The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-15
A FEARFUL SITUATION.

THE sorrowful spectacle presented by the Demo
cratic party of California at this juncture is cal
cuated to bring tears to the eyes of even cold
and unsympathetic thing the tin angel on the
dome OF the City Hall. The campaign has been
opened by the party candidate for Governor accept
ing the nomination of the Populists. If Judge Ma
guire is Democrat there is but one principle in
the platform adopted at Sacramento on Wednesday
to which he properly give his adhesion. We re-
fer to the plank which denounces the fnan-
cial scheme of the Republican moneycrats for the
doing of the people" This ought to receive Ma
CURES approval He regarded the early capture OF
Spanish ships as piracy"
But to repeat. The melancholy spectacle presented
by the Democracy at this uncture would draw tears
from even more obdurate object than the City Hall
angel-if, indeed such object capable OF I'M
Outstanding the depth of degradation to which it has
descended Its leaders at the outset have sold their
principles, not alone to the band OF office seeking
Populists who met at Sacramento Wednesday, and
who represent nothing except ardent desire to get
at the State treasury but also band Of fifty cent
dollar manipulators, who call themselves Silver Re-
publicans."
Herein is disclosed the most terrifying political
fusion consumrated in the State. The Silver
Republicans" mostly stalwarts. For years they
have been pointing with pride and viewing with
alarm the acts OF the Democracy and Its allies the
Populists. Not one of them but has contemplated
hundred Democratic tickets with horror and aver
sion. Not of them but carries dozen Demo-
cratic scalps at his belt
Yet at the coming election the Democratic rank
and file will be called upon to walk to the polls and
vote for two Silver Republicans. 1t is not enough
that it should be asked to swallow eight Populists,
Who under the fusion programme will obtain places
the Democratic ticket but they must vote for two
Republican renegades. Will they do it? That ques-
ton time alone can In the meantime DEM
ocratic hearts may we'll bleed hereabouts. There
never was period in the history OF that party when
it needed sympathy so much 1t has been
sold to an office-holdng syndicate pirates in
command of its ship and it is heading directly for
the rocks with nary lighthouse working.
But if this is sufficient excite the lachrymose
glands of the tin angel need only be added that the
fused party is being supported by boodling sheet
around which still fingers the odor Of railroad black
mail. Indeed, it is quite probable that some Of the
money obtained by the Examiner through its $1,000
a month contract with Huntington Is being used
to aid Maguires election to the governorship The
Southern Pacific paid S22,ooo under that contract
and unless Hearst has used more in cutting off the
heads of Spanish soldiers than he should, OF the
coin ought still to be available for the campaign But
what spectacei The Democratic party sold to the
Populists for the gubernatoral nomination and sup
ported by newspaper which has been convicted of
Matchmaking the Southern Pacific Company out of
S22, 900 in gold coin-not fifty cent dollars mind you
but good, hard, yellow dollars worth 100 cents
throughout the world.
Unless the tin angel objects displaying her grief
in public she should begin weeping Immediately
There is scarcely time to get in real hard cry
the bells will ring for the big Democratic funeral in
November Then everybody will have to shed tear
over many new made fusion graves.