The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23


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THURSDAY. APRIL 23, 1886
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
In the San Joaquin they are beginning
to laugh at monopoly.
Democracy has not only lost its head
but is in danger of losing Texas.
Smalley says we may have war with
England, but it is only smallish scare.
There is possibility that England may
find in Africa what Spain struck in Cuba.
The Morgan report struck the funding
bill lobby like an explosion of dynamite.
Judging from results prediction bureaus
seem to be operated very largely on the
principle of the Weather Bureau.
Los Angeles is as gay as if she were hav-
ing frolic OF angels amid aurora borealis
decorations.
The California miner is liable to lose
more than his name when he becomes an
Alaskan miner.
There is ahrdly likely to be union be-
tween Democrats and Populists, but there
may be a conspiracy.
The Los Angeles man finds his hat as
useful as ever to talk through, but he can
not wear it any more.
General Weyler's trocha promises to add
word to our language even if it adds
nothing to his reputation.
The New England Democrats have been
the first of their party to get Russell On
for Presidential candidate.
If Senator Morgan is IN search of health
he had better come TO California, where
everybody is ready TO pledge it.
THE CALL is playing no favorite at ST.
Louis; the field is good enough so long as
California interests are at stake.
As the Valley road goes forward in Cali
fornia the cinch of the Southern Pacific of
Kentucky goes steadily backward.
1t is not the Hebrews only, but the peo-
pie of all the world who have suffered a
loss in the death of Baron de Hirsch.
Congress had better pass the appropria-
ton bills and leave everything else until
after the people have spoken in November.
II Populism has the nerve to make a
straight fight this year it will come very
near wiping Democracy off the face of the
West.
Why should our delegation to the st.
Louis convention sacrifice the chance to
get Cabinet officer for q chance to get
nothing?
The majority report of the Pacific Roads
Committee might just as well be dropped
into waste-paper basket without any
further fuss.
If the posing of Kelly and Mahoney as
Republican leaders in the Fourth Con-
gressional District were not farce it would
be an insult.
Competition has settled the monopoly
problem in the San Joaquin and eventu-
ally the same means will be used to settle
it throughout the State.
An investigation of the bond deals may
not expose fraud, but it will nevertheless
be worth while to lift the mask off and let
the people see what is under it.
The Senate made good record in war
talk and ought to make better one in
providing for coast defenses in case the
next war talk should happen 80 mean war.
AS nearly every intelligent man in San
Francisco knows the position and conui-
ton of Kelly and Mahoney it is easy to es-
innate the character of those who follow
them.
The great central transcontinental road
must be saved 20 the American people
and not be permitted to fall beyond con-
troll into the hands of monopolists and
foreign bondholders.
Herr Bebel told the Reichstag the truth
when he said the imperial decree making
the duel obligatory in the German army
IN the settlement of quarrels was unwor-
thy of a cultured state.
The chances for Democratic success this
year are very slim, but it seems there are
quite number of sideshow leaders in the
party who are small enough to get into
them and find themselves suited.
Holmes, the murderer, has received
thousands OF applications for his auto
graph, and some who are posted go so far
as to assert belief that he has even broken
Paderewski's record in that respect.
Streetcars IN Boston move so slowly and
get blockaded SO often that correspond
ent of the Journal of that city has started
an agitation to have them provided with
Libraries for the amusement of the pas
sengers.
The Republican party of California as
an organized body has no fayorite and no
antagonist among the candidates to ap-
pear before the convention at st. Louis.
and will send there delegation pledged
To carry the State for whoever is nomi-
mated.