The San Francisco call., 1896-05-17
SPEAKING FOR ALL.

During the whole course of the campaign
| now approaching it will be the aim of the
editor of this paper to keep it true and
faithful to the motto, THE GAIL speaks
| for all" The standard of the news service
will be one of impartiality during the con-
test, as it has been before. The heat of
the conflict will not warp THE CALL from
its established course OF publishing the
truth, and il will give the public the fullest
and fairest reports of the proceedings of
all parties at every stage of the great
canvass.
The fair, accurate and complete reports
given by us Of the Populist State Conven-
tion during the past weeK may be taken as
an example of the method in which We
shall treat every important feature of local
news, and the fullness with which we have
published the estimates of the friends of
all candidates Tor the nomina ton at st.
Louis of the relative strength they will
have on the first ballot affords an illustra-
ton of the impartial way in which We
shall record all that happens in the East.
The readers of THE CALL will get the news
from both sides on every issue and will get
it as accurately as our own reporters or
the United Press can obtain it in the rush
of daily events.
In holding to this course OF publishing
fairly and honestly the actions of all par
ties, THE CALL will not in any way depart
from its stalwart Republicanism. In its
editorial columns it will maintain with all
the force it can command those great
principles of government identified with
the Republican party and those measures
OF politics which for the purposes OF this
campaign are summed up in the phrase,
patriotism, protection and prosperity"
Any party opposed to these principles and
measures will find in US an honorable but
an unceasing foe. We will not misrep-
resent their conventions, their mass-meet-
ings or their orators, but we shall inces-
sanity do all in onr power to warn the
people OF the folly of supporting in this
contest any party whose principles have
not been proven beneficial by the test of
experience and whose leaders have not
shown their worthiness by the performance
OF great duties in official administration.
The CALL is a newspaper devoted to the
Republican party. AS newspaper it will
give all the news. Democrats, Populists,
Prohibitionists and Independents as well
as Republicans will find in it their party
affairs reported with the one clear aim of
making them known to the public as COM
prehenslvely and correctly as it is humanity
possible to do. As an advocate and cham
pion of Republicanism it will in short edi-
torlals comment upon all events and show
their true bearings upon the issues before
the people. In this part of its work, more
over, it will aim to convince by argument
and to convert by reason those who differ
from it, rather than to denounce them, an
tagonize them or even misrepreseDt either
the opinions they hold as honest men or
the leaders whom they believe worthy to
represent them in office.
The Republican party has no interests
opposed to the truth or the welfare
Of the people. In advocating it there will
be nothin4 to tempt US to deviate from the
great policy of honest gathering in
all parts OF the world and its impartial
publication. In this campaign therefore
as al all times men of all parties may look
to US for the full truth. The CALL speaks
for all