The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-27


OAKLAND OFFICE.
SOS Broadway.
EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and 81 81 Park Row, New York City.
DAVID NJ. FoLTz, Special Agent
sUNDAY................. OCTOBER 81, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
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Town talk is strictly conventional.
We go for the convention now and it will
come to Us later on.
Inspector Dockery's milk shake is getting
to be regular treat.
The chrysanthemum show was alto
gether the proper thing.
This is the time for the big West to show
the East what pull she has.
We offer transcontinental trip as plum
cake and the East may take it.
A Presidential Convention would fit in
well with the festas next summer.
This may not be our lucky year, but
whatever we have worked for we have
won.
There are very few men who can wear
chrysanthemum without being overly con-
scious Of it.
EOnce more the silurian has chance to
declare shat q subscription on the dead
level IS bluff.
Senator Sherman says his book is not
going to be what the advance reports have
cracked It up to be.
If a tariff which is neither a revenue pro-
ducer nor a protection to industry is not
an issue, what is it?
Little by little the discussion of the short
campaign proposition is growing to be
long campaign itself.
There is only one municipal issue in
New York City, but it takes five parties
and eleven factions to fight it out.
1t is natural that Senator Hill should
lecture on 'old landmarks" as nothing
since the tidal wave is interesting to him.
The Boston Herald asserts that "CIeve-
land is every inch a sailor" and the
country will admit that he is pretty well
tarred.
As Maine is Dragging over the posses
sion of strawberries in October, it is evil
dent our influence is beginning to be felt
in the far East.
Atlanta is content that another's lips
should praise her, but she insists on keep
ing up an incessant explanation of how it
should be done.
1.-THE contest for the Republican National
Convention does nothing else, it will give
US some good exercis. in the fine art of
pulling together.
Making the Marlborough and Vanderbilt
marriage ceremony white wedding" is
one way Of toning down the loudness of
the old mans checks.
The rapidity with which we are raising
money to obtain the Republican National
Convention will be regarded by our rivals
as decidedly unconventional.
Why should there be any more talk
about overproduction or underconsump-
that the price of cod liver oil is going I'D :?
At this iuncture it is permissible for us
To remind Boston again that we expect her
to stand by her argument that the best
summer resort city is the best convention
city.
The last session of the Massachusetts,
Legislature appropriated $4,000 for road
improvements, and now both parties in the
present campaign are promising the peo-
pie to continue the good work.
New York newspapers of all parties are
SO vociferous in asserting 1.-The city is In
deadly periP' that to the observant out
slider 1t seems as if the big town had got
politics into its vermiform appendix.
The burden of Spanish taxation upon
Cuba has long been heavy. but if Spain
conquers the island this time and imposes
the cost upon the Cubans, it will be less
like tax than general confiscation.
The slow degrees by which civilization
progresses is made evident by the fact that
it is only at this late day arrangements
have been made to supply Bellevue
Hospital in New York City with baths.
1t is said that one reason why the Euro
pean powers hesitate to deal roughly with
the Oriental question is because they know
that while the Turkish Government is
weak, the Turks themselves are fighters
and are perfectly willing to begin.
st. Louis after working for three wears
on new city hall and expanding $1,000.
600, has just discovered that the structure
is unsafe because the iron columns used in
1t are full of blow holes, and as result she
is as badly broken up as if she had a city
election on hand.
The general annual report OF, the army
just issued by the British War Office shows
on the first day of this year there were
present for duty in the Imperial Regular
Forces" 222, 151 men. OF these 107,810
were at home, 5O66 in Egypt, 31,7S3 in the
Colonies and II, 492 in India.
The recent celebration of the fiftieth an
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