The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20


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WEDNESDAY ................. MAY 20, 1896
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
1t is to be the Carnival OF the Golden
Gate"
The proposed transfer ordinance reaches
the right spot.
Ada Rehan can have this town for good
if she will stay with it.
Coils P. Huntington seems to have
crawled into a hole somewhere.
Those Eastern cyclones seem to sweep
the country every time like Democratic
victory.
In the city of Moscow all the people
now see a splendid sight and think of
dynamite.
There are symptoms in Carlisle's last
letter OF q desire to straddle not only the
money question but his own record.
The Santa Cruz water carnival begins to
loom above the horizon and illumines the
near future with glow of crimson glory.
There is reason to believe the funding
scheme has been headed off at this session
and at the next one we can off with its
head.
1t seems evident the jingoes of the
Senate are so ready for war they think it
would be a waste of money to prepare
for it.
The average Kansas man is certain no
cyclone will ever come his way until one
OF them hits him, and then he goes
with it.
The Supervisors have only to watch the
working of the transfer nuisance to see
very clearly what ought TO be done
about it.
1t is pity we have not the speed record
of the scorcher who ran over Lillian
Russell He must have been a very fast
young man.
About the biggest campaign documents
In this contest are the Grover bonds, and
the Democrats can neither disclaim them
nor deny them.
The pageantry of Moscow may impress
Us little from a distance, but it will take
the carnival of the Golden Gate to really
come home 10 us.
People who are pied to bet on the
result at st. Louis should remember this
IS an uncertain world, and just at present
st. Louis is the center of its agitations.
The coast defense bill provides appro-
p1iations for the current fiscal year of
little more than 81, 900, 600, which falls a
long way short of being equal to the war
talk.
A Boston philosopher asserts that
"brainy women of large intelligence have
large feet,' which may be considered
concession to Chicago, but it doesn't work
on this coast.
comparison OF the Billiards of winter
with the cyclones of spring would seem to
Justify belief that in a large part of the
prairie States December is decidedly as
pleasant as May.
It is reported from New York that
scheme to outwit Plat is on foot, but if
Plat ever hears of it there will be report
of a scheme seen taking to bicycle and
scorching for the woods.
Manley is certainly right in saying Tom
Reed would rather be Speaker of the
House than Vice President. He is not the
sort of man who is willing to stand around
and wait for funeral.
The Gear and the Czarina will be as
conspicuous as the groom and the bride
of a dude wedding for few days to come,
but after that the country will return
willingly to Dom Paul and Grover Cleve-
land.
The fact that a murder has been COM
mitted within the walls of San Quentin
itself may be taken as convincing proof
that the only way TO effectually suspend
this sort of thing is to hang it from the
gallows.
The proposed festival in the fall will
come just in time to relieve the strain of
the campaign and give our Democratic
fellow-citizens chance to get into live
procession and show what good fellows
they are.
Tie executive committee OF the Re-
publican State Central Committee may
not satisfy all who call themselves Re-
publica ms, but it will certainly have the
harmonious and cordial support of all who
are loyal.
The young Duchess of Marlborough
was the most admired debutante at the
Buckingham Palace drawing-room on
Monday, and perhaps it was worth going
to England to WIN that honor. There are
lots of brides who would have won more
admiration in this country.
&c noun orted that the Orpp0n heat