The record-union., 1899-10-02

Democrats are trying hard to divert
attention by saying it has no signlil-
canoe other than the usual State cam
paign: but this platform deals with
national issues throughout, and for
this reason it will be fought on national
lines and will, accordingly, be more or
less regarded as of national import
ance. The Democrats, have, as usual,
followed their course of an anything
town platform The Republicans will
stick to principle. the past proud rec
ord of the party, its present efforts and
the prosperity of the country, and on
this it will win, as it certainly deserves
to.
A TRIAL OF LIFE.
Tulare Register: Speaking of the
trials of life! In truth what are they
about which people make SO much fuss,
What do they amount to compared to
having to get up in the morning? 1t
never gets any easier. The alarm goes
off. You hear it. You know you ought
to get up. You know you have to,
and yet you lie there and dread to
make a move, You would give NEST
anything you have to give for one
more hour Of blissful sleep, for another
nap be it ever so short. You find your
self slipping away into dreamland, but
pricking conscience catches you on
the brink of bliss to fetch you back to
the certainty of fate. OF all the trials Of
life, of all the burdens which are put
upon flesh to be borne from the cradle
to the grave few are heavier to bear
or more impossible to get rid of than
getting up in the morning
THE PARTY ISSUE.
Santa Rosa Republican,: There is
real live issue between the political
parties in the elections to be held this
fall 1t was we'll stated by Chaplain
Ma1ley of the First Nebraska Regiment
in the Republican State convention at
Omaha. He declared that in all his
life he had never voted a Republican
ticket, but this fall he should vote
to uphold the hands of the Admins
tration in the Philippines" The dec
laration evoked great applause 1t was
IN expression of Republican sentiment
as opposed to the platforms and
speeches of the two party conventions
OF that State that had been held a
few days before.
The Democrats of Nebraska, Iowa
Ohio, Massachusetts and several other
States have spoken. They have not de-
clared any purpose to uphold the hands
OF the Administration in the Philip
pines. In Massachusetts there was in
tense feeling over the action taken.
While the majority would abandon the
Philippine Islands to Aguinaldo and
/ his followers, there was a strong mi
nority in favor of fighting the war
through to a victorious conclusion.
Ihls Is to-day the best defined issue
between the two political parties as far
as they have declared in their conven-
tons this year. Chaplain Mailey
stated the case briefly but clearly.
shall the troops be withdrawn from
Manila? There are Republicans who
VIII vote with the Democratic man
| ayers in favor of such action. There
are many Democrats who viii not stav
with their party on this proposition
but will cast ballots in favor of sus-
tanning the Administration. The cleo
tors OF number of States are about
to tell President MCKINLEY either TO
go forward or retreat.
TRUSTS AND PUBLICITY.
San Diego Union: In all the recent
discussion of the trust question. at the
chicago and st. Louis gatherings. there
is just one suggestion of remedy that
stands out clearly from the muddy ut
terances with which each of those as
semblages was clogged And this is
the point that publicity may prove the
real check for corporate wrong-doing.
II Is quite possible that the first re-
suit OF the popular movement to re-
strict, II not to suppress the operations
! OF trusts, viii be the enactment of
statutes enforcing some degree of pub
| licity in the accounts of directors of
industrial corporations. In the United
States Boards of Directors can as a
rule do as they please with the proper
ties entrusted to their control, and keep
the stockholders in ignorance of the
situation of their own properties
When a stockholder in some big mo-
nopoly receives a dividend, he has no
means of knowing how it is paid, OF
whether it is likely that the next divi-
dend period will be passed without the
division Of money among the stock
holders. Their money, perhaps a con-
| siderable sum for individuals, is in
vested in the concern, but as a rule
they are absolutely In the dark as tc
it's affairs
TWAS WE'LL MANAGED.
Vacaville Reporter: We think the
managers Of the recent State Fair
have every reason TO congratulate
| themselves upon the success they have
won 1t is one thing to make a good
fair; it is another to make a good
show pay. Both have been accom-
plished, the balance sheet showing
over $4,000 to the good The manage
ment was a broad gauge one and in
terested the people of the State in the
exhibition at Sacramento. Hence its
success.
A FRONT YARD.
Alameda Encinal: owing to the re-
cent national developments San Fran
cisco has really become the front yarc
of the nation, instead of the back
yard" remarked Benjamin Ide Wheel.
er, the new President of our university
to an interviewer in New York yester.
day. before starting for California
That is an, intelligent way of regard
ing the situation. No part of the world
ever had better commercial possibili
ties than those within our reach at tn,
present time, and we are fools if We
do not take advantage of them.
a BIG THING.
Marysville Democrat: The closing o.
the harvest on the Glenn ranch is sale
to have been a grand one this year
Nine harvesters started on a 5O0-acrs
field near st. John in the morning, ant
in the late afternoon not a spear was