The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-22

If the dark horse isn't a thoroughbred,
he will bolt the track.
The Senatorial contest, like euchre-
game, is largely dependent on Bowers.
The Senatorial burr will be opened to-day,
but it is doubtful if the chestnut will drop
out.
The Senatorial contest may go over, but
the competing road should be decided on
to-day.
Looking Backward" may amuse re-
formers, but business men should look
ahead.
If there isn't something extra done at
this session, there will have to be an extra
session.
1t should not be forgotten that municipal
improvement means business as well as
politics.
The evil of the times is that we have too
much money in politics and too little in
business.
One way to purify politics is to break up
the habit of denouncing man simply be-
cause he engages in it.
The fault with DR.. Parkhurst is that he
started a tune that can be ground out too
easily by an ordinary crank.
It is not investigation in San Francisco,
but retrenchment at Sacramento, that the
40, 80 h.
S-
1t won't matter much what Sacramento
does about the senatorship if San Fran
cisco will raise money for the competing
railroad.
By way of change that reiterates the
monotone of the monotony, Mr.. Springer
viii introduce another currency-reform bill
this week.
Money may talk coldly, but when it
comes to building railroad it can warm
things up quicker than a thousand red-hot
resolutions.
Those legislators who are so eager to
bring an investigation to San Francisco
ought to be willing to bear one at
Sacramento.
By appointing so many attaches, the
Legislature has succeeded in attracting the
eyes of the people, and everybody is now
agreed that it deserves watching.
1t is greatly to be regretted that on the
question of currency reform, Congress
could not content itself with the ayes and
noes, and not have SO much mouth.
In advocating the election of another
Senator from the south it is hard to tell
whether the friends of Mr.. Bowers are try
ing to divide the State or gobble the spoils.
The new tone of public opinion is dis
tinctly in favor of political reform, but it
does not demand an investigation of the
past so much as an improvement of the
future.
Those people in the southern counties
who object so strenuously to coming to the
north to State prison should remember
that SO long as they behave themselves the
trip isn't compulsory.
Faure'sI new Ministry proposes to take
no responsibility. 1t will let the Chamber
frame the laws it wants, and will have no
policy of its own. In this way it cannot
be voted out of power.
1t is said that the competitive plans sub
mitted for the Paris Exposition in 1900 are
far from satisfactory. Some are too COM
monplace to merit description, and others
are too startling to be either imagined or
described.
As it is the fashion in these days to adopt
Australian ideas in legislation as fast as
we learn them we take pleasure in calling
the attention of our legislators to the fact
that those Of Australia have just practiced
economy by reducing their own pay.
1t was unnecessary for Cleveland to take
the trouble to explain that he did not send
the Philadelphia to Hawaii to maintain
order, for, in the first place, no assistance
is needed for that purpose, and, in the sec
ond place, nobody expected it of him.
What will it profit the State to combine
the prisoners of San Quentin and Folsom
If the combination is to be made an excuse
for building another State prison in the
southern part of the State2 And yet there
seems to be scheme on foot to make just
exactly that sort of dicker.
The proposal of James D. Phelan tc
amend our election laws so as to require
an illiterate voter to make affidavit of his
illiteracy at the time of his registration and
make the fact part of the record, is re.
ceiving approval by the interior press and
certainly deserves the consideration of oul
lawmakers.
In the city OF New York the payment Of
1900 of the 5000 men who served as officer:
at the recent election has been refused on
account of errors in their work. Thi:
large percentage of incompetents is used a:
an argument for the passage of a bill
requiring that election officers shall pass q
civil service examination before appoint
ment, and similar bill would be worth
discussing in this State.