The San Francisco call., 1898-08-21
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By. HENRY JAMES.

 ors. AS to some of the aspirants now mentioned, 1t would be a misfortune to have them win at Sacramento, for they wouldn't win later. However, l am no prophet These are not predictions, but guesses.
 One of the interesting pretenses Of the Democratic situation is fusion. 1 observed that the delegates were dis gusted at the idea and heard them roar that they would never submit. But they went through the form of sub- hitting They did not do 1t heartily, as those to whom sober second thought had brought new light, but in the sul- len manner of men whipped into line. l Probably few of the delegates, when l they vote next November, will vote for 1 the Populist candidate for Lieutenant 1 Governor They will at least go so l far as to scratch him, whether or not they vote for some other man. They | feel that the action of the Populists was a presumption and they are sore at not being able to say so right out in meetin'.
 l But while there were no speeches of note there were many which made the sparks fly. The fights lent spirit to an occasion which otherwise would have been listless as stickless lemonade and no ice. McNab was variously called a liar, Braunhart wasn't called much else, except to order. Dwyer, Foote, Tarpey and Harney had war paint on. The Los Angeles delegation | wrangled as to where they should be- stow their fatal favor. Addresses | fairly gleamed blue flame, but none of i the lot delivered was on broad lines nor devoted to a nobler purpose than that of throwing somebody down. It was greedy convention. all hungry and few bones in sight. In the contest 1 between the two sets of San Francisco | patriots of course a decision was neces- | sary. The one given did not accord with my idea of justice. I would have bounced both delegations.
 i The fight for Judge Coffey was pe- culiar, being a deliberate attempt to | job the country delegations. It was | instigated by the purists, of whom Mo Nab is a sample. It is pity that Cof- | fey's name was used, for it got among bad associations. The Examiner made frantic effort on behalf of the unlucky candidate, and so he died. But all the world is not following, with bated breath, the course of politics. |
 Another of the anonymous has sent me letter. I regret to note that it was not written by a gentleman who inadvertently neglected to sign 1t, but | by a foul and foolish blackguard, 1 cI{V ,lrir coward and bully so irritating to the sense of decency. I would not waste time to answer 1t, yet mention the matter to show that the document was received.
 There are some men so low, so dis i picable and so dangerous to the com munity that they ought to be abolished. Such a man is the one who shot the | elk at the park the other morning. He l deserves to be hanged, not for that act | alone, but for the character the act | shows him to possess. He would com init murder as quickly, provided he could catch a victim asleep. There is no assurance of safety from violence l so long as this brute is at large. I sin cerely hope he will be detected and killed while resisting arrest. If the police of this city and Dover combined cannot find out who sent the fatal candy to Mrs. Cunning they will demonstrate a strange lack of intelli- gence. The woman is said to have been annoyed byanonymous letters, in them selves of a distressing character, and I have no doubt the sender of the letters also sent the poison. Anybody so vicious as to send a threatening letter with out signature Is vicious enough for any other form of crime. I get many let ters myself, somewhat abusive, but these come from persons so evidently perverts, and stirred for the moment by some impulse of idiocy, that I have learned to smile at them. But when there is a series of letters, breathing malice and amounting to nersecution the author of them would not hesitate to poison an acquaintance, burn a barn or strangle a babe.
 AS much as Sacramentans think of their city. they will not go so far as to advise the stranger sojourning there to drink freely of the water I was warned by a resident to assuage thirst by the use of some other fluid, and
 
 from the conduct of many gentlemen there in the interest of reform, I judge this counsel was freely given and gen. orally accepted.
 Phil Francis of the Stockton Mail has come under the influence of the Visalia bard. The sweet and seduc- tive warble of that soulful master of song catches us all sooner or later.
 
 When baggage reaches this city by g o'clock at night Is there any good reason why 1t should not be delivered until the next morning? I have been trying to think of one, and nothing suggests itself but the fact that some concern has monopoly of the busi- | ness so far as incoming trains are con- cerned.
 Information that Tom Garrett, late | city editor of the Examiner. has be-