The San Francisco call., 1896-03-21

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SATURDAY ..........-......... MARCH 21, 1896
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
This is the day you leave orders for THE
SUNDAY CALL.
There is a big chance yet that the ex-
petition up the Nile viii end up tree.
The failure of Kentucky to elect Sena-
tor shook the country little bit, but it is
all right now.
While the goldbugs were looking to see
the silver sun set in the west behold it has
risen in the east.
Democracy is still in doubt whether
Cleveland will come to the front this year
or hire a substitute.
Bayard may not apologize, but he will
never talk again without first taking a
sober second thought.
The Southern Pacific Company can pay
its debts, ought to pay them, and should
be made to pay them.
Missouri Democracy wearied but not ex-
hausted proposes to go to Chicago shout
ing for Bland for President.
If Vanderbilt and Depew are looking for
a good opening for capital they are COM
ing to the right pia ce TO fnd it.
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The only way to close the contest over
the Pacific roads debt is to foreclose the
mortgage and shut out the monopoly.
There will be no more trouble with the
Pacific roads when the Government has
turned the rasUals out OF the management
The train-robber is shot in his tracks,
but the fellow who steals whole railroad
is allowed all the time he wishes to nego-
tiate.
While the Junta boys are having their
razz1e-dazzle the Buckley fellows are con-
cocting a dose for them that will sober
them up in the morning.
Now that the Bayard roast has been we'll
done the next work for the Congressional
cook is to stir up the syndicate bond deal
and get the soup ready for Grover.
That Huntington swindled Uncle Sam
once is sign that Huntington is knave,
but if he swindles him again it Will be
sign that Uncle Sam is sometimes fool.
Since the City has made Van Ness
avenue a boulevard the property-owners
ought to feel willing to decorate it with
shade trees and make it thing of beauty.
A refunding bill that would prolong the
monopoly would be no victory for it, but
only means of proIonging fight which
in the end is sure to be won by the people.
Protection, reciprocity and bimetallism
are three pianks that make a platform
broad enough for all Republicans to stand
on, with plenty of room besides for the in
dependent voters.
That Uncle Sam has learned a lesson
from his experience with the Pacific roads
is made evident by a provision in the
Nicaragua canal bill requiring that two
thirds of the board of directors shall be
appointed by the Government.
The open anIagonism of the Mckinley
men to the Cullom movement in his own
State may be good politics, and then again
it may be what the Chicago Inter Ocean re-
ferred to the other day when it spoke of
some candidates having fool friends.
Among the minor items of political news
that may have big significance is a re-
port from New York that an anti-Platt
meeting of Mugwump Republicans called
for the purpose of protesting against the
boss did not draw a crowd big enough to
fill back parlor at the Windsor Hotel.
As Senator Chandler is reported to have
stated recently that the Senate places at
the disposal of each Senator four persons
who are paid by the Government an aggre-
gate amount in salaries of $4S2, 600 year,
it would seem the fashion of calling it
rich mans club has some foundation in
fact.
During the first eighteen months of its
operation the revenues of the German
tariff have been SIS, 900 less than the
running expenses of the Government and
about S100, ,000, 900 less than the revenues
derived from the first eighteen months of
the Mckinley tariff. That's the Demo-
cratic record.
Although much is said about the relative
strength the various candidates will have
in the st. Louis convention, cautious stu
dents of the situation declare no safe esti-
mate can be made before the end of April,
by which time twenty-one States will have
elected delegates and the party sentiment
will be pretty well made known.
When in a speech in Congress Tom Reed
said, ITO insure our growth in civilization
we must not only have wages as high as
they are now but constantly and steadily
increasing" the Republicans applauded
heartily but the Democrats were silent.
The incident is good pointer for working
men who are in doubt how to vote this
year.
The way in which free trade affects the