The San Francisco call., 1896-02-29

took to the toboggan slide.
The monopoly holds its title-it is still
the Southern Pacitc of Kentucky.
The Cuban question has at last become
hot enough to make Congress boil.
This is the day to leave orders for THE
SUNDAY CALL and don't you forget or ne
glect it.
1t appears now that in any part of Cali
fornia where you can't strike gold you can
strike oil.
The Democratic search for Presidential
candidate is getting to be decided case OF
any old thing.
The peoples road will compete with the
monopoly in business, but not in running
a mud machine.
The defect in Senatorial eloeuence is
that while it recognizes Cuban independ-
ence it does not help it,
Mr.. Huntington has achieved an Aus
terlitz at Frankfort, but a Waterloo
awaits him at Washington.
The carnival season opens at San Diego
to-day and now is the time TO go south and
start in with the procession.
What sort of a mix-up would it make in
the coming campaign TO have a redhot
Spanish imbroglio on the side?
The next time we catch Kentucky in
hoc Oh -ayd chan ho. n
Huntington 10 take his mule out.
Goebel has lost his fight. but he has
made reputation that Kentucky Will yet
be proud to honor as California does now.
In lis last analysis the Cuban problem
reduces itself to the simple question,
Shall we free Cuba or just talk about it?
Itseems certain that Rainey will bolt, but
ii is doubtful if he will get out himself or
only bolt the door and shut the others out
Now that the monopoly has begun to
show its hand openly against the peoples
road everybo can see what a dirty hand
it is.
1t is evident that Governor Budd regards
the Irish controversy as something in the
nature Of political tirewood, for instead of
talking about it he saws it off.
1t is pleasing to know that Dunraven
has been dropped at last, but of course
there viii be some natural regret that he
was not dropped in the way Peter Maher
was.
The Oroans of tho Cnyfborp Doo;Eo
Kentucky can always be detected by their
virulent opposition to every enterprise
that tends 10 upbuiId the welfare of Cali
fornia.
The saddest feature of the hanging of
Don Dickinson IN effigy was that it
pricked the bubble of one of the prettiest
little Presidential boomlets in the Demo-
cratic camp.
A resolution in favor of Cuban indie
pendence may not mean a war with
Spain, but there is no telling how the
Spaniards will construe it when they get
their mad up.
Mr.. Stubbs swears that the shippers of
California have cracked the whip over the
railroad, but alasl there is no evidence
that they ever laid on the lash as they
should have done.
Monopoly is so near dead in Californi ia
that the attacks it is now making on the
peoples road through Mr.. Hume of the
Post may be fairly referred to as Post
Hume-ous slanders.
The list of prizes won by Californians at
a a iS ~. bo
degree ereditable to the Board of Trade
exhibit. We seem to have taken about
everything we went for.
The avowed hostility of the railroad
organ to the San Joaquin road win not be
as dangerous as the secret antagonism
which has been going on all along. 1t is
always an advantage to get an enemy from
under cover.
The best feature of this session of the
Senate has been the favor shown to the
subject OF coast defenses, and if the vote
on the bill is as strong as the oratory it
Will not have been vain session for the
country by any means.
1t is reported that the prohibition cues
tion has at last been decisively excluded
from politics in Iowa. but the report won't
do to bet on. Iowa is one of the States
where some things are just as liable to bob
up in politics as some other things.
Now that Steve O'Donnel and Jim
Dwyer have shown Fitzsm mons and Cor
bett that it is as easy to bring off boxing
match to finish in New York as it is to
roll off log, the champions should put
up, shut up and let things take their
course.
The speeches of Carter of Montana and
Hoar of Massachusetts in the recent de-
bate in the Senate make it evident even to
Democrats that Republicans of the East
and of the West will not be divided this
year. The platform of protection and BIZ
metallism is broad enough for all.