The San Francisco call., 1896-03-10

EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and 80, 81 Park Row, New York City.
DAVID NJ. FOLTZ, Special Agent.
TUESDAY .............. MARCH 10, 1890
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Once more the State Committee.
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Politics has begun to understand itself
and the confusion is about over.
1t is no injury to the average monopoly
politician to have head put on him.
Republican harmony will be manifest as
soon as the State Committee sounds the
keynote.
AS the Republican State Committee has
the key to the situation it should meet
and apply it.
The triple alliance is very good for home
consumption in Europe, but it won't stand
ex port to Africa.
If the Democratic party cannot get "a man
for the Presidency it had better advertise
for new woman.
1t is one of the paradoxes of the time
that the campaign is being opened every
where with deadlock.
The revival of prosperity is one thing at
any rate in which the East is glad enough
to follow the Western lead.
1t is clear thing that Democracy will
never manage to get salt on the tail of the
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Europe may not yet confess that Gen.
trail Africa is too hot for her. but she will
admit it is very tropical in spots.
That Sullivan is still capable of good
blow is proven by the fact that he con-
tinues to claim the championship.
The best way for our tournament to
break the bicycle record is to make record
that will stand for month or two.
Even in England the belief is growing
that the poetry of Austin is more like that
OF court fool than poet laureate.
Ballington Booth may start new move
ment, but it will never move like the one
his father started nor go half so far.
The attempt to put the Republican party
on railroad side track has failed and the
way is now open for full steam ahead.
Though Rudini succeeds CrIspi it is not
certain ne regards the succession as any
great success. He has been there before.
General Weyler gives the Cubans ten
days of grace. and Cleveland has just that
much time in which to make up his mind
While the recognition of her independ-
ence would give Cuba a moral support
Congress might go further without being
immoral.
1t seems to be the policy of King Hum
bert to fight the Abyssinians until he wins
victory and then quit and call it peace
with honor.
Alameda got ahead of San Francisco in
the publication of official results of milk
inspection, but we can follow her fast
enough to get even.
Japan has applied to our Government
for ship models for her new navy, but she
would do better to apply to our builders
and get model ships.
The Spanish Government is evidently
doing the best it can to suppress the riots
against Americans, and for that much OF
wisdom it deserves full credit.
Sullivan's announcement of desire to
revive pugilism may not win praise, but
inasmuch as it implies he is not trying to
elevate the stage it is gratifying.
The general result of all the trials OF al
legged Cuban filibusters in the East has
besn verdict of not guilty, with warn
ing from the court not to do it any more.
Since the members of the Democratic
Junta have begun sending ultimatums to
one another the whole combination might
as well make the thing ultimate and quit
If it be true the cathode ray can cure the
toothache without killing the tooth we
have at last struck something that is going
TO fill iong-felt want better than gold
itself
So long as the railroad attends to its own
business nobody interferes with it, and it
never comes into antagonism with the
public except when it is interfering with
the public.
Senator Davis of Minnesota is one of the
fayorite sons who is finding out that to
hold his State in the hollow of his hand is
one thing, but to keep it from spilling
over is another.
The announcement that the strike is off
on the Tamalpais scenic road is good news
The best scene the road can show now is a
scene OF steady industry and progress until
the work is done.
In the heat of the dispute over their
rival insurance companies New York and
Prussia have so far ignored the United
States and Germany that the affair is be-
ginning to be regarded by diplomatists as
one OF extraordinary assurance.
The publication in THE CALL of the as
sessed value of Huntington's property in
Sacramento before he began railroad build
ing, reached Washington in time to catch