The San Francisco call., 1895-11-14


EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and 80, "a Park Row, New York City.
DAVID NJ. FOLTZ, Special Agent.
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THURSDAY VEMBER IA, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Add your mite to help the convention
fund.
If you are proud of the City act so that
the City may be proud of you.
California will speak for free Cuba in
Congress this winter. and speak well.
1t looks as if Pittsburg might get out OF
the ring ami leave us to settle it with
Chicago.
Don't forget there is more business than
politics in bringing the National Conven-
ton here.
While the flying machine is waiting the
flying train is getting there little faster
all the time.
There is q growing belief that Turkey
does not need medicine so much as a sur
gical operation.
Before the week closes the convention
committee should be in a position to send
our uItimatum East.
The bloomer suit has been adopted by
Chicago ladies for horseback riding and is
firmly IN the saddle at last.
According to reports the New York horse
show is sufficiently successful to be &C
counted brilliant preliminary to ours.
Eastern people speak of San Francisco
as the far side of the continent, but they
should remember that it is the right side.
1t is reported from Washington that
Cleveland and Olney are not idle, but we
hear no reports that they are doing any
good.
If Democracy wishes TO have candidate
for the Presidency on hand next year it
had better begin advertising for proposals
at once.
Judging from the current reports of de-
fects in our battle-ships it would seem that
the biggest defect must be in the Naval
Department somewhere.
The Democratic committee of fifty is
preparing to throw cold water on Buck lev,
but perhaps the old man will be smart
enough to get out of the wet.
Miss Whitney carried her millions to an
Englishman, but as she proposes to keep
her Englishman in this country we will
have to forgive her little bit.
Stockton may be talking of fourth rail-
road simply because she has got in the
habit of it, but there is something in the
talk that sounds like business.
Unless all the European powers unite to
give him surprise party the Sultan will
continue to act as if he were out of Euro
pean society and didn't give cent.
The prospects are that the gold medal
for the best State exhibit at Atlanta will
come to the Golden State, and once more
we beat the East on her own ground.
Since Governor AItgeld refused in At
lanta to ride in parade with United
States troops he might as we'll get out of
the American procession and hunt another
country.
Boston has a clergyman who has chaI-
lenged any editor in the country to debate
the Sunday newspaper question with him,
and the Corbett and Fitzsimmons talk will
be lost in the noise.
Now that fast trains are to make the trip
from Chicago to San Francisco in three
days it can hardly be said we are out of
reach of any Eastern man who has any,
thing of movement on him.
AS the Philadelphia Record says "San
Francisco is too far to the westward to be
thought OF as news center" we have an
other evidence that Philadelphians do not
know news when it is sent to them.
In the Electoral College there will be
next year All votes, and from the present
outlook 294 are safely Republican, SO only
can be surely counted for the Democrats
and if that party should receive the Ga
votes that are doubtful it would still lack
II of majority.
The Mariposa has sailed with a large
shipment OF California fruit to Australia,
and it is more than likely some fruit from
the same orchards has been sent eastward
to England. The time is coming when
earth with its products.
1t is reported an engine has been in
vented that will convert coal directly into
energy without the waste of the present
steam engine, and of course great things
are expected of it. The invention is called
''thermic carbonaceous motor" but there
is reason to believe that future improve
ments may shorten the name little and
fit it for general use.
1t was reported at the meeting of the
directors of the Manufacturers and Pro-
ducers' Association that goods made by
convict labor in the East are sold in this
State when they are not permitted to be
sold in the States where they are made.
That is one of the little games which our
Eastern sisters should not be permitted to
play in our back yard any more.
The big vote in New York in favor of the
proposition to expend So, 900 900 to improve