The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01

Rooms 81 and s2, "a Park Row, New York City.
DAVID NJ. FoLTZ, Special Agent
WEDNESDAY. ....................APRIL 1, 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Speeches against the funding bill will
not be idle talk, but good work.
They still call it the Sunset District, but
the sun of Improvement is rising there.
The committee funding bill is pretty
good as such bills go, but they don't go.
Now that local Democracy has all its
linen in wash it had better put itself in
soak.
Don't forget tnat this is the day when all
fools have the right to try their practical
jokes.
The Cubans are no longer appealing for
sympathy, and all they ask now is ammu-
milton.
In the absence of Rainey there is moth.
ing TO wag McNab enough to attract atten-
ton to him.
En2land is not trying to purchase Del
agoa Bay-her palm may itch, bat hel
hands are full.
The more Carlisle squeezes the turnip
of the Democratic tariff the more he doesn'
get revenue out of it.
If there is no other way to beat the
funding bill the people Will pardon the
Senate If it talks the job to death.
Democracy would have better chance
in this race if il would dismount from the
free-trade donkey and try it on foot.
From all reports, Alaska mining is a
very good thing to let alone, unless you
have money enough to burn a wet dog.
There was a prospect that this would be
dull week in Congress, but it may turn
out to be one of the liveliest of the ses-
sion.
The objection on the part of some officials
to City Hall directory may be due to a
fear that they might be found out too
easily.
The crisis in the funding bill fight is at
hand, and now is the time for the protest
Ing voice of the people to be heard louder
than ever.
There is prospect that the statesmen at
Washington will soon finish their talk
about foreign affairs and return to work on
home politics.
As the Government cannot borrow
oh y
thing worse than folly to fund the railroad
debt at that rate.
There is enough enthusiasm for McKin-
ey in the country to make it certain that
the people regard the tariff as the biggest
issue in the campaign.
Whatever name may be given to the
funding bill when reported to Congress, it
Will be known to the people as the Hunt
lngton bill, and that is enough to kill it.
The chief popular interest in the Presi-
Dental campaign this year centers in the
contest for victory at ST. Louis When
that is settled the rest will be a walkover,
No Democrat has yet appeared as a can
didate for the Presidential nomination.
but Campbell of Ohio has risen up to saw
he is willing to accept a complimentary
vote.
It is hardly worth while to discuss the
details OF the funding bill, since the prin-
ciple on which it is founded is wrong.
The only right rule is the enforcement OF
the law.
a 1 Kohl
Mahoney might remain as statesmen out
of job for long time, unless Rainey
should give them roost in the Fire De-
partment.
The efforts of the trustees of the Y. NJ. c.
A. to raise money TO pay off the mortgage
on the building in this City should be
generously supported and carried to a
speedy success.
There has been another prize-fight or
Long Island and Fitzsimmons and Corbet,
might as well take the hint. IF they stop
talking they can fight anywhere east OF
the Alleghanies.
1t is worth noting that even in Demo
cratic papers the phrase ''the big conven
ton" always refers to the one to be held in
st. Louis. The affair at Chicago will be
only sideshow.
Some think the st. Louis convention will
finish in three days, while others say il
will not finish in week, but all agree tina,
when the work is done it will be well fin.
ished in every respect.
The proposed consolidation OF the Great
Northern with the Northern Pacific won,
stand. The Supreme Court says that com.
petition must live and the people and the
law must have showing.
In asserting that the Democratic party
contains so per cent of the silver forces o1
the country Senator Tillman has been
handling facts with pitchfork again and
got more straw than wheat.
As another Atlantic steamer has been