The San Francisco call., 1896-04-18

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SATURDAY............... april IS, 1896
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Santa Barbara has done the State proud.
This is the day to order THE SUNDAY
CALL.
Delegates who have to be pledged are as
rule hardly worth pledging.
The trouble with Carlisle is that he
maunders too much and slops over.
There are plenty of queens of beauty in
the State, but they are not common.
California cannot afford to sit down until
she is assured OF seat in the Cabinet.
The Carlisle boom was started by bank
ers. but all the same no one is banking on
it.
If the fruit crop should not be as big as
was expected perhaps the prices will be
bigger.
The poetry of spring has been realized
at Santa Barbara TO make California
. holiday.
If the Cubans can hold on until Cleve-
land drops out of Office, recognition will
come to them.
1t is pity the local Democratic factions
cannot do politics without disturbing the
town worse than dog-fght.
The Gar may be willing to show his
hand in Africa, but up to date no one has
exhibited any desire to call it.
The Canadian Pacific is something of an
octopus itself and should be made to keep
its tentacles out of this country.
Although the campaign is at hand, no
Republican should put on his war paint
until after the st. Louis convention.
About the worst bust of humanity posi-
bic to conceive is that of a disgruntled
ward boss trying to pose as martyr.
Great Britain has a surplus while we
have a deficit, and that is the way the
Democratic tariff works out its results.
ha
started on the right road and has cer-
tainty of victory by simply moving straight
ahead.
The Lanigan crowd, the Buckley gang,
the Rainey push and the Daggett pull are
all in evidence, but where is the Demo-
cratic party?
If an attempt is made to pass the fund
ing bill at this session of Congress, we
may as well abandon hope of an adjourn
ment in June.
If both the silver Democrats and the
gold Democrats should manage to be in it
at Chicago, one of them will have to be
inside of the other.
If Kelly and Mahoney would get them
selves born again and be born Democrats
they might find themselves IN faction
that would fit them.
Eastern people may run in few picnics
between billiards at this season, but a.
weeks festival is not possible anywhere
outside of California.
The attitude of California at the st.
Louis convention should be that of abso-
lutte mpartiality-friendly to all candi-
dates and hostile to none.
For an unpledged delegation strong,
bra1ny, sagacious managers of men are
needed, but for a pledged delegation al
most any old thing would do.
Why send delegation with instruc-
tions to st. Louis when it would be easier,
safer and much cheaper to send the in
structions direct by telegraph?
The festivals, carnivals and festas that
follow after Santa Barbara will have to
make wonderful spread if they are to be
ranked as coming out ahead of her.
We shall not grudge the British their
present prosperity for as soon as the Re-
publican party returns to power we shall
AoNO SlSabCl prosperity VI our OWN.
As rule the tin-horn politician has not
wind enough to keep himself moving
while blowing his horn, and when you
hear him footing loudly you may know he
is stuck.
Senator Hill Is resolutely fighting
against any investigation of the bond
deals. He knows his friend Cleveland is
in hole, but he does not intend to have
the hole caved in on him.
The latest suggestion in regard to the
cathode ray is to use it in photographing
criminals, as it is believed no crook in the
world could ever succeed in altering the
makeup of his backbone.
Salisbury may be an effete aristocrat
while Cleveland is fat Democrat, but all
the same the British lord has brains and
energy enough to diminish the national
debt of his country and Grovar ie doino