The San Francisco call., 1896-03-26

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DAVID NJ. FoLTZ Special Agent
THURSDAY MARCH 2e 1896
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
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The Junta has hunted look.
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There are signs that Rainey intends to
lose McNab as soon as he gets him in the
woods.
In the contest with Democracy this year
the only thing the Republican party has
up its sleeve is laugh.
Mills of Texas may be fool on the
tariff, but he talks the best kind of COM
nonsense on the Cuban question.
Democratic politics this year is an open
game of free trade in bosses with no pro-
lection anywhere for the better element.
The combination of Rainey, Kelly and
Mahoney undoubtedly makes a boss firm,
but it will never be able to fill political
contract.
Something seems to have gone wrong
with Congressman Boutelle at this ses-
sion. He is always playing lone hand
and he never plays it well.
The proof that the Republican process
sion has taken to the straight road is
found in the fact that all the crooked fell
lows are dropping oat of it.
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quietly watching the battle of the ballots
for queen, but most of them are hustling
for the ballots Of the battle.
The Morton movement in New York has
been started well, is headed right and will
undoubtedly get to St. Louis with strength
enough to cut wide swath.
There were enough Mckinley men in
the New York convention to make a mo-
ton, but they lacked great deal of hav-
ing strength enough to keep it moving.
Senator Davis may be the favorite son
of Minnesota, but in the Safe convention
somebody heaved a brick at him and the
subsequent proceedings interested him no
more.
According to all miners who return from
Alaska there is great deal of gold in that
country, but the man who hopes to get it
out must have great deal with which to
start in.
Senator Mills would have Uncle Sam
say to Spain, ''Give Cuba local self-gov-
ernmcnt or / will, - and in such remark
there would be no bullying and good
deal OF business.
The appearance of Rainev, Kelly and
Mahoney in one com bination is such a
queer deal as to suggest the possibility
that Buckley may have had something to
do with the shuttle.
1t cost New York about $4,000 to re-
move the snow blown into the city by the
blizzard of the 10th and by the time the
job was done another blizzard came along
and blew in some more.
By requesting our Navy Department to
make tests OF the armor-plate they have
purchased in this country the Russians
have paid US a compliment and escaped
the cost of paying for the tests.
The fact that a Fresno vineyardist has
begun to predict speedy beginning of the
millennium may be taken as pretty fair
evidence that rabbits are dying out and
the raisin crop is looking we'll.
Congressman Barham was right in tell
ing the Pacific Roads Committee THE
people of California are almost unani-
mously opposed to any sort of refunding
BILL" That is exactly the sentiment of
the State.
In all Republican conventions of the
year the principle of reciprocity is placed
side by side with that of protection, and it
is made certain that the great policy of
Blaine has become the permanent heritage
of the party.
Judging from the comparative amount
of public attention shown to the two stars
in the Vanderbilt Depew combination now
coming west, it is clear the American peo-
pie think ten times of brains where they
think once of money.
The appointment of Senators Frye,
Brice and Wolcott to draft funding bill
for the Senate is very good for the rail
roads and not altogether bad for the peo-
pie, inasmuch as it gives fair notice of
what we may expect.
The ease with which Chauncey Depew
can manage the performance of arduous
labor is made evident by the fact that
when he travels thousands of miles to
look after railroads and attend to politics
on the side he calls it recreation.
Bayard was right enough in saying at
recent banquet, "a man mnst not be ex-
pected to speak in a tone that will suit
everybody" but that is no reason why an
ambassador should speak in q tone that
dosn't suit the country ne represents.
White has been always regarded as an
emblem of peace. but in the present con.
troversy between the w. G. t. o. and
Ballington Booth over the use of white
ribbon as badge it is likely to become
the sign and symbol of a mighty racket