The San Francisco call., 1896-02-24

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MONDAY .............FEBRUARY "a. 1895
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
We expect the Kentucky Senate to do
the repeal act this week.
The Democrats had better give Dan
Stuart contract TO pull off their faction
fights.
What the monopoly calls it's "literary
bureau" pans out to be more like q waste
paper basket.
Blessings may brighten as they take
their fight, but business brightens as it
comes our way.
About the only effect of the Pattison
boom so far has been to flatten out that of
Colonel Bill Morrison.
1t is true the tariff bill is before the
Senate, but for all that the Senate might
overtake it by trying hard.
Now that Mrs. Lease has broken the ice
as preacher we may expect to hear soon
that she has made the water boil.
The speeches in the Senate on the Cuban
question were ringing, but unfortunately
they didn't ring the independence bell.
The Democrats may at least console
themselves by the thought that they have
no Presidential boom that is crowding the
season.
1t takes Kentucky long time to elect
a Republican Senator, but then perhaps
she finds the operation too glorious to be
hurried.
Now that Dan Stuart has succeeded with
his tistic carnival, he should go into poll.
tics and see if he can pull off a non-parti-
san movement.
South Africa may be the biggest gold
mining country in the world now, but
when California gets her second wind she
will take the lead again.
The latest theorist on the money oues-
ton is Missourian, who announces him
self in favor of gold, silver, nickel, copper,
paper and "a leetle more counterfeit"
Since the pardoning board has been es-
tablished in Ohio the yearly number of
pardons has been reduced two-thirds, and
it is about time to call it a noh- -pardoning
board.
. II the Cubans cannot do enough for US
to recognize their independence it might
be good plan for US to give them inde-
pendence and see if they would recog-
niZe it.
The final accounts OF the Atlanta Expo
sition show deficit of $29, 8O6, but the ad-
vertising and booming it received for that
amount was well worth ten times the
money.
Dallas proposes to celebrate next year
the semi centennial of the treaty of Guada-
lupe-Hldalgo, and perhaps California will
be ready to join in the frolic and carry off
the prizes.
From the way Clevelands friend Bene-
dict works his mouth we can understand
why the President never gave him an
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his foot in it.
Republicans of the Southern States are
in hopes OF getting the Vice-Presidency
this year, and Governor Bradley of Ken
tucky and H. Clay Evans of Tennessee
have been put into training.
1t is not surprising to learn that the Re-
publican and Populist fusion in North
Carolina is showing signs of dissolution.
This is not good year either for non
partisans or com bination partisans.
Before spring is over we may expect
some man to rise up and claim to have in
vented an X ray by which be can photo
graph convention hall IN May and show
who is going to be nominated in it next
summer.
Within two months OF the present year
Germany has given US the Roentgen pho
tograph, the Zeppelin airship and the
Brand rife operated by explosive gas, so
that If we are to hold our supremacy in
mechanical invention it is time for our
wizards to get to work and do something.
A committee of the New York Legisla-
ture, appointed TO investigate road i'm
provement, has reported that at present it
costs 26 cents q mile to haul produce to
market in that State, while with good
roads the cost would be only cents and
the total saving would be SIG ,0oO, 900.
Thirty students of the University OF
Missouri who ripped up plank sidewalk
and carted the boards off have been sus-
pended, but if they will come out to this
City and tear up a cobblestone pavement
and carry the cobblestones away we will
give them diploma with the highest
honors.
There are so many candidates for the
Presidency in the Republican party that
little or no thought has been given to aspi-
rants for the second place on the ticket.
New Jersey, however has favorite son in
the person of Mr.. Hobart, whom she is
booming for the Vice Presidency, and is
seeking, it is said, to make mbination
with Allison.
The Chicago Record deserves a gold
rNlo tad rot frr ha