The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-12

The last day of the horse show!
The Senators talk of Cuba, but think OF
buncombe.
There Is chance to beat the funding
bill if we fight hard.
In all your holiday purchases remember
charity and home industry.
If you fail to visit the Pavilion to-day
you will regret it tomorrow.
Cesar had his Brutus, Charles his
Cromwell and Long Green his referee.
THE SUNDAY CALL will be bright, lively
and interesting. Dontfa to leave orders
for il.
The funding bill not only claims atten-
ton, but enforces it. There is no way OF
evading it now.
Decadent journalism may still manage
to keep in the ring, but it is not feeling as
sporty as it was.
The next Senator who talks of iberating
Cuba should give plans and specifications
of how he intends to do it.
In his desire to be reformer, the Gar
has shown sagacity by deciding to begin
in Turkey and net at home.
Henry Watterson no doubt intended his
speech to suit the banquet in MS honor,
but it sounded like funeral Grafton.
There is lots of room in town for Mar
ket-street improvement club, with big
membership and progressive movement.
Maceo must have been twins, for one of
him has been identified as dead and the
other has given pretty good evidence OF
being alive.
Wattersons advice TO the gold Demo
Gratis to hold what they have is easily fol-
lowed. It will not require much energy
to hold so little.
Long Green Lawrence does not know
enough TO manage a newspaper, and yet
he probably knows too much for Hearst
to discharge him.
The Examiner and the New York Jour
nal do not agree about carp. Either
Willie Hearst or Long Green Lawrence is
doing some tall lying.
The announcement that the debt OF the
Province of Quebec is over $50, COO 600 will
give the annexationists in his country a
reason for taking a second thought.
The horse is no doubt well pleased with
the admiration we have given him at the
Pavilion, but he would prefer to have US
give him better footing on the streets.
The Assem- bling of the next Trans
Mississippi Congress has been postponed
until next spring. Like everything else
in the country. it is waiting for the new
deal.
We hardly thought it of Henry Waiter
son, but his desire for an Am erican Sir
Robert Peel sounds very much as if he
wants something that is English, you
know.
1t is reported that no office-holder under
Harrison will be given an Office by Nc
Kinley, but the report came from Wash
ington and not Canton, so it doesn't
count.
1t is about time for the Examiner to pub
lish some more extracts from the country
press showing the enemies it has made
and thus give its readers a chance to find
something decent In its columns.
1t is said the census to be taken in Rus
STA next = ear will be the first in over forty
years and may be put down as another
evidence that Russia intends to be in
cluded hereafter among the nations that
count.
The best criticism on Cleveland's Ian
guage in regard to Cuba Is that of an
Havana newspaper, which says: at is no
more nor no less than a series OF hypo-
theses" The phrase not only suits Grover,
but will probably please him.
The election of two such comparatively
unknown men as Theuriet and Vandal to
seats in the French Academy over Emile
lola is another proof that while almost
anybody can beat lola in the Academy
they are generally nobodies that do it.
The public spirit which now prompts
our progressive merchants to work to-
gether for local improvements Will soon
impel them to the greater work of general
municipal government, and then we shall
have street system to be proud of.
The growing indignation against Hearst
journalism in New York has led the
Nickel Magazine to warn him that he
may yet be sent to little town up the
Hudson. where he will change his name
from Hearst to No. 743. Rememb Der the
warning and DON forget the number.
The Republican Senatorial commit
tee appointed to devise legislation
for monetary reform consists of VOL
colt, Hoar, Chandler, Carter and
Gear. The majority of the commit
tee is strongly in favor of bimetallism
and international agreement, and can be
counted on to take action leading to that
end. This is significant of good results and
gives reason for believing the money
question will be satisfactorily settled and
out of politics before the next Presidential
election.