The record-union., 1899-10-10
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State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
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Interest.

sensational press the students, or at
least portion of them, in the Normal
School at San Jose have rebelled ana
there is talk of a strike" on their
part. Manifestly these strikers" are
lot of half baked schoolboys who
have been treated with too great
leniency in the past and do not under
stand the common decencies of life. In
olden times such strikers" even
though they had reached the years OF
what ought to be discretion, were not
considered bit too big or too dignified
for bodily correction, and such correc-
| tion had a wonderfully salutary effect.
A little sharp discipline would do these
strikers no harm.
THE UNIVERSITY.
| Tulare Register: Now that people are
doing some sober, second thinking I'D
relation to the proposed plans for the
State University they see that good
deal has been bitten off for one State
| TO chew. Before a brick can be laid
on a building it will be needful to
spend half a million dollars for ada
cent land, and perhaps a round million
| to level it. California is a pretty rug
| ged country, but it is not needful to
remove a mountain to make a place to
pitch a tent. 1t would be better TO
| abandon the present site altogether
and find place where there is better
water supply and enough level land to
build on.
| THE DEMOCRATIC CONFESSION.
| Stockton Independent: The effort of
| Willie Hearst and others to make Ad-
| miral Dewey the Democratic candidate
! is not likely to succeed for several rea-
sons. First Admiral Dewey is not de-
| sirous of standing for the Presidency.
He has refused to be considered as a
candidate. Second he is Republican
and is in perfect harmony with the
| Administration. Third, the effort to
run Dewey is really for the purpose
| of shelving Bryan, and the silver men
are still strong enough to defeat that
| purpose. Fourth, the Democratic party
! has gone too far in it's opposition 10
expansion to take up the very author
| of expansion and make consistent
united and creditable campaign in his
behalf They might just as we'll choose
| Roosevelt or Foraker or John u.
| Young. The mention Of Admiral Dewey
in connection with the Democratic
| nomination merely illustrates the dis
satisfaction of many Democrats with
| the outlook. It shows the desperate
straits to which the party is reduced.
It is virtual confession that there is
no man of Democratic convictions who
can unite them or stand any chance
Of success. In short, it is a confession
/ ;11 th0
ton to beat President Mckinley is to
seek some man outside OF their own
party. 1t is a most ridiculous position
for pretentious party to be in. 1t is
| a most ridiculous position for party
to crawl out of.
A STUPID SHEER.
San Jose Mercury: A well-known
British journal-the "St. James Ga
zette'-thinks that far too much has
been made of Dewey's performance at
Manila Neither the opinion nor the
argument are worth much: but there
is a fine humor in an incidental refer
ence to the United States as "a nation
which is totally unaccustomed to naval
victories" This is funny, truly. Our
heavy British friend appears not to
in American and British history. How
about the fight between the American
Bonhommie Richard and the British
Scraps in 1779? How about the fight
on Lake Erie between the American
Commodore Perry and the British
I Commodore Barclay in 1913? How
about Decatur and Preble's perform
ance at Algiers in 1907? How about
the fight between the American Constl-
tuition and the British Guerriere In
1872? How about the fight in the same
year between the American Wasp and
the British Frolic? How about the
fight between the United States and
the British Macedonian, again in the
same year? How about the meeting OF
the Constitution and the British Java
in 1913? How about the Hornet and
the Peacock a little later on? How
about the affair Of the Chesapeake and
the Shannon in the same year? How
about the-but the list grows tedious.
The United States a nation totally
unaccustomed to naval victories!
This is truly amusing. Somebody
ought to give the ''St. James Gazette
primary history of the British navy.
In the record of its defeats there may
be learned respect of the United
States navy; and a little study may
save the Gazette from another RI
diculous display of ignorance and OF
blarsted British presumption. England
may, indeed, be mistress OF the sea-
but in 100 years she has won fewer
naval victories than the United States.
The United States ranks only fourth or
fifth among the nations as to sea pow
er. but, nevertheless, we have In the
Oregon the most famous ship afioat,
we have in Dewey the most famous liv-
ing naval commander; we have in Ma
han the greatest living naval historian.
REPUBLICAN PATRIOTISM.
Stockton Record: 1t is somewhat
amusing to read in such Democratic or
gans as the Omaha 'World-Herald'
about the patriotism of early Republl-
can platforms Since when have the
Democrats been finding truth and sub
Unity in Republican platforms? The
Republican party to-day is what it al
ways has been-the party of progress
sion and patriotism. The World Her
ald'' says. Read over again the Re-
publican platforms of 1886 and 1861;
let yourself be thrilled and swayed,
etc. - The World Herald is probably
not proud of the Democratic platforms
of the civil war period. reading OF
them would cause you to be thrilled
and swayed," doubtless, but only with
disgust and anger at the traitorous sem
timentS expressed by the party which