The San Francisco call., 1897-06-25

The Republican procession has been
formed in Ohio and the walkover begun.
The m1ddIe.of-the-road Populists in
Iowa stuck to their coIors and fusion
didn't fuse.
The sash and door trust would fill
long-felt want if it would work a combina-
tion 10 shut out burglars.
The hubbub of the racket in London has
drowned the concert of Europe in the
Levant, but we believe it is still there.
Bryan, Butler ana Allen have combined
to shake Bateman, but the Maine man
still sticks to his charges and the charges
stick 10 the gang.
Despite his defeat for the Senate Joe
Blackburn continues to hang around
Washington, as if be were ashamed to go
home or afraid that his constituents are
ashamed of him.
Now that Balboa avenue has been put
in order the City should maintain it in
good shape and by and by extend it to the
County line. 1t is one of the good things
we must keep pushing along.
David Bennett HilPs recent statement
al am no pessimlst," doesn't agree with
his former declaration, II am a Demo-
crat." The statesman out of job seems
to have lost his bearings somewhere.
The financial report that New York has
more money than she knows what to do
with is not surprising to this section of
the country. We have always believed
that Nsw York has more money than
brains.
"The National Anti Mob and Lynch
Law Association" which has Just been
organized in the East, is candidate for
public favor, but it would not be appro-
pirate to give it lots of rope so it can have
a good swing.
Mr.. Debs should take notice that the
only man in modern times who success
fully founded a socialistic COLONY was
Brigham Young, and even that went to
pieces as soon as competition came into
contact with it.
As a result of the refusal to admit
women to the University of Cambridge a
movement has been started to establish in
England a great Victorian university for
women, so the girls may find profit in
the affair after all.
If there is any approach to accuracy in
the estimate that London laid in 4, 900, 900
bottles of champagne for jubilee week,
then We may expect the New Jersey cider
men to begin laying in stock OF dia-
monds for souvenirs.
There has been opened in New York an
institution calling itself the Bureau of
Social Requirements, and as it intends to
give lessons in manners it may be said to
fill long-felt want in the city of dudes,
chappies and Bowery boys.
The return of prosperity has deprived
Coxey of his chance for making another
agitation, and if the report be true that he
has lost his racehorses, his newspaper
and his money, it would seem that he has
been deprived also of his excuse for not
going to work.
The report that thirty prominent Demo
Gratis In Ohio are willing to run for Cover
nor this year is proof of the panic
stricken condition of the party. They
were so badly stampeded last year that all
the leaders are now ready to run on the
slightest provocation.
The excise officials of st. Louis have the
softest snap of the summertime. They
have been instructed to taste and test the
milk shakes. egg fips, claret cups and all
other delectable beverages sold at the
soda fountains to see that none of them
have too much good liquor in them to be
strictly temperate.
The action of the Cubans in hanging a
number of Spanish prisoners was cruel in
some respects and yet under the circum-
stances was iustifable. As WeyIer in
sists there is no war there can be of course
no prisoners of war, and the same meas
ure given to one side is rightfu!ly meas
ured ont to the other.
The contest for the honor of being the
first Mayor of Greater New York promises
to be the most exciting municipal cam
paign in the history of the country and
the outcome is sufficiently uncertain to
make even Tammany begin to hunt
around for clean. honest, vigorous man,
to nominate for the position.
Massachusetts man recently applied
for divorce. alleging that his wife fire.
quently called him fool, an idiot and
brute, and said he hadn't sense enough to
know when he was insulted. The court
held, however. that the language of the
wife was sign of affection for her hus-
band, and proved that she desired his sue
cess in life and was trying 10 rouse him to
more earnest efforts. The wisdom of the
Judge deserves reward, and he ought to
get it in the form OF wife of the same
affeetionate kind.