The San Francisco call., 1896-03-14

THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Republican harmony is assured.
The Democratic rumpus has the floor.
So long as there is no deficit in the duck
shooting Grover doesn't worry.
They have more weather in the East
than we do, but we have the best of it.
The Brown case is ended and there is
breath of relief in every breeze that blows.
Russia has not put her foot into Africa,
but it is by no means certain she has not
had hand in it.
Bayard has been shooting off his mouth
again, but this time he wasn't loaded and
nothing was hurt.
Campbell of Ohio says he won't run. and
thus does another Democratic possibility
go rolling off the log.
1t is now said the British Blue Book on
Venezuela is full of garbled statements,
and the expected has happened.
AS King Menelek is said to be advancing
slowly, the Italians have a chance to get
peace with honor by beating him in a foot
race.
The Senate is so accustomed to postpon-
ing things that even a motion to delay is
nearly always laid over for further consid-
Grafton.
The anti-option bill, of which SO much
was expected, has gone to pot. The House
Committee on Agriculture dropped it in
the soup.
The wisest thing the Democratic party
can dois to follow its great leader and go
Guck-shooting and fishing for the rest OF
the year.
The report that Cleveland objects to mid
dle-aged women riding the bicycle was
undoubtedly started by some one who
wishes to boom the custom.
Amid the noises of the time it is worth
noting that Carlisle has relapsed into 81
lence and quit guessing when the revenues
Will begin to yield surplus.
The Withdrawals of gold from the treas
ury have now run up to about S150,0O0 a
day, and it won't be long before the reserve
is down to the danger point again.
Huntington's statement that seven
eighths OF the press OF California favor the
funding bill isa final and conclusive proof
that the old mans memory is completely
gone.
In saying 1.-THE Republican party is the
protective tariff Mr.. Clarkson has ex-
pressed a whole platform in a phrase terse
enough to serve as motto for campaign
banner.
From the rapidity with which the gar
ment-makers' strike is spreading in the
East, 1t is probable clothing will be so short
this year that every body will have to wear
knee e-breeches.
By the steady process of declining, one
after another, the Democratic leaders
are forcing the party into position where
it must either renominate Cleveland or go
out of business.
1t won't take more than hurried sur
vey of the situation for the Democratic
State Committee to find out what kind of
a time the Buckley parrot and the Rainey
monkey have been having here.
The bill providing for the establishment
of naval station at Goat Island has been
reported favorably to the Senate, and from
the way things are moving we may see the
new station before we see the new post
Office.
From the frequency with which Senator
Hill appears as defender of the admin
istration, there seems to be something more
than possibility that he may yet show up
as the administration candid ate for the
Presidency.
Between popular sympathy with the
cause of Cuban independence and patri-
otic Indignation at the insults to America
committed in Spain, Cleveland has
splendid opportunity to make another
grand-stand play.
The Senate has passed a bill creating
body to be known as 1.-THE Art Commission
of the United States,' and while such
commission might promote our art the
chances are it will simply sit down on it
and draw salary.
Senator Sherman's heated question, aIf
there is no state of war in Cuba, where in
the name of nell does war exist?" may not
have been expressed in what Senator Hoar
regards as the proper way, but it was peril
nent to the occasion.
1t now appears that the protest OF
Havana merchants gainst the action OF
Congress was obtained by forcing most of
the signatures, and it therefore stands as
protest against Spanish methods rather
than against this country.
General Weyler is something of a politi-
cal boss as well as butcher He is said
to have put up all the tickets to be voted for
in the coming election in Havana, and,
besides, will appoint the men who are to
count the vote. He has sure thing.
The proposal to put upon the angel of
the City Hall set of movable wings at
tached to gearing. so that when the wind
blew they would generate electricity, has
the merit of novelty and utility, but it