The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-10


and his funeral is now in order.
When you have joined Republican
club you have a right to talk politics.
Conservative Democrats are not saying
much, but they know what they are going
to do.
The Republican pledge to promote BIZ
metallism is as good as gold and as popu-
lar as silver.
Whitney's visit to Europe was only
postponed. He viii go now as if he were
being fired over.
An analysis OF the situation shows that
the only National party now in existence
is the Republican party.
The delegates at Chicago divided their
time between standing up for silver and
sitting down on gold.
There was not single speech made at
Chicago that Democracy will circulate as
campaign document.
Local Democracy will appropriately rat
ify the pow WOW at Chicago in two Sec
tons and several fractions.
There are many bosses in evidence at
the Chicago convention, but no sign of a
leader that anybody would follow.
Now that the old Democratic ship has
been captured by pirates she will be more
dangerous to business interests than ever.
1t will be instructive to watch the kind
OF people who will get together to ratify
the crank work OF the AltgeId convention.
Democracy has begun its career as re-
pudiation party by repudiating every one
of its own time-honored convention rules
and practices.
The silver Democrats have so success
fully stampeded the gold men that they
will never get them back into line again
before election day.
If the Populists indorse the Chicago
ticket they must have less sense in deal
ing with noxious insects than farmers are
generally supposed to have.
Senator Daniel as a figurehead to the
convention was about as imposing and as
picturesque as wooden Indian in front
OF a Virginia tobacco-store.
Democracy will live after we are dead -
said Stephen NJ. White to the Chicago
convention, and certainly it can hardly be
expected to live before then.
If California is to have her industries
promoted and her resources developed her
people must maintain a protective tariff
above all other issues whatever.
That the California delegation split on
the first test vote need surprise no one.
Mr.. Daggett in putting it together never
intended it should stay together.
Many man will attend the Democratic
ratification meetings just to see a free
circus with a chance of Witnessing a mis-
cellaneou5 assortment of free fights
thrown in.
The attempt of Democracy to array the
West against the East Will fail utterly so
far as this State is concerned. California
is in the Union and her people will vote
with the Union.
There may be some intelligent men who
QUITO party spirit will vote for the Chicago
ticket, but they will have TO drop their in
tellects in a slot machine before they drop
their votes in the ballot box.
For the cause of protection and for the
sake of prosperity the people are rapidly
ralIying TO the Republican party all over
the Union and its banners will be carried
forward to sweeping victory.
There is not in this country 3 business
man of good common-sense who would be
willing to intrust the affairs of the Nation
to the crowd that has just made Chicago
hideous by disorderly convention.
The free-trade politicians will attem pit
to array labor against capital and the
West against the East on the silver ques-
ton, and it is the duty not only of all pro-
tectionists but of all business men and all
patriots to oppose them and defeat them.
The attempt of George Fred Williams
Of Massachusetts, to take the sectional
color off the Chicago convention was a
failure. II takes more than one man to
represent the great States of the East, and
despite the silver oratory of the Massa-
chusetts man every one who has studied
the convention knows the East was not
in it