The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-26
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The third term no longer confronts us
either as condition or theory.
Platt's expression of his attitude never
comes in the form of platitude.
The Democratic Presidential bandwagon
continues to work like a dumpcart.
1t seems impossible to raise the wind in
Kansas without raising the devil with 1t.
Ten chances to one the Cars corona
ton manifesto will evade the silver ques-
ton.
1t is better to make sure of the home
market than to fly to others we know
not of.
Don't talk of dodge planks until you see
what the Chicago convention says about
the tariff.
This is as good a week as any to join a
Republican club and make ready for the
campaign.
When we had Repu blican tariff we did
not have to issue bonds to keep up the
gold reserve.
The gold bugs of the East are violating
all the conventions of politics in trying to
control all of them.
1t wouldn't surprise anybody to learn
that Moscow has begun to think herself as
big a town as st. Louis.
Cleveland would hardly call back Con-
gress that has a bond-deal investigating
committee ready for action.
Men may make fun OF straddlers all
they please, but it is generally better to
straddle ditch than to fall in it.
Cleveland is not very big man, but as
long as he sits on the safety valve of the
National machine he is dangerous.
To-day the Gear will crown himself. All
the pomp and parade of last week was
done merely for advertising purposes.
Every man who resists the petty tyranny
of the transfer system fights the battle OF
the people and becomes popular hero.
Some men are so faulty in their makeup
that when they wish to get even with the
world they resort to odd ways of doing it.
Make up your mind now that you will
attend the memorial services on Decora-
ton day and have a picnic some other
day.
The Republican candidate for the Presi-
dency will stand on a platform made by
the party and not on one made by him.
self
Germany is to increase her military
force in South Africa, and the chances of a
ruction with the natives will increase
with it.
The gold Democrats of Chicago who are
talking OF regenerating their party are
not to be blamed for thinking it needs the
gold cure.
Now that Alaska has had a convention
riot we may expect her to be putting in a
claim for statehood on the plea that she
is ripe for it.
Although all the delegates to the ST.
Louis convention were elected long ago
the irst-ballot prophets are as much in
the woods as ever.
There seems to be something Of a fatal
ity in every kind of fad. A young man
has Just been murdered because he had
$4,000 worth of rare stamps.
A few months ago Cleveland hoped a
nomination for another term, but he
- h. ~an feE1
of getting his party to indorse the present
one.
The silver Democrats are eIecting about
all the delegates to the Chicago conven-
ton, but up TO date the gold men have
furnished all the leading candidates for
the Presidency.
The Democrats in the Senate Joined with
the Populists to defeat the revenue bill
passed by the Republicans of the House,
and now they are bowling that Congress
has done nothing.
Before this generation passes away one
of the vital questions of politics will be
whether government by Supreme Courts
is the best possible way of maintaining
republican institutions.
A celebration of the hosting of the bear
flag will make good prelude to the cele.
bration of the hosting of Old Glory, and
the Native Sons will find plenty of people
ready to help them whoop it up.
The greatest criminal of the age is a
most irrepressible and ubiquitous rascal.
We have hardly had time to bury him un-
der the name of Holmes before he turns
up in Salt Lake and calls himself Hermann.
1t seems fairly certain we can have the
National convention of the Christian En-
deavor societies held in this city in 1897 if
we raise fund of $4,000 to guarantee the
expenses, and in comparison with the
benefits to be derived the amount is so
small there should be little difficulty in
raising it in short time.