The San Francisco call., 1896-05-06

Give Us free delegation.
California should not tie her own hands.
There is as much fun at festival as at
political convention.
The party of freedom should be always
represented by free men.
THE CALL speaks for all the people-for
the women as well as for the men.
The Garden City and all its loveliness
VIII belong to those who take it in.
The Senate has decided to talk every
thing out on a thousand lines if it takes
all summer.
1t looks as if Huntington had pocketed
his funding bill, but he may have merely
slipped it up his sleeve.
Democratic papers are as busy with Re-
publican politics as if they had none of
their own to think about.
A deficit tariff wes bad enough without
adding deficit coast defense and naval
bills to harmonize with it.
The chances are that after this cam
paign Democracy will be too dead even to
kick itself for its blunders.
Kruger is the only potentate now en-
gagged in fight who wins victories over
the telegraph wire OF the enemy.
little hv little the nOico of fha oarnnQiOn
for free Cuba is getting lost in the roar of
the campaign for home protection.
The one popular movement the monop-
oily can neither stop, battle or misrepresent
is the movement of the Valley road.
It is evident that when the Senators talk
of war they mean aggressive war, for they
are unwilling to do anything for defense
1t is about time to transfer the expert
ment with the new transfer system to
some other city where it is not so costly to
the people.
Help the woman's suffrage movement
during the campaign and you will have
greater pleasure when the time comes to
rejoice in the victory.
AS the Democratic party is wholly with
out platform this year the Presidential
candidate will have to provide himself
with barrel to stand on.
Circumstances have given California a
commanding position in National politics
at this iuncture and the Sacramento con-
vention should profit by it.
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AS the latest issue of Sound Currency is
made up of an article on "Silver and
Wages" by John G. Carlisle, it is virtu-
ally back mum Der already.
Instead OF sitting around waiting for
the Senate to catch up with the work the
House should get in and begin digging
away at the Nicaragua canal.
People who do not think much of
woman's suffrage may be opposed to it,
but those who are capable of thinking of
it intelligently are in favor of it.
Now that the festival spirit has revealed
its beauty so near as San Jose we can
hardly fail to catch the inspiration and
begin planning a midsummer frolic of
our own.
Chairman Harrity has very appropri-
ately called the executive committee of the
Democratic National Committee to meet
on Friday. 1t will be a good day to do its
execution by hanging itself.
1t is perfectly clear now that when
Chamberlain exultingly promised the
British vigorous foreign policy he was
entirely unaware how many Africans there
- @6a e.
Every motion made in the Senate to in
vestigate the bond deals puts the tongue
of Senator Hill into motion, and somehow
the original movement always gets dis
tanced and is out of sight when the fracas
ends.
journal that represents the thoughts
and sentiments of but one sex-the sterner
sex-cannot be said to speak for all the
people. As a matter of fact, it speaks for
but half the community-and not the
better half, either.
There are men who do not hesitate to
predict that the winner at st. Louis will
be dark horse, Garret A. Hobart of New
Jersey, but then the men who make the
prediction live in New Jersey and are en-
gagged In grooming the horse.
Our esteemed contempora the Chron-
tcte has evidently permitted itself to fall
into fantastic fright that somebody
wishes to kill it, for it shrieked out yester-
day: ''The San Francisco Allison boom
should be carefully watched at Sacra-
mento. or it may commit insecticide."
The Stockton Nail is in error in say;no
"THE CALL is not sincere in its treatment
of the tariff as the same relates to the well
fare of the farmer" THE CALL is sincere
in all that il advocates, and in nothing is
it more sincere than in its desire to help
the farmers of California and to see the
Mail work vigorously along with it for the
same object.