The San Francisco call., 1896-03-25


her divorce.
About this time the East ceases to refer
to snow as "the beautiful" and begins to
call it slush.
Democracy is the only contortionist ON
record that can get OH to its own back
with beth feet.
The shape the Democratic party is now
assuming looks like that of big Rainey
bowwow wagging McNab tail.
The reported discovery OF big cave in
Maine may be true. but the old State will
be as solid as ever on election day.
1t has now become fully evident that
nothing can cover the chasm between the
Senate and the House except an appropria-
tion bill.
Boston is Dragging that new depot she
proposes to build will be the finest in the
world, just as if she had never heard of our
new ferries depot.
That the coming campaign will have its
terrors is made evident by the report
from, New York that DR.. Parkhurst is
about to break loose again.
If the Government is going TO stop all
kinds OF Cuban filibusters it ought to head
off those Senators who are flibustering
against the Cuban resolutions.
There is something odd in the report
that the President hunts with artificial
decoy ducks as he has been generally re-
garded as decoy duck himself.
Mexico as well as ourselves has Presi-
Dental election this year, and it is be-
lieved Diaz will be reelected there as easily
as Cleveland will not be reelected here.
The thing that troubles the Spanish Gov
ernment now is not so much whether it
can hold Cuba as whether it can hold
Spain There are signs OF a break away
at home.
The entrance into theater at Wash
ington of the Colum bian Guards waving
Cuban flags and shouting "Viva la Cubai'
was very good piece of theatrical play,
but as for helping Cuba any it won't work.
The latest fad in London society is
violin-playing, and it is said that SO many
amateurs insist on showing their skill in it
at charity performances that it is becoming
harder than ever to get anybody to attend
them.
In the debate in Parliament on the act
excluding the importation of beef cattle
into England the Conservatives vehe-
mently denied that it meant protection,
fr1r foH m hot Al
mean.
Senator Peffer's motion to strike the
Senate barber from the Government pay
rolls was rightly voted down. Since the
Senate shaves the Government it is only
right the Government should shave the
Senators.
1t is worth noting that any motion in
the Senate that favors the administration
even in the slightest degree is always op-
posed by German. and what is more the
opposition is always strong enough to put
a brake on the motion.
Senator Frye's bill requiring all officers
of vessels of the United States to be citi-
zens of this country is a good one. In
building up our merchant marine we
should protect the American seaman as
well as the American ship.
The President has appointed Mr.. Gala
CHER of Idaho to the office of Indian agent
in Oregon, and now all the Oregonians who
believe in the principle of local men for
local offices will be rising up and advising
Mr. Gallagher to let her go.
The decision of the Supreme Court that
railway officials must testify in interstate
commerce cases gives new vigor to the in
terstate commerce act and raises 1t from
the condition of dead letter into the
vitality of living and potent law.
The right of literary men to practice
plagiarism to the extent OF liberal stealing
is well established by great precedents,
but Mr.. Stzeleki of Boston, who has gone
SO far as to take the wife of one man and
the jewels of several others, has exceeded.
the limit.
The mugwump Republicans in New
York were able to bring a crowd out
through a snowstorm to protest against
the action of the organized party in in
dorsing Morton for the Presidency, bnt
the protest, like the snowstorm, won't be
In it at the June convention.
The revived interest in the Monroe doc
trine has led to the introduction into Con-
gress of bill appropriatiug $50, 0,0O0to erect
a monument to the author, but it would
seem that Fortress Monroe is a sufficient
monument to him inasmuch as it not only
conmemorates his name, but helps the
country to defend his doctrine.
The arrest of Chicago Alderman for
knocking down woman saloon-keeper
who was running ward politics little bit
may be an illustration of what will happen
when the new woman and the old man
meet at every turn, and it is an evidence
of the enterprise of Chicago that she got
there With the FIRST case on record.