The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-25
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MONDAY ...................:...:....M NAY 20, 1886
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
To the extremist On any issue all mod
Grafton is a straddle.
If the unexpected happens Congress may
do something this week.
A divided Democracy is what Populism
is counting on for dividend.
The st. Louis Convention is conundrum
that can be answered only by itself.
The next step for Republicans is to get
ready for the ratification meetings.
The most popular dissolving views at
present are on the financial question.
Democracy has no platform, no candi-
1t is said if Congress adjourns early
Cleveland will call it back. He has
string on it.
There Is no longer any question of har-
mony in the Republican party, and the
thing TO be attended to now is organiza-
ton.
The Russell boom has got SO far ahead
of others in the Democratic swim that a
good many people have begun to call him
Billy.
The average Democrat doesn't mind the
humiliation OF having to eat mis- Cleveland
record, but what grinds him Is that it is
so tough.
Three years experience with Democracy
has convinced the people that party
which cannot govern right has no right
TO govern.
Cleveland may have thought that under
the circumstances the best way TO get
note on the third term to his party was to
drop it in the dead letter Office.
They do not call it Greater New York;
in that city. but "Grander New York"
with tone which implies that mere great
ness is the least of their ambitions.
A bill has been introduced into Con-
gress to forbid excursion steamers from
interfering with yacht races, and thus the
Dunraven episode promises some good
result after all.
1t has been discovered that the city pay
rolls of Chicago are frequently stuffed,
thus showing what may be expected of
town where sausage-making is the pre-
vailing industry.
The transfer-check system is circus for
the Market-street Railway Company, but
il the Supervisors pass the Dimond ordi-
nance they will give the people show
that will even up things.
Boies and Tillman are still sitting on
the Democratic fence, but they are keep
ing close watch on the Populist process
sion, and nothing would please them
better than to get chance to lead it.
If any American should be shot in Cuba
the responsibility will rest with the ad-
ministration that should long ago have
acted in accordance with the voice of Con-
gress and given Cuba peace and freedom.
The announcement that the flying
squadron is to be disbanded will cause
nine men out of ten to wonder where and
when they ever heard of that squadron be-
fore, and what 1t was supposed to be flying
from.
" n hotr Grcf
Presidential vote this year should be
among the earliest to join a Republican
League Club so as to be in a position to
study intelligently the whole course of
the campaign fr ON start to finish.
Under a newly adopted sanitary ord
nance in New York any one who spits on
the floor of public building a railway car
or a ferry-boat. is liable to arrest and i'm
prisonment. So the average American
citizen in that metropolis will have to
travel around with pocket cuspidor.
The latest step in the way of civic reform
in the East is demand that all city pay
rolls shall be published monthly, giving
classified list of names, addresses and sal
aries or wages of all persons employed in
each department. 1t is believed such
course would brighten payroll suffers and
save big money.
The absence at this stage of the cam
paign of any of those free-trade documents
which were scattered about SO pentifully
in the last three Presidential elections is
iairly good proof that we are about to en-
ter a new era IN which the protective sys-
tenn will be accepted as the established
policy OF the country.
Slowly across the continent has come a
wailing voice. complaining that no one
invited Congress to attend the unwilling
of the Hancock monument, but, as it is
known that Cleveland made the principal
speech of the occasion, it is hardly neces-
sary to say that it is not Congress that is
doing the complaining.
The lower house of the Massachusetts
Legislature, oy vote of So to 81. appro-
priated $50, 900 to erect an equestrian statue
TO General Butler, and thus the doughty