The San Francisco call., 1896-04-07

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DAVID n. FoLTZ, Special Agent
TUEsDAY. Y.............. ........ .APRIL 2, 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The Easter bonnet will have better
show next Sunday.
Congress has spoken and we shall now
see what Spain is going to do about it.
Mr.. Harrison is wise-a honeymoon in
April is better than campaign all summer.
Congress has called the President on the
Cuban question and he must make show
down.
The refunding scheme takes many. forms
and it also aims to take everything else
it can.
Huntington may be as big boss as ever,
but somehow OF late his jobs seem to be
too big for him.
There are no longer any bosses visible in
the Republican party-the leaders have
come 10 the front.
The Republican party is in control of the
political circus, but Democracy is furnish
ing the menagerie.
In batting his hook for an Endorsement
Carlisle evidently hopes to catch Presl-
Dental nomination.
The political frying-pan has at last be-
come hot enough TO make Democracy get
squirming move on.
AS this is expected TO be a quiet week in
politics we may as well prepare for a roar
TO break out somewhere.
Boies mas about concluded to reconsider
the thing if the Democratic nomination is
offered him on a silver plate.
While Congress is interested in foreign
affairs it had better re-enact the law pro-
viding for reciprocity treaties.
Resolutions in favor of Cuba are good as
far as they go, but as matter of fact Cuba
has enough resolution of her own.
There may be gold IN Alaska and Death
Valley, but for the average citizen it is
safest to hunt for it somewhere else.
Instead of standing for anything this
year the Democratic party viii pass the
campaign sitting down on its record.
The San Diego World may be correct in
saying the State division movement is not
dead, but it Must admit that it is para
lyzed.
If Bradley is wise he will limit his boom
to the Vice Presidency and call out the
National Guard of Kentucky to head off
his fool friends.
as a substitute for Cleveland in the
coming campaign Carlisle would be just as
satisfactory to the public as any other man,
except the boss himself.
When Rainey comes back and gets his
department working the aspiring Mr.
Lanigan will have his choice of taking
water or being fired out.
There are so many funding bills crop
ping up in Congress it would be hard to
keep track of them all if it were not that
for the same end.
The only way for San Francisco to keep
up with the city extension movement
that prevails elsewhere is to start move
ment for cheaper and better streetcar
service TO the suburbs.
The festival spirit in San Jose has set
business to moving, and she is now talk
ing OF building grand opera. house
where she can be gay and have a good
show all the year round.
Democratic aspirants for the Presidency
who are holding back this year in the hope
of getting the nomination in 1900 are not
so far-sighted as they think themselves
There may be no Democratic party by that
time.
The Roentgen ray has been brought into
court as witness TO show the amount of
damage done to mans bones by a rail
road accident and at last we seem to have
expert testimony that will be worth some
thing.
The rule of the Interstate Commerce
Commission that railroads have right to
haul imported goods cheaper than home
goods can be proven to be good rule only
by turning it round and making it work
the other way.
Colorado Democrats, having nothing else
to fight about, have begun scalping one
another over proposition to invite Till
man to come out and make speech to
them, and in the meantime Tlllman has
never said whether he would come or not
In each festival county the contest at
present is not SO much to decide which
woman shall be queen of beauty as to de-
termine which one of the many queens of
beauty in the county shall be trumps when
the joyous game opens during the festival
week.
The statement in Congress that in the
last six months over 1900 illicit distilleries
have been seized and DESTROYED in this
country shows the extent to which that
kind OF traffic is carried on, and proves
there must be pretty good profits in moon
shine.