The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21

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Nevada is little, but she is leader.
For Democracy at present all politics is
a faction fight.
BimetalIism is not new issue and it
needs no new party.
., The money of the constitution is the only |
sound money for the Nation.
The goldbug syndicate protects the
treasury but it does it at the expense of
the people.
The East will take. notice that the voice
Of the Silver Convention is the voice of the
Golden State.
The usual dead sure thing for the Demo
Gratis in Kentucky gives way this year to
liking showing for the Republicans.
Look for your friends at the Mechanics
Fair; if they are not there you will find
something worth looking at anyhow.
Home rule for Ireland and home rule
for Cuba are two battles for freedom that
ought to be won by the men of this gen.
Grafton.
In Ohio as elsewhere the Democrats are
between the devil and the deep sea, with |
: no choice other than to take water or go |
:. to hades.
Before the administration men pro-
nounce for Villas as Presidential candi- |
:date they should teach the people how to
pronounce his name.
:: If Senator Brice saw any valuable ex-
pectations of Presidential nomination
the chances are he would pocket them
from force of habit
:. People who go to the exposition should
make careful study of home products ex
hibited there and see how far they can
supply all home needs.
Next to the alleged third-term move
ment the most futile idea IN the politics
of the day is the belief of the goldbugs
that the revival of trade would side-track
the silver question.
Manley of Maine was correct in saying:
''The effect of National campaign start
ing ON the Pacific and moving maiestically
eastward to the Atlantic would be some
. thing superb in politics.
The Atlanta Exposition promises as
novelty a complete exhibition of all recent
inventions made by women, and the ex-
.pectation is that it will prove surprise
party to the average man.
o. The success of the popular loan in Phila-
delphia shows that if this country needs
to borrow money it would be cheaper as
well as better to go to the people for it in
stead of a foreign syndicate.
If subordinate officials like Comptroller
Bowler can set aside an act of Congress,
as the courts are in the habit of doing,
legislative bodies in this country will soon
be overcome by that tired feeling.
If leading Republicans in Maine are in
favor Of holding the next National Con-
vention of the party in San Francisco
there certaihly can be no valid objection
from other States on account of distance.
The fact that the hoy who caused the
disastrous boiler explosion at Denver
escaped without scratch is called miracu-
lous, but it seems only another proof OF
the old saying that born fool never gets
hurt.
The statement of so eminent man as
Cannon of Illinois that he is bimetallist
but opposed to the free coinage of silver
shows that even in the mouths of intelli-
gent men the old gag still has power to
work.
The state of the weather in Delaware can
be estimated from the report that the wax
figure of summer girl in a shop window
was recently melted by the heat this being
the only instance on record of such a thing
as melting summer girl.
California is not the only State that has
had trouble with her Board of Equaliza-
ton, for complaint is made in illinois
that the board there has left untaxed $780,
100000 in the State at large and made it
up by mistreating Cook County.
The Kentucky plan of conducting cam
paign by joint debates between the oppos-
ing candidates for Governor ought to be
adopted in all States, for it gives the people
a chance to hear both sides and thereby
enables them to vote more intelligently on
election day.
tits estimated that it costs the State of
Ohio 5000 to send man to the peniten-
tiary and an equal amount 20 maintain
him there for the average term of confine-
ment. The publication of the estimates
have startled the taxpayers, and they are
now-trying to devise more comprehen-
siye system of reforming the bad boys.
The August number of the Commercial,