The San Francisco call., 1896-03-15


the sutro baths, but the thing itself would
have been good on any day.
We NAV dismiss the Brown case from
our sight if we will, but the scent of the
scandal will linger here still.
Every European nation that has put its
hands into Africa has got its fingers burnt,
and still they haven't sense enough to turn
loose.
What did it profit Harrison to get out of
the Presidential race and then let himself
be caught in the thick of a college scrim-
mage?
If Democrats had any appreciation of
the fitness of things they would hold all
their mass-meetings and conventions this
year in laundry.
1t can hardly be expected OF US to recog-
nize the independence of Democracy in
this campaign, but we are willing to con-
cede it belligerent rights.
The only moral to be drawn from the
Kentucky situation is that Senators should
be elected by the people and Legislatures
should attend to business.
Now that it has been demonstrated that
a common horseshoe magnet can take a
Roentgen photograph the world will begin
to get scary OF magnetic men.
The Cuban controversy has produced be-
tween those venerable Senators Sherman
and Hoar degree of GOODNESS that bears
close resemblance to white heat.
The Yosemite and Merced railway has
been fully organized and it will not be long
now before the great park will be popular
resort and not costly expedition.
The reason the Rhode Island Democrats
put no National plank in their platform
was probably because they could not find
one that was clean of Clevelandism.
Weyler waits for e-enforcements, the
Cubans wait for arms, the Senate waits
for Cleveland and Cleveland waits for the
duck-shooting, but the world keeps NOV
ing on.
After the rude way in which their offers
of a protectorate have been received, the
Italians ought to turn their backs on the
Abyssinians and have nothing more to do
with them.
After saying he would approve no more
land grants Secretary Smith has begun ap-
proving them at great rate There must
be wire with pull to it in the Interior
Office somewhere.
ANY nation that sincerely desires to col
onize and civilize Africa can find a worthy
model and example in the American
province of Liberia. There is no danger
spot in that district.
After all the Cuban debate in the Senate
is progressing about as rapidly as the war
in the island, and we shall have decisive
vote in the one as soon as we have de-
cisive battle in the other.
1t is not certainly known why the
Dervishes are threatening to attack the
British in Egypt, but it is probable some
body has told them that Rudyard Kipling
called them Fuzzy Wuzzies-"
The ST. James Gazette still insists the
claims to American arbitration, but as
Lord Salisbury has expressed willingness
to accept our friendly mediation we viii
let it go at that.
Up to date Cleveland is the only promi.
nent Democrat who has not declined to be
considered as a candidate for the Presl-
Dental nomination, and if he does not
-..l. ! !, ffno l, L
leftsin the lurch.,
One advantage of the arrangements for
the international chess tournament by
telegraph is that as the contestants are on
different sides of the ocean there will be
no chance for crowding and no possibility
for Dunraven kick.
In the political mix up in the State this
year there is to be a big movement for
womens suffrage along with the other
things. and before we get through Califor-
MIA may have something of Kansas ap-
pearance to the outer world.
When Cleveland was practicing law in
New York, If he had taken half as much
ducktime from the office as he takes from
Jne ITeSluSHSy his pdItIeIS WOuIu nave
hit his share of the profits with a club and
advised him to sell ducks for living.
Though so many able leaders are con-
testing the Republican Presidential nom-
ination this year, the people are not ex-
cited by the rivalry, for they know
whichever wins will lead the party to vic
tory and maintain the welfare of the
Nation.
The report that Joseph Chamberlain has
offered to give up the British claim of
suzerainty over the Transvaal provided the
British who enter the country shall be
given full political privileges has all the
signs of good Birmingham bargain.
Recent events show the suzerainty is worth
little or nothing, while the right of the
British in Transyaal to vote and hold Office
would soon give them iull control OF the
country.