The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-06-30


terrain a Presidential convention in 1900
At the rate at which the Spanish troops
Ia Cuba are deserving, Weyler will be
forced to change his tactics in spite of
himself and turn his attention TO pacify-
ing the army instead of the provinces.
The Oakland Exposition will be one OF
the sights the Endeavorers should be sure
to see, for it will enable them to under
stand what profit the people of California
are making of their matchless resources.
The report that Is, 900 tramps are march
ing from Kansas 10 California raises the
suspicion that some OF the Kansas grass
hoppers are so large as to be mistaken for
tramps and the farmers get them mixed.
AS Kaiser William has dismissed one of
his most important Ministers, it seems
that change of uniforms no longer fur
nishes him sufficient variety, and he has
turned away from his bureau for a while
to muss up his Cabinet.
The coming of the Fourth of July, Mr..
Bryan and the Christian Endeavorers all
in one bunch will make things lively in
this City for a while. but fortunately we
have climate which can be counted on to
keep cool and not get overheated.
1t is said that in the first five months of
this year Chicago consumed an amount of
beer which fell short of the consumption
of the corresponding period of last year
by 175, 900 barrels, and the inevitable con-
clusion is that her population is rapidly
escaping.
A Kansas paper announces among those
present at a recent social function: Err
nest Pihiblad, Mrs. Clapsaddle, Mary
Standardized, Charles Swabby, Maud
Coughenour and Miss Foresee. 1t Will be
seen that the kansaa carries tough
name even at gathering of his friends.
Foreign nations had better not count
too much on the theory that Great
Britain cannot man her big navy. There
is such a thing as mpressing sailors
during war time, and the British would
never hesitate to start draft if one were
necessary to keep her ships moving in a
big European war.
The retirement of Boies from the Is to 1
platform is another evidence of the rapid
ity with which the Bryan fusion OF last
year is disintegrating. With the Popu-
lists leaving it on one side and the Demo-
Gratis on the other, there will hardly be
enough OF it left in 1900 to hire a hall.
much less hold convention.
The contest between Greece and Turkey
has settled down to a squabble over
money, and the chances are the Greeks
viii get the best of it, for they are not
only better business men than the
Turks, but they have on their side the
uuanswerable argument that they cannot
pay big money when they haven't even
little of it.
The Santa Monica Outlook receives with
lofty noncbalance the elated chirp of the
San Pedro correspondent of the Los An
geles Times to the effect that there were
on a recent occasion fully 800 people in
attendance at the barbecue in that burg"
"Santa Monica" serenely remarks the
Outlook, had triple that mum Der with no
unusual attraction"
The abortion by the Senate of a clause
placing protective duty on hides is an
other evidence that the new tariff will be
the best we ever had, inasmuch as it will
protect the raw material of the West as
well as the manufactures of the East. It
will be measure for protection to all the
industries of the country, and therefore
tariff that all the country can support.
Cleveland is said to have recently writ
ten to friend in New York advising the
Democrats of that State to make the fight
this fall On local issues only, and as
David Bennett Hill has given them the
same advice, it appears that neither the
mugwump nor the stalwart wing of the
party is abe to frame a platform of Ne
tionaI policy which it is willing to submit
to the people even in an off year.
President Dwight of Yale is said 10 be
the ideal head of an American university,
not because of his scholarship or his in
tellectual influence, but because during
the first decade of his administration he
increased the funds of the university from
81 100000 to 81, 300, 900, obtained over So
000,000 III gifts for the institution and
brought about the erection OF nineteen
new buildings. His success is said 10
have brought the entire East to the con-
clusion that university president may or
may not be a scholar, but he must be
anAncier and hustler for coin.