The San Francisco call., 1896-05-14

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THURSDAY. ...................- MAY Ia, 1896
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
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The Santa Monica job has been scotched,
but it isn't dead yet.
Chicago will have to advertise her con-
vention to make it draw.
1t is worth noting that no one treats Pop
ulism as a joke any more.
A week festival not only sets the blood
into circulation but money also.
The fiesta agitation has become move
ment that will get there if we push ii
along.
About the time spring gets its ethereal
mildness out of doors in the East cyclone
runs over it.
II greater New York needs any licking
into shape Chicago stands waiting and
willing to do it.
Whenever Democracy finds what it
thinks good place for hedge ii runs into
barbed-wire fence.
The nomination at st. Louis will not be
made swiftly, but once made it will sweep
the country like wildtire.
California Democracy has become a
purely local Issue. The leaders of it won't
even talk of National affairs.
1t is more than month since Congress
passed the Cuban resolutions, and Cleve-
land hasn't resolved yet what to do with
them.
Any Democratic newspaper wishing
live mystery story can get one by asking
Cleveland if he is candidate for renomi-
nation.
1t would have been big money in the
pocket of this country if we had hired q
substitute for Grover when he was first
elected.
All Republican clubs should keep their
doors open for converts as they will soon
country.
The course taken by the Sacramento
convention may win no Offices for the Pop-
ulists in this campaign, but it is sare to
win them converts.
Boston is so exultant over having ex-
pended $13,o00,000 for parks, it seems
worth while to initiate the example just
to have the feeling.
If we are to have a season of revelry in
San Francisco we should aim to make it
the gayest in the Nation and give it a
worldwide reputation.
The paragrapher of the Boston Herald
says the Mckinley boom has become Han
namated and now we know the nature OF
mugwump roorback.
In booming Russell as the ''boy candi-
date; for the Presidency the Massachusetts,
Democracy overlooks the fact that he will
be a pretty old man before he ever gets
there.
In trying to make choice between Pat
tison and Russell as a Presidential candi-
date the average Democrat would rather
have q man who can run better than either
OF them.
The Democrat who wishes to combine
with the Populists this year must take off
his party coat and his Cleveland badge
and join the procession in the middle OF
the road.
Now that the Populists have agreed with
Repu bllcans to make straight fight and
get the true sense of the people there Is
nothing left for Democrats but to take to
the woods.
Two things at least have been learned
by the Democratic organs in the last two
years-one is TO talk no more about free
trade and the other is to quit calling the
Populists hayseeds.
Democracy is to have another chance for
Presidential candidate, as the friends of
Joe Blackburn have resolved to put him
into the race for the purpose of crowding
Carlisle against the fence.
1t it was the arrival of Secretary Morton
that prompted the weather bureau man to
turn on our normal weather again we are
doubly glad he came, and will be glad to
have him stay with US until the season is
over and the grape crop picked.
President Kruger is said to be sufficient
OF speculator to have made 81, ,0oO, 900 out
of the Transvaal gold excitement in the
last eight years, and yet SO thrifty that he
gouged an aching tooth out of his jaw
with iackknife rather than pay dentist
bill.
Secretary Morton was right in saying
"the Government cannot create values
any more than it can create human souls"
but he must remember it can depress
values and harass human souls and the
Cleveland administration has been doing
both.
That the Cleveland civil service order
should please the Buckley gang shows