The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11

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lived before.
To stand for protection is the patriotism
Of this crisis.
The people demand work, wages and
Republican prosperity.
About this time people who prophesy
are expected to bet on it.
There will be no bolt from St. Louis big
enough to close the door to victory.
Carlisles explanation was long, but it
was not broad enough to cover the subject.
California will be solid at the st. Louis
convention and solid for its work after
ward.
In it's last analysis the st. Louis plat
form will be the record of the Republican
party.
Winnings transfer nuisance has gone to
the garbage pile and the people feel re-
leved.
The nearest road to municipal economy
is that of straight politics and Republican
victory.
This week and next the st. Louis hotel
man will give the advertising solicitor the
hal ha!
The greatest of money issues are wages
for the people and revenues for the Gov
eminent.
The result at St. Louis may prove to be
a whale pig enough to swallow all the
prophets.
Under Democratic free trade the story
of every industry in the country has been
mill of silence
The great West desires free silver, but
not at the cost of another four years of
Democratic misrule.
Bradley of Kentucky claims to have
something up his sleeve, but it may be
only cuff OF some kind.
Loyal Republicans of East and West will
pool their issues at st. Louis and make a
platform big enough for both.
This campaign will settle the tariff ques-
ton, but the solution of the money prob
lem may have to be sought later on.
The first object of the voters this year
will be to establish the protective system
firmly for the rest of this generation.
The Sutro administration has made
light of its pledges of economy, and now
it proposes to leave the streets in dark
ness.
A community of this size that will per-
nit its streets to go unIighted for two
weeks is certainly a community in sad
need of illumination.
1t would be better for the Supervisors to
put out some of the taxeaters of the City
Hall than to put out the light of the
streets for two weeks.
The Senatorial investigation of the bond
deals will add some interesting documents
to the campaign, but the administration
will not circulate them.
1t is hard on Carlisle to lose his Presi-
Dental boom, and still be kept in the
frying-pa pan instead of being allowed to re-
tire into innocuous desuetude.
uS GOnlESIS over the SlGCIlOn QGles
gates to st. Louis from this State were all
heard and decided by the State Conven-
ton, and the decision is not likely to be
overruled by the National Committee.
The latest ticket-maker for the bewil-
dered Democrats suggests the names of
Teller and Scho6eld, and as the first is
Republican and the second a soldier the
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were knocked down and run over during
the campaign Democracy could cheerily
chirp "neyer touched me.
After the recent cyclone the streets of
St. Louis were SO filled with network Of
tangled wires that demand has arisen to
have all street wires in the city put under
ground, and as there is a prospect the de-
mand will be carried Out st. Louis may
yet derive a municipal benefit from what
seemed an unmitigated disaster.
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Since our esteemed contemporary the
Inter Ocean has charged that the editor of
the TSmes-Herad prostitutes his paper to
the level of the murderous weapons used
by the cutthroat and the assassin" there is
no further proof needed that Chicago with
HeT USUAL aSbAF4tS mas jumpeu luIo the
middle of the campaign at the start and
has found it red hot.
On the basis of the number of names in
the newly published city directory for 1896
Los Angeles figures out for herself and the
recently annexed districts population OF
81, ,3S2. According to the Times the gain
over last year is about 5000 people. 1t is
noted moreover that while there has been
an increase in nearly ali professions the
number of real estate dealers has di-
1oinishad