The San Francisco call., 1895-07-29

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MONDAY .....~JULY %, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
When the carnivals are over the fairs
will begin.
Lying is. the least of the evils of sensa-
tional journalism.
Hard times are passing away, but soft
snaps are as scarce as ever.
The San Quentin gallows has already re-
assumed its hungry aspect.
1t is a dull day that doesn't furnish new
witness to the Durrant case.
The Colma Club is making some vigorous
whacks at the City's fair name.
A boom serves only to increase prices,
but enterprise increases business.
Itmay seem inconsistent to oppose prize
fighting while the Solid Eight flourish.
Local resources can be developed better
by home energy than by foreign capital.
Bandit Brady has an eye to the excellent
quality of the hemp kept in stock at San
Quentin.
The Solid Eight will find out before long
that the code of California is not a bundle
of false pretenses.
Administration Democrats in Kentucky
may have muzzled Joe Blackburn, but he
is still able to kick.
Alameda County's reduction of its as
sessment has changed Assessor Dalton's
fidelity to heroism.
Even when you put yourself in another
mans place you don't always see the world
from his point of view.
There are good many criminals who
might well reflect that San Quentin has
both graveyard and a gallows.
Woodward's exploits in Cuba have para
lyzed the wings upon which Creelman's
ambition scared at Port Arthur.
When Hawaii places herself in posi-
ton to press cable button she may be
sure that America will do the rest.
This is the closing day of the Horr and
Harvey debate and both sides have
promised the dear public to try to put
little life into it.
Judging from the symptoms made pub
lie, Mr.. Harrison has more fool friends
than any other Presidential candidate who
isn't a fool himself.
The great consolation of an honest Off
Ger is the conspicuous advertising which
his worth receives from the crookedness of
his official associates.
Hoke Smith made wide circuit in his
gold money campaign in Georgia, but wide
as it was he did not succeed in getting
round his own record.
It is conceivable that Brady takes many
a furtive glance toward the wicket of his
cell to see if Sheriff Bogard's ghost has ac-
quired the peering habit.
Senator German seems to have mistaken
primaries in Maryland for the voice of a
mighty people, and he thinks he hears the
buzzing'of the Presidential bee.
San Francisco takes high rank among
the cities of the Union for manufacturing
industries, and ought to be sufficiently
proud of them to give them a support on
which they can thrive and increase.
A startling exhibition of Mr.. Corbett's
prowess is seen in the pains which he takes
to inform Mr.. Fitzsimmons what particu-
lar form of rib-roaster Mr.. Fitzsimmons
must stop in order not to be knocked out
The convention of the Afro-American
League, which has been called to meet in
this City tomorrow, will bring together
the ablest men of that race in the State,
and will doubtless result in important
work for the general good.
The report of the dinner given by young
Rodman Wanamaker in Paris, in which
he supplied each guest with whole leg of
mutton. whole salmon, a truffled fowl
and double magnum of champagne,
must have made old John Wanamaker
IuTH pare, UUleSS ne saw lOS Ndiue DIS an
advertisement of the ability of the family
to go the whole hog.
That distinguished Tammany statesman,
Richard Croker, who was in England
during the recent elections, has drawn
from his observations and telegraphed to
this country the profound moral reflection:
Humanity is the same everywhere, the
lower classes are controlled by the same
impulses in England as in. America and
there is just as much corruption in London
as in New York"
The friends of the Solid Eight are trying
to delude the people into the belief that
the opposition to the scheme for granting
an extensive railway franchise to the
Market-street Company springs from an
antagonism to that company. 1t cannot
be too often repeated, therefore, that the
opposition is directed solely to the
illegality of the job and the loss to the City
of the money value of the franchise.
Keep telling this truth and you will shame