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

Well DONE Sacramento.
The new movement is electrical.
The new Sacramento will call herself |
the Electri City.
Our trust is still in the aluminium and
the Yankee crew.
1t is to be a new era in motive power as
well as public sentiment.
Democracy is watching Commissioner
Stanton with bated breath.
This is the time to begin enterprises and
start in with the rising tide.
The Valkyrie is at any rate good enough |
to make things interesting.
The thing that Dunraven had up his
sleeve was evidently laugh.
The Native Son illustrates the State and
the Native Daughter illumines it.
The pioneers and natives have had their |
day Of glory and glorious day it was.
If Cleveland picked up Secretary Morton
for mascot he has been bitterly deceived. |
Hardly week passes in this country |
without the opening of convention some |
where.
If the Railroad Commissioners really |
get to work they will, literally, fill long !
felt want.
1t is time for Commissioner Clark to |
stand up squarely and let the people see
his attitude.
Let US hope the Sutro Library building |
will soon get out OF the air and take shape |
on a solid foundation.
If Mayor Sutro SHES veto at the high |
tax levy he will make hit, even If it
doesn't bring it down.
If New York loses the cup San Fran
cisco may go to England and bring it over
to this side of the world.
Louisville seems to have captured the
Grand Army and made the veterans feel
at home on the first whirl.
nation in Ohio under pressure but 1t is
still doubtful if he thinks he is really run
ming.
To entertain 10000 visitors in the way
she did gives Sacramento a right to call
herself capital city in every sense of the
word.
GiIroy made such success of Admission
day that we may expect her TO come into
the ring among the carnival towns of the
State.
Maryland voters are beginning to under
stand that the only sure way to get rid of
Gormanism is to vote the Republican
ticket.
There has been another batch of horrors
in Armenia and still the European nations
hesitate to tell the Turk to get off that por-
ton of the earth.
Judging by her newspapers, Boston
seems to have acquired the convention
habit this summer to the degree of an
actual dissipation.
Keir Hardie is another British agitator
who will go home and say Chicago is hell,
simply because he succeeded in raising it
while he was there.
The project of bringing the Republican
National Convention to San Francisco is
moving forward steadily and lots of strong
men are pushing it along,
One reason why the United States has
no right to interfere in Armenian affairs
is that she has not yet made any attempt
to prevent massacres in Cuba.
Before the Commissioners take action in
reducing railroad rates they should put on
record body of evidence sufficient to sus-
tain the action before the courts.
Take notice that the United Press gives
the best reports of all events and that THE
CALL is the only morning paper in the City
that has the United Press dispatches.
Japan has just enough of war in For
mosa to keep her army IN good exercise,
while leaving her free to spend the Chi
nese indemnity in buying American war
ships to perfect her navy.
Although American travel to Europe was
larger this year than ever before, there was
a decrease in the number of visitors to
Yellowstone Park, which looks very much
as if Americans with money enough to
travel hadn't brains enough to know
which way to go.
The effort to bring the Republican Ma
tional Convention to San Francisco is the
fist enterprise in which the whole of the
Greater West has been unitedly engaged,
and with energetic leadership on our part
there is every reason to believe it can be
made successful in itself and the promise
of greater successes to come.
The announcement that the Mechanics
Fair may be continued for another week,
instead of closing on Saturday, as at first
arranged, will be received with more than
ordinary satisfaction. The fair contains
many exhibits that constitute important
object lessons in California industries and
the longer it is open the greater is the
work done in the way of popular educa-
ton.