition ticket. 1t is declared to
be silly, the expression of idiocy and
the sentiment of ignorance. Neverthe-
less it Is solemn truth. California is
more deeply concerned over the out
come of the insurrection in Luzon than
any other State of the Union. The re-
tention Of the Philippines enwraps her
best interests and tells for her rapid
development and increasing wealth and
prosperity.
Let 1t go abroad that the Capital City
OF California votes for the party
Aguinaldo has declared in official pro-
clamation to be his aid and ally, and
the insurrectionists in Luzon will re-
eeive. distinct aid and comfort, and our
soldiers win be correspondingly discour-
aged and cowed. That is simple truth; !;
a truth every one familiar with the
situations must realize to be forcible.
Democracy stands to-day for Aguin-
aldoism. Atkinsonisrn and Bryanism: !:
every election that goes Democratic
from this to the end, will involve the
issue between those tsms and all that
the Republican party stands for.
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