The San Francisco call., 1896-05-10
1hE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Cleveland is evidently trying to work
the civil service like a bunko game.
Patriotism, protection and prosperity is
the battle-cry that rallies the people this
year.
The trouble with the outing season up to
date is that the weather hasn't given it an
inning.
The weather we complain of would strike
the Eastern people as a breath from
heaven.
The San Josean may talk through his
hat this morning, but he cannot get his
head in it.
If WeyIer is as wise as Kruger he will let
the captured filibusters go and be glad OF
the chance.
From Republican standpoint the cam
paign will be simply continuation of the
festival season.
Sooner or later San Francisco will have
to adopt the festival fashion or be counted
out of the State.
Before Congress finishes with the appro
priations it should provide a gas-aeater
annex to the weather bureau.
Auburn, Healdsburg and San Jose have
had their Dances but more festivals are to
come-the season is young yet.
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California sc. o. P" stands for gallant
old party-it embraces the ladies.
Itremains to be seen whether the silence
of Grover Cleveland is a mystery story or
just plain case of a dumb waiter.
1t is an assured thing that the fruits of
politics this year will be the most whole
some crop We have had in long time.
There must have been something of a
fin-de steele movement on the expedition
up the Nile for it is out OF sight already.
Failing to annex the Transvaal by the
arms of Jameson, England still has hopes
of taking it in by the diplomacy of Cham
berlain.
of holding the Democratic Convention she
had better make arrangements at once to
keep it quiet.
By his civil-seryice order Cleveland has
done all be can to keep his pets in office in
spite of what he knows the people will do
in November
If the Democratic factions at Chicago
succeed in binding themselves together it
will be with barbed wire and the squirm-
ing will be great.
AS San Jose had to put her festival pa
vilion outside her corporate limits, it is
evident she is not big enough to hold her.
self when she has spread on.
1t is now reported that the damage to
the fruit crop is not SO great as was feared
at first. This is one of the years when the
latest outlook is always the best.
If the refunding scheme can be headed
off at this session of Congress it will be
virtually defeated, for the next one will be
too short to get long job through.
The woman's congress has adjourned,
but its influence will be kept vital by THE
CALL until the campaign is over and the
great battle for equal suffrage has been
won.
Republican clubs in California should be
organized in time to display themselves in
good shape and strong force at the ratifi-
cation meetings that will follow the Ma
tional Convention.
do ~ l. i
the shoru lamb of the Democratic flock
this year. There will be nothing but cold
days tor them until they are put on the
roast in November.
The only Democrat who has found any
favor as Presidential candidate outside
of his own State is Russell of Massachu-
sets, and ne has not found it any further
off than Rhode Island.
The well-ordered condition of the Re-
publican party when compared with the
confusion in the Democratic camp shows
the value to an organization of having a
leader who knows how to lead.
The aspiration for a greater California
should be kept in mind throughout the
campaign, and every voter>snould work
for the party whose measures and men
will best assure the prosperity necessary
to attain it.
From the eagerness of Hill to fight all
the battles of the Democratic administra-
ton il would seem he is going to ask the
leadership on the Presidential ticket not
because he is the most tit but because he
has fit the most.
The Examiner thinks the Republican
candidate for the Presidency will have to
be centipede to stand on all the plan ks
that have been prepared for him, but il
oyerIooks the fact that the Democratic
candidate will have to be grub worm to
get into the hole that has been prepared
for him.