The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-29

TUEsDAY................ OCTOBER %, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
In the first place-the convention.
Give your civic patriotism showing.
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The mi1kmen have seen sights and now
the butchers may look out.
In the theater of life the big pugilists
have decided to take private box.
Boston is with US and surely Chicago is
sufficiently cultured to follow the example.
The patriot Cubans viii make use of
American balloons and liberty is in the air.
Unless all signs faiI Sherman will be
kept busy this winter writing key to his
memoirs.
The Ohio idea at present runs to hot
stuffs of all kinds from lynching parties
TO politics.
1t is certainly worth some OF nearly
every citizens money to see Presidential
convention.
Up to date the vigorous foreign policy
remains corked up in the ink bottle in
Olney's desk.
Senator Hill must have been very badly
loaded since the New Workers decided to
unload him in Ohio.
Even if the Monroe doctrine does not
apply to the case of Cuba the laws Of lib
erty and humanity do.
Every policy of the Cleveland admins
tration is foreign to the interests and the
sentiments OF this country.
There are some people who cannot talk
straight enough TO talk through a hat
without damaging the rim.
It looks as if England's colonial policy
consisted in taking trouble for the mere
sake of getting more troubles.
Diplomatic straws about the European
war cloud have been thrashed over SO often
they are little more than chaff.
If the British do not look out they will
find that the hardest part OF getting into
Venezuela is getting out again.
While the Wilson tariff has lots of holes
for Democracy to fall into there isn't a
single one for it TO crawl out OF.
There is one consolation, the I'M
American policy will get an American
roast as soon as Congress meets.
Ii the official survey of the Alaska
foy - NJ do no f-;H
ton along il may grow into fight.
4 political campaign started on the
Pacific Coast would assuredly start from
the right place to sweep the whole country.
No one at present seems willing to take
stock in Democratic Presidential possibiIi-
ties, and even speculation on the subject is
dull.
1t can hardly be regarded as an off year
in National politics that promises to bring
Kentucky and Maryland into the Republi-
can ranks.
1t appears that the Kaiser and the Gar
have little project to carry out, and the
latter will railroad it through China to
start with.
Nature and commerce have worked
together very well in California this year.
We have had good crops and good sales
all along the line.
The first big rainstorm that comes along
in Washington may get the drop on the
Mount Olympic volcano and prove il to be
nothing but forest fire.
As general rule the report of big
strike in a mining country attracts hosts
of miners, but in the Ceur d'Alene it SIM
ply calls out the militia.
Just as the Durrant case is about to close
the Holmes trial opens IN the East, and
the sensational press has new vista before
it Astounding in blood and gore.
Now that meat inspection is in progress
it might be as well to inquire whether Ore
gon or Chicago has been unloading any
horse flesh on US as prime beef.
AS Corbett and Fitzsimmons promise to
make their meeting strictly private and
confidential there ought to be no further
objection on the part of the public.
Since the New England men favor this
City for the National Convention those
from other sections of the country have no
right to complain that the distance is too
great.
From the way the campaign is going in
Iowa it would seem there are hardly
enough Democrats in the State to furnish
miestones to measure the Republican
procession by.
There is a growing belief in Europe that,
despite the compliance OF the Sultan, the
Turkish people would just as soon split
the war cloud wide open and start the reign
of bloodshed as not.
In devoting the whole first page of the
current issue to an account of 1.-THE
new CALL" the Esparto Press has
paid US compliment of more than
ordinary value. We appreciate it as
another evidence of the good will with
which THE CALL is regarded by the
interior press and Editor Cluff NAV he