The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-19

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MONDAY. AUGUST 10, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Welcome silver men.
Free silver deserves the freedom of the
City.
After the convention don't forget the ex-
position.
The Golden Gate is always open to the
silver sea.
: The convention is with us ane we are
with the convention.
Wherever there is a Democratic conven-
tion in these days there is faction fight
and bolt.
The silver convention is to be called nom
partisan. but it will speak for all parties of
the Greater West.
The London market will be bonanza
for our fruit men if they can get their fruit
there in the right shape.
There is a safer and broader standing
room for bimetallists in the Republican
party than anywhere else.
A convention for free silver and an expo
sition of home products do us proud this
week, and besides we have a circus.
If the Silver Democrats of Ohio have
their way, Mr.. Brice will be kicked out of
the party before he has chance to retire.
There is still chance that the Railroad
Commission will do something for all the
shippers of the State as well as the grain
growers.
In place of -Four More Years of Grover"
the Democrats will now substitute as
campaign song "Oh, No; We Never Men
ton Him."
Mark Twain's Jokes will probably be
strictly honest hereafter, as he is now lee
turing to pay his debts, and not for the fun
of the thing.
Whenever you wish to see good move
ment for the State just cast your eye over
the San Joaquin and watch the Valley
Railroad grow.
: AS Corbett got married on the day after
Fitzsimmons applied for admission to citi-
zenship, the advertising honors are even
at the close of the round.
; The feeling in the Cleveland Democratic
convention toward the fisherman of Gray
Gables was too deep for words; the resolu-
tons never mentioned him.
No matter how long Kaiser William S
presence may have been expected any
where, he always makes his visit sur
prise party before he leaves.
According to Acting Attorney General
Conrad, unless our Minister to Mexico can
provide some ransom for his salary there
will be no salary for Ransom.
If Kier Hardie, the defeated English Ia
Dor leader, comes to this country to lec-
ture, we ought to even up things by send-
ing Coxey to lecture in England.
Japan seems to be having about as much
trouble in annexing Formosa as Spain has
in holding Cuba, and she ought to have
made China pay the cost of delivering the
goods.
The Fresno mass-meeting called to ask
for reduction of freight rates on grain,
should go. beyond the call and ask for
reduction of all freight charges to reason
able rates.
The anti-railroad mass-meeting did well
in forming public sentiment, but the main
thing in fighting the monopoly is to en-
force the law against the commission OF
specific wrongs.
Military celebrations in Germany are
about as common as carnivals in Cali
forfia, and it is proposed to keep them up
until January if they do not bring on
war in the meantime.
1t is now said that if Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor Willard does not come back to
yearning people inside of six days he will
have to drop mis- Office and return as pri-
vate citizen, if he ever returns at all.
If either Lord Wolseley or General Rob-
erts is appointed Commander-in-Chief of
the British army, another long step will
have been taken in getting the high offices
of that country free from the rubbish of
royalty.
In the retirement of ]. +. Thompson OF
the San Jose Herald, California journalism
loses one of. its ablest, most independent
and most successful men. The loss will be
strongly felt in the journalism of Santa
Clara County, and indeed by the people at
large. for he has long been one of the most
jealous promoters of the interests of the
community, and through the medium of
the Herald was at all times an efficient fac
tor in advancing both the moral and the
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