The San Francisco call., 1896-05-02
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eATURDAY............... MAY 2, 1886
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Mr.. CulIom didn't Gull 'em-hs was
eulled.
Order the Sunday CALL to-day and make
sure of good reading tomorrow.
It begins to look as if the favorite sons
would have TO content themselves with
back seats.
What kind of politics is the Kelly Ma
honey-Rainey push and pull trying TO give
US anyhow
Old man Kruger may not know many
things, but the British have found that he
kno VS. his business.
can do now is to sit round and wait for the
Senate to quit talking.
In trying to annex the Rand the South
Africa Company seems to have got itself
annexed to buzz-saw.
The CALL supports no favorite for the
Presidency. 1t stands for Western inter-
estS and the winner at ST Touis
Every State that sends instructed dele
gates to st. Louis will increase the power
of those States whose delegates are unin-
structed.
From the coldness it produced in the
Chamber Of Deputies it seems the new
French Cabinet is only species of re-
frigerator.
The ward boss would take the grandest
principles of National politics and throw
them into the mud to pave his way to a
city Office.
California Democrats are willing to favor
Western man for President, but there
seems to be no Western man who cares for
their favor.
German has Joined the list of those who
prophesy that the Chicago convention will
declare for the gold standard, and to that
extent German is a cuckoo.
If Huntington cannot carry little job
like the Santa Monica scheme, what hope
is there for him to rush through such
lump of iniquity as the refunding bill?
The results of the Illinois Convention
show that the contests in the Republican
party, so far from producing bad blood,
serve to warm it up and generate enthu-
Hiasm.
Senator PETER has decidedly more beard
than backbone, for he has allowed his
motion to investigate the bond deals to be
dropped into a cavity without even max
ing a row about it.
The fellows who passed the Wilson bill
are now pleading for economy. Having
failed to make suit big enough for Uncle
Sam they now propose to cut him down to
make him fit the suit.
The path of Republican politics Is too
straight for Martin Kelly and Jerry Ma
honey to follow it long. Their crooked
ness will separate them from the party
long before the election comes.
It appears there were forged signatures
to the Huntington Santa Monica petitions
as well as to those for the funding bill,
and it is becoming evident the monopoly
literary bureau is being overworked.
1t is believed Cleveland will rouse him
self from his stupor long enough to veto
the appropriation bill when it passes, and
it seems, therefore, that even in his
desuetude he never becomes innocuous.
As the Kelly:Mahoney combination is
trying to attach itself to The Mckinley
movement in National politics while ioin-
ing the Sam Rainey pull in local affairs, it
Is evident 1t will be split wide open as soon
as the strain comes
Nominating man for third Presiden-
tial term in this country is about the
greatest political absurdisy possible, but
all the same it grows more and more
probable that it is to be the very biunder
the Democratic party viii commit next
Cleveland is often denounced for the
number of his vetoes, but it is safe to say
his chief regret is that he did not add an
other to them by vetoing the Wilson bill
and saving his administration from the
dismal record of deficits and bond issues.
As Senator Allen declares that within a
year both the Republican and the Demo-
cratic parties will be united under the
Populist standard it is evident that as a
prophet he could not pass a civil service
examination even for the Weather Bureau.
Had olney dealt directly with Kruger
as soon as it was known that American
miners in the Transvaal were in trouble it
would have been a vigorous policy, but his
action came SO late it hardly seems more
than repentance and an appeal for mercy.
The Examiner claims to be better Judge
than The CALL of the Republican Presi-
Dental contest, because, as 1t says: "The
man on the fence is able to appreciate the
good points of the bear better than the one