The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14

Politics was slightly dull last week, but
in this one 1t promises to be lively.
Rainey may have been a small potato to
Buckley once but he is dictator now.
Republican loyalty is no lamb, but there
are lots of political wolves that try to wear
its clothing.
1t will take something more than soft
solder to mend the split in the Democrat
pot this time.
The deeper you dig in California the
more gold you find. This is no plated
commonwealth.
Colonel Robert Ingersoll's idea of what
a church ought 10 be would make pretty
good variety show.
Don't forget to post yourself on local
politics so that you can vote right at the
Republican primaries.
There is chance for California TO have
Cabinet officer in the next adminlstra-
tion if she works for it.
The mining counties have no boom in
very much like one in the ground.
Nobody Is going to the st. Louis conven-
tion in war paint, and no one Is going to
the Chicago convention in anv other way.
The Senate will tomorrow debate the
question of investigating the bond deals,
and we may expect hot talk and plenty
OF it.
As the Spaniards have carried the Cuban
elections it seems that General Weyler
knows how to win victory at the polls at
any rate.
Democratic candidates for the Presidency
are becoming as thick as huckleberries in
June, and most of them are just about
that size.
If the Eastern welcome TO Yamagata be-
comes much more enthusiastic he may be
tempted to settle down over there and try
to run for President.
There seems to be nobody to Join issue
with the protectionists this year, but
nevertheless protection is the issue on
which the people are joined.
There should be no dispute of the propo-
sition that the California delegation at st.
Louis should see to it that California inter.
ests are not lost in the shuttle
1t is now asserted the British expedition
has gone up the Nile for..no other purpose
than to help Italy drop Kassala without
dropping it into the hands of France.
There will be no use for New York Dem
ocrats to try 10 work up a Presidential
boom for Ex-Governor Flower unless they
can give assurances that he's daisy.
The gold men and the silver men in the
Democratic party are perfectly willing to
separate, but each wishes to ride away in
the party band wagon and leave the other
fellows to walk.
The illness of Senator Morgan prevents
him from taxing the lead in the fight
against the funding bill, and the wav is
therefore open for the California Senators
to distinguish themselves
II there should be nothing new under
the sun this spring it will not be the fault
OF the fiesta managers, for all of them are
wrinkling their brows daily in an effort to
get new wrinkles for their festivals.
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The success attained by the Olympic
games at Athens could probably be re-
peated at San Francisco if the festival
were undertaken on a similar scale and
made great holiday for the Pacific Coast.
The storm that burst over Depew when
he said he had seen no pretty women in
California evidently made him take to the
woods, for since his return TO New York
he is quoted as saying that our woods are
full of them.
1t was foolish fellow who started the
report that Quay had Withdrawn from the
Presidential race. This is not a year when
Republicans withdraw from ANYTHING.
Harrison is seemingly an exception to the
rule, but then he had a honeymoon in
sight.
German thinks the Postmaster G eneral
should attend to his business in Washing
ton instead of running around the coun-
try making speeches on the tariff and gold
money, but the chances are the making of
such speeches is exactly the business
Cleveland appointed him to perform.
The assertion of Senator Mantle that
without the advantages of bime etallism
protective tariff cannot sufficiently guard
against the competition that is coming
from China and Japan contains truth
which Eastern protectionists will find out
to their cost if they do not recognize it in
time to profit by it.
The bill for the admission of Now Mey.
leo to statehood should be pressed upon
Congress at this session with all the force
the West can muster. 1t is time that this
section of the Union had its rightful rank
and influence in the Senate. The gold
bugs should not be permitted to check the
DEVELOPMENT OF new State simply be-
cause its people favor the reconciliation
of silver.