The record-union., 1896-05-17

al of the unco guide. haven't the Ger
man for it, but the slogan, translated,
is: mo blue laws; no woman voters
The saloon keepers are oppressed by the
same fears, for business reasons, but
in any event they will stand by the
Democrats in San Francisco this trip,
because the strength of the Republican
party is in Southern California, and
Southern California has too ardent an
enthusiasm for soda water as the sole
tipple to be liked by publicans. 1t will
seem impossible to the female suHrag-
lists that with the platforms of the Re-
pubhcans, Democrats, PopuliSts ana
Prohibitionists all clamoring for equal
political rights victory can be prevented.
But, judging from what men say here
about how they are going to vote, the
chances are 10 to l against the amend
ment.
The Democratic platform WILL as
matter of course, denounce all rail-
road funding bills and speak for the
Improvement of San Pedro Harbor and
against Santa Monica. The friends or
Governor Budd are moving for an IN
dorSement of his administration, and
as yet no conspicuous opposition has
been developed.
There is general plucking up OF
spirit among San Francisco Democrats.
Their fighting blood is beginning TO as
sert itself. They think they are pretty
sure of carrying the city, but have not
yet reached the stage of being hopeful
about the State. AS to the national
outlook, other things aside, they are
discouraged because there is no dom
mating figure to concentrate on Tor
the Presidency For the past twelve
years they have had Grover Cleveland
to rally round, and now they seem lost
without him. 1t will not be remark
able should a third-term boom be born
shortly.
The heat with which Democratic
theoretical financiers discuss the money
issue was exemplified in the office of
the Occidental Hotel last evening, where
a party of statesmen were waiting for
the great McNab to descend from his
apartments. A silverite who declared
his willingness for silver to come from
anywhere and everywhere and be
coined at the mints of the United States,
spoke with the emotion of personal af-
fection for the abused white metal"
''Silver!" scoffed the gold specialist.
You fellows are SO crazy over it that l
expect you to be at the convention de-
manding that We shall resolve in the
platform to change the Golden Rule
into the Silver Rule, and to inform the
world that it wasn't thirty pieces of
silver Judas took, but gold pieces, or
if it was silver, that it wasn't silver
coined in the sacred ratio Of 16 to l."
There is a pervasive feeling Of graf
itude among the masses to young Mr..
Hobart for having gone and got mar
ried, since it will give us a rest from
news about his engagement The
principal public services Of Mr.. Ho-
bart consist in being born and having
inherited the millions Of his father,
yet were he a great General, a man
of genius in art or letter, or a clergy
man in trouble, he could not figure
more largely in the newspapers of
San Francisco. Mr.. Hobart hasn't
asked for this extensive and constant
publicity, but he takes it as his due
which is quite right. If his less fortu-
thrusting greatness upon him he is not
to be blamed for accepting a fame
much wider and more adulatory than
if he had toiled for it, 1t is not fair
that the irritation which the newspa-
pers induce should be directed at him.
He is rather favorable specimen of
! the gilded youth, for his pleasures are
at least innocent, and his employments,
if they do not call for the powers of an
exalted mind, at any rate keep him
busy and out of serious mischief 1t
is touching see how the human heart,
particularly the female heart, goes out
to young man who has the good luck
to be rich. / didn't know who he was
when he rode into the ring at the
horse show last winter, but l knew
from the feminine agitation and the
| clapping of kid gloves all over the Pa
/ vilion that he must be rich and un-
married. He rode very well, too, and
/ carried himself unassumingly. not
withstanding his illustrious place in the
community. / saw him again at the
| theater one evening a few weeks ago.
| He had brought party with him that
! filled a row of seats half the width of
| the house. Though nearly the young
est of the lot, it was touching to wit
ness the smiling Difference of men old
enough to be his father. and women
twice his years flushed, tluttered and
made glad by his recognition You
could tell at once that he was a young
1 prince. He took it all easily and smil-
/ ingly, being used to it.
! What wonderful thing money is.
i TO be sure. People who never expect to
/ get any from young Hobart are unable
/ TO resist the impulse to do him honor.
/ The marvel is that a ladwho has always
/ lived in this atmosphere should have
/ any modeSty left. He is worth writing
/ about, for he seems to be the monarch
/ Of the younger Californian aristocracy.
They are an odd set of young men and
/ women who live for their own pleasure
and permit the newspapers to celebrate
/ them. i dare say 1t is the newspapers
/ which have filled their heads with
! those notions as to their place in the
world that diverts visitors from distant
/ social spheres. Our young aristocrats
/ have not thought it well to adopt Euro
pean manners, an unconscious rule Of
which is for a man not to be afraid to
/ be seen speaking to person not of the
/ aristocracy. That rule, presumably,
/ comes of the European aristocrat not
being a self-made man Cor woman) So
ctally, and therefore not compelled to
stand sword in hand for the protection
/ of his position. To be under the never
! ceasing need of snubbing strangers as a
means of informing them of your gen.
teel quality must be somewhat wearing
on a naturally amiable boy or girl.
| There was a Sir Richard Tighe, who