The San Francisco call., 1896-04-29

DAVID NJ. FoLTz Special Agent.
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 2s. 1896
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
You are expected in Santa Rosa to-
morrow.
Delegates who represent free people
should themselves be free.
If Olney has any fire in him, now is the
hour to turn loose the volcano.
American citizens should have Ameri-
can protection all round the world.
Olney's foreign policy mad just enough
vigor to blossom once and then collapse.
1t takes no cathode ray to expose the
fraudulent job concealed in the refunding
scheme.
In the contests at st. Louis, as elsewhere,
the champions who are least trammeled
will win most.
Even Democracy cannot get anything
but backward movement on itself while
American mills are closed.
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If these Kansas cyclones would blow the
people West instead of East they might be
OF some use TO the country.
1t is not always the biggest festival that
furnishes the most fun, and Santa Rosa
may be as gay as Los Angeles.
California Republicans speak with many
voices for the one sentiment in favor OF an
uninstructed delegation to st. Louis.
The cyclones of Kansas put on great
deal of bluster, but it is worth noting that
none of them ever tackle Jerry Simpson.
Many a man who still calls himself
Democrat has become convert to protec-
ton and will vote his conversion this fall.
The free market begins to look like a
sure thing, and producers and consumers
may as well begin to congratulate one an
other.
California ha 8 had more festivals than
all the rest of the country put together,
and 1t is not a good spring for festivals
either.
Now that Omaha has begun to call her.
self the center of the Greater West, it is
time to demand that the line be drawn
somewhere.
Californians are not tied to any particu.
lar candidate for the Presidency, but they
are tied to their State and must work for
its interests.
So lOnU fha Dem daAn;t for;ff
prevails the great money question to many
people of this country will be where to
get work and wages.
The motion to investigate the bond deals
hangs fire in the Senate, but all the same
the charge is still there and may be ex-
ploded any moment.
Massachusetts, asks the Presidential
nomination for Russell, but Democracy
can get him for the Vice Presidency if she
wishes to bid on him.
II Carlisle has any nerve left in the
slack of his jaw he had better answer Alt
geld's letter before the people come to the
conclusion that he can't.
The best way for Californians to ad-
vance the interests of their favorites at st.
Louis is to send strong delegation with
free hand to work for them.
The Venezuelan question is undoubtedly
an irritation to England, for she keeps on
scratching 1t with a vehemence that
threatens to make a big sore of it.
at the rate money Is being withdrawn
from the treasury Cleveland may have an
opportunity to obllge his friends by an
other bond issue before his term is over.
By burning the plantation crops and
houses the Cuban insurgents are rapidly
putting every man in the island in a posi-
ton where he must either fight or starve.
The celebration of Grants birthday is
becoming one of the established customs
of the American people, and it requires no
statute or public holiday to establish it
either.
Since it has been made known that
William R. Morrison lives in a town
called Waterloo, his evident fitness for
the Democratic nomination can no longer
be questioned.
1t looks as if the funding bill would be
held back until the Santa Monica scheme
is carried out. One job at a time is as
much as the monopoly can manage now
even if it is an octopus.
There are good prospects that the in.
crease in mining will more than make up
for the loss in the fruit crop and California
can still call herself the Golden State
when she strikes a balance at the end of
the year.
The Columbus (Ohio) Press sizes up the
political situation very accurately in say
ing: Opportunities for various unpledged
States to advance local interests in re-
spect to candidates, the platform, future
legislation, appointments and all the
myriad details of politica! preferment will,
therefore, await the delegates of such
States at st. Louis in far greater number
than those which will be given the pledged
delegations"