The San Francisco call., 1896-07-29

The double-talled Bryan bird may pose
like peacock, but he is jay.
Bryan's originality in oratory consists
solely in the boldness of his plagiarism.
Some call It "demopulism" and some
call it ''popmocracy," but all admit it is
bad mixture.
The country will take notice there are
neither evasions nor plagiarisms in Nc
Kinley's speeches.
The Populist leaders made trade with
Democracy, but they will have hard
time delivering the goods
If Bryan had his way ne would swap
off Sewall and Watson for monkey and
parrot before the week is over.
1t will not be long before the boy orator
of the Platte finds out that he cannot
elevate politics by hipPodroming.
Cleveland may have furnished Democ-
raey with the slaughter-house, but it is
digging the grave with its own hands.
The PopuIists are kicking themselves
just now, but before long they will be
kicking the Democrats who deceived
them.
The weather in the East seems deter
mined to keep up with the political barom-
eter, and they are having stormy time of
it everywhere.
McKinley's recent speeches have been
short, but all the same they have never
failed to reach both the point and the
popular heart.
As the Golden Gate festival has been
postponed until spring the Democrats
will have no chance to feel happy about
anything this fall.
All Democrats are not anarchists, but
all dlscontented people with anarchical
tendencies are supporting this year the
Democratic ticket.
1t is clearly evident that eternal vigi-
lance is the price of the liberty of getting
your vote counted right as long as Demo
cratic officials run the elections.
The common-sense of this country is on
the side of sound money, sound business
and sound politics, and all these are
represented by William Mckinley.
Every Republican of energy and infiu.
ence should take part in the campaign of
education. Let us make it q house to
house canvass for the prosperity of the
home.
As many Democrats are boiling the
Chicago platform because of its revolu-
tionary declarations as because of the
irresponsible character of the candidate
who stands on it.
About the worst crown of thorns that
could be pressed upon the brow OF Ameri-
can labor would be free trade in the prod
ucts of pauper labor, and Bryan is eager
to press that crown down until the blood
comes.
In the campaign for protection to Ameri-
can industry every workshop will be a
school of instruction in Republican doc
trine, and every intelligent workman who
is out OF employment will be an agent to
proclaim it on the streets
Men who would swear falsely in order TO
get positions as election officers could be
easily induced to swear falsely as to the
count of the votes, and it is fortunate that
some of them have been discovered before
they could get in their work.
Conservative Democrats declare the Chi
cago platform is tainted with Populism.
while earnest Popuists declare it is tainted
with Democratic corruption; but all agree
it is tainted with something unwholesome
to the country and ought to be buried.
The publication Of a letter from CIeye-
land written in 1892, in which he predicted
the coming folly of the Southern Demo-
Gratis on the money question, vindicates
the stuffed prophet from the charge of
having been stuffed with nothing but ig-
noranee all these years.
Bryan will go to New York to be notified
of his nomination by the Democrats, to
Baltimore to be notified by the silver men,
to some other city to be notified by the
Populists, and if he will come 20 San
Francisco about November he can be
notified here of his defeat
The Populist demand that the Demo-
Gratis shall pull down their candidate tor
the Vice Presidency is gall, but Whitney's
demand that Mckinley shall drop the
issue Of protection and make the fight
solely for the gold standard is a degree of
impotence for which our language has no
word.