The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05
A LIVELY YEAR.

With the leisure and rest of to-day the
holiday season comes to an end and to-
morrow we begin the work of the year.
All signs known to man from the way the
cuckoo calls to the way the jingo exults
give promise of lively times. 1t will be q
year of emergencies and ultimatums, of
fights and frolics, OF festivals and reforms,
of reviving business and depressed bosses,
and above all year of the most exciting
Presidential election we have had since
1860.
The election, of course, will be the
salient characteristic of the year. Both
the great parties are in position to produce
startling surprises. The Republicans have
forty candidates for the Presidency and
the Democrats have forty factions for
everything. In each National Convention
there will be sufficient music in the air to
thrill the whole continent. The great
campaign OF 1860 when there were four
Presidential candidates with complete
party tickets in the field will be eclipsed.
We shall probably see at least half dozen
this year and torchlight professions will
be so common that the City viii be saved
the expense of lighting lamps to illumi-
nate the town.
Next to the Presidential elections will be
the California carnivals. We have had
three festivals already, and the year is
not yet week old. Before the spring time
has passed we shall have beauty and gay
ETY. enough to make California State of
Deatitude and everybody in it gloritied.
San Francisco may not hold a carnival,
but she will be in a position to reach a
dozen without trouble, and have no lack
of opportunity to dance while other folks
pay the piper, In these reioicings we shall
get ready for the elections that come later,
and no matter how many candidates may
be in the field, every one of them will be
able to get a floral float to serve him as q
campaign wagon.
All through the season of festivals and
through the political campaign to a glori-
Gus triumph on election day will go the
joint movement OF rcviving business and
municipal reform. These forces are in
alliance and cannot be separated. This is
true IN every community and especially so
in San Francisco. To improve the bust
ness OF this City we must improve the
City itself. To this conclusion every re-
heCting business man has long since come,
and now the time has arrived to pass from
reflection TO action. Business will revive
in proportion as the bosses are depressed,
and it is the determination of the people
that San Francisco shall go forward.
In all the professions of the year those
will be best that hold q straight course.
Straight politics Will win in the elections,
straight festivals will have the best parades,
straight business will make the most
money and straight reform will get there
first. All that any man has to DO this
year is to go straight and all will be well
with him when Thanksgiving day comes
round. He can dance at the carnivals,
carry torchlights in the PROFESSIONS, do
business, fight bosses and in all the liveli-
ness OF the times be fully alive without
fear of being lost in the shuttle. Certainly
the year is one we can look forward to
with pleasure expecting great things OF it.
1t will not be the year Of jubilee, but it is
one year nearer than last wear was