The San Francisco call., 1896-02-21

Prepare to honor the memory of Wash
ington.
The Balfe- Moore memorial should be
the next ornament for the Park
Now is the time to make up your mind
what you will abstain from during Lent.
Fitzsimmons and Maher might as well
leave the thing to arbitration and go
home.
Old issues 60 and new issues come, but
the need of street improvement stays
with US.
Why not turn the cathode ray on local
Democracy and see where the bone of con-
tention is?
What sort of politics is it that starts a
Whitney boom in New Orleans while New
York is cold?
Democracy has quit hunting for good
Presidential candidate and is grabbing at
every stick in sight.
Some Arizona mining camps are talking
of making mail service of carrier-pigeons
ana gettlng news on the ny.
Huntington saws he was worth a million
before he began railroading, and now the
devil wears modest blush.
In the dispatches of General Washing
ton there is no trace of lie, but general
Washington dispatches are different.
The pOstooned Drize-fipht is nuts for the
saloon men in El Paso and it makes no
difference to them if it is a chestnut.
Under Morgan's examination Mr.. Hunt
ington has had to carry on the stand about
all the traffic will bear and it makes him
sweat
Great Britain is so willing to arbitrate
with us that it seems very strange she
was never willing to arbitrate with Ven
ezuela.
at you will throw off one-half the debt,
Uncle Sam" says Mr.. Huntington, 81 will
be equally generous and throw off the
other
In the rejoicing of the National holiday
tomorrow let US not forget to be glad that
the Senate can take a day off from its
arduous work.
Judge Advocate General Harrington is
showing himself at present as very poor
Judge OF what he ought TO advocate as a
general proposition.
1t is reported that "The United Garment
Makers" of Chicago have struck and it is
well known the divided skirt makers made
big strike long ago.
France is considering whether it is worth
while to provide Government with two
houses when the only use of one is to block
the way of the other.
If Nansen is unable to bring at least a
portion of the north pole home with him
he would better stay where he is and let
rumor take its course.
Democracy will have to make its Ma
tional platform very wide and very long if
1t is expected to cover all the deficiencies
OF the administra ton.
1t is not often that Kentucky has a
chance to elect Republican Senator, and
1t is natural, therefore, that she should
make the most of it and prolong the Joy.
United effort carried the mineral land bill
tn rough the House and the same kind of
push and pull should be given to the bill
for the re-establishment OF hydraulic min
ing.
Because the Kaiser has abandoned his
proposed trip to the Mediterranean some
people think a crisis is imminent but per-
haps it means only that he is having such
a good time at home he does not wish to
60 abroad.
By putting Morrison up for the Presi-
dency and Altgeld for Governor, the Illi-
nois Democrats show a thrifty desire to
have two corpses for one funeral and save
the expense OF making double Job OF a
bad business.
The Fresno WdtchDlGn has heard re-
port that Governor Budd and John Dag
gett are doing politics together" for the
purpose of crowding White out of a re-
election as Senator, but it doesn't believe
Budd is in the game, in which case. of
course. there would be no conspiracy and
no reason either for running Daggett in
or even for pulling him off.
Secretary Carlisle having been asked to
intervene in the Senatorial contest in
Kentucky, finds himself in position
where he must either ask some Democrats
to vote against their party candidate or
some other Democrats to vote against the
administration money policy; and under
the circumstances it would not be sur
prising if he should decide that this is a
very good time for cuckoo to neither cuck
nor koo.
Mayor Pingree of Detroit told the people
OF Chicago the other day that in their
City neither the thief nor the receiver
could obtain a title to horse stolen in the
night; but he who grabs a franchise
worth millions in broad daylight and in
collusion with the city authorities has the
title confirmed to him and his heirs and
assigns forever" The statement has not
been refuted as yet in Chicago, and what
is more it would not have been refuted
had 1t been said of San Francisco.