The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30

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DAVID NJ FoLTZ, Special Agent
THURSDAY. ..........-.........APRIL 80, 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Whatever the monopoly may do it can
not stop the competing railroad.
By this time next year Cleveland can go
fishing without anybody making q fuss
about it.
The rival glories of Redwood and Santa
Rosa will set the State in blaze for the
rest of the week.
1t is the unpledged delegations that hold
the balance of power in all conventions
and name the winners.
The proposed free market is one of the
home enterprises that will benefit city and
country and do good all around.
From the way things are going the time
may come when Chica go will begin to call
herself the Stockton of the lakes.
The man who can best harmonic all the
man to be nominated at ST. Louis.
1t is one of the good signs of the time
that the free-traders have so far quit their
foollshness as to quit talking about it.
Many Democrat who evades any talk
about the tariff has made up his mind to
himself to vote for protection next time.
The Redwood festival is to San Fran
cisco something like a home enterprise
and ought to be patronized on that basis.
Californians who say they do not care
whether the State has a representative in
the next Cabinet or not would say most
anything.
While Cleyeland's Venezuelan message
was good enough, the country would pre-
fer foreign policy that had vigor of action
as well as of talk.
Call it protection, reciprocity, bimet-
allism or what you will, the main issue be-
fore the American people this year is to
return to prosperity.
In saying that he has committed no out
RACES in Cuba General Weyler has been
guilty of plagiarism. The Sultan said the
same thing about Armenia.
Since the Democrats of Massachusetts
have indorsed Russell for the Presidency
it is observed in Washington that Olney is
more like an icicle than ever.
German would have roasted Cleveland
more effectually if he had not scattered
his fire in foolish attempt to roast the
policy of naval extension also.
The Russell platform is said to be the
same as the Cleveland platform, and if
that be true he is standing on slippery
mud bank beside the McGinty sea.
All Eastern visitors to California should
make it point to attend at least one of
the many festivals of the season to see the
beauty California town can put on when
IL decorates itself.
About 500 newly arrived pauper immi-
grants are to be sent back where they
came from, but as they are only small
fraction of those that got in Europe still
has the bulge on US.
the great leaders of the party, and it would
be Misrepresentation to send to the st.
Louis convention delegation pledged to
any one 10 the exclusion of all others.
Carnegie may have told the truth in
saying that he made armor-plate only as
patriotic duty, but it is certain that in
making out his bills he attended strictly
to p rivate business and made the most of it.
1t is significant sign of the times that
while Democrats are talking about the
chances of their various leaders as candi-
dates Republicans are discussing which OF
their leaders is best fitted to be President
AS the Boston Journal reports notable
absence of the mugwump element from
the recent Democratic State Convention in
that city it is evident that the rats have
abandoned the sinking ship aud the end is
near
To eliminate everything displeasing to
one faction or another in the party the
Democrats this year will have to make
their platform so narrow that the candi-
date who goes through the campaign on
1t will feel very much as if he had been
ridden on rail.
A bill has been introduced into the Mas
sachusetts Legislature providing for the
tearing down of the present Capitol and
erection of a new one, and as a conse-
quence there are more kinds of Mysteries
among the conservatives of the State than
would be manifest in a woman's rights
convention if forty rats were turned loose
on the floor.
Six States-Massachussett New York,
Ohio, Minnesota, Montana and Utah-are
considering the advisabillty of adopting
the Torrens system of land transfer and
there is reason to believe most of them
will adopt it in some form. The bill on
the subject introduced into the Ohio Lesis-
lature proposes to make the system COM
pulsory, but elsewhere the sentiment is in
favor of trying it fist as an optional ex.
pertinent.