The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-28

| family. Delegates to both conventions
| this year swore long and loudly tnat
they would not again submit to the I'M
position constituted by fifth-class
caravansary and a first-class rate. We're
the matter left to me 1 would select
any other town in the State, provided
| it had as many as fifteen thousand in
| habitants, rather than go another time
to Sacramento. This is said in all kind
ness to the people there. They are not
directly to blame, and yet the subject Is
one for them to agitate as a measure
of protection. Some day a hun
cry legislator rising, caloric, from the
| table to which a naughty waiter has
declined to bring his order, will intro
duce a resolution, or something, to re-
move the capital to some other town.
naturally choosing one with hotel
and the resolution will not be bluff
such as scared Sacramento few years
ago. And the city is in even greater
danger of losing its conventions than
the seat Of government.
can American" You seem to be a
vicious sort of an idiot. Please waste
no more postage on me.
|
Among the recommendations of Mr..
Curry for the office of Secretary of
State is the fact that the Examiner OPP
poses him. 1 can never divorce my
self from the notion that any person
or thing which has won the disappro-
baton of Andy Lawrence is, to that
extent. admirable.
| Phil Francis of Stockton had the te-
merity to jump on the bard Of Visalia
and was promptly hit over the head
with loaded Tyre. 1 hope for his own
| sake he will now consent to be good.
There are but few who have dallied
with that bard and come out of it un-
| scathed.
| Professor Charles Eliot Norton has
been talking again. AS a humble
American citizen, wish he would stop.
1t is not pleasing to know that man
eminent in educational circles, having
access to the ear Of youth, and inf1u-
ence great enough so that his words
| find their way into print, should have
every element of the traitor save the
redeeming one of courage to take up
arms against his country, whose pa
!
he belittIes and whose purposes he i'm
! pugns. Next to the thieving contrac
tors who robbed the soldiers and the
| thieving officials who despoiled them of
what the hands of charity had loving
| ly bestowed, the war with Spain has
developed no character quite so des-
! picable as that of the Norton individ-
ual. He deserves perpetual exile. and
1 T &c CT tr1f
to mete out to him that which he de-
serves.
There is a Democratic tendency to
slobber over Gavin McNab because he
declined Congressional nomination.
Men who will do a thing like this "for
the sake of principle are not to be
found every day in the week, proclaims
one admirer.. To those who do not, like
myself, abhor slang, here is afforded
an opportunity to cry rats There
was no principle involved in the de-
llclination. There was the fact so pal
pable that Gavin saw it, that, If he ac-
! cepted the nomination he would get
the worst beating ever given an as
| pirant. So he declined. / am will
| ing to give him credit for horse sense,
| but nothing more. He had no more
| chance of election In the Fourth than
| he has of being snatched to heaven in
| a flaming chariot by reason Of the
quality of purity he has projected into
politics.
The present is a little early for In
diligence in acute analysis of the cir
| cumstances of which Mrs. Botkin Is
the central figure. To accept the the
! DRY of guilt and use the facts thus far
| developed. to sustain this is an easy
and yet a senseless thing to do. The
case in its present aspect is one of the
most tragic. The exploitation of 1t is
| certain to lay bare domestic secrets,
! the revelation of which means ruined
regulations and shadows never to pass
| away Yet, as damaging as appear
ances are, I take it there is no justice
| in the hasty assumption that Mrs. Bot
| kin is a murderer. Accidents will
! happen, and long series of condolences,
/ forming an almost perfect chain, will
| at the last be overthrown. / do not
see why the possibility of accident
should have been overlooked. Candy
| is not always pure. A gentleman in
this town, who sells chemicals, one day
! got an order from a candy manufac-
! turer for a chemical which had the
power to stain bright yellow, but was
a deadly poison. Thinking there must
| be a mistake. he communicated with
the head of the candy house, who in
| formed him that 1t was the poison that
was wanted, that by using it quar-
ter of cent per pound could be saved
in the manufacture of candy. My
! friend declined to fill the order, but
| there is no reason to suppose that all
other dealers refused. If manufac-
turers use poison even in infinitesimal
quantity the likelihood Of their
slaughtering an occasional customer
must be recognized. But to make a
technical fight for Mrs. Botkin, or to
/ advance the absurd plea of insanity,
would be an error. If a gift deliber-
ately poisoned was sent to Mrs. Dun
ming the sender Is sane enough to merit
any punishment the law may prescribe
for the most unforgivable form of as