The San Francisco call., 1896-01-22

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WEDNESDAY,. -. ........JANUARY %, 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The Florida militia paraded, but there
was no fight.
The rain not only starts the blooms but
brings out the bloomers.
Whenever Buckley retires into hole he
pulls local Democracy in after him.
japanese competition is making the
most inveterate free-traders blink again.
Don't forget that the best show in town
at present is that Of the Guild of Arts and
Crafts.
In the drama of the funding bill fight
the real plot viii not be revealed until the
last act.
Bayard's reply is Just long enough to
get long way off from the thing he was
replying to.
The bloomer girl is simply new woman
with sense enough TO take her skirts in
out of the wet.
Campos may be said to be well out of
the Cuban war, but as matter of fact he
was never well in it.
The Monroe doctrine, as expounded by
Senator Davis, not only covers the whole
thing but tucks in all around.
The dehcit tariff continues to work the
bond mill with all the force and effective
ness OF 4o-horsepower engine.
In every crisis of the Southern Pacific
the Pattison report comes up like Ban
ouo's ghost and will not down.
The House Committee on Pacific Rail-
roads will hear the protest of California
and let Us hope it will also heed.
Huntington has many schemes for evad-
ing his debts, but up to date he has not
found single one for paying them.
st. Louis has begun to put OF all the airs
OF a political center and shows tendency
10 regard Washington as sideshow.
This is good time for interior cities to
hold Venetian carnivals, for wherever
there is flood there ought to be fair.
Selling game out of season is one way of
making game OF the game law, but the
law can play at it as well as the dealers.
Chicago is said TO have got the Demo
cratic convention by an expenditure of
less than $175. 1t was on the bargain
counter.
Boies, Carlisle, ingalls,, Olney and
Stevenson are in the Democratic buIl-ring
now and the plot and the soup are both
thickening.
II Cleveland does not bring Bayard home
to confront public sentiment, Congress
should see to it that public sentiment goes
home to him.
The monopoly is scattering its fights all
over everything from refunding scheme
in Washington to a streetcar transfer in
San Francisco.
Now that the Academy of Sciences is to
give series of popular lectures it viii be
something more to the average citizen
than fossil show.
If the proposed organization of a dis
tlnct silver party IS carried out it will have
no other effect than that Of putting cloud
on the silver prospect.
There can be no question that Mayor
SutIo has stirred up Congress sufficiently
10 prevent the railroad lobby from making
any deal on the dead quiet.
The Reilly funding bill seems to have
been brought out just for show and it is
another horse in the railroad stable that
is expected to do the running.
There is hardly likely to be any great de-
bate on the tariff question in this cam
paign, as there is too much OF a deficit on
the Democratic side of the argument.
During the last two years of our Demo-
cratic administration the excess of gold
exports over gold imports at New York was
$154, ,944 ,952, and the end is not vet in
sight.
Ohio Democrats are said to have found
ingalls, who has sack, but whether it is
the man or the sack they intend to put up
is not clear.
The debate on the Monroe doctrine gives
the Senate the noblest theme for great
oration that has been offered to statesmen
in this generation, and if any Senator is
equal TO it his speech will be immortal.
The offer of the Harbor Commissioners
of a site for free market should be ac-
cepted, even though the place is not as
central as could be desired In move
ments OF this kind the main thing is to
get started.
Now that the report of the committee on
the Dunraven charges has been made
public and all the charges shown 10 be
false, the Britisher should open his mouth
just long enough to apologize and then
shut UP forever.
The plea of Bayard that one of his