The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-22

Rooms 81 and 81 81 Park Row, New York City.
DAVID NJ. FOLTZ, Special Agent.
TUESDAY ............... OCTOBER %, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
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Short campaign or long campaign San
Francisco is the place TO start it rolling.
Senator Sherman predicts Republican
majority of 10000 in Ohio, and he is good
calculator.
Considering how few Democrats are at
all in it, it is wonderful how many of
them manage to fall out.
Arkansas would like to see the fight but
is afraid she would never dare to look
Texas in the eye afterward.
For the present the Sultan is the politest
sovereign in all Europe, and gentle as a
Turk Will soon be proverb.
Spain now proposes to compromise with
Cuba on a basis of administrative reform,
but Cuba has tried that before.
DR.. Parkhurst Is preaching for scratched
tickets in New York, and the Tammany
tiger looks at his claws and smiles.
It cannot be said OF Miss Vanderbilt,
cher face is her fortune" but Marlborough
seems to have a face for most anything.
Having failed to reach the north pole
explorers are verging round to the belief
that the grapes are better at the south pole.
To England at the present time Venezu-
ella is synonymous with trouble. If she
enters upon one she will get into the other.
There may be nothing new under the
sun, but it is noted in New York that
Tammany is trying to catch the bicycle
vote.
We might have to stretch the Monroe
doctrine to reach Cuba, but it can drop on
the Venezuela problem in its most con-
densed form.
We are promised, if Edison lives five
years longer, q means of producing incan-
descent light at half its present cost, so
here's luck to him.
New York is beginning to talk of deveI-
oping Columbia College into a metropoli-
from the ordinary standpoint.
Really. there are some people talking OF
Julius Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agri-
culture, as Democratic nominee for Presi-
dent. To this complexion have we come
at last.
How the campaign is going in Kentucky
may be estimated from the fact the Demo-
Gratis have decided to drop National issues
and confine their canvass hereafter to
home topics.
The only State election where the Demo-
cratic rooster is safe this year is Missis-
sippi, and even there the colored voter
would take him off the roost if he had a
living showing.
England has a right to as much terri
tory bordering on Venezuela as she owned
when the Monroe doctrine was first pro-
mulgated, but she should not be allowed
to add foot to it,
If all these dukes and things that our
heiresses marry are to be considered
among our foreign relations II is high time
to exercise better diplomacy in picking
them out or stopping the game.
Senator Gorman's recent statement, 81
am a practical prohibitionist in my own
person, but | am a Democrat for my coun-
try's sake" would have been good phrase
if it had not strained the limit Of the cam
paign lie too much.
The latest new thing in d iseases is
called railroad kidney" and is said to be
caused by excessive railroad riding. 1t is
probable, however, that only passengers
get it in that form, as officials of the road
seem to develop railroad gall.
Mr.. Henschel, the noted leader OF SYM
phony concerts in London, served for
some years in Boston, and is quoted as
having said recently that he learned more
in his American career than in his native
Germany, and Boston now feels that John
l.. Sullivan is not her only pride.
The New Jersey wild man, of whom SO
much was heard during the summer,
turns out to be nothing but a crazy tramp.
He walked into Trenton the other dav
under the impression he had been elected
to the Legislature, and Immediately he
was captured and the mystery solved,
One of the interesting features of Massa-
chusetts politics this year is the submission
to the people of the question: ais it advis-
able TO concede to women the right to vote
in municipal elections? ?" Women as well
as men will have the right to vote on the
question, and the result is expected to show
whether women really wish the ballot or
not.
Nine. Modjeska is among the people who
agree with Greer Harrison that New York
has no appreciation of classic drama, and
says she will never play Shakespeare there
again. The Philadelphia Times, comment
ing on the fact that Nine. Modjeska re-
calls that when she played with Edwin
Booth, who was then at the height OF his
fame they drew large houses throughout
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