The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-09

DAVID N. FoLTz, Special Agent.
sATURDAY............... NOVEMBER 9, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
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Don't forget that this is the day to leave
orders for THE SUNDAY CALL.
What Democracy would really like is to
have the next election padded.
Now we shall see how the Democrats
can carry the state of despondency.
The women who are working for the
convention fund have right TO set the
fashion.
Marlborough got his wedding suit made
in New York, SO we saved that much from
the wreck.
Perhaps it pleases Cleveland to, know
there is no silver lining on the cloud over
him this time.
According to the latest reports there are
big goldfelds in Madagascar, and we may
yet see silver at premium.
With Talmage and Congress both on
hand this winter Washington will have to
make movement for city extension.
Don't forget to show before the week
closes just how much you would like to
see the National Convention in this City.
Buckley may be right in thinking that to
get back into the Democratic camp is the
surest way Of retiring from politics at this
iuncture.
1t was rather mean in Corbett and Fitz-
simmons not to give the Governors of
Kansas and Missouri a chance to advertise
themselves.
As Professor Bemis is to lecture on
"The Money Question" it is evident the
ways than one.
1t is said the apple crop of the country
this year exceeds 1000, 600 barrels. and if
we wish hard-cider campaign next year
we can have it.
Japan got the Chinese indemnity, Eng
land gets the Chinese trade, while Russia
got the Chinese loan and probably mort
gage on the country.
Cincinnati will hardly point with pride
to her Mark Twain fund as an evidence of
her liberality, for at the latest reports it
only amounted to $14 %.
The only features of the Atlanta Exposi-
ton that have attracted much attention
SO far are the visit OF Grover Cleveland
and the dances on the Midway.
The report about Olneys vigorous
foreign policy was evidently intended for
publication only, as there is nothing about
1t yet that guarantees good faith.
The only argument left in the third-term
movements that no Democrat of note is
willing to put himself in position to get
the lick the people intend for Grover.
The Democrats in Massachusetts have
at any rate the sympathy of the woman
suffrage people, for they are not only in
the same State but the same condition.
The surest way to get a rightful settle
ment of the Alaskan boundary is for our
Government to take possession of the line
we claim and then let the discussion 90 on.
The Connecticut Fruit Commissioner
during the past year has condemned half
million peach trees in an effort to extir-
pate the yellows. and this is the third year
he has been at it.
Germany is doing her share in bringing
about the introduction of electricity as a
motive power on existing railways, and a
successful test is said to have been re-
Gently made on the line between Cologne
and Lenz.
OF the $500 pensioners dropped from the
rolls under charges of fraud by the Cleve-
land administra ton, all have been re-
stored except 294, and that is the outcome
of the Democratic howl about fraudulent
pensioners.
There is gold in the disputed territory
of Venezuela4and gold along the disputed
boundary of Alaska, so the British reach
for it on the general proposition that they
have right to all the gold that debtor
nations own.
Bayara's address to the British de-
nouncing the protective system of this
COA-ltAl NC icACil do q proof JldG The
Cleveland administration fears to be tried
by the American people and is seeking a
change of venue.
1t is now disclosed that several members
OF the Republican National Committee
were arbitrarily arrested by the Chicago
police during the convention Of 1888, and
that is one of the reasons why Chicago
will not get the convention next year.
Out of sixty-six generals in the German
army it is said all are mobiles except two
and that of 294 colonies there are only
lightweight who do not belong to the
aristocracy. On this showing promotions
Tor merit cannot be very common in that
army, and Germany may yet regret it.
Among the interesting facts brought out
by the Investigation of the municipal gov
ernment in Pttsburg is the disclosure of a
deal by which the ring ''exonerated" GER
tain rich property-owners from paying for
street improvements in front of their prop
erty, and made up the amount by increas-