The San Francisco call., 1898-02-12
OPENING THE CAMPAIGN.

| l IS announced that Mir Towne of Duluth Will
 open the silver fusion campaign ln California, ana will do 1t right away. The opening will Degln at Sacramento and, extending the length of the oah Joaquin Valley, will jump the Tehachap and reap pear i'll Southern California MT. Towne shows wise interest in his personal comfort by avertng hls cheek from the rude winds that blow over the zenith city Of the unsalted this and bringing II to be kissed by the balmy zephyrs of California. we hall him heartily for the compliment to our glorious climate implied by his presence here. we lnchfe 10 the opinion that he will find more pleasure Ill 1hls weatherless, wnterless land, and in contemplation o the green things growing, than he will Ill poiitics- e will observe that people do all things m season While the politicians who looking for once may feel the quickening of ambition in February the peo- pie are busy with the pruning hook and blow In fact MT. Towne comes in the close season tor politics and while his audiences will chill and fever by turns as he views with alarm or points with pride, their minds their wheat fields and raisn plantations and orange groves
 California has rather wholesome sense of her polit- lcal duty and III certain way party organization here IS never broken. The people remember the seven lat kline and the fat ears of corn and they recall the coming of the seven lean kline and the seven blasted which ate the fat ones Mr. Towne appears for the lean cattle attorney in fact He persuades toward that politics which eats up the fat Our people took few years of his kind of medicine and many of them dined daily on pulling their belts up another hole Since then their bill of fare has changed and instead of satisfying internal gnawings by belting their stomachs tighter they have filled them with food and there is general letting out of belts. Our cities not compelled this year to pass the hat to feed thousands of unemployed The pinch of poverty is felt by vastly less number Of people. There is more bread in the basket, fire on the hearth and cheer in the house than before, and thousands who were asking help before now able to give their mite to the hundreds who now need it.
 In short, the pot boils in more homes and hospi- tallty puts in it more names, and people look at the worn hole in the belt as the high water mark of famine. They don't want to buckle up to it again, an 1t please you Mr. Towne They thinking of plecing the end of the strap in order that 1t may girth the growing proportions which have come with three meals day.
 Mr. Towne member of Congress once as "a regular" He tasted the sweet waters of power. But he made miscalcuation He thought his party was doomed that the ladder by which he had climbed was broken and would not bear him again So he deserted and joined the motley clad host which enlisted under General Bryan and tried get back into office As the event proved the office seeking another Mr. Iowne "got the mitten" so to speak and has felt bad about it ever since. He seems to think that all the world feels as hopeless and therefore as reckless as he. We would cheer him if possible but we warn him not to mistake the whispers of our tropical fo age for the call of his countrymen.