The San Francisco call., 1896-01-16

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DAVID N. FoLTZ, Special Agent.
THURSDAY, .............JANUARY 10, 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The gold goes, but the goldbug stays
with US.
Senator Foraker will sound well and
sound often.
The break in the Solid Eight is decidedly
q rift in the cloud.
Every time the Kaiser talks through his
hat it sounds like war drum.
The war-trumpet racket is about over
and France never footed horn.
The Venezuelan commission is composed
of wise men; it makes haste slowly.
We shall see the bright side of the rain
in the blooms OF the coming festivals.
1.-THE House doesn't look out the Senate
will beat it making grand-stand plays.
Growers loan is successful in one re-
spect, but it is failure in craftsmanship.
There is no hope that the funding-bin
fight will blow over; we must brace up
10 il.
Ohio has national feeling in its worst
form, for she has a deficit of her own to
feel tired over.
1t will be long stride toward munich
pal cleanness when we get the fake pool
rooms out OF town.
Wherever the National Democratic Con-
vention meets the thermometer will be
highest this summer.
The war furry has mirrored the opinion
of the world well enough to enable John
Bull to see himself as Others see him.
The country is still waiting to see if any
Democratic leader has the nerve to step
on the tail OF the third-term movement.
The Canadian crisis, like those OF the
rest OF the world, seems inclined to revolve
back into the same hole it evolved from.
Why should Congress put free coinage
order on the tariff bill when it could draw
up an omnibus bill and let them all ride?
John Sherman will soon realize his de-
sire to have Republican colleague to as
slst him III representing Ohio IN the Senate
In opposing himself to the sentiment of
humanity the Sultan may find that benev-
olent feeling to be about as dangerous as a
buzzsaw.
There will not be much complaint if
Cleveland gets a denomination, for it will
furnish too good a chance for the long
desired kick.
The votes given for the reelection OF
Senator Brice were few, but they were al
most as dear to him as if they had been
enough to elect him.
The new poet laureate might try his
hand at paraphrase on Tennyson's line,
Ana the nations do but murmur, snarl-
ing al each others heels"
Now that some of the Supervisors have
begun to show an interest in what the
preachers say they ought to go to church
regularly and get it straight.
If the financial complications lead to
the establishment of postal savings banks
we shall get some profit for the people out
of our troubles, and the profit will be
lasting.
Complaint is made in Boston that dates
Tor the sparring matches of the season con-
hict with those of the Grand Opera, and
lovers OF the fine arts will be knocked out
OF one show or the other.
1t must not be taken for granted that we
have seen the last Cleveland loan, for it is
almost sure that if Congress does not head
him off he will issue another $10O, 600 900
OF bonds before his term closes.
Republican Congressman who have any
temptation to vote against the party on
an important measure should remember
Llncoln's warning about the folly of
swapping horses while crossing a stream.
The googoos, garoos and gazoos have
gone to their holes, but we now hear from
the East OF "baboo craftsmanship" and it
seems to refer to the statecraft of people
who do not agree with Theodore Roosevelt.
Taking all the persons connected with it
in one way or another, Harvard Univer-
sity now forms community of about 5000
people, and may yet catch the extension
fever and seek to incorporate all Boston.
Eastern Republicans are moving rapidly
in preparing for the Presidential cam
paign. Three State conventions have been
called for this month, two for February,
and it is probable that before the end of
April most of them will be held.
The new Mayor of Brooklyn calls atten
tion to the fact that the trolley y-cars in that
city have had 130 victims and asserts that
the slaughter must be stopped, but unfor-
tunately he put stop to himself at that
point and did not say how he would man
age the trolleys.
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