The San Francisco call., 1896-02-28

DAVID M Special agent
FRIDAY. ..-.-.....FEBRUARY 2s. 1896
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
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A conference tariff bill is now in order.
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The only cloud in the Senate that has
any electricity in it is the one with the
silver lining.
The Grand Jury is beginning to show its
hand and SO far it seems to be, a very full
: hand indeed. -
The more Democracy seeks for a Presi-
Dental candidate ihe more fellows it finds
going the other way.
The RAILROAD advocates have thousand
suggestions about funding the debt, but
notone about paying it.
Now that the emergency tariff is out of
the way there is room for one that will put
mend to the emergency.
A little while ago the Eastern people
were Dragging OF a mild winter, but now
they are swearing it is the worst on record
We shall yet have 10 put Senator Sher-
mans definition of bimetailism under a
cathode ray to find out what there is in it.
The men who undertook to read Senator
Carter out of the Republican party are
now wishing they had stayed at home that
day.
In the mouths of some of the goldbu
to1l !.
honest than the talk of a gold brick swim
dler.
The poolroom faki.s have now found ont
that the law is a buzzsaw and that the po-
lice are going to keep it in perpetual
motion.
1t is reported that formidable revolt
tion has broken out in Nicaragua, but the
report means only that normal conditions
prevail.
tits worth noting that ever since the
discovery of the Roentgen ray Kaiser
William has been keeping in the back
ground.
1t seems that when Boies decided not to
make the Presidential race on the Demo-
cratic donkey he had his eye on the Popu-
list cart.
A notable feature of the crisis in the af-
fairs of the Salvation Armyi is that the
members talk very little and keep on saw
ing wood.
,. On the Cuban question as we'll as on
that OF the tariff the Senate would show
more dignity if it had more action and
less oratory.
Advertising will do nything except find
q Democrat with a National reputation
who is willing to risk it in Presidential
race this year. =.
The movement toward transforming su-
tyo Heights and the beach into something
like Ceney Island should go slow or it
mayg too far
1t has come to the point when we must
either recognize the right of the Cubans to
make war or the right OF the Spaniards to
make massacre.
The thing that disturhs the Democrats
most is not that SO many leaders decline
to be Presidential candidates, but that
Cleveland doesn't.
The Government promise of an improve
ment in the Mint is good, but we would
prefer to see some Improvements on the
size for the new Postoffice building
From the sale of the celebrated stallion
Direct for SO small a sum as $3.50 IT
would seem the bicycle is running down
the racer as we'll as the buggy horse.
The robbers who shot the cashier of the
bank at Wichita Falls were drawn on by a
Texas mob, and IL is scarcely necessary to
add that they passed in their checks
The Photographic effect of the Roentgen
ray is said to have been duplicated by a
common horseshoe magnet, and before
long the kodak will be doing the Job.
Senator Carter's plea for a Republican
tariff bill in place OF the emergency bill
comes at the right. time, was made in the
right place and goes to the right spot.
Every now and then a howl from the
dealers in impure milk gives the people
notice that Inspector Dockery is going on
with his good work as vigorously as ever.
Americans who are willing to fight for
Cuban independence are called flibusters,
but that is not the name we gave to La
Fayette and the men who helped US in
1776.
The attempt of Senator morrill, and
others to read the advocates of oimetallism
out of the Republican party was the kind
OF reading that is more exciting than
edifying.
Attorney Hubbard says there is only one
man living who can tell the earnings OF
the Pacific roads, but Huntington said the
only man who could tell was Mark Hon.
kins, and he is dead.
Now that the strike of the garment